John Kirby

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187 appearances 5 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 13 Aug

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki · ‘Unconscionable’: Trump uses press and his own staff as decoys amid Iran threat · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

Well look, first I'm certainly glad that Mr.

Trump is safe and I I don't default the White House for uh going to lengths to protect him, including, you know, doing this idea of a a plane swap.

You gotta make sure the president is safe.

That's their job at the Secret Service.

That said, um they also have an obligation, uh as you well know too, Jen, when you're traveling with the President of the United States, there's an obligation to for the safety and security of those folks that are traveling with you, including the

press.

Uh and it just seems unconscionable to me uh that these people were allowed to stay on that aircraft unwitting of the danger that they were in.

Uh a simple fix would have been to take the press into the confidence, take them off the record.

You don't have to tell them everything.

You don't have to un you know unveil all the intelligence, but let them know there's a threat.

Let them know there's going to be some mitigating actions to to reduce that threat.

Uh you'll fully brief them when you can.

And give them the option about whether they want to stay on that jet or not, that would have been the right thing to do.

So I completely sympathize with members of the media and I suspect some of the members of the staff that that weren't told and and and uh and flew on a plane that was in greater danger than they than they had any idea.

Well, it does seem to be consistent with the view of the CIA with respect to Israeli intelligence of late.

Uh, you might remember there was reporting that that Mr.

Ratcliffe w was not convinced uh that the Israeli intelligence was correct, that you could uh you know decapitate the Iranian regime with a strike on uh Hamine and and cause regime change.

Um and he kinda called it he kinda called a BS there in the situation room.

So this is I think of a piece of his now.

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