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His ability to not only understand but to translate complicated issues from economic policy to gun policy was invaluable when I was the press secretary.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I'm going to get emotional about this issue because it's horrible. But it's kids who are bullied, and all these leaders are taking steps to hurt them, and hurt their lives and hurt their families.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Our intention is to have a deterrent effect with sanctions.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This is part of our ongoing efforts to maintain open lines of communication between the United States and the PRC, the two Leaders will discuss managing the competition between our two countries as well as Russia's war against Ukraine and other issues of mutual concern.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
He was speaking from his heart and speaking from what we’ve seen on television, which is barbaric actions by a brutal dictator through his invasion of a foreign country.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our assessment right now is that( China is) abiding by the requirements that have been put in place, but we would continue to encourage any country to think a lot about what place they want to -- what role they want to play -- in history as we all look back.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We were actually about to wrap this meeting up because it was clearly a bad idea, hey, don't do that. Don't just yank the plunger off the nipple like that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Well, they have a large biological and chemical weapons program. So it's a pattern, but they also have the capacity. While I'm not going to get into specific intelligence, we look at all of those factors.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is horrifying to see the type of barbaric use of military force to go after innocent civilians in a sovereign country.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're trying to maximize benefit and minimize adverse events of the vaccine, you have to take into account whether someone has already had COVID-19 because they may already be protected, and while the data is clear for vaccinating high-risk children … it is less clear vaccinating otherwise healthy children, whether there is any benefit, and there is no data showing that.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Let me just note that we know the science, we know the data and what works and what is the most — what the most effective steps are in protecting people of a range of ages from hospitalization and even death.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would say that we are internally discussing, of course, what it looks like to be in the phase of the fight against the COVID pandemic where it is not disrupting everyone’s daily lives; where people are moving on and living, you know, lives free of, hopefully, masks at some point and many of the restrictions that we’ve all been living through over the past two years.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Storming the Capitol in an attempt to hold the peaceful transition of power is not legitimate political discourse, neither is attacking and injuring over 140 police officers, smashing windows and defiling offices.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
What we're looking at, and what we'd like to remind the public of, is why we are at this point now, most importantly, none of the things we're looking at now – Iran's increased capability and capacity, their aggressive actions that they have taken through proxy wars around the world – would be happening if the former president had not recklessly pulled out of the nuclear deal with no thought as to what might come next.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For those who choose not to, mocking them and punishing them will lead to a more divided America, furthering the discrimination we are already dealing with.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Just as you heard him say on Jan. 6 of last year, I would expect that President Biden will lay out the significance of what happened at the Capitol, and the singular responsibility President Trump has for the chaos and carnage that we saw, he will forcibly push back on the lies spread by the former president – in an attempt to mislead the American people, and his own supporters, as well as distract from his role in what happened – so, he will, of course, speak to the moment, to the importance in history of the peaceful transfer of power, and of what we need to do to protect our own democracy and be forward-looking.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
President Biden has, of course, spoken repeatedly about how the former president abused his office, undermined the Constitution and ignored his oath to the American people in an effort to amass more power for himself and his allies, he sees Jan. 6 as a tragic culmination of what those four years under President Trump did to our country.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's not a day that goes by that I don't leave this podium and wish I would have said something with greater context or more precision or additional information. That day, there was a lot of good questioning on testing, and during that briefing I conveyed a lot of information about our expansion of testing about the 50 million tests, about the 20,000 free testing sides. And should I have included that additional context in that answer ? Yes.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
On Monday morning, a mid-level staff member, who does not regularly have contact with the President, received a positive result for a COVID-19 test, Three days earlier, on Friday, that staff member had spent approximately 30 minutes in proximity to the President on Air Force One, on the way from Orange, South Carolina to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The president has a full schedule today and is not in need of quarantine, we will provide information to all of you as outlined with our commitment from just a few months ago about being transparent, aboutclosecontacts. I don't have any updates for you at this point in time. But again, we expect there to be breakthrough cases across the country,right? And certainly in the federal government.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think the lengthy statement that I issued yesterday outlined pretty specifically the events of the last few weeks, i will say, from the President's viewpoint -- and I saw The President this morning -- The President's working with Sen. Manchin over the course of decades.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
They share fundamental values. They're longtime friends. That has not changed, what's most on the President's mind is the risk of inaction.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Working on a presidential campaign…and working in the first year of a White House is exciting and rewarding, but it is also grueling and exhausting, it’s all of those things at once.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
That’s why I love being a Democrat, there's a lot of wonky nerds in the Democratic Party, but we need to make it real for people, so we need to really think carefully about not getting too wonkified and making we're we talk about things in a way that is accessible.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They're about one dollar more … not to minimize that – any increase in prices is something the President is concerned about … But I just want to be clear that there are [ an ] abundance of turkeys available, what about the rising cost of fuel ? The 20-30 bucks extra people have to use to fill their tank ? .
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I would say the president's push for the Chinese to participate more, provide more transparent data and information … we've never held back on that front, we've argued for it publicly, we've argued for it at every level and the president did talk in his meeting the importance of transparency, which this is exactly an example of.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I would say the president's push for the Chinese to participate more, provide more transparent data and information… we've never held back on that front, we've argued for it publicly, we've argued for it at every level and the president did talk in his meeting the importance of transparency, which this is exactly an example of.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I mean, so many firsts, right? It’s a lot to have on your shoulders, she is somebody who, at a much higher level than the rest of us, but who wants to be seen as the talented, experienced, you know, expert, substantive policy person, partner to the president, that she is. But I do think there have been some attacks that are beyond because of her identity.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
On Wednesday, in coordination with senior leadership at the The White House and the medical team, I made the decision not to travel on the foreign trip with the President due to a family emergency, which was members of my household testing positive for COVID-19, since then, I have quarantined and tested negative( via PCR) for COVID on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. However, today, I tested positive for COVID.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
On Wednesday, in coordination with senior leadership at the White House and the medical team, I made the decision not to travel on the foreign trip with the President due to a family emergency, which was members of my household testing positive for COVID-19, since then, I have quarantined and tested negative( via PCR) for COVID on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. However, today, I tested positive for COVID.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
As I understand it, if I had said' Jen Psaki' instead of' we,' that would not have been an issue at all, and I'll be more careful with my words next time, words certainly matter.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We don't get too glum around here even if things get challenging. Our view and his view is to continue to press forward and address the challenges the American people are facing.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
As we've said previously, this will be an ongoing process and this is just the first set of documents, and we will evaluate questions of privilege on a case-by-case basis, but The President has also been clear that The President believes it to be of the utmost importance for both Congress and the American people to have a complete understanding of the events of that day to prevent them from happening again.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We take this matter incredibly seriously, the President has already concluded that it would not be appropriate to assert executive privilege.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There's no rush to recognition, and that will be planned dependent on what steps the Taliban takes, the world will be watching whether they allow for American citizens, whether they allow individuals to leave who want to, and how they treat women and girls around the country.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The fastest path to reopening travel is for people to get vaccinated, to mask up and slow the spread of the deadly virus.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
He will lay out his decision to end the war in Afghanistan after 20 years, including the tough decisions he made over the last seven months since he took office to bring the war to a close, he will make clear that as President, he will approach our foreign policy through the prism of what is in our national interests, including how best to continue to keep the American people safe.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This will be a lengthy whole-of-government and whole-of-community response and recovery effort. And we are closely coordinating with state and local officials at every step of the way.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Within the Surgeon General’s Office, we’re flagging posts for Facebook that spread disinformation, we’re working with doctors and medical professionals to connect medical experts with people, who are popular with their audiences, with accurate information and boost trusted content. So, we’re helping get trusted content out there.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We certainly recognize and understand that access to vaccines is one of the issues that a number of individuals on the streets is voicing concern about, but we have to determine what the mechanism would be to work with the Cuban people to get vaccines to them.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Frankly, returning the briefing is something that sends a message to the world that we're not afraid to engage, we're not afraid. We believe in the free press.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
My point of view, and more importantly, the president's point of view, is that the story is not about me or a debate with news outlets, the story is about the plans of the administration and what we're trying to project to the American people. And when he pledged to govern for all Americans, that means talking to a range of outlets — liberal, conservative, people who have different areas of interest. So that's exactly what I try to do every day in the briefing room.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
When people ask a question that is based on a false premise or a question that skips over some details... what we try to do, on our best days, is be informative, explain how a process works, how does a bill become a law ? What's the importance of communicating or going to the G7 or NATO ? We don't need to completely dumb things down. We need to speak about things in an accessible way. But we have a responsibility to peel the curtains back in governing and government and how things work. And we think the American people will hopefully respond to that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think sometimes we forget how strange the last four years were, when we return to a place where democracy is working, where we're talking with Democrats and Republicans, where we're trying to get bills and legislation passed, it feels foreign — but this is actually how it's supposed to work.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
While the White House does not intervene in criminal investigations, the issuing of subpoenas for the records of reporters in leak investigations is not consistent with the President’s policy direction to the Department, and the Department of Justice has reconfirmed it will not be used moving forward.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Joe Biden has a genuine relationship with them, and the courage and grace of this family -- and especially Joe Biden daughter, Gianna -- has really stuck with The President. ... Joe Biden's eager to listen to their perspectives and hear what they have to say during this meeting.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That is not something we recommend, in fact, a lot of times, we say, ‘ Do n’t take questions,' you know ? But President Biden's going to do what President Biden's going to do.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The major platforms have a responsibility related to the health and safety of all Americans to stop amplifying untrustworthy content, disinformation and misinformation.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
And we've seen that over the past several months, broadly speaking. I'm not placing any blame on any individual or group.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
His view is that there’s more that needs to be done to ensure that this type of misinformation, disinformation, damaging, sometimes life-threatening information, is not going out to the American public.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I think what the decisions are, that the social media platforms need to make, is how they address the disinformation, misinformation, especially related to life-threatening issues like COVID-19 and vaccinations that continue to proliferate on their platforms.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This week, over 29 million doses will go out across all of our channels, two-thirds of those doses are going to jurisdictions and one-third to federal channels.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It took us some time to see and evaluate how ineffective, or how trashed in some ways the refugee processing system had become, and so we had to rebuild some of those muscles and put it back in place.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don’t have anything to report to you in terms of a future meeting, the president will, of course, be in Georgia tomorrow and quite busy.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
( We) always get into the fun of labels around here, but I would say our focus is on solutions, clearly the numbers are enormous. This is a big challenge, and it certainly is a reflection of using every lever of the federal government to help address that.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The last administration left us a dismantled and unworkable system, and like any other problem, we are going to do everything we can to solve it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
There are no new federal rules yet, we will let OSHA put out their guidelines and then, of course, we will work to ensure that people understand why and that they support workers being safe, which I think even many owners of businesses would support.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s more of a discussion about the country and the economic downturn that we’ve gone through, the president wants to lay out all of the specifics of his plan, hear feedback from them as he has with many different groups over the past couple of weeks.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Certainly we are concerned about China’s absence from the conversation and lack of a vocal role.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We continue to affirm our strong support for Burma’s democratic institutions and, in coordination with our regional partners, urge the military and all other parties to adhere to democratic norms and the rule of law, and to release those detained today.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
President Biden condemns violence and any violence in the strongest possible terms, peaceful protests are a cornerstone of our democracy but smashing windows is not protesting and neither is looting, and actions like these are totally unacceptable.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The president and his team have been working around the clock over the past six days to make meaningful progress on vaccinating as many people as possible.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
His intention was also to make clear that the United States will act firmly in defense of our national interests in response to malign actions by Russia.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
It’s important that our notes are... reflective of the history and diversity of our country and Harriet Tubman’s image gracing the new $20 note would certainly reflect that, so we are exploring ways to speed up that effort.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We spent a lot of time looking at the promises that Biden made on the campaign trail and thinking how we’re going to implement those and execute them, for my team, that means preparing written materials, thinking through QA, thinking about how we explain Joe Biden’s priorities to the American people. That’s one big piece of the work.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The President has asked us to also be models to the American people, and that's vitally important to us as well.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
In the coming days and weeks, we will be announcing additional executive actions that confront these challenges and deliver on the president-elect’s promises to the American people.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The president has made clear that he believes that through follow-on diplomacy, the United States seeks to lengthen and strengthen nuclear constraints on Iran and address other issues of concern. Iran must resume compliance with significant nuclear constraints under the deal in order for that to proceed, we would expect that some of his earlier conversations with foreign counterparts and foreign leaders will be with partners and allies and you would certainly anticipate that this would be part of the discussions.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
He wants to roll up his sleeves and get to work as quickly as possible.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The Biden-Harris White House will issue a memo to take effect afternoon Eastern Time on January 20 that will halt, or delay, midnight regulations.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
If debates matter, Joe Biden wouldn't be the Democratic nominee, it is an opportunity to speak directly to the American public. So, of course, it matters for that reason. But Joe Biden is not the nominee because of his debating prowess and clearly the Democratic electorate didn't think that mattered.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Ultimately, a successful debate is not about who has fact checked the person or cut down the other person, it may feel like that in the moment, but it is really about speaking directly to the people at home.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
It turns out, as many of us have known for years, Speaker Pelosi is a very able strategist, perhaps the best there is in Washington at this point in time, it didn't mean that her risky move.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I think we've seen some issues in the past, there are going to be ups and downs here and we need to continue to adapt.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
They've taken on this fight, they're continuing to, but we need to adapt our strategy too and adapt to the type of equipment that we're providing as time goes on and as ISIS adapts.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
There is remaining instability in the region, in Yemen, there's a lot of work that needs to be done and we're going to be doubling down and continuing to work on that with our partners around the world.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There no other solution that's going to work, this is not a war that can be fought on the battlefield.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It doesn't mean we're giving rubber stamp approval to their other actions.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I obviously wasn¹t on that trip, but I¹ve been on many with [current Secretary of State John Kerry] where there are communications issues, where you really don't send emails given communications issues or given that the staff you need to ask questions of are right around you.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I was not working for her at the time so I would certainly point you to Secretary Clinton and her team on whether she used an iPad and what she used it for.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The short-term impact of oil prices on Iran may be blunted by sanctions that already restrict the government's access to oil revenue held outside of Iran.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In response to our request, Hillary Clinton provided State Department with emails spanning Hillary Clinton time at State Department, after State Department reviewed those emails, we produced about 300 emails responsive to recent requests from the Select Committee. The New York Times also reported that Clinton's personal email account was discovered by Gowdy's House committee when State -- through Hillary Clinton -- provided those emails to the committee. However, Gawker reported in 2013, based on emails obtained by a Romanian hacker named.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We have supported, continued to support the U.N. approval process currently in place for Libya ... That continues to be our position.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I think it is safe to say not everything you are hearing from the Israeli government is an accurate reflection of the details of the talks.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
At this time, it is critical that all sides avoid violence, the future of Yemen should be determined by the Yemeni people in accordance with Yemen's constitution ... All Yemenis have both a right and responsibility to peacefully participate in this process. The United States remains firmly committed to supporting all Yemenis in this endeavor.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We're deeply concerned by reports that Russia has moved Ms Savchenko to solitary confinement, we understand that Ms Savchenko has been on hunger strike for nearly a month to protest the terms of Ms Savchenko detention and is suffering additional health problems.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We are greatly concerned by reports that human rights activist Raif Badawi will start facing the inhumane punishment of a 1,000 lashes, in addition to serving a 10-year sentence in prison for exercising his rights to freedom of expression and religion, the United States government calls on Saudi authorities to cancel this brutal punishment and to review Badawi’s case and sentence.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
In coordination with the AURTF (African Union forces), U.S. military forces took custody of an individual claiming to be a defector from the LRA. That individual later identified himself as Ongwen, efforts to establish full and positive identification continue, so I don't have confirmation of that at this point.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If the individual proves to be Ongwen, his defection would represent a historic blow to the LRA's command structure.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Efforts to establish full and positive identification continue, if the individual proves to be Ongwen, his defection would represent a historic blow to the LRA's command structure.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Well, we know who’s on there, and the Cuban government knows who’s on there.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Department officials routinely meet and consult informally with a wide range of private groups, certainly including executives from movie studios and a range of private-sector companies and individuals seeking information about U.S. foreign policy and U.S. views on developments around the world, our message in public and in private is the same: we respect artists' and an entertainer's right to produce content of their choosing; we have no involvement in such decisions.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
But I don't want to overstate that, and that's one of the reasons he (Kerry) also reiterated ongoing concerns we have.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
Russia has a choice. There are specific steps they can make to implement the Minsk protocols.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
They can do that. That's in their power, and if they do that, obviously that will have an impact on the actions we take.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
And that's one of the reasons he (Kerry) also reiterated ongoing concerns we have.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
He wanted to have a discussion with a former colleague ... about foreign and policy implications of the release of the report, ongoing efforts -- everything from our ongoing efforts related to ISIL, the safety of Americans being held hostage around the world, he was simply raising the fact that these are issues that are ongoing right now, and certainly, he wanted to have a discussion and make sure that they were factored into the timing.
Found on CNN 10 years ago
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