"They are getting a lot of the questions. There are some of the people who are in the press pools. This means that reporters who are there to cover MBS [Mohammed bin Salman] being at the White House or to cover [Volodymyr] Zelensky being at the White House or to ask these questions that Mary Bruce fortunately asked yesterday, there are fewer of them."
"It does remind me so much when I was at the State Department and I traveled with John Kerry, she said. You'd have like the Kremlin press corps. I mean they were the press corps' from media,' I'm putting that in quotes. But they literally reported to the Kremlin, following the foreign secretary around and foreign minister around. That's what I think maybe they want."
Jen Psaki accused the current administration of cultivating a White House press corps dominated by Trump sycophants who receive more opportunities to ask questions. The White House has added non-traditional media seats and restricted access to the Upper Press office, while the press secretary alleged reporters were caught spying. Psaki said fewer journalists are covering major visits and asking hard questions about leaders like Mohammed bin Salman and Volodymyr Zelensky. Psaki compared the dynamic to government-controlled foreign press corps that report to the Kremlin and suggested the shift poses a serious problem for accountability.
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