The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Gov. Pritzker enlists the public's help: "What we've asked is that people pull out their iPhone or their Android phone and film what they're seeing. Take a video of everything so see so that we can know if, in fact, laws are being broken by these federal officials coming into our state."

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"I've been waiting to testify." Jeffrey Epstein accuser Maria Farmer tells Jen Psaki that she wants to tell her story to Congress. "It's my turn."

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George Conway @gtconway.bsky.social on the Comey indictment: "This indictment is just quintessentially Trumpian: it is both breathtakingly corrupt, and mind-blowingly stupid."

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Rep. Ro Khanna says there will be at least a dozen Jeffrey Epstein survivors who will have the floor at his September 3 joint press conference with Rep. Thomas Massie.

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IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."

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"This is a nail in the coffin." Fmr. FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissman describes what Emil Bove's confirmation to the Third Circuit says about the United States' system of checks and balances. "The amount of proof as to why he is unfit is sort of overwhelming."

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CA Gov. Gavin Newsom: This is about all of us. This is about you. California may be first, but it clearly will not end here. Other states are next. Democracy is next."

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Arizona A.G. Kris Mayes explains why she is suing Mike Johnson for not swearing Adelita Grijalva into office. "By not swearing her in he's depriving 813,000 Arizonans of representation. That's called taxation without representation. We fought a revolutionary war over that."

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"Ghislaine Maxwell isn't the only one who has no credibility here, Kristy Greenberg @kristygreenberg.bsky.social points out, "Todd Blanche has no credibility here."

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"There is a lot more." Rep. Garcia shares the DOJ is hoarding files from federal Epstein investigations. "Photographs, possibly videos, they have information we need to actually bring justice to the survivors and to implicate the wealthy and powerful men that abused and raped children and women."

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Rep. Madeleine Dean: "It looks like the president is trying to take us off the world stage in terms of our credibility as the indispensable nation. I want the speaker to go to the president and say it's recognizable what you are doing and your deterioration."

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"This is disturbing what they think they have the ability to do."

Here is @jenpsaki.msnbc.com 's interview with Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier tonight: youtu.be/-MdwHCOWwiE

'They obviously targeted me': Newark mayor describes chaotic arrest in confrontation at ICE facility

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Dr. Oz appears to have invited Jeffrey Epstein to a Valentines Day party in 2016, long after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting sex with underage girls.

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Psaki: "What Secretary Kennedy means when he says that nobody knows how many Americans died of Covid is not actually that nobody knows. People know. What he means is that he does not like the data."

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Pritzker: "Everybody should be saying that ABC should reverse their decision."

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Psaki: "If you have to keep telling people you aren’t a dictator, maybe your actions are getting a little dictator-y."

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"This is never going to be ok." Rep. Grijalva calls for formal legislation to make sure new members are sworn in promptly after Mike Johnson showed that good faith and norms cannot be counted on.

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"We're talking an explosive, expansive network of corruption and sex trafficking that is literally global in scale." Here is the answer from @repstansbury.bsky.social that came up in @jenpsaki.msnbc.com 's interview tonight with @raskin.house.gov

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Newsom: "He’s becoming more of a carny. He's becoming more of a flimflammer. Dare I say he is a music man now. There is a vacuousness to him. And I think it will be on full display tonight."

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Unreal.
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Rep. Dan Goldman: "I'm very disappointed in Disney. ... This is an obvious first amendment violation."

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Dr. Oz says Americans will lose an average of 397 pounds per person by the midterm elections. So you better get busy!

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"Anger can turn into activism... Activism can turn into pressure on elected officials and that pressure can turn into laws. It's not hopeless at all."

Watch Jen Psaki's powerful remarks on turning anger over today's tragedy in Minneapolis into action against American gun problem.:

Psaki: Action on America's gun problem is NOT HOPELESS

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Just to be clear, Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier is not holding some kind of sit-in protest. She is literally locked in the State Capitol against her will.

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