DOOCY TIME (from earlier): "Grim milestone this week. More than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in the last year. Experts say that a lot of that is driven by fentanyl. which is coming across the southern border...Why isn't the administration doing more to stop" them?
Doocy: "American intel agencies have told the President they cannot track Covid's origins without China's help. [He] had a chance to ask for China's help. Why didn't he?"
Psaki: "Well, I would say that [Biden's] push for the Chinese to participate more...We've never held back."
Psaki: "Well, I would say that [Biden's] push for the Chinese to participate more...We've never held back."
Doocy: "You talked about the importance of transparency, but did he ask President Xi to cooperate specifically with this U.S. Intel-agency led investigation into the origins of covid?"
Psaki: "Peter, clear that's what we we want...I don't have any more to read out for you[.]"
Psaki: "Peter, clear that's what we we want...I don't have any more to read out for you[.]"
Doocy: "You're saying it's clear...Is it clear to somebody who has a zoom meeting with the president that that's what he means when that's not what he said?"
Psaki: "I think the President has spoken publicly on this a number of times[.]"
Psaki: "I think the President has spoken publicly on this a number of times[.]"
Doocy: "Are [President Biden and President Xi] old friends or not? B/c the President has claimed that they're not, you've claim they're not, but then President Xi said that they are."
Psaki: "The president didn't say that." (5/5)
Psaki: "The president didn't say that." (5/5)
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