Jean-Pierre: Today the Biden/Harris administration announced the next major step to cancel student debt for approximately thirty million Americans when combined with the administration's prior actions, providing them with information about how they can stand to benefit from upcoming debt relief programs.
Tom Vilsack [White house press conference]: The Department of Agriculture has just completed an important step…we're able to announce today, thanks to Section 22007 of the Inflation Reduction Act, that more than forty-three thousand individuals…are receiving direct financial assistance in response to discrimination they reported to have experience at USDA farm lending programs prior to 2021…the discrimination payments of nearly two billion dollars today, are a look at the past.
[farm loans had been denied because of race? two billion dollars in damages from 'reported discrimination'?]
Vilsack: It isn't just about dealing with the climate issue, it's about creating a whole new American economy.
John Kirby [White House press conference]: Our patience, and that of the international community, is running out. It's running out on waiting for the Venezuelan electorial authorities to come clean and release the full detailed data on this election, so that everyone can see the results.
Kirby: I'm not in a position to confirm the reports coming out of Tehran…we have no independent confirmation…I also have no conversations around that reporting that I can speak to today.
Question: A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today. You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley, to former president, Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen of color, who were American citizens, to go back to where they came from. You have used words like, 'animal', and 'rabid', to describe black district attorneys. You've attacked black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions they asked are, "stupid and racist". You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort…why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that President Trump: First of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner, first question. You don't even say hello or how are you…I think it's disgraceful that I came here, in good spirit; I love the black population of this country, I've done so much for the black population of this country…it's a very rude introduction. I don't know exactly why you would do something like that.
Oops- didn't put President Trump on separate line…will repost for ease of reading.
Question: A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today. You have pushed false claims about some of your rivals, from Nikki Haley, to former president, Barack Obama, saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true. You have told four congresswomen of color, who were American citizens, to go back to where they came from. You have used words like, 'animal', and 'rabid', to describe black district attorneys. You've attacked black journalists, calling them a loser, saying the questions they asked are, "stupid and racist". You've had dinner with a white supremacist at your Mar-a-Lago resort…why should black voters trust you after you have used language like that?
President Trump: First of all, I don't think I've ever been asked a question in such a horrible manner, first question. You don't even say hello or how are you…I think it's disgraceful that I came here, in good spirit; I love the black population of this country, I've done so much for the black population of this country…it's a very rude introduction. I don't know exactly why you would do something like that.
Question: Do you believe that [Harris] is only on the ticket because she is a black women?
President Trump: I can say, no, I think it's maybe a little bit different. I've known her a long time indirectly…she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage; I didn't know she was black, until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black, and now she wants to be known as black. So I don't know, is she Indian, or is she black? I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't, because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn, she became a black person, and I think somebody should look into that too, when you ask, continue in a hostile, nasty tone.
Question: Do you believe that [Harris] is a DEI hire?
President Trump: I really don't know. Could be. Could be. There are some.
President Trump: I chose him [Vance] because he's a very strong believer in work, and the working man and woman, and especially the working man and woman who have been treated very unfairly.
Question: If you win, you'll still be president at eighty-two, which is older than Biden is right now.
President Trump: But not mentally…he's shot. He's shot…I know many people in their eighties or their nineties that are in great shape…some of the greatest leaders in the world were in their eighties.
Question: Would you consider stepping down if you felt that your health was declining?
President Trump: Oh absolutely. I think I'd know. If I came onto a stage like this, and I got treated so rudely as this woman treated me; and I'm fine with it, because; she was very rude…that wasn't a question. She didn't ask me a question, she gave me a statement.
President Trump: They shot a young lady [Ashli Babbitt] in the face who was protesting. You know, nobody died that day, you do know that. But people died in Seattle, nobody died, but people died in Minneapolis, you know people died in Minneapolis, and nothing happens…but you went after the J6 people with a vengeance…what about the police that are ushering everybody into the Capital? Go in, go in, go in. What about that? Nothing is perfect in life, but you have people from Minneapolis, you have people just form five days ago in Washington, DC; they were having fistfights and fighting with the police. They were spraying and destroying; they were desecrating our monuments, in Washington, DC, five days ago, and nothing happened to them, You can't have two systems of justice.
Reporter: You said that which each event that [Biden] does, there is a discussion about whether to open it up to press, and in what way. Can you elaborate a little bit on the rational behind not showing [Biden], on two days where [Harris] now has public events of her own. Is there a desire to not have [Biden] out there publicly while she's campaigning?
Jean-Pierre: I'm not going to get into the campaign specifics here. You will get to see [Biden] later this week. It's a case by case basis, and that's kind of how we've always moved forward with when we think about these different events that we do here.
Jean-Pierre: As a person of color, as a black woman who is in this position that is standing before you at this podium, behind this lectern; what he just said [President Trump about Harris previously identifying as Indian], what you just read out to me, is repulsive, it's insulting, and no one has any right to tell someone who they are, how they identify. That is no one's right…only she can speak to her experience…we have to put some respect on here name, period.
[no, we have to expose Harris as a identifying as black for votes]
The woman who was so rude to President Trump has an anti-Trump history, and is nothing more than an activist.
June 16, 2021: "There was a moment, during the questioning on Wednesday of Russian president Vladimir Putin by US reporters, that stunned American journalists, produced the kind of encounter you almost never see between Russia’s strongman leader and a Western journalist, and, indeed, sent many of those reporters racing to Twitter in praise of this particular Putin inquisitor, ABC News congressional correspondent Rachel Scott.
Her full question: “The list of your political opponents who are dead, imprisoned or jailed is long. Alexey Navalny’s organization called for free and fair elections and an end to corruption, but Russia has outlawed that organization, calling it ‘extremist,’ and you have now prevented anyone who supports him to run for office. So, my question, Mr. President, is what are you so afraid of?”
Putin, in his response, tried to link unrest in the US over things like the murder of George Floyd with “extremist” opposition evident in his country as displayed by supporters of Navalny. “We feel sympathy for the United States of America, but we do not want that to happen on our territory, and we are doing our utmost to not allow it to happen. ‘Fears’ has nothing to do with anything.”
-Scott was “an essential part of the news division’s reporting on the Trump administration,” which included covering both of Trump’s impeachment trials
-She traveled thousands of miles for the network while on the campaign trail in 2020
-In 2020, she also “provided extensive on the ground coverage of the nationwide protests over police brutality and the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on communities of color”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2021/06/16/meet-abc-news-rachel-scott-who-looked-putin-in-the-eye-and-asked-him-what-are-you-so-afraid-of/