Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan

Table Of Content

• Key takeaways from Biden's remarks reflecting on his first year in office
• Nightly News
• 'We need results': Families of hostages in Gaza speak after White House meeting
• NBC News
• Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
• Blinken: Russia would struggle in Ukraine without China’s support

But let’s see what the Supreme Court decides. And our team and our — the lawyers who argued for us are not nearly as certain as the people you quoted as saying it’s going to be overruled. And so, my judgment of running, when I announce — if I annou- — now, my intention is that I run again.

Key takeaways from Biden's remarks reflecting on his first year in office

But the President believes that free speech, debate, and nondiscrimination on college campuses are important. And that — and so, he’ll always be very clear — we will always be very clear about here — about that here. The FTC banned non-compete agreements, which currently keep 30 million workers, nearly one in five, from changing jobs. This rule will increase wages by at least $400 billion over the next 10 years.

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He wants to protect Americans from coun- — a country, in this — in this instance, that wants to potentially do us harm. And that’s what he believes is important. It’s — it’s a concern that majority of Americans have.

'We need results': Families of hostages in Gaza speak after White House meeting

We’re talking about what’s going on in both the Baltic and the Black Sea, et cetera. There’s a whole range of things that I’m sure he’s trying to calculate how quickly he can do what he wants to do and what does he want to do. We have begun to organize in ways that we didn’t before in communities beyond the civil rights community to make the case to the rest of American people what’s about to happen, what will happen if, in fact, these things move forward. Q    But currently, Mr. President, your spending package, voting rights legislation, they’re not going anywhere. And one of the things that I think is — we’re going to have to do is just make the case. I don’t think there’s anything unrealistic about what we’re asking.

I want to take a moment and talk about the critical steps forward we took last week in our country’s vaccine booster program. I want to share with you what Friday’s regulatory action by FDA and updated recommendations from CDC means for millions of Americans. This morning, you heard President Biden speak about the critical importance of the national security supplemental, which came to the President’s desk, as we said it would, with overwhelming bipartisan support from the U.S. I’ve stood at this podium numerous times and said, you know, the road may be full of twists and turns, I can’t predict exactly when it will happen, but I always had confidence it would happen.

As it relates to the bill — the law now — there’s time. There are already American investors who are — who are willing and are interested in buying TikTok. So, we’re going to continue to do that forcefully, condemn antisemitism from this administration. We’re going to contem- — continue to do that. We’re implementing, as you know, the — the first-ever National Strategic Effort to Counter Antisemitism because there should be no place in this country in — when it relates to that type of hate.

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Mr. Biden told reporters that he believes Congressional Democrats will need to break up his Build Back Better social spending plan into a smaller package. The president said he's happy to have a "referendum" on how he's handled the economy and other challenges. "Mitch has been very clear — he'd do anything to prevent Biden from being a success," Mr. Biden said.

Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan

The early in vitro and clinical studies that I mentioned indicate that boosters reconstitute the antibody titers and enhance the vaccine protection against Omicron. The Omicron variant undoubtedly compromises the effects of a two-dose mRNA vaccine-induced antibodies and reduces the overall protection. However, as I showed on a prior slide, considerable protection still maintains against severe disease. Now, if you look at the UK Data, if you look at the Delta in the blue boxes, you see that effectiveness is significantly lower when you look at the time since the vaccine was given, measured in weeks. As is shown here, this is not looking at booster, it’s looking at the effectiveness of a two-dose Pfizer vaccine against the Omicron variant. As people might recall, last week, we put out a request for information about expanding manufacturing capacity by another billion doses in the U.S., both to fight this pandemic and future pandemics.

Blinken: Russia would struggle in Ukraine without China’s support

When a reporter asked where it might happen, noting the White House wouldn't want to hold the meeting in "downtown Pyongyang," Sanders said. "We won't have those conversations between me and the press. Those conversations will take place at a much higher level." White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was just asked why Trump accepted the meeting with North Korea's Kim Jong Un without "preconditions," such as the release of the three Americans that are being held there. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said President Trump "is in a great mood," noting they've had "not just a successful couple of days" but "a successful year."

It’s something that we are dealing with on all three fronts. And you’ve heard Secretary Blinken, obviously, who’s now in Beijing, speak to our concerns with respect to the PRC and its support for Russia’s defense industrial base. And we have been vocal from this podium about both North Korea and Iran, and we’ll continue to be. And actually, as you know, just in the last couple of weeks, Ukraine has passed a new mobilization law. And, frankly, for those people — innocent civilians — who are not in Rafah, they too need and deserve shelter, support, food, medicine, and everything else. And, you know, we are insisting that that happen, in addition to ensuring the safety and protection of the people of Rafah.

We would encourage people who gather to do so safely after they’ve been fully vaccinated, as we’ve been saying for months now. And so, I do think that this is very different because we actually have the tools to prevent the vast majority of cases. Stepping back, there’s no question that we are headed into a very different Thanksgiving compared to last year, when millions of families were unable to celebrate the holiday together. Ahead of tonight’s deadline, the federal government has achieved 95 percent compliance and 90 percent of the 3.5 million federal workers are already vaccinated.

The bottom line on COVID-19 is that we are in a better place than we’ve been and have been thus far, clearly better than a year ago. We’re not going back — we’re not going back to lockdowns. We’re not going back to closing schools.

So, clearly, we have expanded our toolkit. They also said that they were proud to see, you know, Brittney come home today. And the President is going to do everything that he can, as we have seen him do many times across this — his — across the time, his tenure in the administration, to bring Paul home. And so, this is a commitment that the President is giving to the family and to Americans. But, of course — of course, we’re always concerned about the safety — the safety and the health of any American that is being held — wrongfully detained and held hostage. And I’m not going to get into specifics on any, you know, future conversations that we might have with Paul and how that’s going to — our interaction with him is going to look like.

As you know, Tim Cook was also in Phoenix, Arizona, when the President was talking about the CHIPS and Science Act. Remember, the President’s priority here has been and continues to be, as he’s — he is pushing his economic priorities, is to make sure that we’re creating manufacturing jobs right here in the U.S. But, again, we are — in order to increase the chances for our success, we’re not going to discuss more about the negotiations for his release in public. I’m sure you understand why — that we’re not willing to do that.

And Dr. Kessler, you know, last month sort of hinted that that was sort of under consideration. I mean, are you considering using the DPA to take action against Moderna for technology transfer? And we encourage organizations around the country to adopt similar measures to keep their workers safe. I am wondering about vaccines for the 5- to 11-year-olds and whether you have any sense of trends yet at this point how it compares to other vaccine rollouts or the older adolescent vaccines.