On 12/12/2022, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and national security adviser Jake Sullivan held a briefing with reporters to preview the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit that begins Tuesday. A reporter asked Jean-Pierre, “As you know, Elon Musk launched a series of attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci over the weekend, calling for his prosecution. And then he shared some other memes about him and suggested he lied about — he’s lying about the origins of the coronavirus. What’s your response, first of all, specifically to the attacks on Dr. Fauci? And second, how is your view of Twitter as a sort of public forum, and a forum for yourself and the President and many other officials here — how are those views evolving?”
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, look, we’ve been very clear about this: These attacks — these personal attacks that we’ve been seeing are dangerous — on Dr. Fauci and other public health professionals as well; are — they are disgusting; and they are divorced from — from reality. And we will continue to call that out and be very clear about that. Again, these are incredibly dangerous, these personal attacks that we’re seeing.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan: concerns about southern border crisis being “constantly addressed”
Reporter: Jake, next week, Title 42 is expiring. Do you see a national security — are there national security concerns over the Title 42 expiration?
MR. SULLIVAN: So, the team has been working very hard to ensure that we are taking steps to be able to manage the expiration of Title 42 and to put in place a process that will be orderly and humane. And we believe that in doing so we can protect our national security concerns. That is a process that others can speak to better than I can. But from my perspective, the issues related to ensuring an orderly, humane migration process at the border are being persistently and constantly addressed through the interagency process. And we are working through what the procedures will be in place at the moment of expiration on the 21st.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan: Biden border policies doing an “effective job”
Reporter: Jake, does the U.S. government have any sense of how many people are coming across, if they have — that there is no visibility on how many people are crossing the — you have no idea who they are?
MR. SULLIVAN: I’m sorry. I’m not sure I understand the question.
Reporter: Do you have a sense of how many people crossing the border that the U.S. government has no idea — like estimates of how many people crossing aren’t giving their name, aren’t giving IDs, aren’t able to verify who they are?
MR. SULLIVAN: So, we do have estimates of how many encounters there are at the border on a daily basis. We have processes and procedures in place to identify those individuals, to process them in an orderly fashion, and then to do what is appropriate based on that processing. And we have believed that that system is a system that does an effective job of being able to determine who is coming across the border and what the right way to deal with their case is.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan won’t say if admin views Russian Viktor Bout as terrorist
Reporter: I’m curious, does the administration consider Viktor Bout to be a terrorist?
MR. SULLIVAN: Well, he’s not listed as a “Specially Designated National.” What we consider him to have been was a convicted criminal, convicted of arms trafficking and other crimes, to serve a sentence. He’s served 12 years in detention; he was set to be released in 2029. And, of course, before we make any determination about whether to send somebody back as part of a deal to get an American home, we make a determination about the national security implications of that. We did that assessment in this case. We believe we can manage those challenges …
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Elon Musk’s Dr. Fauci & Biden memes dangerous; Biden Advisor: border “effective job; Viktor Bout