{"id":1474555,"date":"2022-05-13T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474555"},"modified":"2022-05-13T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T18:45:48","slug":"psaki-chokes-up-as-she-addresses-press-one-final-time-before-leaving-for-reported-msnbc-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-chokes-up-as-she-addresses-press-one-final-time-before-leaving-for-reported-msnbc-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Chokes Up As She Addresses Press One Final Time Before Leaving For Reported MSNBC Gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-chokes-up-as-she-addresses-press-one-final-time-before-leaving-for-reported-msnbc-gig%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1474555&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Outgoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki choked up during her last day at the podium Friday, thanking various people involved in the administration as well as the press corps.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/05\/jen-psaki-leaving-white-house-may-replaced-karine-jean-pierre\/\">announced<\/a> May 5 that her last day as press secretary would be May 13. She\u2019ll be replaced by deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who has served in various senior communication and <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/white-house-china-deliberate-theory-covid-19-lab-leak-coronavirus-karine-jean-pierre\/\">political<\/a> roles for President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to taking questions from reporters for one last time from behind the podium, Psaki noted that she \u201cwanted to start with a series of thank you\u2019s.\u201d The press secretary added that she \u201cpromised\u201d herself she \u201cwasn\u2019t going to get emotional,\u201d but still choked up throughout her brief speech.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say thank you to the president and the first lady,\u201d Psaki began. \u201cThey entrusted me in serving this role for the last fifteen months, and I talked about this a little bit before, but during my first conversation with them, which was in November of 2020 after the election, I was very nervous when I went to see them in Delaware.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Psaki said the majority of their conversation surrounded \u201cthe importance of returning integrity, respect and civility to the White House.\u201d She alluded to her and Biden\u2019s \u201cIrish side\u201d showing from time to time \u2013 a nod to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/24\/hot-mic-catches-biden-calling-peter-doocy-a-stupid-son-of-a-btch\/\">sharper-tempered<\/a> moments coming from the duo \u2013 and said she hoped she \u201cfollowed the example of integrity and grace that\u201d Biden and First Lady Jill Biden \u201chave set for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m incredibly grateful to them,\u201d the press secretary said.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki also thanked what she called the \u201cextended\u201d Biden family, including those who previously worked with the president, as well as the press team. She cited the press team as an example of why Washington isn\u2019t \u201crotten,\u201d a question she said gets asked often.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe the absolute opposite is true because I have worked with and engage with all of these incredible people across the administration and this amazing team,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p>The press secretary concluded her speech by thanking the press corps, calling the back-and-forth\u2019s often seen from the briefings as an example of \u201cdemocracy in action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have challenged me, you have pushed me,\u201d Psaki said to the group of reporters crowded in the small briefing room. \u201cYou have debated me and at times we have disagreed \u2013 that is democracy in action. That is it working. Without accountability, without debate, government is not as strong, and you all play an incredibly pivotal role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you for what you do. Thank you for making me better. Most importantly, thank you for the work every day you do to make this country stronger,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/01\/report-msnbc-snag-psaki\/\">reportedly<\/a> heading to MSNBC following her tenure as a White House press secretary. The news, which broke while she was still serving at the White House, sparked <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/09\/sean-spicer-psaki-negotiations-msnbc-unethical-wrong\/\">ethics<\/a> questions. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/07\/nbc-news-staffers-msnbc-hiring-psaki\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0REPORT: Frustrated NBC News Staffers Press Bosses For Answers On MSNBC Potentially Hiring Psaki)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At the time, Psaki assured the country that she was following the \u201cstringent ethical and legal requirements\u201d imposed within the administration regarding any future gig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a range of stringent ethical and legal requirements that are imposed on everybody and this administration, and many administrations past, about any conversations you\u2019re having with future employers. That is true of any industry you\u2019re working in and I have abided by those and tried to take steps to go beyond that as well,\u201d Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/01\/reporters-jen-psaki-ethics-msnbc\/\">said<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the policy of this White House that anyone who\u2019s having conversations about future employment does so through consultation with the White House counsel\u2019s office and ensuring they abide by ethics and legal requirements and those are conversations that I have taken very seriously and abided by every component of,\u201d she added at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki choked up during her last day at the podium Friday, thanking various people involved in the administration as well as the press corps.Psaki<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":1482897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1474555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}