the thing that struck me is that not so much being nervous re they just said
she just had no instinctive
answers to things. Dana Perino
co anchor America’s newsroom
of the 5 author of everything
will be OK everything will be
OK still in paperback now.
Dana welcome.
>> Hi thank you thank you, I
sludge inside I said that Jen
psaki was like their most
competent. down is traicion no
doubt and one of the things
that she had
was one of presents at the and
sometimes that is instinctual
as you just been instincts.
>> But also her experience
level was incredible because if
you think back to the this
obama days. She was the State
Department spokesperson, and
she used
to get just pummel every day by
James Rosen used to be a FOX
and Matt Lee of the Associated
Press right and they had a lot
of issues if you remember obama
State Department a lot of
issues writer on and and you
Isis the rise of Isis. Amongst
other things North Korea.
Out of Iraq so when Jen psaki
comes the White House. I think
people are kind of surprised
because there were a lot of
people around the Biden team
that. Were that were elevated
so symone Sanders who was on
the Biden campaign team it
would seem like that would be a
natural person to
put up at the podium she’s very
as a spokesperson. She hadn’t
only been in punditry before
she had actually worked on
these campaigns and sort of
knew the press corps. They
didn’t give her the job
and I think Ron Klain probably
wanted something that was more
of a steady hand that might be
able to just like jump on in
here and help us with all these
things that were going on on
foreign policy, wise. One of
the things for me that really
helped. Was I was so happy
being the deputy to Scott
McClellan and then to Tony snow
and Tony snow is a very
different press secretary super
generous in the willingness to
allow me to
fill in for him at the podium
and to travel with the
president and to be in the
meetings with the president and
he also had be brief the
president before press
conferences so he was very much
hands off he wasn’t worried
about face time with yeah that
was so big for me,
one of the things that
surprises me for this team here
at this White House because of
covid and there concerns it.
They don’t have a lot of
interaction with the boss.
And one of the things that
would be to have in stings but
it’s also to be able to say I
just talked to the president
about that yesterday and here’s
what he said and they don’t
have that capability what would
this will stop her from going
me with the president on on
every major meeting.
>> You remember Tony snow
wanted that before when he said
I love you could include mean
yes, I mean, and that was an
easy ask for Tony snow biz Ari
Fleischer had that Scott
McClellan that I wasn’t not a
question. I do think that in
previous white
that people in the
communications office of the
press office got cut out.
He’s thinking particularly of
Dee Dee Myers going back to the
Clinton administration where
nobody told her that the
Clinton was going to bomb Iraq
are the Taliban skews me to to
try to take out Osama bin laden
course remember. That was the
missiles into a tent
and it hit a cop cameras, but
right over that line was from
the 2000 campaign so nobody
told Evie Myers that that was
happening because they thought
it would protect her.
It ended up cast making it look
like she had one was if you
rent out of the loop are lying
to the press. None of that none
of those things were true.
So after that I think that the
relationship of the closeness
between a president and a press
secretary really improved right
is who he thing is I’m aware
like sometimes people have a
halting delivery I’m not
talking about that I was just
talking about.
You read her comebacks I did
this I did sales in college
and they would have all these
come back from people they want
to make the purchase.
You have all these come back to
to read off the boy’s return.
hey listen don’t worry about
the money the money is going to
you just knew how to handle
this is 6 pack of beer to you
yet understood.
>> So he said that this thing I
had to miss Sheehan.
>> She was reading the wins it
wholly inappropriate was all
over the map but
this matters.
>> It matters because her you
need somebody that’s going to
if the president can’t fully
articulate it all for himself,
you did somebody who is going
to do that for you and perhaps
with more additional practice
she will she will get there.
>> The thing is you don’t want
to practice on game day.
You want to practice before
hand and part of that is one
the press person is only as
good as somebody who knows all
the policy. You have to be a
policy heard and then you
actually also have the talent
to articulate it very well
understood.
>> looking at what’s happening
right now I cannot believe the
series of events that we know
just so I want to play
something different you just
came off a 3 hour show the 2 is
it too. Yeah,
I want to try to get a good
feel
>> what I’m doing this you’re
on I realize Harris had the
last hour or so the defense
production act yet. It is
now enacted. So Peter Pitts is
on this morning on FOX friends
first he’s a former FDA
associate commissioner.
>> And by the way how do you
wait a year and a half of that
an FDA commissioner in the
middle of a pandemic that
you’re full. How do you not
have an ambassador to the
Ukraine that is your fault.
So here is Peter Pitts
Cup for.
>> It’s tough talk. It’s smoke
and mirrors and it’s insulting
to American parents. You know
makes a baby formula.
Rice starch corn syrup and
protein country from cow’s milk
commodities. There’s no
shortage never been a shortage.
There isn’t one less.
Skew of baby formula because of
a shortage so the defense
production act, it’s just smoke
and mirrors it’s insulting and
the president saying he’s going
to fly in baby formula from
where there’s no baby formula
Depot anywhere in the world and
we’re going to fly to once it
gets to us.
How is going to get distributed
American parents want to know
when the problems would be
solved not sound bites that are
ridiculous from the outset.
>> This issue for me is
emblematic of all sorts of the
problems in the administration
all in one. They don’t have an
early warning system partly
because they don’t have an FDA
commissioner, who that could
come to the White House and say
excuse me. Chief of staff
I need a meeting with the
president we’ve got a problem
here. This plan is going to
shut down so we need to do X y
and Z to make sure that we have
a baby formula for America,
nobody’s doing that also the
media. They are so worried
about former president Trump.
That they don’t cover and we
thing else that is happening in
Washington
D C do it every single federal
agency used to have a reporter
from the different.
The organizations assigned to
those places so there was
somebody at the Agriculture
Department, somebody at Health
and Human Services, some of
that energy summit justice et
cetera. Well after cutbacks
over the past few years,
there’s nobody there so did use
have the White House reporters
spine as you come in
John Pierre. No and not
succeeding and then you have
that Jen psaki on May 13 said
the defense production act was
not something you could use in
this baby formula crisis.
And then you have kamala
Harris, she’s really up in arms
about the Roe V Wade SCOTUS
decision that we don’t have yet
but she can’t make herself
to ask how dare they and Pelosi
wants to indict somebody who
are you going to indict.
Yes you speaker on the Biden
administration is really really
bad and there’s that they’re
so. They still want to blame
everyone else.
If what Karen could do at the
podium is to have some of those
phrases like I understand why
you’re
asking that I’ve asked as well
as soon as I get a better
answer will come to you in the
meantime, let me tell you what
we’re doing or that’s a
good question. Let me free
frame it because I think this
will get to your answer you can
use some things that help give
yourself a brain a couple
minutes to just like get to
where you want to land a
answer.
>> Couple of the disinformation
as are those great idea I
really think it worked out well
a vehicle was a lot of things
really brought the country so
it’s disbanded and then right
after they they put it on pause
need a jacket which resigned.
So was right after. Here’s what
she said can I.
>> I fully understand Americans
concerns that they don’t want
government involved in policing
speech in good news, this
initiative was an involved in
policing speech and neither was
I.
I think you know it is
important that our government
get involved when we have real
threats to our national
security. So it’s not just at
things like election
interference which we’ve seen
in which DHS has combat it also
threats at the border
dis-information that is driving
people to migrate here
this information that could
affect critical infrastructure
like our financial systems and
gas pipelines all of that has
very real effects for the
safety of Americans
and frankly I think DHS and
other federal agencies need to
be involved because this
problem isn’t going away.
It’s only getting worse that’s
a long answer.
>> Okay, so on the day that
this was announced, I said this
board will never happen.
And what’s going on, but the as
the patterns are going to
repeat themselves to remember
when neera tanden
was the person that the Biden
administration wanted to be the
head of Office of Management
and Budget and they knew that
there were going to be
objections to her from the
United States senators. They
and there hang out there
for weeks then she could defend
herself over they would let her
talk what happened reputation
ruined they give her a job
inside the White House, it
doesn’t need Senate
confirmation. The ATF director
same thing.
The woman who was member the
Communist later they want to be
in charge of all the money yeah
okay think that one again so I
don’t know who is running
presidential personnel for
Biden I would say the chief of
staff and Biden themselves they
are responsible for these types
of things Susan Rice as well
let me add her to that she’s
the head of domestic policy,
everybody forgets because she’s
so quiet now but she’s right
there. This woman, a defender
for a second.
Nobody in the government
decided to let’s explain to
America, but we think the
problem is New York where to
die to solve it. This is high
this woman gave her no
protection. And not do any
vetting not look at any of her
tweets or any other incident
and I just put her out there
and then DHS said you’re not
allowed to defend yourself.
So she sat out there for 4
weeks beam horrifically made
fun of and as the summit was on
the merits sure but
now now she’s out there with a
terrible reputation. All
because the administration was
unprepared to do
the legwork in order to get her
set up for success right.
I mean if the president hired a
terrible staff has done no
favors he’s late to just about
every major decision.
>> And then blames us right.