Jan 27, 2017 - Economy & Business

The debate over how to interview Trump

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Former Obama aides Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer discuss Trump's ABC interview with David Muir on their podcast, Pod Save America. The two go back-and-forth on whether Trump is forcing journalists to break from conventional interview techniques. One interesting snippet:

"[I] wonder if there are new rules for Trump that journalists just have to sort of think outside the box and be like well, if I didn't get to six or seven newsy topics in this interview because I was pressing him to, you know, explain what the hell he means by voter fraud that doesn't exists for 10, 15 minutes, then I'm going to do it." — Jon Favreau.
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