By: Rebecca Downs
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/
Katie reported last month that White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki planned to make her exit in in about a year's time. She's already changed her tune, though, as indicated by remarks she made during a conference held by The Financial Times.
FT's editor Roula Khalaf during a Thursday closing keynote speech brought up Psaki's own remarks that she planned to stay for a year or about that, and asked if that was still the case in her closing question for Psaki.
>>"I am far from I think this has been a little bungled out there walking out the door on day, 365 at all. And I have flexibility and I can stay longer and likely will stay longer," she answered. "But I think being a part of this period of time, lifting up future people, and also remembering for myself that I have little kids and I don't want to miss moments are all factors for me even though this is an incredible job and an incredible place to be a part of."
Last month, however, Psaki had told David Axelrod during an interview for "The Axe Files" that timeline.
>>"When I talked to the inner circle of the Biden orbit about this, we talked about coming in and doing this job for a year and which was quite appealing to me for many reasons," she said. "I think it’s going to be time for somebody else to have this job, in a year from now or about a year from now."
Perhaps the biggest takeaway, though, from this more recent Thursday interview, is how much President Joe Biden is handled by his staff. Psaki took something of an issue with Khalaf pointing out that Biden took so long before he had his first press conference, calling it "what's funny."
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