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Joe Biden’s White House Counsel has responded to the now infamous WhatsApp message that allegedly placed the president in the room while Hunter Biden shook down Chinese officials. As RedState reported, within 10 days of that exchange, $5.1 million was wired to Hunter Biden, of which some portion of money was then sent to James Biden, the president’s brother. Congressional investigators are still working to track down just how much deeper the money went. When pressed on the matter, the White House comms shop refused to answer any questions. Chaos broke out in the briefing room as reporters tag-teamed to...

White House reporters are ​seething over a policy that requires them to submit quotes from interviews with Biden administration officials to the communications team for approval, editing or veto, according to a report on Tuesday. ​ The White House is demanding that reporters who conduct interviews with administration officials do so under conditions known as “background with ​quote approval,” Politico reported. ​

The Biden administration will reportedly start charging reporters $170 for a Covid-19 test every time they come to the White House....Some are suggesting that the biggest companies pay for all the tests....

The mainstream media goons who shrieked and moaned about a “free press” during the Trump administration are pretty mum after the Biden admin announced that they will be charging reporters for their COVID tests every time they enter the building. Without taking the $170 test, reporters will not be allowed to enter the building to go to press briefings. The Washington Post reported on Friday that the White House is seeking to put the new charges in place on Monday. Charges this high would make it much harder for smaller and independent outlets to get into the briefings, which would...

White House Reporters: Biden Team Wanted Our Questions in Advance ‘PICKING AND CHOOSING’ “It pissed off enough reporters for people to flag it” for the White House Correspondents’ Association, one of The Daily Beast’s sources said. If you’re a reporter with a tough question for the White House press secretary, Joe Biden’s staff wouldn’t mind knowing about it in advance. According to three sources with knowledge of the matter, as well as written communications reviewed by The Daily Beast, the new president’s communications staff have already on occasion probed reporters to see what questions they plan on asking new White...

White House press secretary Jen Psaki admitted she treats White House reporters in the briefing room as if they are patients in an insane asylum. “[W]hen reporters are getting really loud, or they’re starting to ask crazy questions, I just slow down my pace, and I talk very quietly, and I treat them like I’m an orderly sometimes in an insane asylum,” she said in an interview with National Public Radio (NPR) released Saturday.

A White House reporter has tested positive for the coronavirus after attending two press briefings this week. The news follows a national surge in COVID-19 diagnoses, though new cases in Washington, DC, remain low. White House Correspondents’ Association President Jonathan Karl said in an email that the journalist is asymptomatic and did not linger in press

Another Chinese Communist Party “reporter” has been found masquerading their true identity and lying to the President of the United States in the White House Press Briefing Room. On Wednesday evening, reporter Ching-Yi Chang told President Trump that he was from Taiwan, not China. But Ching-Yi Chang lied. Just like his Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-colleague Youyou Wang two days ago, as reported by the National Pulse. Before the question, the U.S. President asked Ching-Yi (or Jingyi) “Where are you from?” Ching-Yi responds: “Taiwan”, to which the President responds: “Good.” In reality Ching-Yi represents another Chinese state-run outlet called Dragon Television,...

The White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) has announced that it is expelling One America News network (OAN) from the briefing room following a report that its correspondent Chanel Rion gained access by circumventing the process and attending as a “guest” of White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham. In a statement, the WHCA explained that it has limited access to the room in order to comply with social distancing guidelines, and that the available seats are rotated between various outlets. But the WHCA says OAN’s correspondent twice showed up despite it not being their turn. “We did this because a reporter...

White House denies limiting columnist's access under new '50 percent' rule © Getty Images The White House is pushing back on a claim by Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank who said a press pass he held for more than two decades was revoked for “being a Trump critic.” “No one’s access is being limited,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Wednesday night in response a Milbank column published by The Post earlier in the day. The back-and-forth comes after the White House announced new rules regarding the number of reporters who are granted hard passes, which allows a...

he White House announced on Monday the selection of Brett Kavanaugh as the much-anticipated pick to replace Kennedy on the Supreme Court. Before the pick, dozens of members of the WH press corps gathered outside the press briefing room to wait to be ushered in to the East Wing where the announcement would be made. During the Gorsuch pick, reporters had been walked through the front colonnade of the mansion. This pick was different. The large gaggle of reporters were walked through the bowels of the service area, past some recycling and trash compactors and directly past Hillary Clinton’s portrait...

While White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders cherishes her role as a mother to three children 6 years and under, she doesn’t shy away from the fact that there are difficult motherhood days – similar to dealing with CNN’s Jim Acosta. “Both of them whine pretty regularly. They both like to ask the same questions and sometimes their tone needs to be adjusted a little bit. So I think that having kids has prepared me for the job that I have right now,” Sanders responded to the Daily Caller question: “What’s more difficult: Dealing with your children on an onerous...

WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange told a visiting congressman the secret-spilling site would like a seat at White House press briefings. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, told the Washington Examiner he supports the primary source publisher's goal. "It didn't sound unreasonable to me," he said in a phone call from London on Thursday, two days after what he said was a three-hour meeting with Assange in Ecuador's U.K. embassy.

An overly aggressive press pool stampeded in to the Oval Office on Friday, nearly destroying furniture as the media struggled to get a glimpse of President Trump’s meeting with newly elected South Korean President Moon. The chaos erupted as members of the White House press pool and foreign journalists were allowed in to the Oval office for an official photo opportunity between the two world leaders.

Erik Wemple frets that the journalists tasked with covering Donald Trump’s White House are growing weary thanks to the “unsustainable” pace the president is setting — with long days, “ruined weekends,” and “unpredictable” moves. From the Washington Post: President Trump has attempted to undercut the U.S. media in a number of ways — by calling them the “enemy”; by denying coverage credentials to certain outlets during his campaign; by telling falsehoods and lying; by siccing his aides on reporters. As we close in on two months of the Trump White House, however, another strategy may be emerging: Outlast the media....

Incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus suggested that major changes are coming to the White House press corps. Speaking to radio host Hugh Hewitt, Priebus said "many things have to change" in the White House's relationship and daily traditions with the media, including the daily briefing with the White House Press Secretary and the seating chart.

VIDEO FLASHBACK – 2011 WH Corps. Dinner, Obama, Seth Meyers Taunt Trump About A Presidential Run Back at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner President Obama and Seth Meyers went out of their way to mock the idea of Trump being president. There have been reports that this was a big part of Trump’s motivation to run for president.

“While approximately 750 reporters hold White House credentials, the briefing room holds 49 seats, and they are occupied overwhelmingly by mainstream media reporters, with barely any assigned to the new dot-com world.” The TV networks are in front, behind them roost NYT, WaPo, NPR, and so on. “The White House press secretary used to decide who got what seats, but this authority was given to the White House Correspondents Association in the middle of the George W. Bush administration.” It is always astonishing to discover a new instance of the fecklessness of Bush 43. By granting that power to...

Retired USA Today White House reporter Richard Benedetto penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal on Friday titled “How Obama Gets Away With It.” He suggested “Usually when an incumbent president is leaving office and a slew of candidates are battling for his job, that departing chief executive’s record is a major campaign issue.” But Obama’s record in office is not an issue. Obviously, one reason is the Republican establishment didn’t want Obama to be an issue, which is why they moved to take any budget fight with Obama off the table for the rest of his presidency. …

The White House Correspondents’ Association is reportedly crafting a list of demands to be sent to the White House, after an incident last week in which a pool of reporters covering the president’s visit to Salt Lake City were turned away from a meeting between Obama and Mormon leaders. The list of demands is not yet complete, but will contain a series of written promises the press corps wants the White House to commit to. “We’ve been working on that document for almost a year now and will have more to say about it when we release it later this...