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The U.S. government is making an intense effort to persuade Israel and Hamas to resume negotiations so they can once again pause hostilities and exchange more prisoners for hostages, a White House spokesman said on Sunday. “We are still working it really hard, hour by hour, to see if we can get the sides back […]
National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said Sunday on NBC News that the U.S. intelligence community has indicated that it was not aware of Hamas’ plan of attack on Israel. The New York Times recently reported that Israeli officials received Hamas’ plans for its Oct. 7 attack more than a year before […]
John Kirby, the spokesperson for the White House’s National Security Council, on Sunday defended the Biden administration’s decision to send controversial cluster munitions to Ukraine despite the weapons’ risk to civilians — and numerous other countries forbidding their use. In an interview with ABC “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz, Kirby also addressed a newly revealed […]
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:38 P.M. EST MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon. Happy Monday. Okay, so before we dive into regular — regularly scheduled programming here, I have my colleague from the National Security Council, who will be — John Kirby — who will be talking about some recent developments over the weekend in […]
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:29 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon, everybody. Happy Friday. Settling in? (Laughs.) Come on in, team. Q Plenty of chairs over here. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I know. All right. It’s been a busy week here at the White House. On Monday, the President delivered remarks about our country’s efforts to […]
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:31 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Hello. Good afternoon, everybody. Okay, so today we are joined by John Kirby, NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications. Kirby is here to share an update on Russia’s activities in Ukraine and answer a few questions. So, Kirby, the floor is yours. MR. KIRBY: Thank […]
“President Zelenskyy,” Kirby said, “he gets to determine how victory is decided and when and on what terms. And [what] we’re going to do is continue to make sure that can succeed on the battlefield so that he can succeed at the table. But even President Zelenskyy will tell you that the time is not […]
PRESS SECRETARY JOHN F. KIRBY: Okay, just real quick at the top, in AFRICOM, the 17th iteration of Exercise Phoenix Express, a North African maritime exercise, is ongoing now in Tunisia and throughout the Mediterranean. It started on the 23rd; it goes all the way through the 3rd. This is one of three regional maritime […]
PRESS SECRETARY JOHN F. KIRBY: Hello, everybody. Happy Friday. Technically I’m only 10 minutes late because I moved the brief time to 2:00. The — the Meyers disapproval. Evident as always. Welcome back. OK, so, a couple of things at the top here if I can get this to work. All right, so far, so […]
PRESS SECRETARY JOHN F. KIRBY: All right, a couple of things to hit at the top here if you’ll just bear with me. Today all of us here in the department want to remember and honor four U.S. Marines who were tragically killed in a training flight crash South of Bodo in Norway, where they […]
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