travel report 1 — overview from JBA

Greetings from Joint Base Andrews, from where the president is to visit Warren, Michigan, for a rally to mark his 100th day in office, which began at noon today.

Today will be his first domestic trip that does not involve a visit to one of his golf resorts since he took office in January.

Please note that under the WH’s takeover of the pool system, there will be no wire services flying with the president today.

Further, this change in the pool makeup has eliminated the slot once filled by a dedicated “co-pooler” and reduced the total number of print reporters in each travel pool from five to two. This may affect the quality and speed of the pool reports.

Moreover, the WH stopped sending out transcripts of the president’s remarks months ago, and only sporadically posts transcripts on the White House web site. It has been a staple of reports since your pooler began covering the WH under Obama to write “please check quotes against transcript,” but there is not a point to such language any more.

Your pooler’s advice is to watch for TV coverage of the president’s possible remarks under the wing and hope the WH will stream any remarks if he visits the press cabin. Your pooler will provide quotes as early and as thoroughly as practicable.

We are flying today aboard the larger plane, a modified Boeing 747, tail number 29000.

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S.V. D�te

White House correspondent

HuffPost

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