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Symone Sanders-Townsend confirms he still watches, and she stands by her Hasan Piker interview
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Symone Sanders-Townsend dealt with White House reporters for years as Vice President Kamala Harris’s chief spokesperson.
Key facts
- Piker, who has 3.1 million Twitch followers, has campaigned with Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, who called Piker’s past remark that the U.S. deserved the 9/11 attacks “a dumb
- Fox News stood with CNN in 2018, too, after the White House barred CNN’s Kaitlan Collins from an event
- On Sept. 16, streamer Hasan Piker made his first MS NOW appearance on the show, and the two had an exchange that went viral
- On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered their access restored for 14 days, finding the ban was likely unconstitutional
Summary
“There were definitely times where I’m like, ‘Oh, so and so is in the pool today. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly ordered their access restored for 14 days, finding the ban was likely unconstitutional. “There is a difference between rights on paper and rights in practice,” Sanders-Townsend said, referencing examples like the constitutional amendments that came after the Civil War to protect Black Americans. “This is a White House and this is an administration where retribution is a feature, not a bug,” she said.