Pool Reports of June 17, 2025

In-town pool report #1 — rolling from JBA

Good morning on a wet and rainy Tuesday at JBA, where AF1 touched down just after 5:00am. POTUS deplaned and hopped in the Beast at 5:09am without stopping for questions.

Motorcade is rolling back to WH as of 5:11am

Tktk

In-town pool report #2 — WH arrival/breakfast lid

Motorcade pulled back through the WH gates at 5:31am. POTUS entered the residence before pool exited the vans, per WH

WH has called a breakfast lid until 11:00am

In-town pool report #3 — lunch lid...

... until 1:00pm ET. Called at 12:01pm.

In-town pool report #4 — Situation Room

Passing along from WH: "On background, the meeting has started."

Tktk

In-town pool report #5 — meeting over

On background from WH, Situation Room meeting has ended, running roughly 1 hour 20 min

Tktk

In-town pool report #6 — Witkoff/Caine and others depart WH

Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine, and other senior mil leaders departed via West Exec around 4:20pm, well after the situation room meeting ended… spotted by Getty's Andrew Harnik

CEA chair Stephen Miran also briefly stepped out onto the driveway for an ABC hit but didn't stop to field questions

In-town pool report #7 — Sheinbaum call

White House officials confirm that POTUS spoke to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum earlier today but did not provide a readout.

Passing along... "On background from a WH Official: Can confirm the call. It was a good call."

In-town pool report #8 — Rubio, Vance depart WH

Secretary of State Marco Rubio departed WH via West Exec around 5:25pm ET, followed by Vice President JD Vance around 5:45pm. Thank you to Daily Mail's Nikki Schwab and other reporters at the stakeout for providing approximate time stamps.

In-town pool report #9 — travel/photo lid

... called at 6:30pm. That's all from me folks (for now). Have a great evening, y'all!