Katie Zacharia 'transitioning out' of role as WH press secretary

This is a very new role. It's only four days. Today, we're hearing that the president is suggesting that maybe she steps away. There were some comments that the president made. Again, just a short time ago, this is breaking in the newsroom. This happened in Washington, D.C., right outside the White House on the White House lawn. The president basically said she was treated unfairly by the press, and maybe she'd be happier, I'm paraphrasing here, if she stepped away from the role. We're trying to get that sound. We do have it. So let's listen to that right now. I told Katie that in my opinion, she was treated very, very unfairly, very unfairly by the news. Let's call it the fake news or the news or the media. You take any term you want. And I said, Katie, do you need this? I don't think you need this. And we're talking about doing something. We like Katie a lot. I think she's been really, really treated very unfairly. Are you saying you're talking about firing her or replacing her? No, no, we're talking about I want her to have a good life. I don't want to have a life like she's led in the last three days. She is being brutalized by the media. I think very unfairly, but she's been brutalized by the media. So I said, when I get back, we're going to Georgia right now. We have a tremendous crowd of people, like, record-setting. You know, these, I don't know if you know it, these rallies are turning everything around. These rallies are legendary. These are like the rallies I've had. And I didn't think I'd have to do it, but I want to make sure Republicans do as well as they can do. History says that a president, Republican or Democrat. So we've heard the president be very critical of the media before. This is nothing new. And just to kind of sift through some of what you just heard him say, he's essentially saying that this this woman that stepped into this high profile role now at the White House press secretary, that she's not being treated fairly at the media of course in such a high profile role to make some um some connection here in terms of what the president is saying or suggesting if you're in that type of role and you were to be being um attacked then yeah you wouldn't have a good life the president is essentially saying or suggesting that maybe she steps away because this could impact um her life katie zachariah again um not even a week not even a full week on the job And we know the job as White House press secretary. It is around the clock. It is around the calendar year. You have to be very tuned in. You are very visible in that role. And we are getting this information from multiple media outlets right now. This is a huge story that's breaking. I'm just taking a look at the monitor here just slightly under the screen. you see the president there on the screen. So essentially he addressed it head on and he basically said, look, I'm suggesting that maybe she reconsiders this. The president also said that he'd make a final determination later. So this is definitely still up in the air. This is breaking in the newsroom. We're probably going to come back to this later in the stream because we want to kind of put this into context. Again, this is a very high profile role. This is only a few days on the job. And now President Trump's suggesting that maybe Katie Zachariah, the White House press secretary, steps away after essentially just appointing her to this role.