Thread by @Olivia_Gazis

Beth Sanner, ODNI Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Mission Integration – better known, now, as President Trump’s daily briefer – gave limited remarks today during an @INSAlliance webinar on 'Empowering Women & Engaging Men'

Sanner was asked how to establish credibility with “a new boss.” She did not explicitly mention Trump, but spoke obliquely about PDB briefers adjusting to a new intelligence customer.

“You figure out before you go in... what does that person need from you?”

My log -

Sanner, cont’d, on briefing intel customers: “You just really have to watch your audience and pivot. They’re done — you’re done.”

“You have to really hear people and then adjust yourself.”

Sanner with presentation advice and on briefing Trump: “If every time I went in and I talked to the President, I was afraid, I would never get anything done.

You might be afraid before you get there, but then you’re there. Let it go...You’ve got to let that fear go.”

My log -

Sanner on her presentation style: “I use levity all the time. And I think that that’s a way of also maybe softening, sometimes, my directness.”

Full comments, my log:

NB - This event was on the record but only written questions, which were filtered by the host, were permitted.

Sanner was not asked about / did not address the Russia bounty matter or National Security Adviser O'Brien's comments about the PDB last week.