Pool Reports of September 12, 2022

In town pool report #1

There has been a bad weather call and the President will now motorcade to JBA.this morning and to the White House upon the return this evening.

In town pool report 2

Motorcade departed White House at 9:39 a.m.

In town pool report 3

Motorcade arrived at Andrews at 10 a.m. after uneventful drive. Hand off to out of town pool.

In town pol report 4

Gaggle expected to start around 10:40 on plane

In town pool report 5

Motorcade from Andrews enroute to White House at 9:13.

In town pool report 6

Motorcade back at White House at 9:37.

Lid

A lid was called at 9:42.

Travel pool report #1 - good morning from JBA

Good morning from Joint Base Andrews, where it is 74 and cloudy.

Packed sked for Boston today, including gaggle en route, which will be audible here at around 10:30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv829X_HfXc&feature=youtu.be

Only change is bad weather call, so POTUS now motorcading to and from JBA.

10:00 AM THE PRESIDENT departs Joint Base Andrews en route Boston, Massachusetts
Joint Base Andrews
Out-of-Town Pool

11:20 AM THE PRESIDENT arrives in Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts
Open Press

12:45 PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks highlighting how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is already underway and delivering tangible results for communities across the country
Boston Logan International Airport's Terminal E, Boston, Massachusetts
Open Press

1:30 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Boston Logan International Airport en route John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Boston Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts
Open Press

4:00 PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks on the Cancer Moonshot and the goal of ending cancer as we know it
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
Pre-Credentialed Media and Pooled for TV

6:00 PM THE PRESIDENT participates in a reception for the Democratic National Committee
Boston, Massachusetts
Restricted Out-of-Town Pool

7:10 PM THE PRESIDENT departs Boston, Massachusetts en route Joint Base Andrews
Boston Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts
Open Press

8:35 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives at Joint Base Andrews
Joint Base Andrews
Out-of-Town Pool

9:05 PM THE PRESIDENT arrives at the White House
South Grounds
Out-of-Town Pool

Briefing Schedule

Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will gaggle aboard Air Force One en route Boston, Massachusetts

Travel pool report #4- AF1

AF1 took off en route Boston at 10:14 am

Travel pool report 5- AF1 lands Boston

AF1 landed Boston's Logan Airport at 11:15 am.

Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre gaggled about 20 minutes, live-streamed. Topics included: Ukraine counteroffensive, Queen's funeral, cancer moonshot.

Travel pool report 6- Logan Airport

Potus emerged from AF1 at 11:25, went straight into Beast. Motorcade rolled at 11:28 to airport

event. Local slammed door to our van one-handed/ with Dunkin' iced coffee in other. Very Boston.

From press offfice:

Traveling with the President on Air Force One to Boston, Massachusetts:

Bruce Reed, Assistant to the President & Deputy Chief of Staff
Annie Tomasini, Assistant to the President & Director of Oval Office Operations
Kate Bedingfield, Assistant to the President & Director of Communications

Karine Jean-Pierre, Assistant to the President & Press Secretary
Vinay Reddy, Deputy Assistant to the President & Director of Speechwriting
Travis Dredd, Special Assistant to the President & Trip Director
Jonathan Black, Special Assistant to the President & Senate Legislative Affairs Liaison
Carla Frank, Special Assistant to the President & Director of Strategic Planning
Kimi Gahan, Special Assistant to the President & Principal Dep. NSC Legal Advisor & Assoc. Counsel
Mitch Landrieu, Senior Advisor & Infrastructure Act Implementation Coordinator
Danielle Carnival, White House Cancer Moonshot Coordinator
Ryan Berni, Senior Advisor for Infrastructure Implementation

Travel pool report 7- infrastructure event pre-program

Motorcade arrived at Logan Airport Terminal E at 11:35 am for infrastructure event, taking place in the terminal's unfinished extension.

Lots of "pre-program" before POTUS speaks, skedded for 12:45. Pre-program speakers include Mass. Democratic Reps. Katherine Clark and Ayanna Pressley.

POTUS remarks will be livestreamed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvxagnzZtM

Travel pool report 8 - photo line w/POTUS

Participating in a photo line with the President:

Charlie Baker, Governor of MA
Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator (MA)
Ed Markey, U.S. Senator (MA)
Lori Trahan, U.S. Congresswoman (MA-3)
Jake Auchincloss, U.S. Congressman (MA-4)
Katherine Clark, U.S. Congressman (MA-5)
Seth Moulton, U.S. Congressman (MA-6)
Ayanna Pressley, U.S. Congresswoman (MA-7)
Stephen Lynch, U.S. Congressman (MA-8)
Bill Keating, U.S. Congressman (MA-9)
Michelle Wu, Mayor of Boston
Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, Chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah
Karen Spilka, MA Senate President
Lydia Edwards, Massachusetts State Senator
Brendan Crighton, Massachusetts State Senator

Travel pool report 9 - pre-program speakers

Pre-Program leading up to the President's remarks:

Massport CEO Lisa Wieland
Senator Ed Markey
Senator Elizabeth Warren
Governor Charlie Baker
(Break)
Jenaya Nelson, Laborers' Union Local 223 Member
The President

Travel pool report 10 - biden takes stage

POTUS took stage at 12:21 pm.

Livestream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvxagnzZtM

Travel pool report 11 - Biden infra remarks end

POTUS spoke of the dignity of work. Reminisced about the late Sen. Teddy Kennedy, who campaigned for Biden when he ran for Senate the first time. Quotes Kennedy: "I like Joe Biden a lot.. problem is, I think he's a little too young." POTUS chuckles that the WSJ went with the "too young" line.

Logan "needs an upgrade in support of international trade." Terminal E services international flights. Today, 4 times as many passengers come thru this terminal as when it first opened 50 years ago. ... This project will create 5,900 jobs, he says.

"We'll have a first-class airport here in very short order." Today, not a single US airport ranks in the top 25 in the world, he says. "What in the hell is the matter with us?"

"Folks in China think we're a spent economy". Now, US is investing $25 billion to modify airports.

Previews remarks on cancer moonshot, how we need to "think big." "Folks, we've got to remember who we are ... this is the United States of America"

POTUS remarks ended at 12:44 pm.

Audience numbers in the hundreds, have asked press office for info on who was invited to attend. Workers are lined up along the balcony above.

Travel pool report 12 - Motorcade rolling

After remarks, Potus worked rope line of attendees, out of sight of pool.

We are now back in motorcade, rolling at 1:06p

Travel pool report 13- arrival at JFK Library + Logan attendees

Motorcade arrived at the John F Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum at 1:23p after an uneventful ride. The library/museum is located at Columbia Point in Dorchester, a neighborhood in Boston.

As we arrived, several dozen people were gathered in the plaza outside the library, with several tables set with table cloths.

Pool now holding/having lunch in a room overlooking Boston Harbor.

Re the Logan Airport event, from press office:

In attendance for the President's remarks:

Unions who are connected to the Airport and will benefit from the expansion. They include unions members from:

SEIU 32BJ

Unite Here Local 26

Boilermakers Local 29

Bricklayers Local 3

Electricians IBEW Local 103

Elevator Constructors Local 4

Heat & Frost Insulators Local 6

Iron Workers Local 7

Laborers Local 22

Laborers Local 88 (Tunnel Workers)

Laborers Local 151

Laborers Local 223

Laborers Local 1421 (Building Wreckers)

Operating Engineers Local 4

Painters and Allied Trades DC 35

Plasterers and Cement Masons 537

Pipe Fitters Local 537

Plumbers Local 12

Roofers Local 33

Sheet Metal Workers Local 17

Sprinkler Fitters Local 550

Teamsters Local 25

Travel pool report 14 - Maura Healey at Kennedy Library

From press office:

Participating in a photo line with the President at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum:

Maura Healey, Attorney General of Massachusetts

Travel pool report 15- run of show

Suddenly, we've gone from running ahead to running behind. Guests have just been instructed to take their seats. Spotted: Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, David Letterman, Edwin Schlossberg, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.

From the press office -
Run of show for the President's Remarks at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum:
Jack Schlossberg
Sheetal Acharya
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy
The President

Travel pool report 16 - Cancer moonshot/Biden speaking soon

Reminder - POTUS remarks can be viewed on livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syh_PAeRMyw

From press office:

2 mins will be in the middle of Ambassador Kennedy's remarks.

Additionally, here is a biography for one of the speakers.

Sheetal Acharya
Sheetal is the Director of Operations, Global Transformation Office for National Grid. In 2020 during a routine mammogram, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After 2 years, she has been determined to be cancer free. Recently, she was selected as India New England Women of the Year for 2022. She speaks about how to continue living while being treated for breast cancer. She provides an example of the hope we have for so many cancers – that a diagnosis isn't a death sentence, that we can get people back to their lives. Ms. Acharya received her MBA from Babson College and her Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She and her husband, Nish, have 2 sons who are 14 and 10.

Travel pool report 17 - POTUS remarks begin

POTUS got a rousing standing ovation - and lots of raised phones for pix - as he took the stage around 4:26 with Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, and was announced via the overhead speaker.

POTUS began to speak at 4:33

Travel pool report 18 - POTUS remarks end

POTUS's voice boomed out in the echoey space of the Kennedy Library as he spoke. Remarks ended at 4:58 pm to another standing ovation. POTUS then stepped off the stage with Carolina Kennedy, her son Jack Schlossberg, and a few others, and walked over to greet audience members.

A few quotes, please check against transcript:

"The cancer moonshot is one of the reasons why I ran for president"

"Beating cancer is something we can do together, and that's why I'm here today."

Calls his plan "bold, ambitious, and completely doable". Goal is to turn cancer from a death sentence to a chronic disease.... Has formed a new cancer cabinet.

"Today I'm setting a long-term goal for a cancer moonshot to rally American ingenuity, just as we did to reach the moon."

Speaks of vaccines to prevent cancer, as we have with HPV. "And the amazing potential of ARPA-H." (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health)

Introduces the agency's new director, Dr. Renee Wegrzyn.

"There's nothing, nothing beyond our capacity if we work together as the Untied States of America."

Travel pool report 19 - motorcade rolling

Motorcade departed the Kennedy Library at 5:29 pm, en route next event, a DNC fundraiser.

Travel pool report 20- motorcade arrives

Motorcade arrived our next destination at 5:44 after wending our way thru the streets of Boston. Ride was uneventful, lots of onlookers, no signs sighted. We are at an apartment building for a DNC event, pencils only, no cameras.

More TK

Travel pool report 21- DNC fundraiser

At 6:30 pm, Pool was ushered into private apartment (on Boylston Street, building fronts on Boston Common) where DNC event is taking place. Potus had been mingling with guests before we were allowed in.

Potus entered the living room to applause at 6:32p. There are about 3 dozen guests here, eating hors d'oeuvres and having drinks.

After introduction from the host, Potus began to speak at 6:35p.

Host is Jonathan Lavine, wife is Jeannie.

Biden: "Folks, I am optimistic"

Quotes from Otter transcript (there will be an official transcript later):

"I genuinely am more optimistic about the prospects for America. not because I'm President, because of the nature of where we are as a country"

"I really think that inflection points are times when you're going to look back, as I said, 10 years from now and say, they either did it or they didn't do it. they have changed direction for the country and improved it, or they lost the opportunity. And when I talk about democracy, it's not just in the United States around the world. The good news and bad news is around so darn long, I know every one of these heads of state, and I've known as well."

Talks about decision to run - after Charlottesville. Was still reluctant to run, because he knew how ugly it would be.

Talks about the family meeting he had 4 years ago on his decision to run.

"And here's the deal. You know, we're now in a situation where less than 60 days from the midterms…

"It's about the right to choose the right to privacy. It's about weather so security revealed to be faithful or whether or not it's going to be something every year that comes up on the ballot and has to be voted on again. That's the Republican platform so far in writing. It's about the safety of kids in school violence instead of dealing with reading and writing rip and take learn how to duck and cover It's about the survival of the planet. literally not figuratively, in terms of environment. it's about the right to vote, and truly like democracy itself. And I don't think that's hyperbole. It's about democracy itself."

Talks about American Rescue Plan -"that's what kept things moving". Then talks infrastructure plan.

"I mean, there's just a range of things we can do. We used to invest over 2% of our GDP on research and development. We don't we invest less than seven tenths of 1%. Now the rest of the world is moving. You know we the chips and science law. You know, the reason why inflation was so high last year was the cost of automobiles. why? because there weren't the country or chips to build."

"The price of gas is down a dollar 30 a gallon and has gone down every single month since the beginning of the year."

"I want to codify Roe v Wade. If we lose this off year election, you're going to have an effort to codify the Supreme Court decision. Eliminate roe totally state issue now if they do that, as long as I'm President, I will detail that I want to codify that's a gigantic issue. And Mark my words you're gonna see move on other privacy issues from contraceptions to married a whole range of things. In addition to that Republicans did put out a plan And and I read a copy I forgot to put here but look it up online. Rick Scott, the senator from Florida who heads up the Senate campaign committee, He wants to sunset social security medicare every single year."

"We need to control the House and the Senate to win the race up and down the ticket. ….vast majority of voters aren't MAGA republicans."

"if we lose the house or lose the Senate, is going to be a really difficult two years. I'll be spending more time in the veto, being able to get anything done."

"And the other reason why I'm optimistic and with this, is that, you know, if you take a look at the younger generation, the 18 to 30 year Olds the most open is the least prejudice is the most forward regeneration of volunteers."

"This generation coming up, is the single most engaged generation"

Pool ushered out at 6:57 pm. Potus stayed to take questions. Pool now holding on sidewalk near vans in unseasonably balmy weather.

Travel pool report 22- motorcading rolling

Motorcade rolling for Logan Airport at 7:34 pm

Travel pool report 23- arrived Logan Airport

Motorcade arrived Logan Airport at 7:44 pm. Pool did not see Potus enter AF1.

Also, just to close the loop on the fundraiser: it was hosted by Jonathan Lavine, co-managing partner of Bain Capital.

Travel pool report 24- rolling for JBA

AF1 is rolling at 7:52 pm.

Travel pool report 25- JBA arrival

Air Force One landed JBA at 9:00 pm. Potus emerged from the plane at 9:10pm, chatted a bit w greeter, then got into the Beast.

That's it for the out of town pool. Thank you to co-pooler Cleve Wootson of WashPost for the help and good cheer.

Handing off to in-town pool, here in the motorcade.