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Sanders on skipping WH Korea briefing: 'I did not want to be part of a photo op'
The Hill ^ | April 27, 2017 | Olivia Beavers

Posted on 04/27/2017 3:40:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he boycotted a White House briefing on North Korea because he “did not want to be part of a photo opportunity.”

“What I did not want to be is part of a photo opportunity or a political effort on the part of the White House,” Sanders told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes on Wednesday.

In an unusual move, the White House invited all 100 senators to attend the briefing at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building.

Sanders said such briefings are typically held at the Capitol in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) room, which is a specially and securely designed room for highly classified congressional briefings.

“These highly — supposedly — highly classified briefings always take place in what’s called the SCIF room in Congress, which is a very well-designed room to prevent any cybersecurity issues, with security issues in general."

Despite calling for bipartisan efforts to deal with North Korea, Sanders said he declined to be part of the White House “roadshow.”

“The issue of North Korea is enormously important, and we need bipartisan efforts to control North Korea’s very aggressive nuclear efforts, but I did not want to be part of a roadshow for the White House,” he said.

Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also called the briefing at the White House an “unusual setting,” adding that he didn't “want to read too much into this.”

The meeting came after the administration said it would take a hardline approach toward the increasingly hostile state amid rising tensions.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, along with other top administration officials, briefed the senators.

President Trump briefly joined the meeting.


TOPICS: Vermont; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: bernie; korea; sanders; trump
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The North Koreans probably already briefed him. I wonder if Maxine Waters attended the House briefing?
1 posted on 04/27/2017 3:40:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What is in the water up there in Vermont?


2 posted on 04/27/2017 3:42:03 PM PDT by telstar12.5 (...always bring gunships to a gun fight...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t you just love these assholes? They’re happy to collect paychecks... from money they’ve confiscated from US, and then have such high principles that THEY get to decide when or when not to work depending on if they think it’s a “photo op.”

Then again, Bernie had forty-something years practice not working, so I guess it’s second nature for the commie.


3 posted on 04/27/2017 3:44:18 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I heard he took his wife to the Soviet Union on their honeymoon. Think about that for a moment


4 posted on 04/27/2017 3:45:00 PM PDT by McGavin999
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, they’re his own kind. Goofy-arsed old fart.


5 posted on 04/27/2017 3:45:18 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How will you have a photo op when cameras are forbidden in a SCIF?


6 posted on 04/27/2017 3:45:43 PM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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Sanders on skipping WH Korea briefing: ‘I did not want to be part of a photo op’

And have my Good Friend and Fellow Socialist Kim Jong Un see the pictures, The President of North Korea has already briefed me anyway.


7 posted on 04/27/2017 3:46:04 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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I heard he took his wife to the Soviet Union on their honeymoon. Think about that for a moment

They went there to pay respects to Bernie’s Father, Joe Stalin.


8 posted on 04/27/2017 3:47:20 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: McGavin999

They must have paid attention to the apparatchiks and learned how to get a second or third home or dacha.


9 posted on 04/27/2017 3:47:49 PM PDT by aposiopetic
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dear M. Sanders. When the President calls....you are OBLIGATED to answer his call.

The campaign is over.

10 posted on 04/27/2017 3:50:41 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He had no problem with Hillary’s photo ops with his tongue firmly planted in her backside.


11 posted on 04/27/2017 3:54:51 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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“Sanders on skipping WH Korea briefing”

in two weeks he’ll be complaining that he wasn’t kept informed.


12 posted on 04/27/2017 3:55:14 PM PDT by Samurai_Jack (War is cruelty, there is no use trying to reform it; the crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Waters is not a Senator.


13 posted on 04/27/2017 3:55:29 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bernie the old “ socialist” just didn’t want to take a stand for or against the most murderous tyrant on the planet
( who he thinks is Donald Trump)


14 posted on 04/27/2017 3:56:48 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Democrats whine to the press that they had to ride a bus to the White House. Simple solution - next time, only invite the Republicans.


15 posted on 04/27/2017 3:57:08 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Hillary's Russia Ties - http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2016/09/hillary-clinton-and-democrats-have.htm)
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Isn’t going before the press and saying I am skipping the meeting a photo op? Treasonous little prick.


16 posted on 04/27/2017 4:02:46 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: telstar12.5

What is in the water up there in Vermont?
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Communism.


17 posted on 04/27/2017 4:05:49 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Stay ignorant, Senator.

Perhaps you would have learned something or even had the opportunity to contribute to the discussion.


18 posted on 04/27/2017 4:07:41 PM PDT by proud American in Canada (May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
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To: McGavin999

Honeymoon in the Soviet Union during the Cold War ..... prime honeymoon location? Not


19 posted on 04/27/2017 4:10:00 PM PDT by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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When before has ANY professional politician wanted to miss a “photo op”????????

Most clamor and fight to get in front of a camera....


20 posted on 04/27/2017 4:10:07 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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