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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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Apr 5, 2017

I'm certain but if they were to move forward with military action, they would say they have legal authorization for that.

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Apr 5, 2017

There are so many questions that one has to ask one's self before you take an action like this.

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Apr 5, 2017

I hope that he's asking some of the questions when he's meeting with his military advisors that President Obama would have, which is what next, what then, what will strikes do, and how will that impact our overall strategy in Syria and in…

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Mar 29, 2017

I think he's one significant player in this entire unraveling Russia connection onion here.

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Mar 27, 2017

Well, when you talk about national security issues though, I mean, the reason that China and India committed to the Paris Accord where the big -- world's biggest submitters, the three of us, is because of us.

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Mar 27, 2017

It's just a dishonest promise to the coal miners and people who are in these towns, because coal jobs are going away because of competition, because of automation, because there's a lack of demand by the steel industry in China.

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Mar 27, 2017

And if they didn't discuss business, where they discuss thing sanctions, I can tell you, I have left here transition. It is not normal to meeting with the head of a state run bank of a government where we have an adversarial relationship…

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Mar 20, 2017

Yes, they've been running on it for quite some time but Obamacare is now at 53 percent approval rating in the latest Pew Poll.

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Mar 20, 2017

We don't know what's in part two and three, and unless part two and three are addressing the huge gaps that are going to be getting left for people who are on Medicaid now, unless it gives funding to Planned Parenthood, I don't think…

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Mar 20, 2017

This is a much larger issue I think than pulling people in for a bill.

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Mar 5, 2017

Look. I think there's a couple scenarios here that we've already talked about. Either this is completely false or the Justice Department and the FBI had enough information to get a warrant from a FISA Court and they did that, and they have…

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Mar 1, 2017

What was the view from inside, you know, the Obama administration of Ambassador Kislyak?

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Feb 26, 2017

I think its part of the continued effort by the Trump administration to distract from the more problematic story, which is the ongoing investigation into the connections with Russia that are problematic.

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Feb 26, 2017

They want to keep the focus on leaks and their investigation to crack down on leaks.

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Feb 26, 2017

I think there are already questions raised and Paul was touching on the fact that the context here is what makes this pretty fishy because the intelligence community, all of the intelligence agencies concluded together that President Putin…

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Feb 13, 2017

The story here is not about leaks. Sure they should investigate leaks internally if they want to. It's about what the president knew when. It's about who directed this. And it's about a long trend of questionable ties with the Russian…

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Mar 17, 2015

We take every step possible to protect our personnel. We're working with the Japanese government to ensure that necessary security measures are in place.

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Aug 25, 2014

We've increased our capacity we've increased our tracking, we've increased our coordination but clearly this is a threat that we take seriously enough to put it at the front center of our agenda.

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Apr 24, 2014

We are of course aware of the reports that a U.S. citizen was detained in North Korea. As you all know, there is no greater priority to us than the welfare and safety of U.S. citizens.

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Feb 6, 2014

We don't name ambassadors from the State Department. The White House names ambassadors.

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Oct 23, 2012

The president thought that this was outrageous, these comments were outrageous and demeaning to women.

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Oct 14, 2012

Voters in the country aren't looking for a, quote, 'salesman in chief.'

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Oct 9, 2012

Well look, I think we were reminded with this interview that Mitt Romney was willing to say and do anything to be president even if it means hiding to his own positions.

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Oct 9, 2012

Well, look, I think we were reminded with this interview that Mitt Romney is willing to say and do anything to be president, even if it means hiding from his own positions.

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