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30 Sep, 5 tweets, 2 min read
NEWS: Kamala Harris' office is doing damage control today w/ pro-Israel Democrats after not pushing back on a student who, in asking her a question, accused Israel of “ethnic genocide.”

w/ @samstein
politico.com/news/2021/09/3…
Mark Mellman, president of Democratic Majority for Israel, said Harris' senior staff reached out today "to confirm what we already knew: Her ‘commitment to Israel’s security is unwavering,' and she 'strongly disagrees with the George Mason student’s characterization of Israel.'”
A senior adviser to Harris also reached out to Rep. Ted Deutch, the co-chair of the Bipartisan Anti‐Semitism Taskforce, along w/ Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
The exchange on Wednesday prompted these headlines in the Jerusalem Post and Times of Israel
Some support from former Harris adviser @HalieSoifer who is now, CEO of the Jewish democratic council of America.

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17 Sep
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27 Aug
New: West Wing PB is meant to be consumed by politicos/WH ppl.
Today, we wanted to give others a chance to reach that audience,
We asked active duty/veterans who served in Afghanistan: What would you tell the White House today?
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20 Aug
NEW: The WH is in crisis comms mode. We analyzed who and where they put their ppl on TV
No Blinken since Sunday
No Austin despite asks
Jake Sullivan, Jon Finer, and John Kirby did the most
No primetime cable
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politico.com/newsletters/we…
well it's not Nick's debut. he's helped a bunch before. But it's his first time leading the topper.
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8 Jul
I still find this @margbrennan exchange the most illuminating/honest in how Biden thinks about Afghanistan
“Don’t you bear some responsibility for the outcome if the taliban ends up back no control & women end up losing the rights—-“

“No I don’t!”

Full transcript of the exchange. ImageImage
the next most revealing exchange comes from George Packer's Holbrooke book.
"When I mentioned the women’s issue, Biden erupted.

'I am not sending my boy back there to risk his life on behalf of women’s rights, it just won’t work, that’s not what they’re there for.'" Image
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2 Jun
NEW: If you look thru Blinken's pictures at meetings w/ Russia, India, etc., the man sitting next to him is Tom Sullivan, Jake's little brother
A look at the former Klobuchar staffer & Amazon exec who's become a key Blinken aide
w/@dlippman @theodoricmeyer
politico.com/newsletters/we…
It's not just Tom. Jake and Tom's spouse are also in high-ranking positions across the Biden admin.
Tom's wife Rose is the principal deputy asst secretary for leg at HHS after a stint lobbying for companies like Google/Alphabet, CVS Health and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
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10 May
NEW: reporters fume at WH’s frequent use of “background with quote approval”

“The rule treats them like coddled Capitol Hill pages and that’s not who they are or the protections they deserve,” said one reporter.

Psaki responds

politico.com/newsletters/we…
The NYT barred the practice of interviews with quote approval back in 2012

but the NYT declined to comment on how rigorously they enforce it or if their reporters have always followed it when dealing with the Biden White House.
.@peterbakernyt weighs in.
“the WH realized: ‘Hey, this quote approval thing is a cool thing. We can now control what is in their stories by refusing to allow them use anything without our approval.’ And it's a pernicious, insidious, awful practice that reporters should resist”
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