A “gaggle” is an informal, on‑the‑record exchange between White House spokespeople or the president and a small group (often the press pool) of reporters; it’s typically off‑camera, shorter and less formal than a full press briefing or press conference, and may disallow video recording, though quotes can be used on the record.
The White House video of the Jan. 31, 2026 gaggle is the primary source; the publisher’s description gives only the event metadata. Without a published transcript in the video page text, the specific topics and questions answered must be determined by watching the video; publicly available summaries or transcripts for this exact Jan. 31 gaggle were not found in mainstream outlets.
There is no official written transcript posted alongside the article summary provided; the White House YouTube posting includes an embedded transcript/captions feature but the White House page does not publish a separate text transcript — so only the video (and its captions) appear publicly available unless a separate transcript is released later.
The uploaded video and White House posting don’t list which pool reporters or specific outlets were aboard; that information isn’t provided in the video description and no contemporaneous mainstream report naming pool members for the Jan. 31 flight was found, so who attended cannot be confirmed from available public sources.
A gaggle is informal, often off‑camera and usually with the press pool or a small group of reporters; a formal press briefing or press conference is scheduled for the wider press corps, is more structured, typically on camera, and follows stricter rules about record status and access.