He said that several times such briefings, as President Trump held today after a long pause, walked away with questions he would have asked and were never made to the president through reporters in the room.
“I have no idea what story these hounds are thinking about the canopy, but it’s never the coronavirus epidemic that they’re doing. What are Donald Trump and Donald Trump, for them, is someone I think is the clearest. respect or admiration, and I think they despise him, ” said Hume.
He said the stubborn nature of correspondents, the “competitive behavior” in the meeting room is different from the typical aggression similar to that used to beyond administrations.
Hume noted how his ABC News predecessor, Sam Donaldson, asked challenging questions and pointed some way to President Reagan, but never without disrespectful.
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“[Donaldson] could well be quite corporate and strong and would ask very pointed questions. But he was respectful and courteous. Racount interrupted or argued, and that was the norm we all observed,” he said, adding that friends instinctively rejected UPI correspondent Helen Thomas for a long time when they thought he had crossed a line by asking the president at the time.
“Helen Thomas would check it and do it, and despise it through her colleagues. I didn’t take it in high esteem,” he said.
“It’s not a catching game … is to extract information,” he added.