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Right now, I'm joined by Brian Glenn, White House correspondent for Real America's Voice.

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Brian, we have our first White House press briefing today with the new White House press

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secretary, Caroline Levitt. Phyllis, what's the mood like there? What are the changes we can expect

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to see? I know the entire country, especially the political class, is going to be tuned into this

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outside to do this hit with you but I can tell you one thing the crowd is growing inside that

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press room as it has been all morning uh it seems like there is an elevated buzz around this press

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conference obviously this is the first time we've had a press conference we've seen Caroline Leavitt

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in this capacity in this official briefing room and and you know what the meet there's new media

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outlets out here that we have I've never seen before uh around the White House so there is

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a buzz in the air Andrew and I can expect this thing also to be filled with a

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ton of questions as you would imagine on all the media here they want to kind of

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be able to scrutinize a lot what President Trump has done this first I

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guess two weeks of his administration but I will say this though a little bit an

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addition that I've not seen in there before they do have these two video

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screens on either side of where Levitt will be standing perhaps I'll use that

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to back up some of the statements and kind of recap what has happened the last

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day 10 or whatever day we're on at this point it's been going so fast as we

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know but that's kind of some additional changes I've noticed inside but as soon

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as we're done here we're going to move inside and be in ready position for this

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press conference schedule to start at one o'clock

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So Brian, a lot has been made about the seating arrangement that we can expect, right?

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I mean, in years past, we've seen New York Times, what we like to call the regime media,

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the legacy media outlets seated right up front.

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There's been a lot of news made about who Karin Jean-Pierre would call on, who she would

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not.

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Can you, do you have any insight yet about how the seating arrangement is going to be

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Turning Point USA, we have our own White House correspondent as well in there.

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Do you have any insight on that yet?

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I don't.

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I will say this.

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I think it is business as usual as far as seating goes for this particular press conference.

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Now, as we move forward, I don't know what that would look like.

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could imagine after this first initial conference that the seating charts, the

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seating arrangement, the assignments will be scrambled up a little different,

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putting a little bit more of maybe your conservative-based media towards the

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front, or maybe I should say the ones that are fair and unbalanced, right, up in

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front. But to your point, I have not heard any changes for this one.

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But I can expect that is going to be revised moving forward,

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because this is very much a different administration.

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As we know, I mean, it seems like forever

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that the previous press secretary really protected Joe Biden

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from any type of official scrutiny of anything that he did.

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And of course, they will use this pulpit today, if you will.

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to absolutely unleash on President Trump a lot of things like immigration, Andrew,

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and it's been highly criticized across most of the mainstream media.

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So I would expect a fair amount of questions on that subject today.

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But I do expect some other documentation.

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I mean, using these video screens, Andrew,

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is a great idea because instead of turning to the book,

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the binder, I guess, that would have all these answers,

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why not just show a video?

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Why not show just a PowerPoint presentation, if you will?

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about what this last few days have been in terms of the accomplishments, the executive orders,

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some of the changes that have happened within our government, within our military,

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these Senate confirmation hearings, all the stuff can be displayed on these monitors,

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and I think it gives a great visual to this whole press conference.

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I agree. I think we need to be more creative in government. I think this administration

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is proving how creative you can be and not being fired by the way things have been.

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So last question here, Brian, I know you got to get back there and prep for this briefing.

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30 seconds. Give me a sense of how the resistance media, as I like to call them, the tone, the

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vibe shift, all these things we're hearing. What are they feeling like these days?

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Well, I think they sense there is a some additional faces in this room that they have not seen before

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I can probably give you a better answer after this press conference of what how perhaps we were you know

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Maybe treated a little differently. I have been I have been warned that you know

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You've got some people that are gonna try to make it tough, but I have not experienced that as of yet Andrew

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But I will let you know