4/29/2023 0 Comments Flatout magazineHer relationship with Reagan’s second-term chief of staff Don Regan was famously contentious. She still remembers with loathing the evasive, misleading, and downright “misogynistic” press secretary of the Reagan era, Larry Speakes. Mitchell first landed on the White House beat as a fill-in during the Carter years. When Tillerson goes to Russia this week minus the State Department press whose job it is to cover him, Mitchell will hop a commercial plane to keep up anyway. She’s as hungry on the Trump beat as she was standing outside Washington landmarks in the 1980s, shouting questions at Ronald Reagan next to Sam Donaldson, and indeed she starts our interview a few minutes late so she can watch the latest briefing from Tillerson on Syria and pound out a few more emails to sources wondering what’s the latest update on the Trump administration’s first big foreign crisis. She’s 70 years old now, but you wouldn’t know it. | Subscribe via Stitcher.Īll of which is to say that Andrea Mitchell is right where she wants to be: in the middle of the story. Subscribe to The Global POLITICO on iTunes here. “I’ve covered seven presidents now,” Mitchell tells me, “and have not endeared myself to any of them. Oh, and another thing she’d like to get straight: She’s not, she insists, some pro-Clinton hack. You should not be going to Moscow without the press corps. “You should not be flying into Beijing without a press corps. I mean, we're all just shut out,” Mitchell says. “There is just an attempt, and it’s successful, to shut down not just me but The New York Times, The Washington Post, Agence France-Presse, CNN. It's really disconcerting to see the podium in the White House briefing room being used to mislead or misdirect or obfuscate.”Īnd then there’s the matter of Tillerson and his outright refusal to talk to reporters like Mitchell who’ve spent a lifetime on the diplomatic beat-and won’t even be bringing the usual complement of journalists along when he heads to Moscow for a crucial first visit this week amid escalating tensions over Trump’s airstrike on Russia proxy Syria. You know, black is white and white is black, and they mislead you. “I have never seen anything like this where people just flat-out lie. I’ve never seen anything like this,” Mitchell says. In a new interview for The Global Politico, our weekly podcast on world affairs in the Trump era, Mitchell says that after covering every president since Jimmy Carter, Trump is by far the most hostile to the press-and to the truth-she’s ever seen, with a White House staff using the briefing room as a daily disinformation machine and a president and secretary of state outright undermining the ability of reporters to do their job. Well, it turns out Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports,” has some words for them, too.
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