She is, the breakout star so far of week one of the Biden Administration. And its not unusual because the Press Secretary is the one whos out there in front of the camera more than anyone other than the president. So, she has instantly taken command of that room, and it has been, as you said, you know, a kind of shocking gear change for us and welcomed gear change for us to deal with. And i love the way you two talked about whats happening and whats going to happen. Well, i mean, shes setting the tone for the administration. We have actually heard a lot from the new president in the past eight days. He has spoken publicly a lot. But we are hearing even more from jen psaki in the briefing room, and shes setting this tone of normalcy, accountability, Expository Work that tells us what the administration thinks the problem is, what they are doing to work on it, who is in charge of that work. And that person will be answering questions about it, as will jen psaki on behalf of the entire ad
Every day and bring questions. But immediately day one, President Biden brought back the briefings and jen psaki is the spokesperson. They started reversing things that were broken by the previous president as they set to restore some of the basic things that had gone by the wayside over the years like daily briefings. As they set taught pass ambitious policies and programs that biden campaigned on, that democrats in congress campaigned on, it is sort of awkward but i think unavoidable to realize that one crucial thing that going to make the lifeordeath difference as to whether or not the new administration and new congress are actually able to get stuff done is a thing that we only have because of Richard Nixon being such a terrible president. And specifically because of something that Richard Nixon did right before he resigned. And it seemed like nothing much at the time. It got not that much attention at the time, but it very well may now determine if the biden presidency and the De
Us to deal with. And i love the way you two talked about whats happening and whats going to happen. Well, i mean, shes setting the tone for the administration. We have actually heard a lot from the new president in the past eight days. He has spoken publicly a lot. But we are hearing even more from jen psaki in the briefing room, and shes setting this tone of normalcy, accountability, Expository Work that tells us what the administration thinks the problem is, what they are doing to work on it, who is in charge of that work. And that person will be answering questions about it, as will jen psaki on behalf of the entire administration. Its just basic accountability, which is basic small deed democracy, which is just something we were used to before. We lost it for four years, and now it just feels so radical to get back to it. I hope it never i hope we never take it for granted again. I think we have, for this year, a series of rachel and jen conversations coming up at 9 00 p. M. Interm
Johnson that would break international law. Families in hong kong plead for the release of their children from detention in Mainland China. Where were continuing our coverage of the escalation of violence in belarus the internet has been shut down for more than a few hours now the police say they have detained at least 250. 00 demonstrators they were gathering for another protest in the capital city minsk. Tens of thousands of protesters have flooded the center of the capital making their way to one of the president ial compounds they have been demands for the president Alexander Lukashenko to resign ever since he was declared the winner of last months disputed elections critics say the vote was rigged lets get the latest from aljazeera step vasant who joins us on the phone from mens because theres no Internet Access for her and the team on the ground there so step have they reached the president ial residence yet. Not yet to the time when still walking here to keep up with the protest
Recovery they demand on says. X. Facebook pays off more than 50000000. 00 to stressed content cluttering it is to have to view distressing images as part of the job. Hello im to see one to welcome to the program the European Commission has unveiled a plan to help revive europes better Tourism Industry and enable people to take their Summer Holidays off the weeks of coronavirus walk down the pandemic has prompted border closures across europe and temporarily end of all but essential travel the commissions planned lays out the conditions for reopening borders between she and good Member States but fears off more travel related outbreaks on likely to alter the. Look and feel off your summer getaways. These were your up speeches last summer crowded with some bathers. Today they lay empty a consequence of the coronavirus restrictions across the continent the measures to contain the virus have impacted the Tourism Industry hard over a dozen shang and countries have put emergency border contr