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Jen Psaki

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Jen Psaki is a prominent Democratic political figure and communications strategist from Connecticut. She served as the White House Press Secretary under President Joe Biden from January 2021 until May 2022, where she was known for her articulate responses and engagement with the media. Psaki previously held various roles in the Obama administration, including Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy Communications Director, contributing to key communications strategies during that time.

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Nov 6, 2017

There's -- if we look at the House of Delegates, there's 17 seats there that Hillary Clinton won.

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Nov 6, 2017

the key for Democrats is getting out of Washington, D.C., listening to what people are saying in Districts and States across the country, figuring out and who we are and what we stand for.

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Nov 6, 2017

The House of Delegates races tell you more about the wins of political, you know, the political wins, I think, than actually the governor's race.

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Nov 5, 2017

There have been provisions I've been put in place that we put in place under the Obama administration, and that President Trump actually turned back.

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Nov 5, 2017

If you are somebody who shouldn't be qualified and isn't in a position to have a gun, should you have a gun? That is pretty common sense.

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Nov 5, 2017

I don't think there's been a long explanation by Trump defenders saying it was chaotic, we don't even know any of these people, we've never heard of them.

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Nov 5, 2017

If you're mental impairments prevent you from being able to do that, you shouldn't be able to buy a gun.

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Oct 18, 2017

What I think was -- for me who worked for President Obama for eight years, I know you worked for a long time for President Bush is so many of these conversations happened quietly and they're never publicized. And it's always the call of…

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Oct 18, 2017

He talked about women being sacred, but seemed to contradict that.

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Oct 11, 2017

Here is the problem. There are things that need to be fixed about Obamacare. There's not enough competition in the marketplace.

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Sep 21, 2017

I think it's actually caused many Democrats including many Obama team members to look back and think, wow, John McCain wasn't so bad. Neither was Mitt Romney. We would take either of those guys over the current president.

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Aug 21, 2017

the biggest problem I would say Trump has right now is that part of the country, a large population of the African-Americans, Latino Americans feel that he's not their president.

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Aug 21, 2017

He could have gone and made a surprise trip, to the troops overseas, at home. He could have gone and met with allies.

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Aug 21, 2017

First of all, the other thing Secretary Tillerson said is that fighting is going to get everyone nowhere.

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Aug 21, 2017

You're the commander in chief or you want to do a legislative agenda, you still want to do health care, you want to do tax reform, go out and sell that.

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Aug 20, 2017

I think many people in the American military today, or people who are retired would say that there can't just be a military solution here.

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Jul 26, 2017

You never are supposed to be the story when you're the White House communications director.

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Jul 20, 2017

The job, as David referenced of the communications director -- you know, the press secretary is the fireman who's dealing with the incoming press inquiries and things that are blowing up on a daily basis.

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Jul 5, 2017

What President Trump is not doing, he's placing a lot of blame on Obama but he's not addressing this ongoing attack, this ongoing effort to impact our democracy.

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Jun 28, 2017

Well, he certainly wanted to do that and that is true for any secretary of state.

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