Tyler Zacharia

Right.

What does make this a bit more of a problem, and I wrote about this in t- in the National Review Corner today, so her husband is named, uh, Tyler Zacharia.

He was the guy who was out in, working in Beijing.

While he was working in Beijing, he was the vice president of Shoals Global Investments, a global emerging markets private equity firm that was successfully bought by Cerberus Capital, all right? Now, this is from his official biography at his current employer, 2521 Entertainment, which is a film studio.

You'll love this one.

White House Press Secretary, Katie Zacharia, took the California Bar exam after law school in 2011 and did not pass it, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Uh, the, apparently, uh, the Journal reports that the senior administration officials confirmed to NBC that that was true.

Within four hours, Zacharia called herself a lawyer on CNN in February, on a podcast in August, and on Fox News at the end of August, and on the Greg Kelly Show this month.

Trump announced her as an attorney as well when he mentioned her appointment.

Mm.

Let's be fair.

[laughs]

... didn't do very well.

Uh, was out of breath, confused her husband for the President of the United States a couple of different times, and just, uh, did not feel very comfortable-

No

... up there.

Melissa in Baltimore, you're on WBAL with Brian and me.

Is this a big deal, Melissa, or not?

not?Um, my question is, what kind of background check did they get, uh, do on her? You know, presumably she has access to sensitive information, and if it's a surprise to everybody that she wasn't barred, a barred lawyer, then, if she worked in China and her husband worked in China [laughs], um, you'd think national security would be an issue and they'd do a background check.

Well, I'm not sure what level or degree to which Melissa-

Despite her relative youth, she was a formidable and combative performer.

Yesterday, her replacement, Katie Zacharia, held her first White House press conference.

Sean McCree, White House correspondent of The New York Times, was there.

Good afternoon, Sean.

I mean, comms is important, and they're just sort of failing to communicate on every level here.

Yeah.

Uh, one of our listeners, uh, Joe in Wexford, says, "Katie Zacharias' husband, Tyler Zacharias, was involved in mining in North Korea when they lived in China.

He was also involved, uh, with movies like The Irishman." Uh, may- uh, so that's maybe when, when she got her law degree, uh, when he was mining in, in North Korea.

That is what is being said.

Well, let me tell you something about her and her husband.

Didn't she go to work for Temu?

She, she worked on, uh, China's Belt and Road Initiative-

Okay.

Oh, here's the information.

White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia's husband, Tyler Zacharia, helped expand Schultz Global Investments, later called SGI Frontier Capital, into North Korea while based in China, where Katie also previously lived.

The firm made three loans to North Korean mining companies in 2008 and provided a $1 million loan to a North Congre- North Korean conglomerate in 2011 while US sanctions on N- North Korea were in effect.