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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Retaliatory Strikes and the Slow March to Accountability

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki is joined by U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan to discuss the latest the ongoing retaliatory strikes against Iranian-backed militias across the middle east. Among other things, Sullivan reveals that the U.S. maintains channels of communication with Iran, and he responds to Republicans who have criticized the US response. Legal analysts Andrew Weissmann and Neal Katyal join Jen to sound the alarm over the DC Circuit’s delay of Trump’s Federal trial in the election subversion case, warning that justice delayed is justice denied. Congressman Dan Goldman also talks about Republicans hypocrisy as GOP lawmaker threaten to tank the very border deal that they asked for, and Jennifer Palmieri shares her thoughts about President Biden's strong choice of words for Donald Trump.

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0:00.0

Well, it's been one of those weekends where we kind of need four hours to talk about everything that's happened.

0:05.7

But we're going to do our best to fit it all into one.

0:08.5

So on Friday night, there was a much anticipated round of retaliatory airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias.

0:14.5

The U.S. also says there are more on the way.

0:17.3

At a time like this, there is literally no one better to talk to the National Security Advisor

0:22.1

Jake Sullivan, and he's going to join me in just a few minutes. There was also a big development

0:26.8

this week in Jack Smith's election interference case as it slid off the March calendar,

0:31.7

in large part because we still don't have a decision on Trump's claim of presidential immunity.

0:36.5

Should we be freaking out?

0:42.0

Should we not be freaking out? Everyone's favorite law firm of Weissman and Katiel is going to tell us how we should be feeling. And later this hour, we're going to dig into the absolutely shocking

0:46.6

level of hypocrisy from Republicans in the House this week. Congressman Dan Goldman has

0:51.2

certainly not held back in calling it out. And I'm looking forward to breaking it all down with him.

0:56.0

And later, President Biden won big in South Carolina last night.

0:59.8

We're also hearing a lot about how he's describing Trump behind closed doors.

1:03.5

Having worked for him for a while, I wasn't exactly shocked.

1:06.0

Well, let's just say, my mom wouldn't have a word with me

1:08.4

if I repeated some of it verbatim on television.

1:19.4

Thank you. my mom wouldn't have a word with me if I repeated some of it verbatim on television. So we are continuing to follow breaking news out of the Middle East,

1:22.8

where the United States launched major retaliatory strikes on 85 Iranian-backed targets across seven

1:29.2

locations in Iraq and Syria on Friday night.

1:32.1

And President Biden said on Friday that the U.S. military response will continue at times and

1:37.7

places of our choosing, meaning there will be more.

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