>> how long have you been interested in that? >> for a very young age. i remember my mom likes to tell stories when i was young saying, this is julianna goldman reporter. even in days of elementary school and you come in and say what you want to be when you grow up. i think i pretty much -- >> what was the path for you? where did it start? >> so, i think, in looking back

so many years, it might be somewhat unconventional path. i think in today's world and what other news industry come out, i don't know if there is a conventional path anymore. i wrote for my high school newspaper. i wrote for my college newspaper. he a number of internships and i was also exposed early on to one of the great political families in the u.s. i had worked for kerry kennedy, and andrew cuomo when they were in washington. i developed a bug for politics. it took a while to kind of figure out whether or not i wanted to pursue the political route or the journalism route. ultimately i decided journalism.

>> what did you do for andrew cuomo and former vice president kerry? gliss a babysitter for them. i took care of their three adorable children. from there that transitioned into andrew cuomo had been exploring a gubernatorial bid in new york in 2002 and i started working on that campaign in the early days. traveling all around new york, doing a lot of surrogate scheduling. i worked in the press shop also. i was working there during college. i remember them saying to me, we will pay you if you decide to put off your senior year of college and stay on the

campaign. i knew i couldn't even broach this topic with my parents. they would tell me to leave the room. then it turned out that the first, my very first day of classes of senior year and i woke up and i turn on a radio station in new york and they announced andrew cuomo was dropping out of the primary that day. that, for me, it was a wonderful learning experience but i decided after that that i wanted to be on the other side. >> what did you like about what you saw up close in politics and what didn't you like? >> i liked seeing the one on one connection between a candidate and voters. and really seeing how voters

react. i remember during the obama campaign and the photographer used to travel quite a bit and you would talk to her about her career and kind of what photographs she look for. she would say she was less concern about the candidate she was photographing and more about the reactions and the facial expressions of the people in the audience. to me that really struck a chord. the ability for a candidate to connect and relate to people it is what politics is about. i liked working in the field. i liked canvassing. but, i also just decided that i'd rather -- you're exposed to some of the campaigning in some

ways. i would rather have covered that on the outside. >> what didn't you like about it? >> i think in some ways, the same things that you might not like in journalism you're up one day and you're down the next. sometimes you can do so much work and still like it didn't really get very far. you pour your heart into something and loss is tough. >> what was the moment when you say, i'm going to go from politics to journalism and how did you do it? >> so, again, i had worked and written for the "columbia daily spectator" when i was in college. after cuomo dropped out, i decided i would focus on

journalism. i thought i heard about bloomberg news and i thought that would be a neat organization. it was obviously a smaller news organization at the time and i had known i wanted to get into politics. i thought okay, here's a place i could go and start from the ground up and work my way up. >> so? , what happened? >> here's is how i found out about bloomberg. the summer when i was interning for andrew cuomo and my roommate was working for the terminal. >> what's the terminal? >> bloomberg l.p. it is a financial information mecca. it's a computer terminal that is a staple on wall street and it's

data, analytics and news. it's the firm that mike bloomberg founded. my roommate at the time, we were both interns spending all of your money on rent that summer in new york city, if you go to any of the offices all around the room, bloomberg have kitchens stocked with wonderful food. on the one hand, you think this is amazing. what kind of company provides free food like this for its employees. the flip side is, if there's food there for you, they have to leave the office so it boost productivity. that's how bloomberg knew -- the company kind of got on my radar. i thought i want to check this company out. they were doing a recruitment

program on campus. i was debating between not going to work for my political science professor. i went to the event and i said, i want to work for bloomberg news. they said, you're coming out of college. we don't have an entry level positions on the news side. we're starting this program called global customer support. you come in and you get to know all the company. you make all of these contacts and then after a short period of time, you can kind of go to whatever division in the company you want to go to. i thought, okay, great. i went through a whole interview process, i got the job. i decided okay, this is the route i want to go. professor kerry who is my political science professor and my mentor, i said i'm going to go this route and so, i got to bloomberg.

i started a few days after i graduated college. i realized that global customer support was a glorified cost center, which was fascinating and wonderful learning experience. answering 200 to 300 phone calls a day sometimes from very angry traders who are saying, my machine is broken and get men on -- get me on the phone with technical support and having very politely talk them down. i remember someone once called in and said what's the name of the china store underneath the bloomberg office at 59th and park. i think the experience working on a political campaign and what somebody once told me, they look for people who had worked on political campaigns because to

do everything yourself. there's nobody there that can xerox for you and fax for you and you have to multitask. this also helped me develop skills to be able to do everything on my own and take unconventional questions and try and figure them out. these were all lessons you can apply to journalism. but then there was another path i got to bloomberg. i got there and quickly learned that nobody had ever gone from global customer support to the news side of things. >> we're going to come back to that. i want to run some video from february. the actual date was february 9, 2009. let's watch it and i'll get you to explain this. [video clip]. >> all right, bloomberg. >> thank you mr. president.

many experts to senator schumer said it would cost the government more than a trillion dollars to really fix the financial system. during the campaign, you promised the american people that you won't tell them what they want to hear but what they need to hear. won't the government need far more than $350 billion that's remaining in the financial rescue fund to really solve the credit crisis? >> how did you get there? >> coming up with the question? >> the whole thing. all of those reporters looking at you in that room? >> the butterflies in my stomach come back. that was intimidating and nerve wrecking evening. looking back, it was pretty awesome i think just having covered the -- i think i'm on my five year anniversary of covering barack obama now and seeing him through the campaign

and to that moment, that first time press conference that he held as president. coming up with the questions and we spent hours and hours developing that. >> how did you get called on? he clearly had your name on there and did you expect him to call you? >> he a sense that i would get called on. i think probably the reason i got called on because if you remember in february of 2009, geithner and over the next few days is going to be announcing the stress test and the next steps of the financial bailout. it was at the height of the crisis. they were in the middle of the stimulus battle and bloomberg news for economic focus press conference was a natural place to go for questions. also, i've been covering them

for quite some time and -- >> covering obama. >> covering the obama folks and it was a nice introduction to covering the white house. >> when did you start covering? was it senator at the time? >> it was senator obama and it was in july of 2007. the first time i went out was iowa that's over july 4th weekend. it was a -- you talk about opportunities and how you get from point a to point b. that was real luck, i think, because i had been working on the -- when i moved to bloomberg, the news side of the operation at bloomberg, i was working for bloomberg television. then i moved down here to washington in 2006. i was working on the tv side but i wanted to do more reporting. i asked my boss and mentor if i could move to the print side of

things at bloomberg. i was more of a general assignment reporter covering congress and the occasional white house trip, press core under bush and i was somebody who had been covering senator obama. there was an opening to cover him and i think for a lot of the people who started covering senator obama early on and covering his presidential campaign, i think in some ways we were seen as the green reporters who were being given an opportunity to work for a guy who really didn't have much of a shot of winning. but this was a way to get your feet wet in preparation for the 2012 campaign. i went out with him and covered that july 4th. it was my first time going out in a presidential campaign, first time on a bus tour.

might have been my first time in iowa. >> how many people there reporting following him? >> i think there was probably a dozen reporters. probably a dozen reporters and photographers. but it certainly , in those early days, it was a much smaller group of people and you didn't have all the networks covering him 24 hours of the day yet. you had more opportunities to jump in and ask him questions and you think back to he's going to the iowa state fair any next week again. think back five years ago at the iowa state fair and walking down and being able to jump in and ask him a question. you never be able to do that now. >> your second question that we found was in july of 2009 in the white house. let's watch that one.

[video clip] >> thank you mr. president. you said the recent bank indicate there was no since on wall street. we haven't seen a change in culture there. do you think that your administration needs to be taking a harder line with wall street? also would you consider going a step further than your regulatory reform proposal and supporting a fee on risky activities that go beyond traditional lending? >> how did you get to that question? for those who just tuned in -- how much work did you have to do? >> the first thing i'm thinking i was wearing the same exact outfit now. there was an enormous amount of work that goes into preparing for a presidential press conference. when you contrast that with the daily white house briefing, with carney and robert gibbs, there valley no comparison.

what we do at bloomberg, we decide who's going to be going to the press conference. you put a list of questions together. usually someone from bloomberg is going to be financially economic focused. we had meetings and we drilled through certain topics, refined the question, can you ask it a different way. looking back at that question, in an ideal world, i wouldn't have stumbled and looked down at my notes. you want to be able to ask the questions quickly as possible. >> so it was written out? >> yes, the way i prepare is we have the meetings. we go through the questions and we finalize the question and then i write it out. i have legal pad and i have my paper. >> you could see in the eyes in

those sitting around you some well known folks. they're looking at you just to say, where is she getting these questions. did you expect to be called on the second time? >> i don't know if i was expected to be called on. you always have to expect that you're going to be called on. you hear those horror stories about white house correspondents saying, yes i showed up to this surprised press conference and the president called on me and i had no idea what i was saying. story somebody once hiding because they got called on and wasn't expecting it. you always need to be prepared. you always needs to go into these assuming you will get called on. sometimes, you say okay, well the preparation that's three hours of my life i will never get back. >> you know that a lot of people outside of washington look at those press conferences and say there's nothing happening there.

that the white house press core lap dogs of the president. there's lot of criticism about the daily briefings. what do you come from on all of this? >> i think that's probably in some ways unfair. i can appreciate looking in and+ thinking -- i think our job is not to ask gotcha questions. it is not to trick the president. it is trying and get fair answers out of him. that's how i apprch my job. i'm not looking to catch when jay carney, in the press briefing, i'm not looking to catch him -- well, that's not what you said the other day. really and trying to get information to inform people with. think back to this week. part of the preparation for me when i go to the daily briefing is mostly just kind of looking and seeing what the headlines

are at the moment and seeing what the white house should be commenting on. for example, this week we saw stocks rallying in part because of some optimism that europe might be getting its act together. obviously because the u.s. economy is largely -- getting things right in europe it going to mean the difference for the u.s. recovery. an appropriate question i think at that time is to ask, do -- do the white house have the same sense of optimism?

it's still important to be asking those questions. >> should know this is being recorded in mid-august. it surely a program about your life and how you got to this job and what it's like to be a white house correspondent. we got another clip of you. this moves up to 2010 and it's april 27th. let's watch this and explain this to us. [video clip]. >> thank you mr. president. we learn today that the oil has been gushing as much as five times the initial estimates. what dawes -- what does that tell you that bp, trusted on events leading up to the spill or any of the information? >> you didn't look at your notes much this time. >> you can see i start to get better at this.

>> are you less noticed the more times do you this >> definitely. in part because of a comfort level that you have with the president as well. yes, practice, i wouldn't say makes perfect in this situation. but the more you paragraph the more comfortable it becomes. >> one of the criticisms that the white house conferences is that the reporters who want to get their question in, go soft on the president. >> well, i look back and the first clip that we showed when i asked the president about banks and being straight up with the american public and whether taxpayers should be on the hook for more bailouts. the president as a candidate, he constantly said i'm not going to tell you what you want to here and what you need to hear. that's a fair way of posing a

question to him. saying, okay, this is what you said, how are you going to tell the american people now and not just what they want to hear and what they need to hear? on april 27th, it was within two weeks the bp oil spill beginning. that was as the white house was starting to really, i think, fully appreciate the damage that this was causing. the question of how much blame we should be assigning to bp now. that was a tough question for a president because it's asking him to weigh in and make a judgment call onal corporation. he has to handle delicately too. >> how much do you trust the white house, the president, jay carney and the kind of information they're giving you? >> that's an interesting question. i say as a general rule, -- i

think if we didn't trust them and the information they were giving us, it would be miserable thing to be covering. that should not to say that you should take everything at face value. i think continuing to ask questions and get them to expand upon statement that's they've made, i don't think the two are necessarily -- i think the two go hand in hand. >> how big from when you are involved in this, you feel bloomberg audience is? how many different places can people what you do or read what you do? >> sometimes that can be difficult and it can be one of the times during this job when you're saying, who is seeing what i'm doing? there's so many different platforms you have for bloomberg. we have the terminal that you

talked about and that is -- in some ways, that is very local news. we were talking the other day in the office because, i guess it was goldman sachs ceo and he was testifying on the hill and we got word that he was going to the white house to meet with chief of staff, jack lew. it was a local news element. it's huge news for bloomberg. you have that outlet there. you also have bloomberg television and you also have the website. we've also just launched a new blog at bloomberg which is loaded with data, television

packages, interviews, blog type stories and also our own story. then social media, twitter, facebook. there have been times i tweet something and it's tweeted to somebody else who has more followers than i do. tweet it is out and then -- tweets it out and who knows how many people are seeing that. it depends on the story and the day. >> i just had somebody -- a little person been watching the olympics, went into kind of a snit about twitter and wishing they shut that whole thing down because of what they've been saying about the nbc coverage of olympics. explain twitter and someone that's not on it and what is the value? >> the way i see the value of

twitter is, i use it as a news wire. i use it to follow people who i respect or who i want to hear from or who could be making news so you can stay up to date on the latest happening. >> can you give us an example somebody you follow that matters to you? >> mike kaktik from bloomberg he will tweet out every major headline on bloomberg. >> how do you know when you've got a tweet? >> i keep -- i will admit, i am not the greatest twitter user of the twitter verse. there are all sorts of different people who utilize it probably far more better than i do. i usually keep it up on my

computer screen and just follow it that way. i also have a twitter app on my iphone. >> what do you think the impact of twitter is? maybe either on the news business or on the society? >> i actually think that there are positives and negatives. the positive impact i think it helps you stay more informed, more up to date on what's going on. there are outlets. if i come into the white house in the press pool. we had access to the president and see him interacting with voters. we see him in afghanistan and we're on those trips. you have a very unique view and lens into the president that others don't have . the value of that is to be able to tweet and you can watch and you can tweet realtime as things

are happening. think the negative is that it has the 24 hour news cycle, in some ways, it's 24 hours plus of news cycle. it can be hard to distinguish -- if you think of bouquet, you have your roses and then you have the filler. it can be tough to distinguish the rose from the filler. as a journalist it forces you to refine your news judgment. >> you mentioned trips. you've been on some international trips with the president. have you flew on air force one? >> yes, quite. it sounds -- i don't know how many times this time own air force one, it's part of my job. >> where have you been? >> all over the world. one of the most rewarding experiences over the last

several years. all over asia with the president. went to oslo for him to accept the nobel peace price. his first trip to china, israel, when he was a candidate. egypt for the cairo speech. i've been to afghanistan. >> there's a picture that i seen, i don't know this is labeled or not, it shows the president bringing some cake back to you. what's going on here? >> it was my birthday. >> your 30th birthday? >> 31st birthday. 30th was last year. i was in the white house basement covering the bin laden announcement. this was my 31st birthday. which technically lasted two days because we were in afghanistan and because of the

time zone, i ran back in the afternoon and it was still my birthday. i think covering the white house and journalism in general, you need to some times to remain as a detached observer. this is one of those trips in moments i allowed myself to really enjoy that experience. we were coming back from afghanistan. we were on the second leg of the trip back. we had stopped for refueling. we were just about 30 or 45 minutes from landing back at andrews. i was in the middle of writing a story of a first person account of an afghanistan trip. i was wearing sweatshirt and was not expecting the president to come back there. i had coffee and all a sudden he comes back with a piece of coffecake and a candle singing

happy birthday. i was sort of trapped in there trying to thank him and blow out the candle and not knock my coffee or computer over. it was a little awkward. >> again, the hard politicos watching this and saying, she's getting trapped. those that want you to be tough, how do you stay independent? you got air force one and you get the believings, here he is the president of the united states giving you cake on your birthday? >> i think that's a fair question. an observer can look in and say, she's skewed and she's in the tank for obama. i also think at certain point, everybody is human and you have to be able to step back and the

same way -- i can't say -- how should i phrase this. i think it does not affect my ability to cover him and ask tough questions. because he brings that cake. it's a nice thing to do and it was a wonderful gesture. you also have to have that kind of personal relationship and interaction with the people who you cover and the people who cover you. >> one last question, this is in this year 2011 and it was february 15th of this year. another question let's watch. [video clip]. >> julianna goldman. >> thank you mr. president. your budget relies on revenue from tax increases to multinational corporations that ship jobs overseas and on

increases on oil and gas industry. you've been calling on this for years. if you couldn't get it through a democratic congress, why do you think you will be able to get it through now? doesn't it blind your push for deficit neutral corporate tax reform? >> over your shoulder, i saw a man named john gizzy. i wonder he get questions in at those news conferences, conservative. >> no, i haven't heard him get a question. the news conferences tend to be wire, print and network. >> again, you're talking not just to me, you're talking about college class and you explain to them. the president have control in that room and does he only call on people least not going to

disagree with? >> no, i don't think so. i don't think he goes into press conferences and say i'm not going to call on somebody who disagrees with me. i think there are so many people who are in the press conferences that they think we are going to call on the network, the print organization and the wires because there's just a limited amount of time. they are just there day in and day out. the president, it's not that he has control over the press. he comes in there. for the most part, he has a list of people he's going to be calling on. again, do you have to be prepared. >> go back to when you were taking consumer calls at bloomberg in new york city and you wanted to move into

journalism. how did you do it >> one ever the things we've been told being in global customer support because you are transferring calls to people all over the company. you get to know people and you should take advantage of opportunities to shadow. one of the things i learned again, not just nobody moved from global customer support to the news side of things, but most people took a path to the analytics side of the terminal where you can analyze the data, help clients. help with programming and information to then selling the terminal to outside clients. >> let me just -- i was there when it happened. the current mayor of new york, think he used to work for goldman sachs -- anyway, he left there and maybe got fired, but

started this company. there was a terminal that sits in the office where you can call up data. all of that led -- last figure was accurate to being worth about $18 billion. >> i don't know. >> that's what i saw published. this has been a huge success financially? >> yes. bloomberg l.p. has founded -- it's been founded on this terminal. bloomberg moved in some ways provides the content for that terminal. >> television network, radio stations -- >> television, radio, wire, bloomberg government here in washington, bloomberg.com as well. >> by the way, does it have any impact on you that the mayor of new york is the owner of this outfitter? >> no. only thing you have to do is if

there's a story that involves the mayor, you have the disclaimer. >> who did you ask for a job on the print side? >> i was answering phone calls. it was in the middle of the day and i got a call from somebody saying, hey, i know this sounds crazy, but i was stranded on the side the road the other way and some guy from news helped me. i wanted to call and thank him because i never got his information. i had to figure out who in process of elimination who's name was andrew and who worked in the news division and i e-mailed a couple people and kept her on hold. i found this guy who turned out to be the assignment editor for bloomberg television. yes, that's me and i put the two in touch and i followed up with

him. i said, by the way, i'm really interested in the news side of things over here. could i come and shadow bloomberg television. he said sure. i went over there and they were looking to hire a production assistant. that was my opportunity to then move on to the news side of things. that meant i had been in global customer support for eight months. most people stay for three months. now, whenever i call and speak to a customer service representative, you can fully appreciate what they have to deal with. >> last year, in 2011, here's a clip with you and your mentor al hunt on a program called "political capital." [video clip]. >> speaking of depression, two blocks away and pennsylvania

avenue, this must really depressed obama? >> heading into the number line and the white house staying the same at 8.2%. it doesn't fundamentally change the dynamic of the race. the fact trends need to be going in the right direction. mitt romney wants to make that the referendum on obama's handling of the economy. every month the gift seems to be on the romney campaign. if the job picture isn't improving then that is good for mitt romney. >> got a lot of old-timers over there at bloomberg. hunt wall street journal. is it your -- what is your sense about bloomberg is inserting itself into the mainstream of american news thought? >> just look at our washington bureau and over the last several

years how it has expanded. we have the largest bureau of any news organization in washington. more than new york timeses, more than wall street journal. 250 reporters, editors and producers. we are in covering the white house even and being in the press pool, we are there for every breaking news event and every moment of this presidency. that has an impact. i think -- i know it's company line but it does make us one of the most influential news organizations. i don't think that -- i covered the white house and covered the obama guys for a long time. i don't think they would necessarily be calling on me at press conferences if i wasn't representing a news organization like bloomberg that has the respectability and the

credibility behind its journalist. >> where did you grow up? >> i grew up in the washington area in bethesda, maryland. >> where did you go to school. >> i went to day school. >> how many girls. >> 13. >> what did mom and dad do? >> my father is an attorney and my mother has an employment agency. >> she read involved in politics what do she do? >> they are active in the montgomery affordable housing. it's sort of her passion. now she dabbles a bit on the jewish outreach. >> we have a picture, i think, we put up on the screen as debbie wasserman schultz head of the democratic party. mom is on the right and who's on the left. what impact did that have

growing up? what she active in politics? >> not really. when i think of my mom political activities, i think of her more working and doing housing issues. it's less political and more community service almost. i think that's why that passion there. >> brothers and sisters? >> two younger sisters. three girls in my family. my middle sister, samantha worked at citigroup. >> you shadowed the producer at bloomberg. when did they hire you and what was your first job? >> my first job was a production assistant at bloomberg television and i started there in the fall of 2004, summer of

fall of 2004. just before the 2004 election. then they were developing a program called money and politics and that was based out of new york and they knifers interested in politics and they asked me if i wanted to be a producer on that. then in 2006, that show, it was an hour long show, there were three or four of us who worked on it putting together every single day with guest based out of washington. in 2006, they were moving the show down to washington and they asked me to come down here. that's how i got to washington. >> how do you stand informed everyday? what do you use besides bloomberg? >> twitter. i have the new york times app, i have the washington post app. with twitter, it's like a news

wire. constantly going through checking to see what the headlines are. you have generally because of who i follow, you can see when things are starting to pick up some buzz. you know what's becoming part of the political conversation of the day. >> what do you study? >> i studied political science and i minored in history. >> if you had to name people in history and people in politics that you admired and people in the media besides your mentors, who would they be? >> politics i think and it's not just because i work for them but, obviously the kennedy family is the value on public service was something that having worked for kerry was something that i really learned to respect and appreciate even more to just see how this family

in generations and generations has engrained in them. mario cuomo wonderful person. he's also been a mentor to me as well growing up and pursuing a career path. in terms of reporters i look to, diane sawyer is a woman i look to and charlie rose is an amazing interviewer and story teller. of course, al hunt i think has taught me how to cover washington. how to ask the right kind of questions and the right way to frame how i approach. >> here you are with charlie rose. [video clip] >> what they're saying that this is a domino detect in the middle east. you have to take each country by

country and the leverage the united states has is different with each country. for example, other relationship hosni mubarak. the kind of things that we're talking about our economic sanctions right now that can be imposed unilaterally while working with the international community to impodes some of the kinds of things that you were talking about potentially multilaterally. >> when did you have to start doing things like that? >> a f months into the beginning of the obama administration, some of the bosses at bloomberg came to me and colleague to say what we

want to do, we want you guys to cover the white house but we also want you to do more tv. they said, you have to alternate. one week you will be print and work for the news wire and other week you will work for bloomberg television. i think that was in, i remember, i was on a foreign trip of the cairo speech. the exposure on bloomberg television really helped. in tv in some ways is not my comfort zone. like to be able to type and tv you don't have that ability. once i started doing more tv, there were more opportunities to do those kinds of appearances >> in 2011, here you are at a debate and you were there with how many other bloomberg people?

>> the debate, i was representing bloomberg and charlie rose was the chief moderator and the washington post there was as well. >> this was the republican primary debate. >> it was at dartmouth college. [video clip] >> it's 2013. countries are defaulting. you have banks on the verge of bankruptcy, the global financial system is on the brink. what would you do differently what president bush and ben bernanke did in date? >> you're talking about a scenario that's difficult to imagine. >> it's not a hypothetical. more than half the country believes that a financial meltdown is likely in the next several years and the u.s. bank have at least $700 billion in exposure to europe.

it's a very real threat and voters want to know what you will do differently. >> it's still hypothetical. i can tell you this, i'm not going to have to call of timothy geithner and ask how the economy works. >> would you not be open to another wall street bailout? >> no one likes the ideas of a wall street bailout. >> you said in 2008 it prevented the collapse. >> there's no question. the action of president bush and secretary paulson took was designed to keep not just the collapse of individual banking stutions. >> there you are a little more combative. what did you think of that? >> you know, in looking back and you talk about lessons for young people interested in journalism, to me, the preparation for that, i think shows. i think any time -- i wasn't

asking romney a hypothetical question but you have a sense of the way that you know a politician can easily respond to a question and say itself hypothetical. knowing what he said in the past and is he coming back to say it's hypothetical to have all the necessary talking points and information at your fingertips. >> you were you surprised at yourself there? >> looking back, i was a little surprised. >> why? >> because it was combative. not necessarily combative but i never been in that kind of situation before where you do need to have that back and forth and be able to come back with that kind of information. i had never really interviewed mitt romney or spoken with him before. >> could do you that with the president, you think? >> i think so.

the opportunities now that you have to interact with the president are more and the press conference settings that we've been looking at. in the interviews -- i conducted a couple interviews with him. you can have that back and forth. >> where would you hang out during the daytime in the white house? >> when you look at the white house, you see the west wing and you see the residents there. in the middle is where the press shop is and in the basement, which you can see there, that is our owe osha hazard and there's two little desk next to each other. that's our booth. >> how much time do you spend there? >> it depends. now as the campaign has been heating up, there isn't much to cover at the white house everyday.

really on the road and wherever the president is. when there's a lot happening in the white house, i might spend most of the day there. >> you have to edit your own pieces? in other words, do you any video editing on your computer? >> no. >> we have a records with ed henry of fox news interacting with jay carney. [video clip] >> this many of the operation find -- this president finds the use of the kinds of information that is protected in our national security environment, highly important. he has to make life and death decisions based on that information all the time. he thinks it is extremely important that that information be safeguarded. >> one of governor advisors accused the national security advisor of leaking information.

>> he made that accusation based on rumors he said he heard in the journalistic community. that same person called the russian soviet union on several occasion and could not that i could tell, accurately or intel gently coherently state a foreign policy difference between this president and the governor. i would let the investigations take place. >> were you there that day? >> no, i was not there. >> question about the overall briefings. something that we've covered on television. are we getting our money's worth? should we do this? >> i think so because it forces in some ways the white house to answer questions on the record and to have a spokesperson face voice and image be attached to a statement. some ways i think the white house is a little too quick

sometimes to speak in unattributed basis. you can ask what purpose the briefings serve, i think for network, for the evening newscast and morning newscast, it's an opportunity to have that sound bite jay carney reacting to the story. one thing jay carney has made a point of doing, i think resulted to his own experience, he doesn't just call on the first two rows of the briefing room. he makes sure to get to you. you ask about the blog and other news organizations. he makes a point of calling on a variety of organizations. >> when we started this, you said you grew up as a little girl holding a microphone saying, this is julianna goldman reporter. if this worked out to where you thought it was?

you're 31 years old, white house correspondent bloomberg news, 310 million television sets around the world can get supposedly bloomberg news. is this what you thought would happen? what would you say to somebody who made it happen for you? >> for me i think the ingredient was walking through open doors and finding internship and just trying a variety of different experiences. again, i go back to the work on the campaign trail, internship. it's all kind of come together and i can look back and say, yes, sure this path makes sense. i think also, the importance of having a mentor can't be over stated. to have somebody who is -- who

believes in you and gives you those opportunities. there was, i think, when it became apparent barack obama was going to go on and win the primary. some of the more send reporters who covered hillary clinton because everyone had expected her to win, went on to cover obama. the fact that al and my news organizations believed in me and keep covering barack obama. that is why i'm covering the white house today. >> when did al hunt become your mentor? >> he came to bloomberg in 2004 and when i moved down in 2006. i would say for the moment i started print in the spring of 2007. >> julianna goldman, we're out of time. white house correspondent for bloomberg, thank you very much. >> thank you so much for having

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