Press Secretary Psaki is coming up with creative ways to dodge questions. In this instance, she decided to attack Fox News Kristin Fisher’s question so that she would not have to answer the follow-up, which kind of gives away the answer. Fisher was asking her if Dems had pressured the Biden Administration to change their policy on refugees and Psaki instead claimed there was never a change just a clarification hours later on the same day after Dems complained…
Fisher: Thank you, Jen. I’m still just a little bit confused about what changed between 1:00 p.m. on Friday and around 4:30 p.m. on Friday to go from “we’re not raising the refugee cap” to “we are raising it by May 15th.” What — what changed in those three and a half hours?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I think, as I just outlined, we never said we’re not raising the refugee cap. In the morning, we said actually — and with the information we put out — was that once we reach 15,000, we will raise it. That was not accounted for in some of how people were di- —
Fisher: But you also said —
MS. PSAKI: Let me finish.
Fisher: Okay.
MS. PSAKI: — some of how people were digesting the information. And we wanted to be clear and send a message that we are a country that is welcoming refugees. Let’s be clear: We are changing the policies of the last administration. We are changing the policy of not welcoming in people from Africa or people from the Middle East. That was the biggest factor preventing refugees come — from coming in during the last administration.
Fisher: So are you saying this had nothing to do with the pushback from some Democrats on Capitol Hill — from Senator Dick Durbin, to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? It had nothing to do with that?
MS. PSAKI: I don’t think you’ve articulated to me what our change in policy was. What was our change in policy from the morning until the afternoon?
Fisher: The executive order from Friday morning said that “The admission of up to 15,000 refugees remains justified,” period.
And yes, there was a caveat that you could raise that cap later, but, I mean, it explicitly says that right there.
MS. PSAKI: That’s a pretty important caveat, that if we — when we reach 15,000, a subsequent presidential determination could be made. And, again —
Fisher: But then, why —
MS. PSAKI: — the biggest challenge —
Fisher: Then why the need to issue that clarification?
MS. PSAKI: But the biggest — the biggest challenge —
Because people weren’t understanding what we were conveying to the public and weren’t conveying what we were trying to project to countries around the world.
And it’s incumbent upon us to make sure there’s an understanding of what the President’s policies are, what he’s trying to achieve, and what he feels morally — is that we’re going to welcome in refugees from around the world, change the policies from the past administration that — where they were not welcoming in refugees from the Middle East and Africa.
And that was important to him to take that first step and move it forward.
Fisher: The line said, “The admission of up to 15,000 refugees remains justified.”
MS. PSAKI: And —
Fisher: Can you understand how some people would interpret that the way we did?
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Psaki is trying her best to cover for figurehead Biden with her technical dodges, but it’s hard to do since it seems the country is being led by the Democrat party, not one individual from a party. I mean does anyone really believe Biden is running things anymore?