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Alcindor: Covering Trump Is a ‘Team Sport’ for Press: We ‘Have Each Other’s Back’

Posted on 30 March 2020

Basking in another contentious White House press briefing, PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor on Sunday night told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi that covering Donald Trump is a “team sport” for the press and that journalists much “have each other’s back” in opposition to the President. Much of the interview was spent lamenting that Alcindor only initially got one question out before a CNN journalist used his question to allow her to ask another. Speaking of Jeremy Bash, she described the team dynamic as journalists vs. Trump: