Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, I’m Peter Hamby. Greetings from my Delta seat 30,000 miles somewhere above Nebraska. I’m on the way to Iowa to gorge myself on deep-fried Oreos, ogle the Butter Cow, and figure out if Donald Trump’s support among Republicans in Iowa is softening as his legal challenges grow deeper. But today’s edition is about the man currently occupying the Oval Office, Joe Biden, and his souring relationship with the White House press corps, which has been venting about their lack of access to the president and Biden’s tendency to ignore their pesky questions—even as he grants interviews to influencers and celebrities.
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Welcome back to The Best & The Brightest, I’m Peter Hamby.
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Greetings from my Delta seat 30,000 miles somewhere above Nebraska. I’m on the way to Iowa to gorge myself on deep-fried Oreos, ogle the Butter Cow, and figure out if Donald Trump’s support among Republicans in Iowa is softening as his legal challenges grow deeper. But today’s edition is about the man currently occupying the Oval Office, Joe Biden, and his souring relationship with the White House press corps, which has been venting about their lack of access to the president and Biden’s tendency to ignore their pesky questions—even as he grants interviews to influencers and celebrities.
But first…
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| An utterly indispensable, high-minded, and, yes, occasionally dishy readout of what our lawmakers are really legislating behind closed doors.
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- Goat Rodeo: It’s never good when a news outlet has to put an explicit language warning before quotes from a congressman. Nor when a congressman’s office releases a...
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| Biden’s Orchestra Pit Paradox |
| For Biden to win again, he must reach people who aren’t just news junkies, and his advisers are unapologetic about the importance of going around the Washington press to do it, their egos be damned. |
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| Last week, after a “Bidenomics” event in New Mexico, Peter Doocy of Fox News approached the president to ask about the latest kernel of intrigue in the ongoing Hunter Biden scandal—the allegation that Hunter would sometimes put his powerful father on speakerphone to... |
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