DOOCY TIME: Biden says BBB won't "add a penny to the deficit. The CBO has this new score where they assume that social programs are going to be made permanent...It would add almost $3 trillion, so does that mean...[he] will commit that [they're] not going to be made permanent?"
Doocy: Is Vice President Harris still in charge of addressing the root causes from migration from El Salvador, Honduras, & Guatemala?

Psaki: She is & I just announced a commitment...this afternoon.

Doocy: So, why hasn't she spoken to the president of Guatemala since June?
Doocy: "Do you think it's possible that big cities are dealing with these smash and grab robberies, an increase in criminal activity b/c some prosecutors are too soft on crime?"

Psaki says she "won't attribute the reasoning from here," but then reiterates it's tied to Covid.
Doocy: "What good does it do if you're going to give police departments extra money if they arrest bad guys & they bring 'em to jail & then they're not prosecuted? They're just right back out on the streets?

Psaki says all the WH can do is give police "the funding they need."
Doocy: "In the last week, we saw...a pick pocket w/more than 30 arrests back out on the street. We've seen an arsonist burned down a half million dollars Christmas tree in New York City back out on the streets. Does the President think that that's good governing?" (5/5)

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14 Dec
DOOCY TIME: "Why is it that there are still Americans stranded in Afghanistan?"

Psaki says that while "if there are "Americans who are in Afghanistan wanted to leave, whether was three weeks for now...back in August, we would help them," adding they've gotten 479 Americans out.
Doocy: "479 left behind is a lot higher than the 100 to 200 that President Biden was talking about at the end of August....He said that he thought that there were...100 to 200 with some intention to leave. So, how does a number--how'd you guys get the numbers?"
Doocy: "[T]here are now at least about a dozen who want to leave right now? Is this something that [Biden] works on every day?"
Psaki mocks the question by stating the U.S. doesn't "put a tracker on" people overseas & blames Americans for staying there b/c some...want to stay?
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.@AliBradleyTV on the case of a mother and daughter dying in a TX car crash involving an illegal immigrant smuggler: "I don't think a lot of people take into account what is happening in these communities...and a lot...kind of dismiss it" as something that couldn't happen to them
.@LelandVittert: "Is this idea of Remain in Mexico changing what's happening on the border at all?"

@AliBradleyTV: "Not at all...In the Del Rio sector alone, they can only send back 30 people...It's certainly not helping...people living in those communities feel any safer."
.@AliBradleyTV: "Governor Greg Abbott has expanded Operation Lone Star, so they are actually arresting for criminal trespass...Over the last 3 days they arrested 11,000 people+ for criminal trespassing...[T]hat doesn't mean that those people living in those areas feel fully safe"
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#BREAKING: Chris Wallace announces he's QUITTING Fox News and 'Fox News Sunday.' Today was his last show.

My bet? He's going to CNN+.
Here's my logic -- CNN will need talent to fill airtime as Discovery takes over and who knows what changes they'll make.

Along with holes I'm their regular programming, nothing has really been announced for CNN+ besides Kasie Hunt's show.

Chris Wallace would be their big "get"
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THREAD: I tallied the #tornado coverage on the Saturday PM newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC as aired in the D.C. TV market (which, for this, I included teases). @ABCWorldNews Tonight w/@WhitJohnson was 22:04 vs. 30:00 due to #MLSCup

ABC coverage: 14:24
Due to the #ArmyNavyGame and local affiliate WUSA running commercials for a minute or two instead of the newscast, the 'CBS Weekend News' (helmed by @edokeefe) in total was only 10:42.

CBS #tornado coverage: 7:09
.@NBCNightlyNews with @jdbalart ran it's full 30:00 and sent Sunday anchor @tvkatesnow to anchor *on-site* in Mayfield, Kentucky.

Really commendable that NBC decided to send an anchor there.

NBC #tornado coverage: 17:17

(3/3)
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2 Dec
DOOCY TIME: "A handful of key aides have announced either that they are leaving the Vice President's office or are reportedly going to be...soon. Is the Vice President not satisfied with the staffing that she has...or do people just not want to work for her anymore?"
Doocy: "So, this is not a case of bad headlines about the Vice President and a decision being made to shake up the staff to fix an image issue?"

Psaki says Symone Sanders "is whip smart and "will do plenty of interesting things in the world" in her future.
Doocy: "Does [Harris] think that staff are to blame for her not making any kind of meaningful progress on the big things in portfolio, like passing voting rights or addressing the root causes of migration?"

Psaki: "I know the Vice President is grateful to all the staff[.]"
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Joy Reid dismisses pregnancy as both ugly and a nuisance to humanity: "Pregnancy can actually be dangerous to a women's health, esp. when you live in a country like the United States, which has the worst rate of maternity deaths in the entire developed world."
Reid: "To say it's okay to ban abortions in the poorest state with...one in five [women]...are not insured, to say it is fine, make them carry the baby to term, they can leave it at the fire house when they're done, is so dismissive of everything that pregnancy is about"
Joy Reid: "[T]his movement shouldn't be called pro-life. It should be called get them born and then it's your problem b/c...they don't want to spend money on education. They will not expand ObamaCare, so people don't have insurance."
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