Katie Zacharia has 'catastrophic debut' as Trump's new Press Secretary

[0:00] Whether we'll see her again behind that briefing room podium, [0:03] is she going to do another Scaramucci, disappear? [0:06] He lasted 10 days. [0:08] I'm not sure how long she's going to last. [0:09] Donald Trump's new White House Press Secretary, Katie Zachariah, [0:13] is giving her first briefing in a moment. [0:14] What do we know about her? [0:16] Well, she's been a vaccination, a vaccine denier. [0:19] She's been all sorts. [0:21] I mean, she's apparently, you know, [0:23] it's not quite the season for spring cleaning, [0:26] but she has been spring cleaning her social media accounts [0:29] to make them more palatable to a wider American public [0:31] because she was right out there on some of the things that she believed, [0:35] she opined on, and, you know, nothing wrong happened on January the 6th. [0:41] Vaccines were a great conspiracy, on and on and on. [0:45] She was fully signed up to the MAGA kind of view of the world [0:49] and I think she's had to do, as they say in supermarkets, [0:53] a clean up on aisle 12. [0:55] She's a type, isn't she? [0:57] She's Trump's type. [0:58] Oh, are you saying he's got to try it? [1:00] He's got a type. [1:01] Well, are you saying she's not entirely plain bland and, uh, no? [1:06] Oh, she's got a brain. [1:08] Has she blonde hair, blue-eyed and, you know, striking? [1:10] I don't know if they're blue, but she's got that, [1:12] she's got the Trump look that they all have. [1:13] I am so honoured to work for President Trump and the American people [1:19] as the new White House Press Secretary. [1:22] I want to thank President Trump for his trust that he has placed in me. [1:29] I have wanted to work for him for a very long time. [1:35] I'm looking forward to working with each of you as well, [1:39] especially as we are in the middle of the midterm blitz with energy and excitement [1:45] never seen before in the history of midterms thanks to President Trump. [1:51] Just look no further than last night in Youngstown, Ohio, [1:56] where President Trump delivered another blockbuster rally out on the trail. [2:03] The arena was overflowing with enthusiasm as thousands came out to support President Trump, [2:10] as well as special guest Jake Paul and football legend John Gruden. [2:14] The President also announced the Department of War has officially selected Cleveland, Ohio [2:22] as the new home for the U.S. Navy's submarine component repair centre. [2:27] I'm going to say something I didn't think I'd ever say. [2:29] She's no Caroline Levitt, is she? [2:31] Caroline, look, Caroline Levitt was absolutely brilliant. [2:34] She was smart. Whip smart. [2:34] Oh, yeah, whip smart and got it. [2:37] And I think, you know, she's struggling to read from about the how many square feet [2:41] the submarine repair facility is. [2:42] And she said war like a Miss World contestant. [2:45] The Department of War? War, it's great. [2:48] Look, yeah, where she's standing now, she's in the briefing room of the White House. [2:53] There is a slight, the briefing room is built above what used to be the swimming pool, [2:57] which was built for John F. Kennedy because of all the injuries she's suffered. [3:01] Anyway, there's a sliding door and then you go into what's called lower press. [3:07] And during the Trump era, all the people that populated lower press [3:11] before you went into the proper West, the West Wing proper, [3:14] they all looked like they were glamour models. [3:17] I mean, you know, you kind of thought, I wonder what was it that first attracted you to, you know... [3:22] To the six-foot blonde. [3:23] Yeah, to the six-foot blonde, etc. [3:26] And it was just like that. [3:28] And it's, you know, and it hasn't changed. [3:31] But Stepford Wives kind of thing. [3:32] Well, they're straight out of central casting. [3:34] The sort of people that are going to get a job with Donald Trump. [3:37] In fairness, there was a press secretary, Sarah Sanders, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, [3:41] who's now the governor of Arkansas, who didn't... [3:44] Didn't fit that bill. [3:44] Didn't fit that bill. [3:45] She was in his first term. [3:46] Yeah, she was in the first term, yeah. [3:47] And she's now the governor of Arkansas. [3:49] She didn't fit that bill. [3:50] And again, a very bright woman. [3:51] Yeah, a very bright woman. [3:52] But also the people that, you know, we talk about who are around President Trump, [3:56] not the people who are doing the briefings, [3:57] but all the people around President Trump are all, you know, absolutely drop-dead gorgeous. [4:01] This is round two, isn't it? [4:02] It was catastrophic, Andrew. [4:04] Katie Zachariah, she's been a made-for-TV, pro-Trump commentator for the last several years. [4:11] She comes from the hard, hard right of Donald Trump's Make America Great Again movement. [4:16] And she took to the White House podium utterly unprepared. [4:20] I want to ask you a policy question. [4:22] Has the U.S. stopped sharing intel with Ukraine? [4:25] I'll have to get back to you on that. [4:28] She only took three questions, all of them from reliable pro-Trump outfits, [4:33] Breitbart News, Fox News, and the Daily Mail. [4:36] My kids are completely unacceptable. [4:40] So my president, excuse me, my husband, that's a good one. [4:45] My husband is out here. [4:47] She stumbled. [4:48] She sounded very uncertain of the few facts that she was putting across. [4:52] Mostly, she was breaching the Hatch Act, which is a law that prohibits the White House press secretary [4:58] from engaging in avowedly campaign messaging in the middle of an election campaign. [5:04] That was all thrown out completely by her. [5:07] And she's facing all sorts of questions about her own very controversial previous social media postings, [5:16] plus new questions about whether she ever really got the law degree that she claims to have. [5:24] She says she's licensed to practice law. [5:26] No reporters can figure out where that license exists. [5:31] I think at the end of the day, whether we'll see her again behind that briefing room podium, [5:50] is she going to do another Scaramucci, disappear? [5:52] He lasted 10 days. [5:54] I'm not sure how long she's going to last. [5:56] I know I'm capable of being able to step up to that. [5:59] So thank you for that question. [6:00] In fact, I am going to end it because President Trump is heading out to Marine One [6:05] for our historic trip to Alaska. [6:07] And we can ask him all of the questions out there. [6:11] So thank you so much. [6:14] To the question on Thursday, the president will be back on Thursday. [6:22] And that's what I will answer. [6:23] I'll leave it there. [6:23] He will answer those questions out in Marine One.