Claim: "[It] doesn’t really matter who is in the Oval Office for me. My job is to find out information." Who said it: Eugene Daniels , the former Politico reporter and Beltway fashion icon who was recently hired to cohost a weekend show on MSNBC. Daniels made the comments in a fawning New York Times profile that described him as "the face of the White House press corps" that is "under attack" by the Trump administration. Context: Daniels was supposed to be the "breakout star" of the 2024