President Biden was briefly seen Monday strolling from Marine One to the Oval Workplace, ignoring reporters’ questions, and the 81-year-old president has not been seen publicly since.
An absence of public appearances has change into the brand new regular for the president since he dropped out of the 2024 race, permitting Vice President Kamala Harris to take the lead on the ticket. This comes because the administration is anticipating a attainable assault by Iran on Israel.
When Fox Information correspondent David Spunt requested why the American folks haven’t heard straight from the president this week, White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned, “We just put out two readouts today.”
“Can we expect to see him this week? Because I know you guys have been putting out the schedule. You know, we’ve been getting it the night before,” Spunt requested Jean-Pierre throughout Tuesday’s press briefing.
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President Biden and first woman Jill Biden arrive on Marine One on the South Garden of the White Home, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
“So we are in a different time,” Jean-Pierre responded. “As I’ve said many times before, and you will get to see the president, that I can say. Look, it is certainly the president’s priority, to make sure that we do everything that we can, to protect our national security, right?”
The press secretary mentioned Biden’s focus was to “de-escalate tensions,” including that the 2 “readouts” launched by the White Home indicated that Biden spoke with the leaders of Jordan, Qatar and Egypt.
“From that readout that we just put out, I was asked about the cease-fire deal and what the president – that last line – that was pointed out to me. That is something that the president has been focused on – getting that done. I don’t have anything beyond what we put out, but we’re monitoring the situation closely,” Jean-Pierre mentioned.
The president declared a state of emergency in Florida and South Carolina this week forward of Tropical Storm Debby. In the meantime, a number of U.S. personnel had been injured in a rocket assault at a army base in Iraq.
Calling for calm within the Center East, high U.S. nationwide safety leaders mentioned Tuesday that they and allies are straight urgent Israel, Iran and others to keep away from escalating the battle, even because the U.S. moved extra troops to the area and threatened retaliation if American forces are attacked.
President Biden arrives on the White Home, Monday, Aug. 5, 2024. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
“It’s urgent that everyone in the region take stock of the situation, understand the risk of miscalculation, and make decisions that will calm tensions, not exacerbate them,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned on the shut of a gathering with Australian leaders on the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin famous the assault Monday on U.S. forces in Iraq by an Iranian-backed militia group, which injured seven, and made it clear that the U.S. won’t hesitate to reply.
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“Make no mistake, the United States will not tolerate attacks on our personnel in the region,” Austin instructed reporters. “And we remain ready to deploy on short notice to meet the evolving threats to our security, our partners or our interests.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, standing with Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin, speaks throughout a information convention on the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2024. (AP Photograph/Susan Walsh)
Regardless of financial issues, Biden claimed to have “cured the economy” final week, simply days earlier than world shares plummeted on Monday.
In a case disclosed by the Justice Division on Tuesday, Asif Service provider, a Pakistani man alleged to have ties to Iran, was charged in a plot to hold out political assassinations on U.S. soil, together with doubtlessly in opposition to former President Trump. Based mostly on the continuing DOJ investigation, Jean-Pierre instructed Spunt on Tuesday, no proof suggests the defendant was linked to the July 13 assassination try in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“It’s an ongoing law enforcement DOJ indictment, so I’m going to be really mindful,” she mentioned. “But we have said many times that we have been tracking Iranian threats against former politicians. We’ve been very clear about that. These threats arise from Iran’s desire to seek revenge for the killing of Qassem Soleimani. We consider this a national and homeland security matter of the highest priority – the highest priority.”
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Jean-Pierre mentioned the administration has taken a “comprehensive response” to those threats, together with having “invested extraordinary resources in developing additional information about these threats, disrupting individuals involved in these threats, enhancing protective arrangements in potential targets of these threats, engaging with foreign partners and directly warning Iran.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.
