Brian Stelter: ‘I’m Curious to See if John Kelly Will Appear on Television’

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STELTER: “Here we are in this final — I guess we’re in the eighth inning of a nine-inning ballgame, and Kelly feels he has to speak out more forcefully. He’s doing so by choosing his interviewers very carefully. He’s choosing journalists he trusts, Jeffrey Goldberg of ‘The Atlantic,’ Michael Schmidt of ‘The New York Times,’ and maybe he will speak with others. I don’t know. I’m curious to see if Kelly will appear on television at all in the next 12 days or so. But it’s notable that ‘The New York Times’ released not just these quotes, but these audio clips, because that has generated a ton of television news coverage in the last 16 hours or so. So Kelly’s message, even though it’s coming late, it is getting out very widely in the U.S. and beyond.”