Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy has been asking the hard questions the rest of the press corps fails to. This time he addressed the elephant in the room, Border Csar Kamala Harris. Doocy brought up how Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei claimed that he has not talked to Harris since June, when she claimed she wanted to get to the root of the border crisis problem. Psaki didn’t really have an answer for that.
Doocy: Okay. Another topic: Is Vice President Harris still in charge of addressing the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala?
MS. PSAKI: She is. And I just announced a commitment that she’s announcing this afternoon.
Doocy: So, then why is it that she has not spoken to the President of Guatemala since June? That’s six months.
MS. PSAKI: Well, I know that — I did see this kind of strange report from the President of Guatemala saying that he’s had no contact with the White House, which is inaccurate.
Doocy: No, he didn’t say the Whi- — he said “Vice President Harris”; he has not spoken to her. And if she’s in charge, why is that?
MS. PSAKI: Well, we have had a range of conversations, Peter, I think as reflected in our readout we put out last week with our National Security Advisor, with the Vice President’s National Security Advisor, with our NSC Senior Director, Juan Gonzalez. We put out an extensive readout of that just last week, and we’ll continue that high level of engagement.
Psaki didn’t have an answer for Harris’s absence or inability to do her job, so she told Doocy to go and see what other government officials are doing to fix the border. But that’s the point. Harris is supposed to be getting to the root of the border crisis issue and it looks like she either dropped the ball and is failing to do her job, or even the Biden Admin realized that she just wasn’t the person for the job, and found others to do it for her.
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