While former aides to President Obama and members of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign predictably panned President Donald Trump for firing James Comey as FBI director, it was only a few months ago that Clinton’s campaign repeatedly alleged wrongdoing by Comey over his investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server.
Democrats predictably raised the alarm after President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, accusing the president of trying to cover up the investigation into Russia’s interference into the 2016 presidential election.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” while discussing former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton saying she would have won the 2016 election if it had been held a day before FBI Director James Comey reopened the investigation into her
The State Department has been insisting for months that footage of a 2013 press briefing on the Iran nuclear deal was wiped out by a “technical glitch.” On Wednesday, State Dept. spokesman John Kirby admitted the glitch excuse was untrue, and the footage was deliberately deleted, but the State Dept. allegedly doesn’t know who did it or why.
President Obama has “no plans” to address the ongoing hostage situation with Iran in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, White House Communications Director Jen Psaki told CNN.
White House Communications Director Jen Psaki said that the president has “no plans” to address Iran detaining 10 American sailors in the State of the Union, the president will “absolutely” tout the deal as an accomplishment, and cancelling the nuclear
White House communications director Jen Psaki says President Obama will be reviewing executive actions he can take to go around Congress on gun control in “weeks, not months.”
Thursday on CNN’s “New Day,” White House communications director Jen Psaki said military might will not end the war against ISIS. Psaki said “The fact is that we have had a strategy in place for over a year now to
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” White House communications director Jen Psaki said of the president’s reaction to the Supreme Court upholding a key provision of ObamaCare was celebratory. When host Andrea Mitchell asked about the reaction, after the Supreme Court
White House Communications Director Jen Psaki responded to Hillary Clinton’s declaration that the economy has “stalled out” by saying “I wouldn’t put it in those terms at all” on Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. Psaki stated, “I don’t think we’d
White House Communications Director Jen Psaki stated that Iran possibly supplying weapons to the Houthis in Yemen has not made the administration re-consider its approach toward nuclear negotiations with Iran on Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day.” Psaki was asked
Now that Harry Reid has admitted he was lying about Mitt Romney failing to pay taxes in order to help Barack Obama win re-election, the media are pretending to be shocked. But they were complicit, too, giving Reid’s claim more air time than it possibly deserved. And the Obama campaign backed Reid’s efforts, pushing his lies in their own words. The worst offender was Jen Psaki, who was later rewarded with plum communications posts at the State Department and the White House.
“Secret files held by Yemeni security forces that contain details of American intelligence operations in the country have been looted by Iran-backed militia leaders, exposing names of confidential informants and plans for U.S.-backed counter-terrorism strikes,” reports the L.A. Times.
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said that the prisoner swap for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was “absolutely” “worth it” and that Bergdahl “served his country as many men and women have” on Wednesday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. “Was
Wednesday at the State Department daily briefing, in light of today’s news that Yemen is falling further into chaos, as an air base used by American forces for counter-terrorism operations was seized by Iranian backed Houthi fighters and the ousted
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong arrived in Havana this week, just in time for the resumption of talks between Cuba and the United States. In public statements praising the Cuban government, Ri praised Cuba’s continued “fight against American imperialism” and vowed that North Korea would remain a loyal ally to Cuba.
UPDATE: Politico reports that the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Manual says that “a separation statement will be completed whenever an employee is terminating employment or is otherwise to be separated for a continuous period of 60 days or more.” They add that Psaki said
Hillary Clinton refused to answer if she signed a separation statement when asked by Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry on Monday. Henry asked “did you say this separation statement before you left State” to Hillary outside an event
Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments” Mark Levin argued that the State Department has admitted the letter written by 47 Republican Senators to Iran is not a problem on Friday. Levin played a clip of State Department
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said that the State Department e-mail archiving process that Hillary Clinton said saved many of her e-mails “isn’t perfect” on Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. Psaki was asked whether a State Department IG report about problems
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki declared that the letter written by 47 GOP Senators to Iran “really does bring into question whether they want to see a deal, whether they want to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon” on
AP Reporter Matthew Lee argued that hackers “have more access to the State Department records and archives than the American public and Congress do” during Monday’s State Department briefing. “It seems to me a little bit unusual where we’re in
Germany, France, Ukraine, and Russia can deny it, but the alleged ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia collapsed before it even began. The Russian soldiers and pro-Russian rebels in east Ukraine broke it 250 times since it was supposed to go into effect on February 15.
The State Department spokesperson has the task of defending the president’s foreign policy more often than any other government official. During President Barack Obama’s first term, that unenviable task fell to the opaque Victoria Nuland, whose redeeming feature was that there was a spine behind the smokescreen. (“F*** the E.U.,” she famously said, albeit in private, on Russia and the Ukraine.) Not so with successors Jen Psaki and Marie Harf, the clueless defending the hopeless.
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki admitted that the US’ policy in Libya has not succeeded in an interview broadcast on Thursday’s “Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. After she was asked “the problem that the United States has now
UPDATE: Psaki has since tweeted that the attack “was an anti-semitic attack that took the lives of innocent people.” We have always been clear that the attack on the kosher grocery store was an anti-semitic attack that took the lives
AP Reporter Matthew Lee asked State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki “what happened to this transparency idea?” during Tuesday’s State Department Press Briefing. After Lee asked whether all eight federal agencies allowed to submit recommendations on the Keystone XL pipeline had
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki said that while the US doesn’t make concessions to terrorists, there are “certain circumstances,” like Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, where the policy is different on Thursday’s “New Day” on CNN. During a discussion on Jordan’s work to
State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki is standing up for John Kerry, James Taylor and hugging.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” host Megyn Kelly grilled State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki on various topics including the “hot mess,” in Yeman, Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) Netanyahu invite, and if Secretary John Kerry “is just a
Wednesday on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) inviting Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress without notifying the president was “an episode of
State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki declined to dub the hacking of Sony as “cyberterrorism” terming it a “cyberhack” and arguing that there isn’t any point in “putting new labels on it” on Thursday’s “The Lead” on CNN. She added, “I
