She's Going To Get FIRED For This...

Considering that Hannity is Trump's shadow chief of staff, I think we know exactly how this is going to end for her. That's the reaction to Katie Zachariah's Fox News interview last night with Sean Hannity. She went into this interview expecting softball questions and for Hannity to try to rehabilitate her image in the eyes of not only the American people, but also Donald Trump, and the exact opposite happened. It almost seemed like Sean Hannity is trying to get her fired with some of these questions that he was asking her. He directly confronted her on many of the lies that she's already told, her record, her disastrous first press briefing she had the other day that she only took three questions at. He went in on her, and I think that means that something more is happening behind the scenes. So we're gonna talk about this interview. I'm going to show you some of the clips from what Zachariah had to say last night and some of these questions that Hannity asked her, and I think we have to start with this one, the beginning of the interview where Sean Hannity basically confronted her on how bad the press briefing was. So let's get into it. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment, let me know what you think about this story, and let's start with this clip. She's stammering throughout the entire thing, just like she did at the press briefing the other day. I don't know if she's gonna last longer than Scaramucci, folks. She might be out tomorrow. Katie, I know this is a widely viewed interview for you, and you had your first moment as press secretary. It's been widely panned, I'm sure you're aware. It only lasted 14 minutes. You only took three questions. Questions about your legal background, calling yourself a lawyer. You went to Pepperdine Law School, but you did not pass the bar exam, correct? Correct. Okay, what happened? How did you feel it went personally? Well, Sean, I want to give some background, and it's nice to be on here with you and such a privilege to serve as President Trump's new press secretary. I was given the offer last Wednesday, or I got a phone call last Wednesday. I flew out to D.C. on Thursday, I had a meeting on Friday, was offered the job, flew home to California on Saturday, flew back to Washington on Sunday, was asked to start on Monday, Sean, which is Columbus Day, and so it's a federal holiday, and have a press briefing at 9.30 in the morning on Tuesday. So what I feel is I really stepped up and to the plate to do the press conference, Sean, with very little prep time. I received briefing materials in the morning of Tuesday, and I went to deliver all of the great results that President Trump is delivering for the American people that are. Yikes. Oh, that was bad. That's kind of awkward. I mean, her excuse is essentially, you know, I had a busy week before the press briefing, and that's why it went so badly, which is not a good excuse for the press secretary. Like, politics, government is always going to be busy. It's just like that all the time, whether it's a Democratic administration, Republican administration, that's what it is. You got to be able to move with the pace, and clearly, so far, she has showed that she's not able to. But I think the more important thing, even more important than her answer, is the question. Like, you know, with Donald Trump, for example, when Sean Hannity interviews him, when Donald Trump objectively does something bad, messes up, and creates a catastrophe, Sean Hannity will give him a softball question and say, you know, why is the media being so mean to you about this decision? Kind of giving Donald Trump the ability to just have this easy question and say what he wants to say. Sean Hannity is not doing that. He's not doing that with Katie Zachariah. He's kind of implying, like, hey, it was a disaster. Why was it so bad? Why did you mess up so badly on your first day as press secretary, your first briefing? And she didn't really get through that question all that well. And then they started getting into her record. Of course, that's been a topic of conversation. Zachariah has claimed that she's a lawyer, she's an attorney. She's not. She never passed the bar exam, and she kind of lied to get on TV for all of these years. She lied on her resume, pretending that she's a lawyer, when she most certainly is not. She passed law school, but that doesn't make you a lawyer. So he. Everyone's got a hard question about AI. Your job, your kids, where it's going. Anthropic was built to surface those questions and share what it finds along the way, because there's hope in hard questions. Ask yours at clod.ai slash Spotify and keep thinking. That's clod.ai slash Spotify. Confronted her on this, and they had a little bit of a back and forth. I want you to see. I saw you were on with Jack Posobiec, I guess, earlier tonight, and you called it a conspiracy theory as it relates to the issue of being a lawyer. Now, you did go to Pepperdine. Pepperdine is a good school, no doubt about it. You took the bar exam, but you didn't pass the bar exam, correct? Yes, Sean. Okay, did you ever take it a second time? So for background, I graduated Pepperdine, got married in the same week, and we had all intent to move out to China. I had already pre-registered for the bar exam, and basically during the summer, I knew I would be living in China, and the results of the bar were inconsequential, and I sat for it because I didn't want to have a withdrawal status, and then I moved over to China, and where I did get a job in an international practice of a Chinese law firm, I was doing cross-contracting, cross-country border transactions, and multi-million dollar shareholder agreements. But I want to ask you specifically, I know that part of the story, and you did do all of that. Yes. But did you ever take the bar exam a second time? I did not, Sean. Or a third time? No. You did not, okay. So, you said you consulted with many people, and they advised you that it was okay to call yourself a lawyer, but not an attorney, correct? Correct. Okay, there's a report out tonight that showed 15 social media posts, where you identify yourself as an attorney. I think they were retweets, and I corrected the record and said that there's not endorsing the title, they were retweets of a title that had been given. You know, I never thought I'd say this on the show, but Sean Hannity is actually asking good questions. I, you know, this is the only time I'll probably ever say it. It pains me to say it, but these are the questions you'd expect, you know, a normal journalist, someone who's actually good at their job, to ask Katie Zachariah. He is asking them as well. And of course, there's a reason for it. You know, Sean Hannity will give the softball interviews to the people that he wants to give the softball interviews to, and for the people that he doesn't, well, it kind of turns out like this, where he is kind of grilling her on her record, and the fact that she has referred to herself as an attorney over time, and now is trying to pretend that the posts on Twitter were not hers, or she wasn't endorsing that label for her, despite her amplifying those posts on social media. They got into it further about this, this lawyer label. And Hannity is saying, like, Aaron Ruppar kind of describes it accurately, moving in for the kill. Why not just say, "I went to law school and took a different career path. Why did you do this whole, like I'm an attorney thing pretending to be a lawyer," when you're actually not? And I've known a lot of press secretaries over the years, and following on the heels of Caroline Leavitt is very tough. And speaking for Donald Trump makes everything tougher. Why not just say, "I went to Pepperdine Law School and then took a different career path, and I took the bar once and didn't pass it"? Why get into this long drawn-out definition between the difference between a lawyer and an attorney? Because I don't think most people see much of a distinction. Why don't you just say, "I never practiced law"? Well, Sean, when I moved back from the United States, I didn't retake the bar. I had four kids in six years. It was never my intent to go into the practice of law. When I went to go engage in media and give legal analysis, I consulted attorneys. And legal professionals, as to whether or not they agreed that I could be labeled a lawyer, both because I had a valid Juris Doctor from a good law school, a reputable law school, Pepperdine Law School, and in conjunction with the fact that I did have actual, substantive legal experience. I wasn't providing any legal analysis, Sean, or, excuse me, legal advice. I wasn't being paid for legal advice. I was giving a general review of the legal circumstances surrounding it. God, her answers just don't make sense. Like, I'm sitting here, I'm listening to her. I'm like, it's just incoherent. It kind of sounds like Donald Trump. So maybe she'll be just fine in this administration. Who knows? But it just doesn't make a lot of sense. And these explanations for why she lied about her record, I just don't think are sufficient for anybody whose IQ is above room temperature or anybody that's not diehard MAGA. Again, maybe Donald Trump thinks this is fine. That would not surprise me whatsoever. His administration is full of mediocre people, who are incompetent and have lied about their records. So she kind of fits right in among, like, you know, Hegseth, for example, or J.D. Vance. You know, his qualification is he wrote a book and served as a senator for two years to be vice president. It's total nonsense. But yeah, just these answers just don't make a lot of sense. And once again, this question from Sean Hannity, I feel like I have to point this out every time. I'm just so shocked. This kind of question from Sean Hannity, you just wouldn't expect to hear about Donald Trump's newest employee. You know, every time there's a new Trump person, Hannity tries to boost them. That's his, like, job. He's like, you know, Donald Trump's best bud. And he's just not doing that here. And there were a couple explanations for that I want to talk about in just a moment. But the final clip from their interview perhaps is the most brutal one, because Sean Hannity is very clearly cutting off the interview early. They start playing the music to kind of get her to be quiet, like they do at the Oscars, you know, when someone's giving an acceptance speech and they start playing the music to get them off stage. That's exactly what happened with this answer. And she's stammering through her answer as well. Just watch. - Why only three questions? questions in 14 minutes. And what might you do a little differently going forward? I can give you some unsolicited advice. That's never going to be a friendly room to you. Yeah. So what I what I would say is I would absolutely be very well prepared on the briefing, Sean. And I would love and I do love questions. And I would love to build a relationship with all of those members of the press corps. So there is a substantive component to us having an ability to interact. And I will be very prepared, Sean, and I will step up to the duty of President Trump has asked me to his press secretary. All right, Katie, we wish you the best of luck in your new position. And we do appreciate you coming on. Thank you. Yeah, he kicked her off. He kicked her off. He's like, get out of here. You know what I mean? He was done with her. And that might mean that Donald Trump is done with her as well. I thought these points on this interview were really good. Yeah. This is from Max Taney. He is a reporter at Semaphore. He said Hannity knows Trump watches his show. His decision to ask Katie Zachariah real questions instead of just defending her or criticizing the media seems pretty notable. The Hannity show is one of those that Donald Trump actually pays attention to. He's one of those that he boosts on social media. Of course, they're friends. They, you know, they have done a bunch of interviews together. So it is notable that he is choosing these questions as opposed to other questions. It's almost like people in the White House kind of told him, hey, give Donald another reason to let her go kind of thing. And it seems like that might be what happened in this interview. Yeah. She are also saying it is very difficult to imagine Sean taking this tone and approach with Zachariah unless he knew it's what Donald Trump and others would be okay with or wanted, which I also think is fair. I also think that might be the truth that somebody in the White House, I don't know if it was Donald Trump himself. I don't know. But somebody in the White House said, Sean, you got to put the dagger in. This has to be the final straw to give us a reason to fire Katie Zachariah. And her just having this really bad interview where she's all over the place and failing to justify her lies about her record, which have become really a major national story, could be the straw that broke the camel's back as the saying goes. So look, I will leave the video there. I just wanted to cover this interview with you and talk about it a little bit. But thank you so much for being here. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment. Let me know what you think about this story. And I'll see you in the next one. Bye. Everything we just talked about. Have an amazing rest of your day. And we will talk soon.