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(Via Teleconference) 11:09 A.M. EST MODERATOR:  Thank you, Carolyn and everyone.  Good morning.  Thanks for joining us for today’s broad Middle East regional year-end discussion.  Today’s briefing is on background and attributable to a senior administration official.  The briefing is embargoed until the conclusion.  For your awareness, our senior administration official is [senior administration official],…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:38 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI:  Hi everyone. Q    Hello. MS. PSAKI:  Okay.  I know we’ve done — hello — a lot of news in your inboxes this morning, so a couple of other notes for all of you and for those of you who haven’t caught up with everything quite yet. As you…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:37 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  All right.  Just two items to highlight for all of you at the top.  Two short items. Today, we announced an upcoming Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health.  This will bring attention to the burden of hunger and diet-related disease, which were…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:43 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  All right.  Just wanted to start with one topper for all of you.  President Biden has directed the administration to work urgently to ensure that infant formula is safe and available for families across the country during the Abbott Nutrition voluntary recall. …

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:12 P.M. EST MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone. Q    Hello. MS. PSAKI:  Happy post-Thanksgiving, salad-eating days, I guess.  (Laughter.) Okay, a couple of items for all of you at the top.  As you all know, today is Cyber Monday — one of the biggest shopping days of the year. The President will convene a roundtable…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 11:07 A.M. EST MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  Good morning.  Okay, so we don’t have a long time this morning because of a gather.  If people want to stay, I’m happy to answer additional questions, but we wanted to get it in before the President left for his trip to…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:41 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  Happy Monday.  Okay, just a couple of items for you at the top.  As you all know, last week, the President and a bipartisan group of senators announced a historic infrastructure deal that would put Americans back to work with the biggest…

  1:06 P.M. EST  MS. PSAKI:  Okay.  Lots going on around here.  I have a couple of items for all of you at the top. Obviously, today is “Jobs Day.”  And with today’s jobs report showing — show — while it shows some progress, it also shows the long road ahead.  Right now, there are 9.5 million fewer jobs…

12:07 P.M. EST      MS. PSAKI:  Okay.  Today, we have a very special guest, Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas.  Secretary Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant confirmed to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security.  He has led a distinguished 30-year career as a law enforcement official and a nationally recognized lawyer in the private sector. …