Rob Russo
speaker
1,284 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Rob Russo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's perfectly normal.
Andrew worked for a government of Stephen Harper that had a very tempestuous relationship with the media.
It tried to bring in a new covenant as to as to how the prime minister was asked questions, and that didn't go over very well.
But I think of Nixon, who wanted to move the uh the reporters out of the White House and actually move them into an area where there used to
Be a pool, I would go into that briefing room.
It was barely covered over.
There were rats running around the press room, and he loved the fact that there were rats running around there with the reporters.
Pierre Trudeau got into fist fights with my friend and neighbor down the street here, Jimmy Munson.
He got into a fist fight with Jimmy Munson.
They had to be separated before anybody landed a blow.
So so the the tension is normal and desirable.
What isn't, what isn't normal is rudeness, uh uh sort of public rudeness.
Rigorous a uh accountability is fine, but when you've got um and and this is where we're gonna I'm gonna get into Trump, uh where where he is sui generous, uh sort of above above the norm, outside of the norm, is when he calls reporters piggy.
Uh
When he tells them that uh they should smile more, when he tells them to shut up, when he takes his Justice Department and sicks them on reporters who actually hold him to account by breaking stories, that's when we're outside of the norm and that's where we are now.
We're outside of the norm of the the usual tension.
And treat it.
For the drop in trust in media.
We get it wrong.
Uh, and that happens.
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