Steve Hayes: It Was Very Effective for John Kelly to Needle the Press Yesterday

‘I think it was very effective yesterday with the press corps making his case’

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HAYES: "I think it was a very good moment. It was a very good day. Precisely because this man drips of credibility. John Kelly is regarded by everybody who worked with him and people who don't, reporters in the room who were seeing and meeting him for the first time as somebody who is a man of integrity, a patriot, somebody who is smart and who has been through a lot. So when he speaks, he speaks with a sort of natural authority of a general. I think it was very effective yesterday with the press corps making his case, needling the press corps in a slightly gentler way than President Trump had done. And look, the press corps loves a good surprise. When you sit through the briefings day after day after day and it is boring, you want a good surprise. Bringing John Kelly, they liked that."

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