The President, His Plane and the Press

7/17/202629 min

Last Friday night, F.B.I. agents showed up at the homes of several New York Times journalists and summoned them to testify before a grand jury.

The move was a response by the Trump administration to an article about the safety of the new Air Force One.

Tyler Pager, one of the journalists, discusses the story and the subpoenas.

Guest: Tyler Pager, a White House correspondent for The New York Times.

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Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times

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Speaker 20:32
I was out for some drinks sitting on a patio.
Speaker 30:37
My wife and I were over at some friend's house for dinner, you know, having a really nice evening, glass of wine and all that. My family and I had sat down to watch Sheep Detectives, a murder mystery, and right as we were about to find out from the sheep who had committed the murder, I get a call.
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Speaker 31:05
And I pick it up, and it's, it's an FBI agent who identifies himself and says, "I'm in front of your house right now. Are you coming home anytime soon?"
Speaker 21:14
When I got home, my wife was in the front yard with our kids, and they were playing with some sparklers left over from the July 4th celebration. And she pointed to this unusual car sitting there across the street from our house. Inside were two FBI