Mary Margaret Olohan

Hey, Tim.

Thanks for having me.

Yes, so we left early from the White House.

Typically, we'll start at Joint Base Andrews, and that's where Air Force One will take off from.

But on Wednesday, we actually started at the White House.

We motorcaded all the way across the city.

Of course, the fastest way to get across Washington by far.

And then when we arrived at Joint Base Andrews, the press, we are all in specific vans.

So obviously the president rides in the Beast, his staff ride in other cars and vehicles behind him.

The press is in three vans typically in the middle to the end of the motorcade.

And so when you arrive at any location where the president's about to get on the plane,

You get out of that van and you run.

You don't just walk, you run to get under the wing of the plane so that by the time the president gets out of his car, all the cameras are on and the reporters are ready to ask him as many questions as they can.

Now, in this first moment, when we arrived at Joint Base Andrews, before we were headed to Connecticut, I sprinted from that van.

I got there first.

And so by the time the president was approaching the cameras, it was me that he was looking at and I was able to ask him some of our first questions.

The pitfall there, of course, is that one of the cameras wasn't on.

So by the time I was starting to ask him about the biggest news of the week, which is Thomas Massey and how he was defeated in his race in Kentucky on Tuesday evening, the president had a spicy retort, but the cameras didn't catch it because they were a little early.

Yes.

So Donald Trump was heading up to Connecticut to give the commencement speech at the United States Coast Guard Academy commencement.