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Donald Trump's new pick for Press Secretary certainly has a familiar look - but will she meet a familiar fate to Anthony Scaramucci?
The Mooch famously lasted just 10 days in the White House, but after a stumbling debut behind the podium, will Katie Zacharia last even that long?
00:09 Shelagh Fogarty and Jon Sopel react live to Zacharia's first outing as White House Press Secretary.
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Whether we'll see her again behind that briefing room podium
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is she going to do another Scaramucci, disappear? He lasted 10 days
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I'm not sure how long she's going to last. Donald Trump's new White House Press Secretary, Katie Zakaria
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is giving her first briefing in a moment. What do we know about her? Well, she's been a vaccination, a vax-deniar
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She's been all sorts. I mean, she's apparently, you know, it's not quite the season for spring cleaning
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but she has been spring cleaning her social media accounts to make them more palatable to a wider American public
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because she was right out there on some of the things that she believed
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she opined on, and, you know, nothing wrong happened on January 6th
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vaccines were a great conspiracy, on and on and on. She was fully signed up to the MAGA kind of view of the world
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and I think she's had to do, as they say in supermarkets
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a clean-up on aisle 12. She's a type, isn't she? She's Trump's type
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Oh, are you saying he's got a type? He's got a type. Are you saying she's not entirely plain, bland and... No
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She's got a brain. Is she blonde hair, blue-eyed and striking? I don't know if they're blue, but she's got the Trump look that they all have
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I am so honoured to work for President Trump and the American people
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as the new White House press secretary. I want to thank President Trump for his trust that he has placed in me
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I have wanted to work for him for a very long time I looking forward to working with each of you as well especially as we are in the middle of the midterm blitz with energy and
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excitement never seen before in the history of midterms thanks to President
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Trump. Just look no further than last night in Youngstown, Ohio, where President
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Trump delivered another blockbuster rally out on the trail. The arena was overflowing
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with enthusiasm as thousands came out to support President Trump as well as special guest Jake
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Paul and football legend John Gruden. The president also announced the Department of
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War has officially selected Cleveland, Ohio as the new home for the U.S. Navy's submarine
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component repair centre. I'm going to say something I didn't think I'd ever say
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She's no Caroline Levitt, is she? Caroline Levitt was absolutely brilliant. Whip smart
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Oh yeah, whip smart and got it. And I think, you know, she's struggling to read
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about how many square feet the submarine repair facility is. And she said war, like a Miss World contestant
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The Department of War? War, it's great. Look, yeah, where is she standing now
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She's in the briefing room of the White House. There is a slight the briefing room is built above what used to be the swimming pool about where which was built for John F Kennedy because of all the injuries
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Anyway, there's a sliding door and then you go into what's called lower press
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And during the Trump era all the people that populated lower press before you went into the proper West the West Wing proper they were all look like they were glamour models I mean you know you kind of thought I wonder what was it that first attracted you to you
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know, to the six foot blonde. Yeah, to the six foot blonde, etc
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And it was just like that. And it's, you know, and it hasn't changed
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And people wives kind of. Well, they're straight out of central casting. The sort of people that are going to get a job with Donald Trump
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In fairness, there was a press secretary, Sarah Sanders, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who's now the governor of Arkansas, who didn't
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Didn't fit that bill. Didn't fit that bill. She was in his first term. Yeah, she was in the first term. Yeah. And she's now the governor of Arkansas
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She didn't fit that bill. And again, a very bright woman. Yeah, very bright woman. But also the people that, you know, we talk about who are around President Trump, not the people who are doing the briefings, but all the people around President Trump are all, you know, absolutely drop dead gorgeous
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This is round two, isn't it? It was catastrophic, Andrew. Katie Zachariah
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She's been a made-for-TV pro-Trump commentator for the last several years. She comes from the hard, hard right of Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement
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And she took to the White House podium utterly unprepared. I want to ask you a policy question
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Has the U.S. stopped sharing intel with Ukraine? I'll have to get back to you on that
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She only took three questions, all of them from reliable pro-Trump outfits
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Breitbart News, Fox News and the Daily Mail. My kids are completely unacceptable
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So my president, excuse me, my husband, that's a good one. My husband is out here
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She stumbled She sounded very uncertain of the few facts that she was putting across Mostly she was breaching the Hatch Act which is a law that prohibits the White House press secretary from engaging in avowedly campaign messaging in the middle of an election campaign
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That was all thrown out completely by her. And she's facing all sorts of questions about her own very controversial previous social media postings, plus new questions about whether she ever really got the law degree that she claims to have
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She says she's licensed to practice law. No reporters can figure out where that license exists
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She said she's an attorney. Where did she pass the bar exam? Which state? Which state
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I think at the end of the day, whether we'll see her again behind that briefing room podium
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is she going to do another Scaramucci disappear? He lasted 10 days. I'm not sure how long she's
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going to last. I know I'm capable of being able to step up to that. So thank you for that question
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In fact, I am going to end it because President Trump is heading out to Marine One for our
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historic trip to Alaska and we can ask him all of the questions out there so
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thank you so much to the question on 30 the president will be back on Thursday and that's what
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I will answer I'll leave it there he will answer those questions out and
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