"Is this now threatening to splinter unity with NATO allies?"īiden's suggested response was, "No, NATO has never been more unified." ," the card reads before it is obscured by Biden's hand. Macron, who has tried to facilitate talks between the Ukrainians and Russians, said on Sunday that in order to achieve a diplomatic end to Russia's war "we can't escalate either in words or actions." Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland as he speaks to reporters on November 20, 2019.īiden's talking points also anticipated a direct question about French President Emmanuel Macron, who appeared to criticize Biden's remarks. President Donald Trump holds what appears to be a prepared statement and handwritten notes after watching testimony by U.S.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday that the US does not "have a strategy of regime change in Russia." Moscow, which has spread propaganda for years that the US wants such an outcome, seized on the remark. During a speech in Poland, Biden said of Putin "For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power." An unnamed White House official soon clarified to reporters that Biden was not calling for regime change, a step the US didn't even take during the height of the Cold War. Monday marked the latest attempt by the White House to clean up Biden's words from over the weekend. In one of his follow-up responses, Biden may have referred to a possibly classified operation in which US troops are training Ukrainian soldiers in Poland, Politico reported.
Reporters then repeatedly pressed Biden on his answer. I had just come from being with those families." The fact of the matter is I was expressing the moral outrage I felt toward the way Putin is dealing, and the actions of this man - just - just the brutality of it. Herschmann may have differing recollections of who wrote the note, what’s ultimately important is that both White House officials believed that the President should have immediately instructed his supporters to leave the Capitol building.What he actually told reporters was, "Number one, I'm not walking anything back. Hutchinson's account of this matter credible. 6 committee said, "The committee has done its diligence on this and found Ms. In response to Herschmann's claim, a spokesperson for the Jan. Hutchinson also said that Herschmann had suggested changing the statement and to "put 'without legal authority.'" Hutchinson, a former top aide to Meadows, said that Meadows handed her the note card and a pen and started dictating a potential statement for Trump to release amid the Capitol riot. "That's my handwriting," Hutchinson replied. PHOTO: Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the administration of former President Donald Trump, arrives to testify, June 28, 2022. "And it's written on the chief of staff note card, but that's your handwriting, Ms. Herschmann," the spokesperson said.Īt Tuesday's hearing, Hutchinson, testifying about the note, said, "That's a note that I wrote at the direction of the chief of staff on Jan. "All sources with direct knowledge and law enforcement have and will confirm that it was written by Mr. "The handwritten note that Cassidy Hutchinson testified was written by her was in fact written by Eric Herschmann on January 6, 2021," a spokesperson for Herschmann told ABC News Tuesday evening. 6 hearing witness: Irate Trump grabbed wheel, demanded to go to Capitol Sources familiar with the matter said that Herschmann had previously told the committee that he had penned the note. Liz Cheney displayed a handwritten note which Hutchinson testified she wrote after Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows handed her a note card and pen to take his dictation. 6 attack on the Capitol was written by him during a meeting at the White House that afternoon, and not by White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.Īt Tuesday's Jan. Former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann is claiming that a handwritten note regarding a potential statement for then-President Donald Trump to release during the Jan.
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