Shannon Bream on Katie Zacharia, President Trump, and Texas Midterms

Fox News anchor Shannon Bream with Fox News Sunday joining me now. Good morning to you. Happy Friday. And to you, Brandon. All right. So the complaints and the questions regarding the new press secretary, Katie Zachariah, does this matter or will this just be a distraction for her? Yeah, I wonder if six months from now she's going to have settled into this role and we're not going to be talking about it or if it's going to be a very abrupt, short tenure. I don't know, because the last thing you want as the press secretary is for the story to be about you. Anytime you're having to explain things, it's a distraction from what the President has brought you in to do, which is to boldly go out there and promote his agenda and to make his points. And so she was nervous on day one, I think any of us would be. It's hard to follow Caroline Leavitt, who was such a natural in that position. But now this distraction about her law license and how she has portrayed herself, I think news cycles move so quickly. If this one wraps quickly and we move on to other things and she shows more confidence in that next briefing, Maybe it's something we quickly forget, but right now she's having to waste a lot of time talking about it. Yeah. All right, so we've seen President Trump on the campaign trail, of course, more than once here in Texas. Does this move the needle or does it just give Democrats more ammo? Well, we'll see because you know what the president is doing, visiting all these deep red states like Texas has been in the last few cycles and many others. And he's saying you've got to turn out because turnout in midterms is critical. He wants his base to turn out. And I think he really enjoys campaigning. He likes the rallies. He likes getting out there and firing people up. But Democrats know he also fires up their base. And so when he says pretend I'm on the ballot, Democrats say yes, we want him and his policies to be on the ballot. And in your mind when you go to vote, it's been going on for weeks in some places, trickling and kicking in in more states in the following days. But really you're running out of time to make a final argument and the president knows he's gotta fire up his base. He's got to tell them they need to show up when they may be discouraged by a lot of the polling that they're seeing. And then their questions, are Democrats going to be too overconfident? And maybe some of their folks get a little bit complacent and don't have that same urgency to show up if they feel like it's just a blue tidal wave that's coming and maybe their vote's not needed. All right, let's look ahead to Sunday. Who do you have on tap? So we're going to have a couple of pollsters with us who have been at this for decades. Kellyanne Conway, Celinda Lake, are there holes in the polls? Are there things missing? Are Republicans, do they have false hope about the quiet or the shy GOP voter not talking to pollsters We're going to talk to them about how hard it is to get numbers in 2026 and what they make of the numbers. We've got Tim Kaine, who's one of the top Democrats on foreign policy in the Senate, to talk about Ukraine and Iran and the diesel deal with Putin and all those kinds of things. So got a legal panel too, it's gonna tackle the investigations into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. The Cornell case, Krista Pike's botched investigation, or excuse me, botched execution attempt. We'll try to get to all of that on Sunday. All right, looking forward to it, Shannon. We'll see you then. All right, Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream airs right here Sunday morning, Channel 4, Fox 4, 8 a.m.