During the four years I covered the Trump White House, I continually reached for the brass ring – an exclusive interview with the President of the United States.It took four press secretaries and more than three and a half years to score. The o

Episode 5: Covid Calls

Jul 12th, 2022 24m 23s

Episode five, Covid Calls, goes back to the early days of 2020 when America confronted a great unknown, a plague that eventually would take more than a million American lives.The country did not set aside partisan differences in the face of a s

Episode 4: Travels with Trump

Jul 5th, 2022 27m 51s

During the four years I covered the White House, I went around the world with Donald Trump – from Riyadh to Singapore and Warsaw to Las Vegas. I witnessed Trump breaking the presidential travel playbook on four continents. I was there for the t

Episode 3: Trump Talk, Turnover and Tweets

Jun 28th, 2022 26m 52s

In Episode 3, we walk together through Trump’s first day in office – he talked “American carnage,” his critics wore pussy hats – and then we wade through Trump’s record staff turnover, his bashing of aides on social media, and more bad personne

Episode 2: The Battle for Access

Jun 21st, 2022 26m 49s

My job wasn’t simply to report on and write stories. To do that right, I had to master the logistics of the White House press team and the press corps. This episode lays out how a regional reporter maneuvered behind the big cable stars in the f

Episode 1: Welcome to Trumpworld

Jun 14th, 2022 20m 17s

There have been countless books written about the Trump White House – insider accounts of palace intrigues based on whichever self-serving leaker had the ear of a well-known author. And rushed hard-covers written by newly exiting staffers looki

Trailer

Jun 3rd, 2022 1m

What was it like to cover President Donald Trump? Join Debra J. Saunders, former White House correspondent for the Las Vegas Review-Journal and fellow at the Discovery Institute as she recounts first setting foot in the Trump White House, battl

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