Fact check: White House national security adviser misleadingly describes pipeline company as 'not Russian'
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Last Sunday, CNN "State of the Union" co-anchor Dana Bash pressed White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on the Biden administration's approach to Nord Stream 2, a controversial and nearly completed pipeline that will carry natural gas from Russia to Germany via the Baltic Sea.
Bash said to Sullivan that President Joe Biden had "decided not to impose sanctions" over the pipeline. After Bash quoted a Republican's criticism of Biden's handling of the issue, she asked: "Why are you giving in to Russia on this pipeline?" Sullivan responded, correctly, that Biden has "sanctioned several Russian entities" in relation to the pipeline; he said Bash's question involved a "misunderstanding." But then Sullivan made a claim that has drawn criticism from Republican lawmakers.President Joe Biden on Sunday delivers his first commencement address of the 2024 season at Morehouse College, where the president may for the first time in months have to confront the angst that’s been percolating on college campuses nationwide toward his administration’s policies on the Israel-Hamas war.
Arab and Palestinian Americans left a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday night frustrated they did not have a clear understanding of how the Biden administration might act upon their concerns as the Israel-Hamas war devastates the civilian population in Gaza, participants told CNN.