Former White House press secretary and current MS NOW host Jen Psaki joined former NBC and CBS anchor Katie Couric on her Substack’s video show on Wednesday to claim that the current White House press corps is becoming “Kremlin-esque.” Both Psaki and Couric were too deep in their echo chamber to realize that Psaki’s previous sentence unwittingly highlighted just how absurd the claim was.
Psaki lamented, “And what they've done is they have really, and I read the press briefing a lot because we do a little thing on our show about it sometimes, more and more of the questions in there are by sycophants, or by people who are not asking about news that the American people cares about, but they're asking about, I mean, literally a question has started more than once, why is Trump in such good shape, right?”
Yeah, having conservative reporters ask about President Trump’s fitness is too much. What the White House needs are reporters from traditional outlets to ask if the U.S. will hold free and fair elections, trash conservatives, or declare that “voting rights” have “collapsed.”
Psaki’s double standards notwithstanding, she continued, “Or they are, you know, putting out conspiracy theories. There are people who, and they are getting a lot of the questions. There are some of the people who are in the press pools. This means that reporters who are there to cover MBS being at the White House or to cover Zelensky being at the White House or to ask these questions that Mary Bruce fortunately asked yesterday, there are fewer of them. And that is, you don't know that and see that unless you've lived there, but that's a huge, huge problem because it's becoming more of a Kremlin-esque press corps.”
The fact that Bruce was there and allowed to ask those questions without worrying that she would soon be falling out of her window disproves any notion that the White House is creating a Kremlin-like atmosphere.
Still, Couric wanted to act as if softball questions were the problem, “Right. And they've invited a lot of reporters from very right-wing media outlets, and you're right, they usually say, I forget there was one example, like, ‘Did you ever believe that you would be the peacemaker?’ I mean, just, so, and is it, I believe Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend.”
Psaki and Couric’s big complaint is that conservative reporters exist and are allowed to ask conservative-leaning questions, so they cherry-pick certain ones to obscure the fact that conservative reporters can and do ask good questions and that they speak for a segment of the population that MS NOW and its like-minded fellow outlets do not.
Here is a transcript for the November 19 show:
Katie Couric Media
11/19/2025
JEN PSAKI: And what they've done is they have really, and I read the press briefing a lot because we do a little thing on our show about it sometimes, more and more of the questions in there are by sycophants, or by people who are not asking about news that the American people cares about, but they're asking about, I mean, literally a question has started more than once, why is Trump in such good shape, right?
Or they are, you know, putting out conspiracy theories. There are people who, and they are getting a lot of the questions. There are some of the people who are in the press pools. This means that reporters who are there to cover MBS being at the White House or to cover Zelensky being at the White House or to ask these questions that Mary Bruce fortunately asked yesterday, there are fewer of them. And that is, you don't know that and see that unless you've lived there, but that's a huge, huge problem because it's becoming more of a Kremlin-esque press corps.
KATIE COURIC: Right. And they've invited a lot of reporters from very right-wing media outlets—
PSAKI: Yeah.
COURIC: —and you're right, they usually say, I forget there was one example, like, “Did you ever believe that you would be the peacemaker?” I mean, just, so, and is it, I believe Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend.
PSAKI: Yes.
