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US President Donald Trump is now into his second year in office, and we’d say there aren’t too many Belizeans who have met him.  But CNN Justice Correspondent and Belizean born and educated Evan Perez just might - when he receives the Merriman Smith Award at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner at the end of this month. Trump blew off the event last year - but he might be there this time.

Perez is posted at CNN’s Washington Bureau and via phone yesterday we asked him what its like covering the Trump Administration:..

Jules Vasquez
"We know that working at the white house is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. What's that like?"

Evan Perez, CNN Justice Correspondent
"It's exhausting but it is - if you're going to be a chef, you're going to have to work in the kitchen right so I think that's the way I would look at it. Certainly the attacks that we get from people, the politicians in particular because they're unhappy about what we're doing. Sometimes it does get to you obviously, it bothers you sometimes but you can't let it, you have to let it roll off your shoulders and just keep at it because the search for the truth is what we're really trying to pursue here, that's what we're doing."

Jules Vasquez
"Is it your job every morning as you wake up to check what the president has tweeted out overnight?"

Evan Perez
“Yes, 5:30 in the morning I'm up, I'm going to the gym and somewhere around that time I start seeing his twitter feed active so that's when you know he's awake. The trick is to get up before he does.”

Perez says it would be an honour to have Trump be there when the award is handed out.