This must be a first: ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN will all have women journalists as their chief White House correspondents with the incoming Biden administration.
Ted Johnson
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Ted Johnson
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Born October 24
Joined July 2008
- This isn’t even CNN’s typeface.
- Michael Collins, one of the Apollo 11 astronauts, met with President Trump today for the 50th Anniversary. At a National Press Club event in April, Collins took issue with Trump's attacks on the press. "The enemy my ass. The press is not our enemy. The press is our salvation."
- Buttigieg on Trump-Limbaugh talking about family values. “The one thing about my marriage is it has never involved me having to send hush money to a porn star for cheating on my spouse.”
- Jane Fonda is back on Capitol Hill for the Fire Drill climate change protests and she’s joined today by Sam Waterston. “Sam, my hero,” she says when she spots him.
- Replying to @tedstew
- Sam Waterston, who co stars with Fonda on “Grace and Frankie,” says that “people says that the Green New Deal is radical. What is radical is climate disruption.”
- First night Republican Convention viewership: 15.8 million, per Nielsen early data. That compares to 18.7 million for first night of Democratic convention last week.
- On MSNBC, Matthew Dowd said that in Texas, “every single political leader in office, Republican, wants to do nothing about gun reform.”
- A bit of news..The DOJ is warning the Academy that potential changes to Oscar rules to restrict Netflix could violate antitrust law.
- As he was escorted to the wagon, Sam Waterston, 78, said, “It’s good to be here.”
