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person next to Kareem Jean-Pierre it's
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an absolute pleasure to sit here and
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talk with you thank you our first um
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black woman press secretary of the White
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House and the lgbtq Community member
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it's amazing to watch you work you know
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when I watch you work and I see you
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navigate through so many tons of
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questions about not only National issues
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but Global issues I wonder how is it
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that you do it and I'm curious to how
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you spend your days what is it day like
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I have to tell you I haven't first of
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all I have to shout out my team I have
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an amazing team it's about 12 of us in
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the Press office and they prepare me and
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then there's also extended folks outside
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of the press team like policy folks
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whether it's foreign policy whether it's
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economic policy and they make sure I
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have what I need they make sure that we
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are we have the message of the day like
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what is it that we're trying to push
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forward what is it that we're trying to
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talk about and so I I don't do it alone
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as much as it looks like I'm by myself
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at the podium that I'm doing it by
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myself but it is a it is an entire Tire
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team that gets me to where I am able to
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deliver the president's message talk
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directly to the American people and talk
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about what is it that we're doing here
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you know at the White House for them to
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get things done for them and that's what
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the president promised to do and that's
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what we're doing every day you do an
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yeah hi thank you so much for joining us
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today Heather gave me such a nice big
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thank you that sister girl
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that's how I feel here and we're just
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literally having a conversation with um
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Keisha last bottoms and talking about
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for me and for her the first time I
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remember seeing this place and thinking
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I want to get into the White House one
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day I don't know how it's going to
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happen do you have one of those moments
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I do I was I was very young it's one of
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those trips that you take with your
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families to the White House or to DC and
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you come and you swing by and see the
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White House and you look up and you know
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it never dawned on me that I would be
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working in the White House you know
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because I think especially young women
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of color black black girls young girls
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of color we're not told that we can be
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president we're not told that we can be
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vice president we're not told that we
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can work in the white house so I think
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it took it took some time it took some
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time until I became an adult and I
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realized what it is that I wanted to do
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that I can work in the White House and
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also and I and I say this with all you
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know kind of honesty and and real belief
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in this it it takes other people
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believing in you as well I am the press
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secretary because the president decided
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that he wanted me to be his press
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secretary and yes he understood what it
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meant to the country and yes he
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understood what it means to have someone
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who looks like me at the podium but he
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also understood and got the fact that I
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was ready and I was ready to do this job
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and that I would represent him well and
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I don't know if this would have happened
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with any other president but President
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Biden and so that matters as well like
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who do you have whose shoulders are you
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standing on right the answer to this
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that I'm their shoulders that I'm
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standing on but also who's pushing you
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so I have a question four first of all
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it's going to see you again yeah we've
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I've known Mike we were just talking
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about it since 2009. we go way back we
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were babies we were little babies and
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now to see you ascend to where you are
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I'm so proud of you thank you I'm
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rooting for you thank you um really
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quickly I'm always curious about the
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role of a press secretary you know this
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Administration has shown to be for the
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people getting the messes out there how
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do you split that new ones when you're
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answering the question for the
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journalist to break through the noise to
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get to like the average American it is I
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mean sometimes and I've and don't know
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if you see me do this some sometimes
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I'll step back and I'll say there are
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people watching Beyond The Briefing room
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that I want the American people to
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understand this is what the president's
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economic plan is doing this is how it's
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lowering costs for everyday Americans
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This is how we got it we were able to
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bring down the cost at the gas station
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so I I always say that I sometimes
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you'll see me I'm looking at I'm looking
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at the reporters but I'm like you know
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what guys I want people who are watching
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to understand how we are working every
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day how this President is working every
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day and then you hit you hit those
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points that matter that really matter to
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the American people you talk about costs
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lowering costs you talk about
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prescription drugs lowering prescription
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drugs those are the things that matter
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to I know certainly my mom you know
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people's Grandma and Grandpa when you're
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thinking about all right my cost my
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prescription drugs is going to come down
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and so all of those things matter and I
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am very I am very attuned to that trying
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to break through and out of the briefing
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room and to the people who are watching
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sounds like the president is pulling up
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service to this country and
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girls who are who are watching and I
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think it's so important to be bold be
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brave remember don't ever let anyone
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tell you that you cannot do something
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and while I am the first to be in this
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job I do not want to be the last and we
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have to continue to break barriers and
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that you got you you got yourself we got
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you we love you and we're gonna hold you
