Trump’s new press secretary needed a Fox News cleanup interview for her Sean Hannity cleanup interview

By Friday morning, White House press secretary Katie Zacharia was being offered a chance on Fox News to clarify what she had said on Fox News the night before.Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt approached the question gently. She said she had watched Zacharia’s interview with the network’s primetime star, Sean Hannity, and sympathized with the demands of a job that required knowing the facts and speaking off the cuff. Would the new press secretary say anything differently in that interview or her first White House briefing?Zacharia offered no correction. She praised President Donald Trump and blamed the media.“The legacy media wants to put the focus and attention on me because they want to be distracted,” she said. “They wanted to be distracted from the major wins that President Trump is making for America.”Co-host Lawrence Jones also asked whether Zacharia wished she had told Trump she had not passed the bar exam.“Yeah. Well, Lawrence, those questions weren’t asked,” Zacharia replied. “I’m being hired as White House press secretary and not White House counsel.”She did not clarify whether she had volunteered that information before accepting a job from a president who publicly introduced her as an attorney.Related: New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia claims to have passed bar in ChinaThe exchange extended a difficult opening week for the president’s new spokesperson, whose explanations of her credentials and preparedness have become a story of their own. Thursday’s appearance on Hannity brought that problem into particular focus. Even a host reliably sympathetic to Trump kept asking her to get to the point. Zacharia confirmed she failed the bar exam and never retook it. She defended her brief debut at the White House lectern by describing how little time she had to prepare. And she continued arguing that her education and experience justified calling herself a lawyer, even as Hannity questioned why she was making that disti