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2:08 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon, everyone. Q Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, I wanted to just start off at the — at the top that we just heard — obviously, all of us just heard the terrible news. Our thoughts are with the Duchess of Cambridge and her family members and friends during…

Via Teleconference (October 12, 2021) 12:31 P.M. EDT MODERATOR: Thank you. And thanks, everyone, for joining. We’re going to be discussing today the virtual Counter-Ransomware Initiative meetings that are being facilitated by the White House National Security Council this Wednesday and Thursday. The call will be on background, attributable to “senior administration officials,” and the contents will…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 2:12 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Good afternoon, everybody. Q    Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Oh, okay.  Well, thank you.  (Laughter.) So, I want to start by addressing some devastating and alarming news from the Arizona Supreme Court. With today’s decision, millions of Arizonians will soon face an even more extreme…

2:13 P.M. EST MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  All right, everybody.  Good afternoon. Q    Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I have, I think, one thing for you at the top, and then we’ll get started. So, before we get started, I wanted to preview what to expect tomorrow night with — when President Biden delivers his third State of…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:42 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Good afternoon, everybody.  Q    Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  So as the President spoke to yesterday, the United States undercoo- — undertook a counterterrorism operation in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday.  At his direction, the U.S. intelligence targeted and killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s leader. We…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 3:42 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI:  Hi, everyone.  All right.  Hello.  Hello.  Okay, just a couple of items for you at the top.  Today we learned that last week’s initial unemployment claims fell to another pre-pandemic low, down below 300,000 for the first time in almost 20 months.  The four-week average similarly…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 1:18 P.M. EDT MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Oh, what’s going on?  Good afternoon.  Q    Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  I hear comments. Okay, here we go.  So, yesterday, Secretary Yellen estimated that without action by Congress, we could be unable to meet our obligations.  In other words, default as early as June 1st. The updated projection should…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 10:24 A.M. EST MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  All right.  Good morning.  Good morning, everybody.  Okay, so I have a couple of things at the top before we get going.  We applaud the bipartisan coalition of senators who came together to pass the supplemental agreement this morning, which protects America’s national security…

1:11 P.M. EDT Q    Good afternoon. MS. JEAN-PIERRE:  Good afternoon, everyone.  This morning, the President and the Vice President, who joined from Air Force Two while en route to Las Vegas, met with senior administration officials, including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, White House…

1:35 P.M. EDT MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Okay. All right. Just a few items at the top, and I have a bit of a hard out shortly after 2:00. I’m — I’ll be upstairs for people who have follow-up questions, but we’ll try to get to as many as possible. So, I just wanted to recap just…