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Joining us now is Monica Page, TPUSA White House correspondent. That's right. Turning

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Point USA has a White House correspondent. It's a whole new era at the White House.

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And Monica, congratulations, your ability to do hits. Look at that. Look how beautiful

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that is. I might have to use that pass every once in a while.

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I'm going to be there very soon. Let's just put it that way. So, Monica, is this new?

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Did the Biden administration want you on campus as well?

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Oh, that's interesting. So previously, I was at what America News doing the White House,

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and I did cover the Biden White House. What a stark difference it's been in less than

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48 hours here at the White House.

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I was just in the press briefing room. I have never seen it that busy with videographers,

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reporters, everybody's back to work. I mean, it's been very quiet at this White House for

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the past few months, but the nation's back. We're back to work and there's a lot of exciting

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things coming out of the White House, I mean, less than 48 hours in.

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So yeah, what is the reaction from the press court? They can't even keep up with the pace

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right now from the president. What are you hearing from the American press at the kind

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Well, Charlie, I will say the media that has been accepted to report on President Trump,

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the best way to describe it is murderers row.

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I mean, you've got some really interesting and not so friendly reporters here at the

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White House who have previously not been very favorable to President Trump.

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They have never given him any sort of fair or honest reporting.

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dynamic once the press briefing start. But it's been very busy. I mean, I just was in

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the lower press offices just yesterday introducing myself, handing out my business card to the

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very friendly lower press that's there now in the Trump administration.

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And they're excited. You know, they're still scrambling, setting everything up, which was

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really cool. I spoke with Caroline Levitt yesterday, the press secretary of course,

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and she is very excited to make some new announcements. I'm not gonna announce anything yet. I'm

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gonna let her speak for herself. But there's a lot of exciting things coming our way here.

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especially at turning points.

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So definitely stay tuned, Charlie,

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but it's been very busy the last 48 hours,

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and there's still much more to come,

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as you can expect.

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Yeah, we are seeing that kind of pace.

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Are you gonna be able to be in the press briefing rooms

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when Caroline Levitt does ask those questions?

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Yeah, I'll be able to ask questions. She knows me on the first name basis. We do talk. So

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I'll be able to ask questions on behalf of Turning Point. And I do encourage our listeners

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and viewers here to send me some of your questions because I don't represent the mainstream media.

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I represent the American people. I represent you, Charlie. So definitely feel free to send

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over any questions, anything that you'd like to know coming out of this administration.

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I'm more than happy to serve the American people and just ask the questions that people want to

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ice cream flavor. We're asking about the economy. We're asking about how to keep Americans safe.

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We're asking the real questions that affect everyday Americans. And I'm really excited to

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get real answers as well. I know we were just talking about affirmative action. We were just

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just selecting the person that's right for the job. We've had a press secretary who really couldn't

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answer any questions. She'd always say, I just don't have anything, I just don't have anything.

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And it was really frustrating for not only the American people, but as, yeah, or we'll circle

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back. I mean, it's frustrating for reporters too, because they're trying to do the story.

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They don't have any answers. I try to ask questions. I actually introduced myself to

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Green John Pierre at one point. I took a photo with her right outside the Oval Office here on

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Pebble Beach here, and she still didn't wanna call on me.

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Every email that I've sent Charlie, every time I've raised my hand, all my emails go

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either unanswered or they're forwarded over to somebody else that eventually get deleted.

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So I'm excited to actually raise my hand and get called on and just ask questions and just

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do my basic everyday responsibilities in this role.

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So there's a lot to look forward to and everyone here is very enthusiastic, whether they're