Watch 11 highlights from Joe Biden's Univision interview

Daily Kos Staff

Wednesday April 10, 2024 · 5:41 PM PDT

2024/04/10 · 17:41

President Joe BIden sat down with Univision reporter Enrique Acevedo in the Oval Office for an wide-ranging interview that ran Tuesday evening. The interview comes after months of well-deserved criticism over an “exclusive” puff-piece interview Acevedo did with Donald Trump last November.

Univision has become an unlikely Trump ally since its merger with the more conservative Televisa.

Biden focused on what he has accomplished so far, as well what he hopes to achieve in a second term.

Here are some highlights.

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Daily Kos Staff

Wednesday April 03, 2024 · 3:35 PM PDT

2024/04/03 · 15:35

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 9: NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby speaks during a briefing to the media at the White House on January 9, 2024 in Washington, DC. U.S. Secretary of Defense Llyod Austin's treatment for prostate cancer and his delay in notifying the White House was a focus of the briefing. (Photo by Joshua Roberts/Getty Images) — National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby swatted down Fox News nepo baby Peter Doocy’s attempts to use the tragic murder of 25-year-old Ruby Garcia to feed right-wing hysteria about border security during Tuesday’s White House press briefing.

Kirby sent condolences to the Garcia family before calling Doocy’s attention to the facts of the matter: The Republican Party has chosen political posturing over doing anything to improve security at the southern border.

“All that has to happen is for the speaker to do his job,” Kirby said emphatically. “Put that supplemental on the floor. Let's get a vote. Let's get those 1,300 additional Border Patrol agents down there to do their job.”

This led to an exchange reminiscent of Doocy’s frequent public embarrassments at the hands of former White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

Peter Doocy: Everybody in this room knows that the bill that you guys keep talking about as a solution is dead at the moment and —
John Kirby: — Says you. It doesn't need to be dead, does it?

Doocy: The bill's dead.

Kirby: Says you!

Doocy: When's the vote?

Kirby: Ask Speaker Johnson.

Kirby summed it all up for Doocy, explaining, “They had a chance and decided not to act because certain people in House Republican-world wanted a problem rather than a solution."

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Friday March 22, 2024 · 5:24 PM PDT

2024/03/22 · 17:24

no image description available — Former Freedom Caucus member Marjorie Taylor Greene and caucus ally and enthusiast Matt Gaetz.

Friday was quite the finale to a few weeks of Freedom Caucus infighting. As House Speaker Mike Johnson continues to lose members of his slim majority to early retirement and with vacations on the horizon for the do-nothing Congress, Johnson mustered enough GOP votes to join Democrats and pass a funding package—despite the Freedom Caucus fuming about the deal and sending a letter urging their Republican colleagues to vote against it.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene decided to thank Johnson by threatening to oust him from the speakership.

The far-right Greene has been on the outs with many in the similarly far-right Freedom Caucus since they kicked her out, and was quickly hung out to dry by her colleagues. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a frequent Freedom Caucus ally who signed their letter against the deal, told CNN he wouldn’t be backing Greene’s proposal because “if we vacated this speaker, we would end up with a Democrat.”

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Meanwhile, Freedom Caucus Chair Bob Good told Fox News reporter Aishah Hasnie, “I don’t know anybody who cares about what Marjorie Taylor Greene says.”

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Daily Kos Staff

Friday March 08, 2024 · 5:06 PM PST

2024/03/08 · 17:06

President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday went well. It went so well that the Republican Party and its media propaganda machine have changed course to rewrite their attack script about the president.

Biden was forceful, energetic, and most importantly: nimble. He seemed to have fun while giving the speech and clearly capable of being a leader.

Here are some highlights:

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Daily Kos Staff

Thursday March 07, 2024 · 7:41 PM PST

2024/03/07 · 19:41

President Joe Biden owned the State of the Union address, and the GOP couldn’t handle it.

When Biden began speaking about the border security bill that Republicans sank to appease their master, Donald Trump, one of the chuckleheads in the red seats began calling Biden a liar.

According to CNN’s Manu Raju, the chucklehead in question was GOP Rep. Van Orden of Wisconsin. After he yelled “lies,” Biden took a stop down to level him.

“You’re saying no, look at the facts! I know you know how to read.”

Amazing.

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House GOP once again hopes they can be respectful at the State of the Union

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Daily Kos Staff

Thursday March 07, 2024 · 6:59 AM PST

2024/03/07 · 06:59

It’s that time of year again, when the House Republican leader has an adult talk with fellow Republicans and begs them to act like big kids during the president’s State of the Union speech. Well, that speech is this Thursday, and Axios reports that Speaker Mike Johnson put on his best fifth-grade-teacher voice during a closed-door conference on Wednesday and cautioned his caucus to act professional. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Seriously, though. He did.

Johnson told members, "we should be professional, we should maintain a high standard of decorum," said Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.).

"He's reminding us to be respectful of the institution ... and to the president of the United States and the office, whether we agree or not," said Rep. Mark Alford (R-Mo.).

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Tuesday March 05, 2024 · 1:40 PM PST

2024/03/05 · 13:40

Donald Trump ramped up the fearmongering, dehumanizing rhetoric around immigrants during a Monday interview with Right Side Broadcasting Network host Brian Glenn. The conservative Glenn took time away from dressing in drag and being defended online by hypocrite girlfriend Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to smile and lob softball questions at the twice-impeached former president.

"They’re rough people, in many cases from jails, prisons, from mental institutions, insane asylums, you know?" Trump rambled about migrants crossing the border. "Insane asylums, that’s 'Silence of the Lambs' stuff." That elicited a laugh from the audience gathered at his fraudulently self-appraised Mar-a-Lago property. Trump then added, “Hannibal Lecter, anybody know Hannibal Lecter? Well, we don’t want ‘em in this country."

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Wednesday February 28, 2024 · 2:43 PM PST

2024/02/28 · 14:43

US conservative talk show host Sean Hannity is seen in the Spin Room during the first Republican Presidential primary debate at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 23, 2023. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

On Tuesday night, Sean Hannity used his Fox News platform to spew the normal MAGA election talking points: The world is coming to an end and only a rich, fraudster scumbag can save it. When Donald Trump demanded the Republican Party blow up the bipartisan border security deal earlier this month in order to be able to run on there being no border security deal, he left the job of squaring that circle to sycophants like Hannity.

President Joe Biden and Trump have planned appearances at the border Thursday. During the fabricated border crisis panic segment of Hannity’s show, he attacked the news that Biden plans on visiting the border this Thursday, calling it “a cynical political stunt by the president. And frankly, it is beyond disgraceful.”

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Tuesday February 27, 2024 · 8:51 AM PST

2024/02/27 · 08:51

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 13: U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) speaks to reporters in the Rayburn House Office Building on December 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden defied a subpoena from Congress to testify behind closed doors ahead of a House vote on an impeachment inquiry against his father. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) — Rep. Jasmine Crockett

Rep. Jasmine Crockett brought her ability to drop mics all over Republicans’ hypocrisies and failures to MSNBC on Sunday. The Democratic congresswoman was asked by host Ali Velshi about fallout from the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that jeopardized the practice of in vitro fertilization by ruling that frozen embryos are legally equivalent to children.

Asked whether Republicans are “confused by this IVF stuff,” Crockett responded, “They’re not confused. They’re just stupid.” Then she really unleashed on her GOP colleagues.

They just don't know what they're doing. And this is why they need to stay in their lane. Right? Like, we're not doctors, and we should allow doctors to be the one to tell us what we should and should not allow. This is a science thing.
I know that they are trying to rid this country of science and rid this country of history and all the very basic things—you know, they obviously struggle with math as well. Listen, we need to send the Republicans back to elementary school so that they can get the basics and understand what it is that we should be relying upon.

Including our doctors, our doctors that are telling us: Listen, these policies will kill women. Listen, these policies will disallow those that actually want to bring children into this world from being able to do so. And this idea of trying to define personhood before someone has actually entered the world is absolutely insane to me. I mean, I saw on social media just the other day, someone said the reason that we don't call IVF, we don't look at that and say “these are children” is because when is the last time you can put a child in the freezer and they actually live?

Right? Like that's not what you do, but you keep them in the freezer. And so is this idea that we're going to ignore the experts. That's why we're struggling with climate change. That's why we're struggling with repro. That's why we're struggling in general in this country. And it's time to get back on track. It's time to listen to the experts instead of listening to those that I would consider to be ignorant.

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Daily Kos Staff

Tuesday February 20, 2024 · 2:12 PM PST

2024/02/20 · 14:12

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 23: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks during a press conference following the Republicans weekly policy luncheon on January 23, 2024 in Washington, DC. Negotiations over border security, military aid to Ukraine and Israel, and the government budget continue this week on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

With a government shutdown looming, 13 Republican senators, led by Utah Sen. Mike Lee and Texas’ pretend cowboy Sen. Ted Cruz, released a letter they said they sent to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell demanding he make a big stink about holding an impeachment trial for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Lee even posted a copy of the letter with some vaguely legible signatures to his X (formerly Twitter) account. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to dismiss the bogus bit of political theater.

The Republican-led House was able to impeach Mayorkas after one embarrassing failure of an attempt, making it the first time a Cabinet official has been impeached in 150 years. The Senate GOP members making hay out of the impeachment process continue to remind the public how Democratic officials proved (and Republican officials admitted) the entire exercise was disingenuous.

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Daily Kos Staff

Friday February 16, 2024 · 10:24 AM PST

2024/02/16 · 10:24

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., right, arrives to hear for U.S. Attorney David Weiss in a transcribed interview before members of the House Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023, in Washington. The special counsel overseeing the Hunter Biden investigation is testifying behind closed doors as a GOP probe into the Justice Department's handling of the case continues to unfold. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

On Wednesday, ABC News reported on texts House ethics probe investigators had discovered between Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida and an unnamed woman. Those texts purported to show the Florida congressman propositioning the woman to come on a three-day weekend trip to the Florida Keys. A Gaetz spokesperson told ABC News, “Rep. Gaetz does not know anything about the woman you're referencing, though he takes thousands of selfies each year.”

Selfies? The Daily Beast is now reporting that they have obtained at least some of the texts and spoke with the woman’s attorney about her previous testimony to investigators, and that story doesn’t jibe with the “does not know anything about the woman you're referencing” response.

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Daily Kos Staff

Wednesday February 14, 2024 · 10:33 AM PST

2024/02/14 · 10:33

Kellyanne Conway, former Counselor to former President Trump, looks on in the Spin Room during the first Republican Presidential primary debate at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 23, 2023. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

On Tuesday, Democrat Tom Suozzi won a special election to fill the seat of former Republican Rep. George Santos, who was expelled after a federal indictment and a blistering ethics report. Naturally, former Trump administration official Kellyanne Conway went on Fox News and spun up an election strategy for Republicans in 2024: Lean into their terrible, unpopular positions on abortion!

Conway pointed to Suozzi’s forceful, more conservative messaging on border security, which played to his voters in moderate Nassau County. Claiming that Suozzi “has shown the Democrats how to run on the border,” Conway launched into her prescription for November 2024:

I think the Republicans should do the same thing with abortion. Instead of being ostriches and pretending with their head in the sand, they should be peacocks and say, ‘Look, this is what it means to be pro-life in 2024. This is what it means to be pro-choice in 2024.’ And instead of hiding, own it and message it.

Watch her spin around!

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