Susan Glasser & Peter Baker: Who Controls Who Questions the President

Study Group with Susan Glasser & Peter Baker: The White House Beat: Who Controls Who Questions the President?

Since 1881, when an Associated Press reporter sat outside President James Garfield's sick room after he was shot, listening to him breathe and sharing the latest with his colleagues from other news organizations, the AP has been part of a White House press pool. The pool is a small group of journalists who have access to the Oval Office, Air Force One, and other space-constrained settings and then report developments to the broader press corps. When President Trump kicked the AP out of the pool earlier this year and then took control of the pool entirely to decide who would be allowed in and who would not, he upended nearly a century and a half of media independence at the White House.

GUEST:

Julie Pace, executive editor of The Associated Press and former White House correspondent

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OFF-THE-RECORD: In keeping with our long tradition at the IOP to ensure honest and candid discussions of politics, all IOP study groups are off-the-record.