That was not my intent and I expressed that to Sen. Biden also spoke to reporters in a conference call Wednesday afternoon and said the remark was taken out of context. He's new. He's smart. He's insightful. And I really regret that some have taken totally out of context my use of the world 'clean. Obama, in a brief off-camera interview in a Senate hallway, said he thinks Biden "didn't intend to offend" anyone. We have got more important things to worry about. We have got Iraq. We have got health care.
We have got energy. This is low on the list. Later on Wednesday, Obama, in a written statement, said "I didn't take Sen. Biden's comments personally, but obviously they were historically inaccurate. African-American presidential candidates like Jesse Jackson, Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton gave a voice to many important issues through their campaigns, and no one would call them inarticulate. Earlier in the day, Biden had officially filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to launch a presidential campaign.
To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. Update, August Mike Richards has stepped down as the host of Jeopardy! One day in the fall of , Mike Richards called Ken Jennings.
At the time, Jennings was nearly a decade removed from the game Jeopardy! Richards, meanwhile, was backstage at The Price Is Right , the show he had joined as a co—executive producer five years earlier, and where that May he had launched a podcast called The Randumb Show , which was promoted to listeners as a look behind the scenes at Price.
Before he called Jennings to record a segment on the podcast, Richards put a question to his cohost. Now, though, Richards has gotten on Jeopardy! Actress Mayim Bialik will host prime-time tournaments, but the nightly job belongs to Richards.
He alone will fill the role long held by Alex Trebek. Given that he also was a candidate to host The Price Is Right , it looks like Richards just wanted to host a game show, any game show. Concerns about Richards extend to the Jeopardy! Interviews with sources from Sony, Jeopardy! In recent weeks, questions about Richards have only intensified, with multiple lawsuits dating to his time as EP of The Price Is Right gaining attention after an early-August report that Richards was in advanced negotiations to secure the Jeopardy!
Richards was originally named as a defendant in one of those complaints , but was dismissed from the suit before it settled. One suit was filed in by Brandi Cochran, who worked as a model on the show. It centered on the discrimination and harassment she said she experienced after becoming pregnant. I fire five girls On August 9, Richards emailed a statement to the Jeopardy! Mike Richards sent the following statement to the Jeopardy! But the sources who spoke to The Ringer , who were granted anonymity out of concern for potential retaliation, depict a different reality.
In an episode published on September 4, , after the iCloud photo hack, which exposed intimate images of numerous female celebrities, Richards asked his assistant and his cohost—both much younger women—whether they had ever taken nude photos.
What are we looking at? Richards subsequently issued a statement to The Ringer. Looking back now, there is no excuse, of course, for the comments I made on this podcast and I am deeply sorry. The podcast was intended to be a series of irreverent conversations between longtime friends who had a history of joking around. Beijing has denied the report, saying it carried out a routine test of a space vehicle, not a missile. Hypersonic glide vehicles are launched from a rocket into the upper atmosphere before gliding to a target at speeds of more than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, about 6, kilometers per hour.
This is slower than a ballistic missile but no less dangerous because its speed allows for a lower, adjustable trajectory that makes tracking these missiles difficult. Austin said earlier this week that Washington was closely watching China's development of this advanced weapons system.
And on Monday, Robert Wood, U. On Wednesday, the U. Navy and Army tested hypersonic weapon component prototypes that the Pentagon called "successful. Analysts say that while China's space activities are certainly a cause for concern, they reflect an already ongoing arms race. Cooper noted the U. But the administration must now seriously consider the possibility of Chinese strikes on the American homeland in a military conflict, particularly at a time when China is also ramping up other capabilities such as conventional as well as nuclear-armed submarines and nuclear-capable bombers.
She added the Biden team believes bipartisan action is "possible, and we're not going to give up on that until it becomes evident that it's not possible. Speaking in Kentucky on Thursday, McConnell shifted his language slightly, saying he and Republicans need to work on moderating the Biden administration. McConnell added he remains hopeful "the administration will pivot to a more centrist position and that's where I'm spending my time and focus.
Meanwhile, 58 percent say they believe Biden is trying to work with congressional Republicans, compared to 42 percent who say they believe he is not. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who is leading the GOP infrastructure effort, spoke with Biden by phone last week and called the conversation "constructive and substantive," while the White House described it as "warm" and "friendly.
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