Paula Reid
Paula Reid
Paula Reid is a CBS News Correspondent based in Washington, D.C., where she covers the Justice Department, the White House, and legal affairs. Her reporting is featured across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms, including the "CBS Evening News," "CBS This Morning," "Face the Nation," CBSN, CBS News' 24/7 streaming news service and CBS News Radio.[1]
Early Life and Education
Paula Reid graduated from William & Mary College in 2005 where she studied Psychology and English as double majors. Paula Reid received her JD from Villanova University School of Law, and passed both New Jersey and Pennsylvania Bar examination. In 2016, Paula Reid also completed a Masters in Bioethics (MBE) from the University of Pennsylvania.[2][6]
Career
In 2010, Paula Reid joined CBS News and in 2014 Paula Reid joined the Justice beat in Washington. She has reported on the White House and stories involving federal law enforcement. she has also led the network's coverage of Special Counsel Robert Mueller and major developments related to the Mueller probe.
Reid has contributed to the Network's coverage involving Hilary Clinton's email server, the civil rights investigations in Ferguson and Baltimore, the prosecution of drug kingpin "El Chapo," and the Trump administration's travel ban. She was also one of the only reporters on the ground for the deadly white supremacists rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.
Her conversations during White House meetings also provided headlines, for example when the White House announced that President Donald Trump thinks he may fire the Special Counsel and refute the White House's assertion that his "Zero tolerance policy" is law.
She currently lives with her husband in Washington, D.C.. [4]
Paula Reid was berated by President Trump at task force briefing over coronavirus response
During Monday's coronavirus task force media briefing, President Donald Trump berated her when she demanded to know what the administration was doing to counter the coronavirus pandemic during the month of February.
"How do you close the world's greatest economy when you have no cases and no death on January 17th? When you have one case on January 21st, and no death, think of that,"
Donald Trump said.
"Now we're supposed to close down the country?"
he asked
"So this is what happened.
When I implemented the ban on January 31st, Joe Biden went insane!
He said,
you don't need the ban!
He didn't go mad, he didn't even realize what the ban was."
The president went on to point out that he was excoriated by Democrats for his immigration ban but later acknowledged it was actually the right thing to do at the time.
"I've saved tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of lives,"
The President said.
"But what did you do with your purchased time?"
Paula Reid interrupted.
"You're so disgraceful! It's so disgraceful the way you say that!"
replied the president.
"How can this sizzle reel, or rant, make people feel comfortable in an unparalleled crisis?"
Paula Reid asked.
"Nobody thought we should do it, and when I did it,"
replied the president.
"But what did you do with the time that you bought?
The month of February? Your video has a complete gap!"
Reid pressed.
"What did your administration do in February with the time your travel ban bought you?"
she asked.
"A lot!"
The president answered.
"What?"
asked Paula Reid.
"A lot!
And in fact we're going to give you a rundown, what we've done is actually part of it up there, we've done a lot,"
he responded.
"Listen, listen.
You know that you're a fake one,"
Donald Trump said to Paula Reid,
"you know that, your whole network, the way you handled it is fake, and most of you, and not all of you, but the people are wise to you.
That's why you've got a lower approval rating than you ever had before, maybe three times."
"We did that right and we really did, we did it right,"
Donald Trump said
“The problem is that the press doesn't report it the way it should."
The President also used the media briefing to quash speculation that he was considering firing Dr. Anthony Fauci from his coronavirus task force after he retweeted an expert immunologist's criticism.