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WATCH: Biden swats down Fox News’ Peter Doocy for calling China’s leader his ‘old friend’
June 16, 2021
President Joe Biden snapped at Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy on Wednesday during a press conference regarding his summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
"You have spoken many times about how you have spent perhaps more time with President Xi than any other world leader," Doocy said. "Is there going to become a time where you might called him, old friend to old friend, and ask him to open up China to the World Health Organization investigators who are trying to get to the bottom of COVID-19?"
"Let's get something straight," Biden shot back. "We know each other well -- we're not old friends. It's just pure business."
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Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday criticized President Joe Biden because he "nodded" when a nearby reporter asked a question about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The so-called nod came after a reporter in a busy room asked if Biden trusts Putin.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki addressed the issue after it became a hot topic among conservative pundits.
"During a chaotic free-for-all with members of the press shouting questions over each other, the president gave a general head nod in the direction of the media," Psaki explained. "He wasn't responding to any question or anything other than the chaos."
Later on Fox News, McEnany asked former Secretary Mike Pompeo about Biden's head movement.
"What we saw 48 hours ago was Biden evolve his language from calling Putin a killer to -- quote -- a worthy adversary and calling him right," McEnany said. "Not only that. This morning, what happened, Jen Psaki had to come out and do some clean-up on aisle five because President Biden, a question was asked of him, do you trust Putin? He nodded."
"Jen Psaki came out and said it was just a general nod," she added. "But the reporter is disputing that, saying, he looked me directly in the eyes and nodded that he trusted Putin ahead of this high stakes meeting."
Pompeo threw cold water on the suggestion that the nod was meaningful.
"Kayleigh, it's hard to know what the nod was," Pompeo said. "I assume he doesn't trust the Russians. I'll give him that much."
McEnany failed to note that former President Donald Trump said that he trusted Putin over the U.S. intelligence community while meeting with the Russian president in 2018.
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Royal Caribbean is pushing back the maiden voyage of a new ship by a month after eight crew members tested positive for Covid-19, the company's chief executive said.
"Two steps forward and one step back!" Chief Executive Michael Bayley said in a Facebook post Tuesday night that announced the delay for the inaugural trip of "Odyssey of the Seas."
"During routine testing, eight crew members received a positive test result for Covid-19," Bayley said.
"The eight crew members, six of whom were asymptomatic and two with mild symptoms, were quarantined and are being closely monitored by our medical team."
All 1,400 crew members were vaccinated on June 4 and will be considered fully vaccinated on June 18.
The test results came after the staff was vaccinated but before the shots were fully effective, Bayley said.
The Odyssey voyage, is now set to depart from Port Everglades, Florida on July 31 instead of July 3.
The delay comes just days after Royal Caribbean's Celebrity Millennium trip had two cases of Covid-19.
The trip, which had departed from the Caribbean island of St. Maarten on June 5, was the first by a major cruise ship to depart North America since the pandemic.
Everyone on the cruise had been vaccinated, including all crew, the company said.
Celebrity Edge, another Royal Caribbean ship, is scheduled to undertake the first major voyage from an American port since the pandemic on June 6 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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