On today's episode of The Price is Right, we have White House correspondent J.D. Vance on the show to talk about what it's like being a reporter at the White House and how he picks up the biggest scoop of the day.
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00:02:48.800But we do have a lot of opportunities to question the president and administration officials here.
00:02:53.360The president has been extremely accessible.
00:02:55.460He's taking questions from journalists two, three, four times a week.
00:02:59.520guidelines having Secretary Leavitt, Press Secretary Leavitt, that is, is having briefings here at least once a week.
00:03:06.280And it was actually just yesterday when the president – not yesterday, two days ago – the president went down a line of some 20-some-odd reporters taking his questions before the departure to Kentucky and Ohio, where he was visiting different centers, having a rally.
00:03:21.520Interestingly enough, he actually visited the district of Representative Thomas Massey, which is one of the president's obviously least favorite representatives.
00:03:32.660So it's interesting stuff, you know, because, you know, we get all these scoops coming out of the White House now, obviously, like you said, a lot of people have axed to grind.
00:03:40.780But with the Iran war, now you have a large contingent of the MAGA media, I would say, certainly the right wing media broadly, who is equally as interested in collecting scoops, who's equally, I guess, disgruntled, for lack of a better word.
00:03:53.980We saw some reporting this morning that was getting passed around a few different outlets on the right.
00:03:58.140that J.D. Vance was actually, you know, a bulwark against this war. You know, they were saying,
00:04:04.320well, he's been very upset. And that kind of explains why he's been so quiet. But then,
00:04:08.780you know, we had reporting earlier in the week that he was the one that actually said we should
00:04:11.180just go all in on the strikes rather than like targeted strikes. So that to me, that seems like
00:04:15.700that might be a scoop that was, you know, garnered or generated from the conservative media, if I had
00:04:21.280to if i had to guess on the vice president i think he has a very delicate balancing act to do over
00:04:29.780here we know in the past before becoming the president's vice president uh the president's
00:04:34.140vp nominee and eventually the vp he was more of an isolationist voice among republicans um as he
00:04:41.560became closer to the president i feel like he's been more concerned and more worried about signaling
00:04:46.200against that um it's good that you asked this too because in the press briefing earlier today
00:04:51.220hexath actually was asked about whether or not um you know um the vp was a voice against striking
00:04:57.580or not and uh secretary hexath really said that he was completely on board and um but at the same
00:05:03.160time you have to think what could you really expect um the vice president isn't going to
00:05:06.920vocally be against um the president at this time so i i do think he has been noticeably absent though
00:05:12.740those who are overactive on twitter like me and you we used to see um the vice president dunk on
00:05:17.780people regularly on twitter he used to be very active on the website i don't think he's tweeted
00:05:21.560something for the past couple of weeks um which is coincidentally roughly when the strike began
00:05:26.840we also had some breaking news of um a fueler over iraq there were two of them one was damaged
00:05:34.960and was able to safely land in israel and the other that apparently wasn't attacked but was
00:05:41.340having some issues was uh found somewhere in iraq and i believe there's four or five or six
00:05:46.980service members that were killed that um general kane and secretary of war hexath announced this
00:05:52.160morning so the casualties are really starting to add up secretary hexath was also asked directly
00:05:57.560how many casualties there were he didn't give a direct answer but i think with these additional
00:06:02.300five or six from this most recent incident where we're in the mid-teens um as those add up that's
00:06:08.720obviously applying more pressure to the administration we're also seeing gas prices
00:06:12.980uh spike and i've been seeing a lot of reporting that the president has his eyes close on that
00:06:17.120you know if you if you're familiar with a lot of the president trump rallies of the past he loves
00:06:21.220talking about gas he loves talking about low gas prices and just two weeks ago he was talking about
00:06:25.360how the national average was dipping under three dollars which is great yeah um but he hasn't been
00:06:29.780talking about it much since now that i think the national average is hitting 360 i think he i think
00:06:34.880he's also a message that in the future things will be even better and gas prices will go even
00:06:38.800lower but we'll see how long the american people could deal with this real bump at the pump yeah i
00:06:43.900mean look if it's a strategic move uh to get it down to 260 250 right before the midterms and
00:06:49.100it's a genius play but if we're still hovering around 320 330 by the midterms we're cooked i
00:06:53.240mean it's simple stuff like that and obviously that's the calculus that they're having to run
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00:10:25.160shows a change in gear i think the president is struggling with the pr surrounding immigration
00:10:30.280i think there's a spectrum of how it works you know americans are very supportive of deporting
00:10:35.580illegal aliens who have gotten here in the past four years and have criminal records i think that's
00:10:40.180something in the high 70s or 80s but then once you go to you know people who have been here for 30
00:10:44.560years have no criminal record and have a family um less americans are sympathetic to that and
00:10:49.360they were struggling for a while with the message of who's the priority and how are we going to go
00:10:54.000after them are we going to have roving bands of um different border patrol agents with gregory
00:10:58.720bovino who was also demoted by the way or are we going to go more of the tom homan route which
00:11:04.080really likes to work uh collaborate with different cities they like to get into the jails they like
00:11:08.880like to do early and late, early morning and late evening raids. So it's just a different
00:11:13.620strategy. But how that pans out in a number of illegal immigrants detained is what's really
00:11:19.620in flux. You know, they're not looking to do large workplace raids anymore, as I understand.
00:11:24.160And just the methods that Homan, who has a ton of experience, Borgazar Homan, has a ton of
00:11:28.400experience doing here. Will that be able to get to the promise of one million deportees a year?
00:11:33.180You know, I'm not sure. And, you know, it's actually a very important question. Maybe the
00:11:36.500Next time I get an opportunity with Press Secretary Caroline or the president himself, how close are you to reaching the goal of one million illegal supporters a year?