Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Mar. 5, 2025

March 5, 2025 · The White House · 0:30:56

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What happened

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt briefed members of the media at the White House on Mar. 5, 2025, carried on the White House channel, leading with the President’s joint address to Congress the night before. She cited a CBS/YouGov survey in which 76 percent of those watching approved of the speech, as she stated it, and said the President had taken more than 400 executive actions on his key promises.

Leavitt walked through the address’s honored guests: Marc Fogel, reunited with his family and his 95-year-old mother after detention in Russia; Payton McNabb, whose story she said motivated the President’s action on men in women’s sports; and the family of Laken Riley, honored through the Laken Riley Act. She noted the President’s renaming of a national wildlife refuge in Texas for Jocelyn Nungaray and the surprise of the night: 13-year-old D.J. Daniel, who is beating brain cancer, was made an honorary member of the Secret Service by the President during the address, as she recounted it.

Why it matters

The briefing is the administration’s own scored recap of the joint address - the approval figure it chose to cite and the guest stories it chose to carry forward - recorded from the podium the morning after.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: the CBS/YouGov 76 percent approval figure for the joint address and the more-than-400 executive actions count, as stated at this briefing, are recorded here as checkable items as stated by the Press Secretary.

Sources: The White House, “Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Mar. 5, 2025” (YouTube, 2025-03-05) - official description and broadcast transcript as aired.