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Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight, CNN's award-winning chief White House correspondent and anchor of The Source with Caitlin Collins. Please welcome to the program Caitlin Collins.
This is so fun to be here. It's fun. Let me ask you a question. Go on.
How was your weekend? What'd you do? Anything fun?
It was good. It was quiet.
It was quiet.
No, it wasn't.
That was Friday night.
Yeah.
There are times when I watch him. And I think to myself, this can't be real. Like this can't be, America, America, you've heard of us, we're great.
Been here. You've been here for years. 34 years. Yes. We're number one.
That guy runs us?
How did Kaitlan Collins describe her experience at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and presidential insults?
What? In the room that night, did it feel surreal? Was he bombing as hard as it appeared on the TV?
You know, I've covered Trump for 10 years. And so I've listened to pretty much all of his speeches for 10 years with very little exception. And so I actually think it's helpful for other people to be able to listen to them in their entirety, which people really don't that much these days. In the room, I think I was not surprised when he insulted me. That happens pretty regularly inside the Oval Office. This is just a bigger venue where it was happening. What was most surprising to me was the room was filled with a lot of his staffers, his cabinet, his allies, Republicans in Congress. It was so quiet in the room during the president's remarks.
Because of how much they respect him?
Who's to say?
Hard to tell, really. In your mind, having view... First of all, what do you think is going on with his relationship to you? You are... I have to give you a great amount of credit. You are unflappable in those... You ask very straightforward questions. I have... I've written some stuff down about, like... You've asked it about, you pardoned the founder of Binance, all these different things. You're asking him about that. A very straightforward question about why he pardoned this gentleman who now has an involvement in his family's crypto business or had helped promote it. His answer to you on that was, you said to him, this guy admitted to his crimes. Trump said to you, you don't know much about crypto.
You know nothing about nothing. You're fake news.
But he didn't answer the question.
No.
And then he said he didn't really know who the person was.
Right. Why? You are very straightforward with him. You don't play coy. You don't frame it in gotcha ways. And he just, you're a terrible person. You're a stupid person. You don't smile. When that's done, does someone, is there an office of, like, smoothing things out that comes to your office and says, like in a bar when your friend gets in a fight, like, hey, man, he's drunk. Like, I'm so sorry. Like... What happened? What do they do? Are they embarrassed?
You know, but that's why I ask the questions the way I do, is because I want anyone to be able to listen to what I'm asking, whether that's at a briefing or during a moment with the president, and think, you know, I want to know the answer to that, too. Or that is a good question. I don't want it to only serve one audience or one political leaning. I want anyone, you know, from my family in Alabama to people in the White House, people in Washington, to be able to hear that answer or hear that question and think, what is the answer to that?
And so the answer is very clearly you should smile more. It's the answer to all the questions.
We were watching when he was doing that, you were sitting next to Wolf Blitzer.
Yes.
Wolf Blitzer is a 78 year old man. Not a lot of density in those bones. I know what I'm talking about. I'm in the same position. He looked like he wanted to go up there and shake him.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:58
2
How did Kaitlan Collins describe her experience at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and presidential insults?
1:58–8:10
3
How does Kaitlan Collins explain her approach to questioning and handling attacks from the president?
8:10–29:16
4
How did Jon Stewart and Kaitlan roleplay responding to presidential provocation?
29:16–34:20
5
What frustrations does the White House press corps face when reporting on the current administration?
34:20–52:21
Speakers
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