President Joe Biden&#8217;s former Chief of Staff Ron Klain is long gone from the White House and domestic policy advisor Susan Rice will soon be departing — that raises the question, who will be left to really run the White House?
Biden is not really in charge of the country. That is obvious to anybody, and it is proven by the fact that the White House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/none-of-the-three-occurred-biden-denies-making-foreign-policy-gaffes-that-white-house-walked-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">constantly walks back</a> his statements and that he uses <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-cheat-sheet-shows-he-knew-what-topic-reporter-would-ask-him-about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cheat sheets</a> for press questions. It also doesn&#8217;t help that he practically waltzes out each day to read a script that he clearly doesn&#8217;t write or understand. Here&#8217;s an example:
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Biden reads from a script when asked about the classified documents found at his personal office: 
&quot;I was surprised to learn that there are any government records that were taken there to that office. But I don&#39;t know what&#39;s in the documents.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/VRn4DANgXD">pic.twitter.com/VRn4DANgXD</a>
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In fact, on Thursday, Biden even lamented that he isn&#8217;t as authoritative as he expected the president to be.
&#8220;I thought when I got to be president, I&#8217;d get to give orders,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;But, I take more orders than I ever did.&#8221;
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BIDEN: &quot;I thought when I got to be President &#8211; I&#39;d get to give orders. But, I take more orders than I ever did.&quot;
Just curious, who&#39;s giving the orders? <a href="https://t.co/U2Arr2RG6Y">pic.twitter.com/U2Arr2RG6Y</a>
&mdash; Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1651651805191741444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In the past, even typically establishment Republicans have wondered whether somebody else was pulling the strings in the Oval Office — especially Klain.
“We’ve gotten the impression from our members that have been in meetings down there that he’s kind of the guy behind the curtain,” said Senate Republican Whip Senator John Thune (R-SD) of Klain to <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/540782-gop-says-ron-klain-pulling-biden-strings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a> in 2021.
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Additionally, aides to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) nicknamed Biden&#8217;s former right-hand man as &#8220;Prime Minister Klain.&#8221;
Klain was so powerful in the Biden White House, that even progressives praised him.
“A lot of people see him as one of the few avenues they have to have a glimpse into the dynamics and considerations of what’s happening in the White House,” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/21/ron-klain-white-house-west-wing-00069645" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> of Klain to POLITICO. “When I think about some of the conversations that build trust, build the sense of open communication, he’s usually part of that.”
And then he left this past winter.
If Klain had been the progressive&#8217;s best friend calling the shots in the White House, Rice served as more of the moderate figure who blocked them out. Her role in Biden&#8217;s administration was so powerful that POLITICO described her as ruling a &#8220;fiefdom&#8221; within the West Wing and beyond. The outlet even reported that she had Biden&#8217;s ear around the clock and he heavily depended on her for policy-making decisions.
When Rice isn&#8217;t around to tell Biden what to say, he flounders.
Consider what happened in October when somebody asked him about his gender policies, unprompted.
&#8220;What do you say to Americans who disagree with your gender policies?&#8221; a reporter asked.
&#8220;My gender policies?&#8221; Biden said.
The reporter clarified, &#8220;Transgender policies like bathrooms, women’s sports, things like that.&#8221;
&#8220;I stand by my policies,&#8221; a confused Biden said before walking away.
As conservative strategist Greg Price put it, &#8220;Dude has no idea what his policies even are. He just reads what his handlers put on the teleprompter.&#8221;
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Dude has no idea what his policies even are. He just reads what his handlers put on the teleprompter.
&mdash; Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href="https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1583534280613167104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The president couldn&#8217;t even remember he was in Ireland two weeks ago. How is he possibly going to lead the nation without his two shadow presidents?
Maybe they have stepped away because they know Biden won&#8217;t be attempting anything radical in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election. It appears that he is slipping into a self-imposed lame-duck presidency, so as to appear moderate in the next general election. Whatever the case, we&#8217;ll keep tabs on who might be running the show.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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One of President Joe Biden&#8217;s top advisers, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/susan-rice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Susan Rice</a>, has announced that she will leave the White House effective at the end of May.
The White House <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/24/politics/susan-rice-domestic-policy-adviser/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> on Monday that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/susan-rice-calls-new-hillary-clinton-appointment-speculation-an-insult" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rice</a>, who has been serving the Biden administration as a domestic policy adviser, will exit that position just before the Memorial Day holiday weekend on May 26.
Rice has served in the Biden White House for more than two years in that capacity, and according to White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, has been instrumental in ensuring that the most important issues in Biden&#8217;s domestic agenda have made it from the drawing board to Congress and then back to the president&#8217;s desk for his final signature.
As NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/susan-rice-step-bidens-domestic-policy-chief-rcna80654" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, Rice has been in that significant role as Biden has signed a number of actions — both legislative and executive — on key Democratic issues ranging from health care and gun safety to police reform and student loans.
Rice, according to Zients, has taken Biden&#8217;s Domestic Policy Council &#8220;to new heights.&#8221;
&#8220;It is extraordinary when you think about what she’s done in terms of public service across her career, capped off by being the first person ever to be the national security adviser and domestic policy adviser. It really speaks a lot to her leadership and her range,&#8221; Zients added.
Biden&#8217;s chief economic adviser Brian Deese also praised Rice&#8217;s tenure in the role but noted that the White House would likely shift priorities going into the 2024 presidential election cycle.
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&#8220;Susan was there during this two-year period where there was just an incredible and historic burst of policymaking, and the next year and a half is going to be different. It’s going to call for a different approach to policy,&#8221; Deese explained, adding, &#8220;The role and the requirements for the role are going to be different, and I think they’ll take that into consideration.&#8221;
NBC cited another White House source who said the search for Rice&#8217;s replacement would not be limited to those already working within the Biden White House.

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President Obama&#8217;s former U.S. National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has exited her position on the board of Netflix to join the Biden administration.
In a statement on Thursday, Netflix chairman and co-CEO Reed Hastings thanked Rice for contributions to the streaming giant.
“We are grateful to Susan Rice for her many contributions on our board and congratulate her on her return to public service,” said Hastings, as reported by <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/12/susan-rice-exiting-netflix-board-jan-20-for-biden-administration-post-1234654033/">Deadline</a>.
Rice will officially depart from Netflix on January 20, 2021, to serve as head of the White House Domestic Policy Council.
Netflixed<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28789/netflix-names-former-obama-ambassador-susan-rice-paul-bois"> announced</a> in May of 2018 that Susan Rice joined its board of directors.
“We are delighted to welcome Ambassador Rice to the Netflix board,” said Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings at the time. “For decades, she has tackled difficult, complex global issues with intelligence, integrity and insight, and we look forward to benefiting from her experience and wisdom.”
Former Ambassador Rice said she was “thrilled” to be joining the “cutting-edge” company.
“I am thrilled to be joining the board of directors of Netflix, a cutting-edge company whose leadership, high-quality productions, and unique culture I deeply admire,” said former Ambassador Rice.
Appointed as U.N. ambassador in 2009, Rice became a household political name on September 11, 2012, following an attack on the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Immediately after the attack, Rice went on as many as five Sunday talk shows to push the Obama administration’s talking point that a YouTube video mocking Muhammad was responsible for the attack, not Al-Qaeda militants.
While Republicans have little regard for Susan Rice, her appeal to moderates and independents increased greatly earlier this year when she told <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/898878827/touting-her-experience-susan-rice-makes-her-case-for-bidens-vp-slot">NPR</a> that she loves and accepts her Trump-supporting Republican son.
“I have a 23-year-old son whom I love dearly, whose politics are very, very different from my own and from the rest of our family,” she said. “My son and I will have some robust disagreements over some matters of policy, not all. And yet, at the end of the day, you know, I love him dearly, and he loves me.”
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/susan-rice-trump-supporting-son">Fox News </a>reported Rice’s son, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/susan-rices-son-is-outspoken-pro-trump-gop-leader-at-stanford" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">John David Rice-Cameron</a>, “was president of the Stanford College Republicans and hosted events such as ‘Make Stanford Great Again.&#8217;” In 2018, he told the outlet that he and his mother have a “great relationship.”
“My mother and I have a great relationship, and my mother believes strongly in the free and respectful exchange of ideas,” Rice-Cameron told Fox News. “We disagree on most of the standard Republican/Democrat disagreements. However, we agree that America is the greatest nation the world has ever seen, and thus, we believe that America has an important role to play as a force for liberty and justice on the world stage.”
“We support robust American engagement in Africa, and we agree that Russia poses a major threat to American interests. We agree on the importance of American allies, and in a continued American commitment to NATO,” he added.
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Former Obama administration National Security Advisor Susan Rice called for the end of a new round of speculation that 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton could become the next ambassador to the United Nations, dismissing the idea as “ridiculous” and insulting to Clinton.
“This is ridiculous and an insult to [Hillary Clinton]. Stop. Please,” tweeted Rice, who also served as the Obama administration’s first ambassador to the United Nations.
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This is ridiculous and an insult to <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HillaryClinton</a>. Stop. Please. <a href="https://t.co/i1J0IwE0ot">https://t.co/i1J0IwE0ot</a>
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbassadorRice/status/1327082095768956929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
Within the president’s administration, the U.N. ambassador reports to the secretary of state, meaning, if Clinton were appointed to the position, it would be considered a demotion from her previous role as the Obama administration’s secretary of state.
According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-transition-republicans/2020/11/12/c5899384-2509-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html">The Washington Post</a>, however, Clinton’s name has been floated in private discussions concerning the future of the U.N. ambassador position.
The Post reports:
<blockquote>One intriguing name being discussed privately is former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, according to the person familiar with the chatter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The thinking behind the move was that it would be a way for Biden to highlight the importance of that position in his administration, and that placing her there would raise the prestige of the U.N. itself at a time when global cooperation, and the U.S. role on the world stage, has ebbed.</blockquote>
A U.N. position wouldn’t be without precedent for a former Democratic presidential nominee. Back in 2009, former President Bill Clinton was appointed by the United Nations to serve as the special envoy to Haiti. Furthermore, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry served as a secretary of state in the Obama administration, having succeeded Hillary Clinton, who was offered the position after she lost the 2008 Democratic nomination to Barack Obama.
Back in August, Clinton suggested that she would be willing to serve in a Democratic administration if she were asked to do so.
“I’m ready to help in any way I can because I think this will be a moment where every American — I don’t care what party you are, I don’t care what age, race, gender, I don’t care — every American should want to fix our country,” said Clinton, reported <a href="https://people.com/politics/hillary-clinton-would-certainly-consider-serving-in-biden-administration/">People Magazine</a>. “So if you’re asked to serve, you should certainly consider that.”
But according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/politics/biden-cabinet.html">The New York Times</a>, it doesn’t appear that Hillary Clinton would be in the running to take up her old position as secretary of state in a Biden administration. Rice, however, is reportedly under consideration for the position, having previously also served as an assistant secretary of state in the Bill Clinton administration.
The other rumored contenders for secretary of state include Delaware Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) and William J. Burns, a former deputy secretary of state in the Obama administration who also served as ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008.

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Speaking on Wednesday night with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice launched another attack on President Trump, snapping, “He sends troops into the streets of our cities to attack peaceful protesters.” She also claimed, “the Russians continue to do and have stepped up their effort to interfere in our elections, with, it seems, the blessing of Donald Trump.”
Maddow prompted Rice by saying, “Let me just ask you about something else about which you’ve been really outspoken, and that is what we should sort of expect over the next, I guess, 83 days and the ‘small d’ democratic threat that the president will try to delegitimize the election, that he will try to mess with people’s ability to vote, that he will defy the results of the election if it turns out that he loses his office. How are you thinking about those things now?”
Maddow gushed, “After a lifetime in national security positions; knowing Vice President Biden as well as you know him; facing down these kinds of challenges and threats; what do you think we should all have in mind, or what do you think the country should be working on to try to shore ourselves up and brace ourselves for the worst-case scenario in terms of what this president might do with the peaceful transfer of power?”
Rice immediately waxed hyperbolic: “Rachel, this is an extraordinary circumstance that we find ourselves in; we’ve never, at least in our lifetimes, had a President of the United States who has told us that he may not abide by the results of the election, has told us that he may seek to delay the election itself, has told us that he’s going to cast doubt on the legitimacy of mail-in ballots and go out of his way to make it as hard as possible for Americans to exercise their constitutional right to vote. It’s unbelievable.”
“And then he sends troops into the streets of our cities to attack peaceful protesters,” Rice claimed, before resorting to hyperbole again and her perspective that Trump wanted Russia to interfere in the 2020 election:
<blockquote>The range of possible threats that he poses to our democracy is truly quite mind-boggling. And I think it’s really important for the America people to be aware of this. And that’s before you get to — what we understand now from our intelligence community — the Russians continue to do and have stepped up their efforts to interfere in our elections, with, it seems, the blessing of Donald Trump, who has said he would accept foreign help in the election and has refused to call out Russia on any number of things, least of all its involvement in the 2020 election.</blockquote>
“And so, the American people first of all have to be aware,” Rice pontificated. “Secondly, I believe we have to come out and vote no matter what, hopefully through absentee ballots where that’s deemed to be the safest way through early voting, but we have to vote and the result should be overwhelming. The more resounding the outcome, the harder it is for Donald Trump to manipulate and obscure a potential loss. And we just have to be super, super vigilant to all of these different scenarios.”
Rice pretended to be bipartisan: “I believe that we have bipartisan interest in elections being fair and transparent. It affects candidates up and down the ballot, not just at the presidential level. So even if Republicans think that it’s in their interest for Donald Trump to retain power by any means necessary, it may not be in their interest, because the same tools that he uses to his own advantage can disadvantage members of both parties.”
Then Rice sang the praises of Joe Biden: “So the American people just need to be on top of this and we need to be vigilant and we need to not let anybody, Republican or Democrat, get away with any games. We know in Joe Biden we have somebody we can trust in that regard as well as every other.”
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Speculation that President Obama&#8217;s former national security advisor and U.N. ambassador Susan Rice will become Joe Biden&#8217;s running mate shot up exponentially on Friday when it was revealed that she sold upwards of $300k in Netflix stock.
According to <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/08/susan-rice-sells-netflix-shares-days-before-joe-biden-chooses-running-mate-1203007545/">Deadline</a>, Rice, who joined the Netflix board in 2018, sold $305,323 worth in the streaming platform&#8217;s stock base “according to an SEC filing late Thursday.” The news comes as Rice remains a top contender to become Joe Biden&#8217;s running mate for the 2020 election:
<blockquote>The option price of Netflix shares at the point of the sale was $508.68. The stock has surged as high at $575 this year as COVID-19 has spurred the addition of 26 million subscribers in the first six months of 2020. On Friday, shares were down 4% at about $488.
Under her board compensation package, Rice gets 125 stock options a month.
In 2016, Rice said in a federal disclosure that her net worth was between $14.7 million and $28.5 million.</blockquote>
Erin Pelton, Rice&#8217;s spokesperson, said the sale had nothing to do with the potential vice presidential pick.
“Ambassador Rice’s sale of a fraction of her Netflix stock has nothing to do with VP speculation,” the spokesperson told Deadline. “She filed a stock plan pursuant to SEC regulations over three months ago.”
In May of 2018, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28789/netflix-names-former-obama-ambassador-susan-rice-paul-bois">Netflix announced</a> it would be adding to its board of directors former Obama administration United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice.
“We are delighted to welcome Ambassador Rice to the Netflix board,” said Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings at the time. “For decades, she has tackled difficult, complex global issues with intelligence, integrity and insight, and we look forward to benefiting from her experience and wisdom.”
Former Ambassador Rice said she was “thrilled” to be joining the “cutting-edge” company.
“I am thrilled to be joining the board of directors of Netflix, a cutting-edge company whose leadership, high-quality productions, and unique culture I deeply admire,” said former Ambassador Rice.
Appointed as UN ambassador in 2009, Rice became a household political name on September 11, 2012, following an attack on the American embassy in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Immediately after the attack, Rice went on as many as five Sunday talk shows to push the Obama administration’s talking point that a YouTube video mocking Muhammad was responsible for the attack, not Al-Qaeda militants.
Though Rice certainly has little appeal with Republicans, her appeal to moderates and independents might have received a boost this week when <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/susan-rice-on-her-trump-supporting-son-i-love-him-dearly-and-he-loves-me">it was revealed</a> that she maintains a close relationship with her son despite his support for President Trump.
“I have a 23-year-old son whom I love dearly, whose politics are very, very different from my own and from the rest of our family,” she told NPR. “My son and I will have some robust disagreements over some matters of policy, not all. And yet, at the end of the day, you know, I love him dearly, and he loves me.”
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President Obama&#8217;s former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has a politically diverse household, including a Trump-supporting son who led the Stanford College Republicans.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/898878827/touting-her-experience-susan-rice-makes-her-case-for-bidens-vp-slot">NPR</a>, Rice said that even though she and her son have passionate differences when it comes to politics, she still loves him &#8220;dearly&#8221; – a nice sentiment, considering that some hardcore leftists have <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-us-election-win-one-year-white-nationalists-nazis-racism-torn-apart-a8043451.html">openly split</a> from their right-leaning family members.
&#8220;I have a 23-year-old son whom I love dearly, whose politics are very, very different from my own and from the rest of our family,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My son and I will have some robust disagreements over some matters of policy, not all. And yet, at the end of the day, you know, I love him dearly, and he loves me.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/susan-rice-trump-supporting-son">Fox News</a>, Rice&#8217;s son, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/susan-rices-son-is-outspoken-pro-trump-gop-leader-at-stanford" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">John David Rice-Cameron</a>, &#8220;was president of the Stanford College Republicans and hosted events such as &#8216;Make Stanford Great Again.'&#8221; In 2018, he told the outlet that he and his mother have a &#8220;great relationship.&#8221;
“My mother and I have a great relationship, and my mother believes strongly in the free and respectful exchange of ideas,” Rice-Cameron told Fox News. “We disagree on most of the standard Republican/Democrat disagreements. However, we agree that America is the greatest nation the world has ever seen, and thus, we believe that America has an important role to play as a force for liberty and justice on the world stage.”
&#8220;We support robust American engagement in Africa, and we agree that Russia poses a major threat to American interests. We agree on the importance of American allies, and in a continued American commitment to NATO,” he added.
Rice nearly echoed her son&#8217;s statement in her interview with NPR.
&#8220;We agree, for example, on the importance of the United States playing a responsible, principled leadership role in the world,” Rice said of her son. &#8220;We agree on the importance of having strong alliances. We agree we have to be clear-eyed and strong in dealing with adversaries like Russia and the threat that China may pose. We disagree on things like choice. I&#8217;m pro-choice. He&#8217;s pro-life. That&#8217;s the kind of difference that we ought to be able to respect.&#8221;
Though Rice has much love for her Trump-supporting son, she has little love for Trump-supporting senators.  In June, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/susan-rice-trump-senate-supporters-trash-heap-of-history">she told MSNBC</a> that such senators belong in the &#8220;trash heap of history.&#8221;
The former U.N. Ambassador has become a topic of conversation in recent weeks after presidential candidate Joe Biden reportedly placed her on his shortlist of potential running mates. According to various reports, the list has narrowed down to both her and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA).
&#8220;Confidants of Joe Biden believe his choices for vice president have narrowed to Sen. Kamala Harris and Susan Rice — and would be surprised if he picks anyone else,&#8221; <a href="https://www.axios.com/biden-vp-pick-kamala-harris-susan-rice-0e1f7c91-7df2-4d08-a08f-4568e86e6e50.html">reported</a> Axios on Wednesday.
“Rice is getting a big bounce from Obama people who claim her presence on the ticket would guarantee the enthusiastic presence of both Barack and Michelle Obama on the campaign trail,&#8221; the report added.
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Members of Joe Biden&#8217;s inner circle are reportedly trying to derail Sen. Kamala Harris&#8217;s (D-CA) appointment as the former vice president’s running mate in the 2020 election, even though the deal seems all but done.
Rumors of a Biden-Harris ticket heated up this week after POLITICO accidentally published a placeholder article listing Harris as the winner of the &#8220;veep-stakes&#8221; &#8212; a story that included generic quotes attributed to the Biden campaign.
Although POLITICO insisted the article was mistakenly made live, some of Biden&#8217;s handwritten notes, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/politics/biden-kamala-harris-notes/index.html">visible in photographs from a weekend appearance,</a> do seem to show &#8220;Kamala Harris&#8221; talking points, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/28/politics/biden-kamala-harris-notes/index.html">per CNN</a>. The notes include apparent answers to questions about Harris, including &#8220;Do not hold grudges,&#8221; &#8220;Campaigned with me &amp; Jill,&#8221; &#8220;Talented,&#8221; &#8220;Great help to campaign,&#8221; and &#8220;Great respect for her.&#8221;
But certain members of Joe Biden&#8217;s inner circle, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/29/biden-allies-move-to-stop-kamala-harris-from-becoming-vice-president.html">CNBC says</a>, are moving to halt Harris&#8217;s all-but-certain Veep bid, and have &#8220;taken their concerns directly to members of Biden’s VP search committee.&#8221;
&#8220;Some of Joe Biden’s allies are waging a campaign behind the scenes to stop Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., from becoming his vice president,&#8221; CNBC reports. &#8220;This disgruntled group of at least a dozen Biden backers, including a few of his top donors, initiated the move against Harris close to a month ago, just weeks before a decision is expected, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. Many who spoke to CNBC declined to be named as these efforts have been made in private.&#8221;
Their rationale isn&#8217;t clear, but CNBC speculates that some of Biden&#8217;s close friends are still reeling from attacks Harris made on the former vice president during the Democratic primary debates &#8212; attacks which included thinly veiled accusations of racism. Others seem to believe Harris would see the veep slot as a springboard to the presidency &#8212; that she would be campaigning for the top job from &#8220;day one,&#8221; bringing &#8220;into question her loyalty to the former vice president.&#8221;
Close friends and aides who spoke to CNBC used words like &#8220;opportunistic&#8221; to describe Harris.
There may be another faction pressing against Harris that isn&#8217;t as motivated by loyalty to Biden so much as it&#8217;s motivated by loyalty to former President Barack Obama, who has now raked in millions for Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign and likely feels entitled to make big asks of the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee.
<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/27/susan-rice-top-biden-vice-president-383026">POLITICO reports</a> that Obama&#8217;s team is pressing for Biden to choose former United Nations ambassador Susan Rice, even though Rice isn&#8217;t a politician, has never held an elected office, and remains an icon of one of the Obama administration&#8217;s worst moments, the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left the American ambassador and three others dead.
Senior White House aide Valerie Jarrett is said to be at the helm of the pro-Rice effort.
Biden is expected to make his vice presidential pick public sometime next week, ahead of the Democratic National Committee&#8217;s virtual convention.

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REPORT: Members Of Team Biden Privately Trying To Derail Kamala Harris Veep Bid

On Wednesday, <a href="https://grabien.com/story.php?id=299485%3C%22%3E">speaking</a> to Sunny Hostin of ABC’s “The View,” former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, attacking President Trump for his handling of the coronavirus crisis, claimed that the Obama administration had handed the Trump administration a “Pandemic for Dummies” playbook and snapped that the blame for 150,000 Americans dying “is on Donald Trump and his gross mishandling of this pandemic.”
Hostin prompted, “Ambassador, I do want to talk to you then about the coronavirus because President Trump says nobody could have predicted this pandemic.”
Rice responded with a smirk.
Hostin continued, “But the Obama administration did predict a pandemic, and you personally tried to prepare the incoming administration for something just like this, leaving essentially a pandemic playbook that warned of this type of virus happening. So, who is really to blame for the abysmal response here and the death of 150,000 Americans?”
“Well, Sunny, yes, everybody who knew anything about national security, global health, understood that a pandemic was inevitable,” Rice answered. “I write about it in my book that we were just talking about briefly at the outset. We prepared the incoming administration with a ‘Pandemic for Dummies’ playbook and a tabletop exercise and so many other briefings.”
“So the fault here, the tragic loss of 150,000 Americans and counting is on Donald Trump and his gross mishandling of this pandemic,” Rice continued. “He said it would go away; he likened it to the flu. He said, you know, that it would be fine to reopen our states prematurely. He’s encouraged kids to go back to school in communities where the virus is raging. Every step of the way, Donald Trump has put his own personal political interests ahead of the health and well-being and the economic security of Americans. That is why this tragedy has been as bad as it has been. And if anybody has any doubt about that, look at many other competent countries in the rest of the world – in Europe, in Asia, and elsewhere – that have handled this in such a way that their kids are going back to school, their economies are reopening, and the numbers continue to go down. That is not what’s happening here.”
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Rice is not the only former Obama administration official to attack Trump for his handling of the coronavirus. In April, Valerie Jarrett, the senior advisor to former President Barack Obama, who was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/us/politics/valerie-jarrett-is-the-other-power-in-the-west-wing.html">credited with wielding enormous power</a> behind the scenes, took a shot at President Trump over his handling of the coronavirus crisis while offering a &#8220;much better&#8221; portrayal of Obama, tweeting, “Someone asked me today how would @Barack Obama have handled this crisis? Answer in one word – better. Ok, two words. Much better.”
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Someone asked me today how would <a href="https://twitter.com/BarackObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BarackObama</a> have handled this crisis? Answer in one word &#8211; Better. Ok, two words. Much better.
&mdash; Valerie Jarrett (@ValerieJarrett) <a href="https://twitter.com/ValerieJarrett/status/1245489466837532675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Despite Rice and Jarrett&#8217;s glowing assessments of the Obama administration, the administration has come under criticism for its response to a 2009 epidemic. After the swine flu epidemic of 2009, medical masks were depleted, and the Obama administration did not act to replenish supply.
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-03-20/disaster-foretold-shortages-ventilators-medical-supplies-warned-about">The Los Angeles Times</a> reported:
<blockquote>After the swine flu epidemic in 2009, a safety-equipment industry association and a federally sponsored task force both recommended that depleted supplies of N95 respirator masks, which filter out airborne particles, be replenished by the stockpile, which is maintained by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That didn’t happen, according to Charles Johnson, president of the International Safety Equipment Assn.</blockquote>
Additionally, the first U.S. case of swine flu, which occurred in California, was identified on April 15, 2009. On April 25, the World Health Organization declared H1N1 a public health emergency, echoed by Obama one day later.
The World Health Organization <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/who/">declared</a> H1N1 a pandemic on June 11 but it took Obama <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/swineflu/16606">until October </a>to declare a national emergency. Trump declared the coronavirus a national emergency two days after WHO declared the coronavirus to be a pandemic.
After Jarrett posted her criticism in April, Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) — a U.S. veteran and Navy Seal for 10 years who lost his right eye after an explosive device hit him in Afghanistan in 2012 and who earned two Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with valor — expressed disbelief that in the present moment, Democrats were seizing the opportunity while people are dying in droves to put partisan politics above coming together as Americans.
Crenshaw tweeted, “Why do so many Obama administration staffers constantly try to make Americans feel awful? Highlighting policy differences is expected — but this level of vitriol? During this pandemic? Why?”
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Why do so many Obama administration staffers constantly try to make Americans feel awful? Highlighting policy differences is expected &#8211; but this level of vitriol? During this pandemic? Why? <a href="https://t.co/PGkiOyScrV">https://t.co/PGkiOyScrV</a>
&mdash; Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanCrenshawTX/status/1245555145414492162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Susan Rice: ‘Loss Of 150,000 Americans And Counting Is On Donald Trump’

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Susan Rice, the former national security advisor to former President Barack Obama as well as the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, who may be most famous for claiming that the 2011 Benghazi terrorist attack was precipitated by a video, has weighed in on the 2020 election, snapping that it is to “remove Donald Trump and consign him and those who have supported him in the Senate to the trash heap of history.” Rice attacked Trump for a “series of lies, the disgraceful, despicable lies this president tells.”
Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/susan-rice-trump-administration-has-been-racist-to-its-core-85452869937">brought up</a> Mary Elizabeth Taylor, assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs,  who <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-state-department-official-resigns-in-protest-of-trumps-response-to-racial-tensions-in-the-country/2020/06/18/e142e342-b181-11ea-a567-6172530208bd_story.html">submitted her resignation</a> Thursday, prompting Rice to sound as if she were angling for the vice-presidential slot under presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as she maligned members of the Trump administration, saying, “To serve an administration which has been racist to its core for he last 3 ½ years, from comparing the peaceful protesters at Charlottesville to white supremacists, calling white supremacists ‘very fine people,’ all the way through to the recent weeks where the administration has disparaged the Black Lives Matter movement, disparaged the peaceful protesters, and basically made plain that they prefer to stand by a confederate legacy than a modern America, it’s been an administration whose record on race has just been disgraceful.”
Rice continued, “So while I respect the fact that belatedly, this assistant’s secretary, Ms. Taylor, has recognized how unconscionable that is, and decided she can no longer serve, what we’ve seen in recent days is not that different, frankly, from what we’ve seen over the course of the last 3 ½ years.”
Mitchell then played a clip of Trump saying Obama and Biden had not tried to execute police reform during their tenure.
Rice sneered, “I shouldn’t be laughing because the series of lies, the disgraceful, despicable lies this president tells, seems to know no end. This is just one more in a series of disgraceful lies. The record of the Obama-Biden administration on police and criminal justice reform is very well know. Among the many steps that were taken during the Obama-Biden administration were to limit the transfer of military equipment to police departments; to enforce consent decrees; to launch pattern and practice investigations against police departments that had engaged in a history and a pattern of racism and brutality.”
She continued, “And the Trump administration is very well aware of all those reforms because they came in and systematically undid them from the very beginning of the administration. So to claim that the Obama-Biden administration did nothing is a bald-faced lie, and it’s underscored by the fact that now the president has undone those reforms and is now scrambling in a very superficial, half-hearted insufficient way to try to get on the right side of this issue.”
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UNHINGED: Susan Rice says Trump&#39;s supporters belong in &quot;the trash heap of history&quot; <a href="https://t.co/08VirKdghR">pic.twitter.com/08VirKdghR</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1274034509923659778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Susan Rice Attacks Trump For A ‘Series Of Lies, The Disgraceful, Despicable Lies This President Tells’

Former national security adviser Susan Rice was allegedly instructed by the Obama White House to write her controversial memo about the Oval Office meeting that she had with numerous top Obama officials, including President Obama himself, about then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Rice wrote the memo on January 20, 2017, which was President Donald Trump&#8217;s first day in office, about the meeting that she had in the Oval Office two weeks prior.
Fox News correspondent Gillian Turner <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rice-penned-inauguration-day-email-at-white-house-counsels-direction">reported</a> Wednesday that Rice&#8217;s team confirmed to Fox News that &#8220;she was directed by White House Counsel to write the Jan 20, 2017 memorandum documenting an Oval Office meeting in which President Obama [and] National Security officials discussed Michael Flynn.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbassadorRice?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AmbassadorRice</a>’s team confirms to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FoxNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FoxNews</a> that she was directed by White House Counsel to write the Jan 20, 2017 memorandum documenting an Oval Office meeting in which President Obama &amp; National Security officials discussed <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MichaelFlynn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MichaelFlynn</a>.
&mdash; Gillian Turner (@GillianHTurner) <a href="https://twitter.com/GillianHTurner/status/1263154635214372864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The meeting took place on January 5, 2017, and involved Rice, Obama, and Vice President Biden, the administration’s top political hierarchy on national-security matters, along with Obama’s top law-enforcement and counterintelligence officials, deputy attorney general Sally Yates (soon formally to take the acting AG role she was already performing), and FBI director James Comey,&#8221; former U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-rice-cya-memo-unredacted/">wrote</a> Wednesday. &#8220;Prior redactions had already demonstrated that the meeting’s central purpose was to discuss the rationale for withholding intelligence about Russia from the incoming Trump national-security team.&#8221;
Rice&#8217;s declassified &#8220;TOP SECRET&#8221; memo from January 20, 2017, stated:
<blockquote>On January 5, following a briefing by IC leadership on Russian hacking during the 2016 Presidential election, President Obama had a brief follow-on conversation with FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates in the Oval Office. Vice President Biden and I were also present.
President Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities &#8220;by the book&#8221;. The President stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.
From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.
Director Comey affirmed that he is proceeding &#8220;by the book&#8221; as it relates to law enforcement. From a national security perspective, Comey said he does have some concerns that incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian Ambassador Kislyak. Comey said that could be an issue as it relates to sharing sensitive information. President Obama asked if Comey was saying that the NSC should not pass sensitive information related to Russia to Flynn. Comey replied &#8221;potentially.&#8221; He added that he has no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to Kislyak, but he noted that &#8220;the level of communication is unusual.&#8221;
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.</blockquote>
Attorney General William Barr debunked the notion that there was anything wrong with the communication Flynn had with the Russian ambassador.
&#8220;That call, there was nothing wrong with it whatever,&#8221; Barr <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/attorney-general-william-barr-on-michael-flynn-obamacare-and-coronavirus-restrictions-transcript/">said</a>. &#8220;In fact, it was laudable. He&#8211; and it was nothing inconsistent with the Obama administration&#8217;s policies. And it was in U.S. interests. He was saying to the Russians, you know, &#8216;Don&#8217;t escalate.&#8217; And they asked him if he remembered saying that, and he said he didn&#8217;t remember that.&#8221;
McCarthy later noted how, as more and more information becomes declassified, Rice has continued to change her story, writing: &#8220;Rice has gone from claiming to have had <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/susan-rice-resurfaced-2017-comments-deny-knowledge-trump-team-surveillance-flynn" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">no knowledge</a> of Obama administration monitoring of Flynn and other Trump associates, to claiming <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/flashback-susan-rice-said-i-know-nothing-unmasking-trump-officials/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">no knowledge</a> of any unmaskings of Trump associates, to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4882138/Rice-ADMITS-unmasking-Trump-officials-UAE-meeting.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">admitting she was complicit</a> in the unmaskings, to — now — a call for the recorded conversation between retired general Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak to be released because it would purportedly show that the Obama administration had good reason to be concerned about Flynn (y’know, the guy she said she had no idea they were investigating).&#8221;
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Obama White House Instructed Susan Rice To Write Her Memo About The Oval Office Meeting On Flynn, Report Says

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A video clip from March 22, 2017, recirculated on social media early this week shows Obama national security adviser Susan Rice denying in an interview that she knew anything about the Obama administration&#8217;s unmasking of any Trump associates, which would include then-incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn.
&#8220;So, we invited you on to talk about several things but in the last few hours we&#8217;ve been following the disclosure by the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, that in essence during the final days of the Obama administration, during the transition after President Trump had been elected that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals and that their identities may have been disclosed,&#8221; PBS News Hour host Judy Woodruff said. &#8220;Do you know anything about this?&#8221;
Rice responded, &#8220;I know nothing about this.&#8221;
Rice&#8217;s 2017 claim has come under renewed scrutiny in light of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-government-declassifies-susan-rice-email-on-obamas-oval-office-meeting-discussing-flynn">newly declassified documents</a> that were made public on Tuesday that show, by her account, that she was present for an Oval Office meeting with former President Barack Obama and other top Obama administration officials where they discussed Flynn&#8217;s phone calls with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Rice has come under fire <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/susan-rice-is-a-liar-now-even-the-liberal-media-is-starting-to-admit-it">repeatedly</a> for her long &#8220;<a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/apr/5/susan-rice-lies-will-haunt-liberals/">record of deceit</a>.&#8221;
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<blockquote>HOST JUDY WOODRUFF: Susan Rice, welcome to the program.
FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER SUSAN RICE: Good to be with you, Judy.
WOODRUFF: So, we invited you on to talk about several things but in the last few hours we&#8217;ve been following the disclosure by the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, that in essence during the final days of the Obama administration, during the transition after President Trump had been elected that he and the people around him may have been caught up in surveillance of foreign individuals and that their identities may have been disclosed. Do you know anything about this?
RICE: I know nothing about this. I was surprised to see reports from Chairman Nunes on that count today.
And let&#8217;s back up and recall where we have been. The president of the United States accused his predecessor, President Obama, of wiretapping Trump Tower during the campaign. Nothing of the sort occurred, and we have heard that confirmed by the director of the FBI, who also pointed out that no president, no White House can order the surveillance of another American citizen.
That can only come from the Justice Department, with the approval of a FISA court. So, today, I really don&#8217;t know to what Chairman Nunes was referring, but he said that whatever he was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance, and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Right.
SUSAN RICE: And I think it&#8217;s important for people to understand what incidental means. That means that the target was either a foreign entity or somebody under criminal investigation, and that the Americans who were talking to those targets may have been picked up.</blockquote>
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