NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell Complains About the Lack of Transparency from the Trump W.H. for Not Publishing Transcripts of Trump’s Remarks

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O’DONNELL: “There is someone sitting at the front of the briefing, and that person keeps the official record of all the public statements that are made and taken at the White House, and that becomes a part of the official national archive. And it has up until now been a resource available to the public. Certainly journalists, we use it all the time, but so do members of the public who wish to read and review what has been said in speeches, in question and answer periods, in various types of briefings and so forth. That has been changed now, and this White House is putting only video on the website, taking away all of those. They had also, earlier in this administration, stopped the practice of sending out those transcripts in a timely way, typically within an hour or so of an event. There would be the official transcript sent out. And at times we’ve done stories on those when they didn’t match what we saw on video or what have you. In this instance, it is a shift toward the visual in terms of what is packaged by this White House, the video clips they’re choosing to put forward on an official government website, and not the full accounting of all the words that are said.”