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Jacqui Heinrich calls it as she sees it. As one of Fox News’ senior White House Correspondents, co-anchor of The Sunday Briefing, and the future president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, she has earned a reputation for asking tough, necessary questions — regardless of who’s in power.
“I build rapport no matter who is in office by approaching my job with integrity,” Heinrich told Mediate founding editor Colby Hall on this week’s episode of Press Club. That approach has guided her across the administrations of both former President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump.
“When I’m in the chair, I’m asking questions that I really want an answer to,” she said. “I don’t use that time performatively. And I think that goes a long way, because they know from dealing with me that I ask questions genuinely. I’ll never do a ‘gotcha’ question.”
Heinrich described the briefing room as a place where competing incentives sometimes collide — legacy outlets, regional reporters, wire services, talk-radio hosts, and now, under Trump, “new media” invitees. Some show up armed with substantive questions, while others offer up queries that land closer to presidential flattery.
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Heinrich takes those changes in stride. “As long as they’re not taking the space that traditional media sits in,” she said, “I think viewers can understand when they’re getting news from a journalist versus an influencer — at least I hope so. So I don’t have a problem with it.”
But she is unequivocal on one point: access should never be conditioned on presidential approval. Speaking about the White House’s February clash with the Associated Press over its refusal to use the term “Gulf of America,” Heinrich was direct.
“We don’t want the White House to restrict who can come into the pool based on whether or not the president is happy with that outlet,” she said. “You want to make sure you have a press corps asking the leader of the free world questions that need to be asked, and that there isn’t a fear that if you do your job, you will be punished for it.”
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Heinrich is all too familiar with being the target of a Truth Social rant from the president. In March, after she questioned whether it was “appropriate” to showcase a Tesla in front of the press on White House grounds, Trump posted, “I watched Jacqui Heinrich from Fox over the weekend, and I thought she was absolutely terrible. She should be working for CNN, not Fox.”
In August, after his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Heinrich said on-air that the Russian leader had “steamrolled” Trump. Despite a wave of conservative criticism, Heinrich didn’t flinch.
“I don’t really think about it,” she said. “I know I’ve done my job. I stand by what I said. I’d say it again. I put it in context… I’m sure it’s not the last time I’ll upset this president or another.”
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Even when the information she’s challenging is factually shaky — such as Trump’s continued assertions that gas and grocery prices are down when data shows otherwise — she avoids reactive fact-checking in favor of deeper reporting.
“My job, no matter who the president is, is to figure out: What evidence is he pointing to?” Heinrich said. “And use that to determine: Are people around him giving him good information? What does this say about the president? What does it say about what we’re not seeing?”
She went on to address text messages — made public in early 2023 as part of Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against Fox News — that revealed internal criticism of her reporting on Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen 2020 election.
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Yet Heinrich learned about those texts only long after the fact. “I didn’t even know it was going on,” she said. “I have been blessed to be able to do my job the way that I want to do it… I think [Fox] obviously likes what I’m doing. My key card still works.”
Amid ongoing criticism that the network’s opinion shows blur the lines between commentary and reporting, Heinrich made clear she sees room for both. “My job is my job. Their job is their job. One doesn’t negate the other,” she said, emphasizing that her reporting remains consistent regardless of the hour or host she appears with.
Her path at Fox now includes a new chapter as co-anchor of The Sunday Briefing, alternating weeks with fellow senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy. Their dynamic, she said, works because they’re opposites. “I’d rather be poring over a stack of legal documents than doing a fun Halloween segment,” she joked. “We’re complementary. We bring different things to the table.”
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With her new show, Heinrich’s journalistic intentions remain unchanged. And those intentions, she said, can be summed up simply: “To ask questions and reflect things as they are to the best of my ability, fairly and consistently.”
You can subscribe to Press Club on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Read a transcript of the conversation below, edited for length and clarity.
Colby Hall: You have developed a reputation as being an arbiter of tough questions, regardless of who’s in the White House. And I say that as a compliment. Not everyone who’s in the White House Correspondents’ Association or in the briefing room is consistently asking tough questions of the Biden administration or the Trump administration. How is it you manage that — sticking to the stories you want at the risk of alienating, whether it’s Karine Jean-Pierre or Karoline Leavitt?
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Jacqui Heinrich: Well, I think that’s the job — that’s all it is. It’s what we signed up to do. I think I build rapport no matter who is in office by approaching my job with integrity. I always like to ask the questions I need to ask, make sure I’ve done my due diligence, put in the requests, get the background. When you do your reporting, make sure it has context and nuance.
And then when I’m in the chair, I’m asking questions that I really want an answer to. I don’t use that time performatively. And I think that goes a long way, because they know from dealing with me that I ask questions genuinely. I’ll never do a “gotcha” question. It’s just not my brand. And so I think it’s easy because it’s the only way I can be: approaching my job from how I actually am rather than putting on some sort of show for it. I think that would be a lot harder.
We prefer, at Mediaite, the show because it’s what tends to get clicks.
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I’m sure you do.
Now, walk me through the process — because I remember there was a dust-up within the Biden administration where their comms team was criticized by some for asking reporters what they were going to ask about. But it seems like Karoline Leavitt and Steven Cheung do the same thing. Walk us through — pretend we’re morons — and don’t understand how that works. Before a briefing, I can’t imagine you submit questions, but it seems reasonable that they would want to know the subjects that they should be prepared for. How does that work?
I think the dust-up you’re referring to was about a press conference, not a press briefing. And that is a totally different beast. I still don’t know how they handle that because they never called on me for the whole four years.
This was the Biden administration, right?
The Biden administration, yeah. They never actually called on me. So I have no idea how they approached that. But with the briefings, both administrations — Biden and Trump — just sort of go around to the workspaces for the press and say, “What topics are you interested in?” And we’ll generally say something like the economy or Iran.
It’s not an in-depth preview of what you’re going to get at, but just to ensure the press secretary is aware of the subject matter and, if something comes out of left field, maybe she needs to refer to a report that has come out. Certainly, if there was some really obscure thing I was going to ask about, I might supply them with the article it comes from.
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