President-elect Donald Trump’s meeting with news anchors and executives from the country’s five biggest television networks on Monday at Trump Tower included some of the biggest names in the industry.
C-Span’s “elevator cam,” which is located in the lobby facing elevators that go up to Trump’s office, showed Fox News senior executives Bill Shine, Jack Abernethy, Jay Wallace, Suzanne Scott and Brian Jones were present for the off-the-record meeting.
Network President Jeff Zucker and anchor Wolf Blitzer attended on behalf of CNN.
NBC News President Deborah Turness, anchor Lester Holt and “Meet the Press” host and moderator Chuck Todd represented the Comcast-owned network while MSNBC president Phil Griffin also attended.
From CBS, “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson and the “CBS This Morning” team of Charlie Rose, Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King made the trip across midtown Manhattan. CBS News President David Rhodes is reportedly traveling and could not attend, according to TVNewser.com.
The ABC contingent included “This Week” and “Good Morning America” host George Stephanopoulos, “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir, and Martha Raddatz, the network’s chief global affairs correspondent.
The meeting was arranged by Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, who also served as Trump’s campaign manager for the final few months of the White House race.
Conway told reporters after the meeting the president-elect “works 18 hours a day” and will have a press conference “in due course.”
Trump has not held a press conference since July 27.