Last week, Jen Psaki explained that border czar Kamala Harris likely wouldn’t be visiting the southern border in the near or distant future, “given her purview.”
WATCH: @PressSec does NOT expect @VP Harris will travel to the southern border "given her purview"
2 months ago, Harris said "at some point, absolutely, we will go down to the border" pic.twitter.com/TIRzdnSTlb
— Chad Gilmartin (@ChadGilmartinCA) May 24, 2021
Psaki’s case wasn’t convincing to us, but CNN White House reporter Natasha Bertrand
CNN's @NatashaBertrand: @VP Harris distancing herself from Biden’s border crisis
"She’s focused on ['root causes,'] from governance to climate change to tackling food insecurity … but … her team has come out and said publicly, 'We do not own the issues at the border.'" pic.twitter.com/iABeDEo1Y8
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 1, 2021
That was a really, really long way of saying “Kamala Harris is not actually doing anything about the border and isn’t going to do anything about the border.”
3 minutes of absolute nothing https://t.co/FbVFbpf5hl
— mark riggan 🇮🇱 (@landshark1956) June 1, 2021
We’re in great hands.
FANTASTIC LEADERSHIP! https://t.co/FazcJWfhtO
— SarahLee (@sarailola) June 1, 2021
LOl "root causes" https://t.co/nswhSVTe7P
— Alex (@Ajsoti) June 1, 2021
If it seems hard…… pic.twitter.com/uuFXpBRell
— Sparktacular (@TheMainSpark) June 1, 2021
Lol she was literally tasked to address the border a few months ago.
— Javier Vasquez (@JavierVasquez85) June 1, 2021
she’s doing nothing then? christ, this administration.😂 https://t.co/H812APq2EL
— kaitlin, rino attention seeking whore (@thefactualprep) June 1, 2021
Don’t expect Harris to own anything before her WH run. https://t.co/VogaFkfUVN
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) June 1, 2021
And don’t expect Natasha Bertrand to be too concerned about it.
This feels like someone running cover for the VP. I incorrectly assumed this was a VP staffer for the first 60 seconds or so before I saw the chyron read “White House reporter”
— Nathan Curtis (@Natecurtis7) June 1, 2021
I thought this was a Kamala staffer not a CNN employee https://t.co/zf7CwFRwCv
— Auston White (@AustonWhite3) June 1, 2021
Is she a journalist or press secretary for this administration? I can’t tell. https://t.co/X03eD7RMRd
— #BahamaDon 🇧🇸 (@N8TheCre8tive) June 1, 2021
The issue here isn’t actually Kamala, it’s CNN acting as a wing of her PR team. https://t.co/g5CxwnzgtB
— EdAsante (@EdAsante77) June 1, 2021
Natasha is doing exactly what she was hired to do.
— Matt Smith (@MattSmithCFB) June 1, 2021
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