Expose the Left has the video. This morning, Howard Kurtz reported that Snow would be an “active participant in administration policy debates.” Snow sounded less sure:

BRIT HUME: … Press secretaries haven’t always been advisers, except on narrow matters involving press access and what the press should be told. Is it your expectation that you will be at the table when policy decisions are made and that you’ll have a voice?
SNOW: That’s one of those things that I’m just going to have to wait and see.
HUME: Would you like that?
SNOW: Yeah, probably. But on the other hand one of the things you have to do is figure out what the president likes and what the president wants.

Bush should want Snow’s advice. Other highlights from the interview:

  • He said he’s not going to worry too much about reporters getting “cranky,” but that he doesn’t want to be “needlessly provocative” either.
  • He said, “You never know exactly how you’re going to perform until you get in the job,” but that if he had to name a former press secretary he would try to emulate, it would be Marlin Fitzwater.
  • He said he thinks the most important thing is to be respected by the press corps.

Good luck, Tony.