Mary Margaret Olohan

someone like me, I think I've interviewed him like years and years ago, but it would have been like a one-off, you know, at CPAC or something like that.

It's not like the White House press is spending a lot of time over on Capitol Hill or actually at the State Department.

So the reporters that you would know were in the front row.

And I think I said this yesterday, but he wasn't calling on the front row too much, which as a member of the new media, I kind of liked because he was calling on the aisles.

He was calling on people in the back.

He called on the guy right next to me.

So just

bouncing around the room he was clearly a little overstimulated by the vibe in there but anyone would be and i don't know ben i think i think he did a good job and i think he really enjoyed himself and for the first time i personally thought oh wow maybe it's going to be him there's no job he can't do yes true

Well, they kind of need it to be a major political issue.

And I think Vance in particular kind of wants it to be a major political issue.

Not that the Vance team has told me this, but reading between the lines, look, this is something that J.D.

Vance has been tasked with as kind of his project.

He is the fraud czar in the same way that Kamala Harris was the border czar and

Everyone at the White House has joked about how she failed so miserably at that.

Right.

So everyone jokes about how she failed so miserably at that.

This is his big chance, his big moment.

Meanwhile, we have Marco Rubio kind of edging up on the sides.

He's in the briefing room yesterday.

He's getting all this positive attention.