Covering the White House is one of the most high-profile beats in political journalism. Covering the Trump, then the Biden White House, and starting during a pandemic and an election year makes it even more high profile. Roll Call Chief Correspondent Niels Lesniewski has been at the helm for a little over four years and shares his experiences as he prepares for a new assignment in the newsroom. The highlights, the lowlights and the weird.
Show Notes:
- Role reversal: As Dr. Fauci pitches, Mariano Rivera chats up Trump
- Trump rejects renaming bases that honor Confederate generals
- Easter Egg roll returns to the White House
- Pelosi, Schumer play the hits as Biden celebrates reconciliation law
- White House clarifies what policy statements do, and do not, mean
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