Pool Reports by Geoff Earle, Daily Mail
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| November 29, 2023 10:30 MST |
Travel pool 1 — rolling Good morning from Denver. Pool has been swept and covid tested and loaded into vans. Motorcade is off to DEN en route to Pueblo. We are rolling at 10:28. |
| November 29, 2023 11:06 MST |
Travel pool 2 Motorcade arrived at the Denver airport at 10:55. En route pool learned there have been maintenance issues on the larger 747 that we took here. As a result we'll be traveling in a pair of smaller C-32s, the aircraft used when there is a small strip or for VP and flotus. Pool will be with POTUS on his. It's a short hop to Pueblo. POTUS is greeting people at a rope line. Traveling with the president, per the WH: Bruce Reed, Assistant to the President & Deputy Chief of Staff |
| November 29, 2023 11:18 MST |
Travel pool 3 POTUS greeted people in the rope line for several minutes. He snapped a selfie with a young girl in a wheel chair. Pool walked away while he was still greeting at 11:10. He posed for a photo with law enforcement on a bright sunny day. He boarded smaller AF1 using its available forward stairs. There was a slight stumble on the way up. Boarding. Correx on arrival time: that was about 11:05. From White House Official: A different aircraft will be utilized today, due to a maintenance issue on the VC-25 plane that was identified during a routine pre-flight inspection. |
| November 29, 2023 12:21 MST |
Travel pool 4 - landed AF1 was wheels down 11:53. Mike Donilon came down the back stairs and entered the Beast before potus came down. POTUS walked down the stairs at 12:15 after a delay. He descended the stairs and headed straight for the beast. That move ignored his greeters who were standing about 15 feet to his left. Something got his attention before he got in, and potus quickly turned around to greet the senator and mayor. He then chatted with them for several minutes. He got in the beast at 12:18, putting on his shades in the way in. Pool is getting into motorcade. Greeting the President upon arrival at Pueblo Memorial Airport: Senator John Hickenlooper (CO) |
| November 29, 2023 13:01 MST |
Travel pool 5 Motorcade drove by a few people with signs - "students first" and "la gente" - en route to the site. Another had a Trump flag. One said President Vitamin 2024. It's a rural area so there is considerable distance between each one. Closer to the site and a giant windmill were some Palestinian flags. "We demand a permanent ceasefire" and "resist Zionist occupation" were the signs. There are windmill blades and horizontal steel tower components arrayed outside. Motorcade arrived at 12:45. Wifi and signal is poor. |
| November 29, 2023 14:17 MST |
Travel pool 6 - factory tour, nuke joke POTUS got a factory tour inside a large warehouse. As he got the tour he peppered his guides with questions. "Why do you have to grind it?" he asked while speaking to a team of three. There is a big Bidenomics banner in the background. He asked questions about the size of windmill towers. He spoke about a long blade. "I actually could hold the end of it." Then he greeted Polis. "I always genuflect when I see the governor," he said. "Corey watch out that entire sucker starts coming back towards you," he shouted out at one point to a worker. While he was taking the tour workers started using power sanders of some sort on a huge panel of steel, with sparks visible in the shot. This makes it hard to hear. Then pool shifted to an area with giant rolls of steel. There are large US flags hanging inside the factory. There is distant jazz music coming from a faraway corner. Through piped audio we continued to hear his questions. "Look, is this a weld you guys do here?" "One more question. The sheets differ in length," Biden asked, prompting an answer about narrowing towers. "Hey Nick" Biden told a worker. Then he appeared to make a joke about the nuclear football. "My marine carries that - it has a code to blow up the world," potus said. "Eddie, I'm Joe" he said during one introduction. Remarks starting soon. The President is participating in a tour of CS Wind—the largest wind tower manufacturer in the world. At the first tour stop, the President will receive a briefing of the steel sheet conveyer belt used to construct wind towers. At the second stop, the President will receive an additional briefing on the welding process for wind tower construction. Tour Stop #1 Participants Tour Stop #2 Participants |
| November 29, 2023 14:22 MST |
Travel pool 7 - remarks end POTUS remarks began at 1:48 following introductions by Polis and Hickenlooper. There was no signal in there so reports are coming in now. There is "investing in America" and "Bidenomics" signage and a promoter onstage. Event was live-streamed. POTUS began by making an apology to the mayor for initially failing to greet him at the airport. "I ran right by," he said, saying he was running late. He stopped speaking at 2:12. Pool is in vans awaiting motorcade. Participating in a photoline with the President at CS Wind: Governor Jared Polis (CO) |
| November 29, 2023 14:52 MST |
Travel pool 8 - rolling Motorcade was rolling at 2:48. Pool did not see potus. We are en route to Pueblo Memorial Airport. |
| November 29, 2023 15:18 MST |
Travel pool 9 - potus speaks to pool Motorcade arrived at the Pueblo airport at 3:10. He came out of the beast at 3:13 and spoke briefly to pool about the freed Israeli American Liat Beinin. He said she is "safe in Egypt just across the border." He said he spoke to the mother and father. 'Things are moving well.' Said she "should be home soon." POTUS didn't respond to shouted questions about other American hostages. Boarding small AF1. Per WH: In attendance for the President's remarks are local elected officials, community leaders, and CS Wind America Inc. employees. Pre-Program Speaking Program |
| November 29, 2023 20:33 EST |
Travel pool 10 - JBA AF1 landed at JBA at 8:18 pm EDT. POTUS disembarked at 8:29. He wore an overcoat and had changed into sneakers. He didn't speak and got in the Beast. Note: pooler tweaked quotes on version distributed by the WH on Liat Beinin comments, with no signal onboard. Pls use that one, not version sent to group list. Good night all! Handing off to intown. Thanks to Tarini and other copoolers. |
Pool Reports below by S.V. Dáte, HuffPost
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| November 29, 2023 20:32 EST |
WH pool report 1 — motorcade to WH underway President Biden stepped into the waiting SUV at 2029 and two minutes later his motorcade is underway back toward the White House. |
| November 29, 2023 20:59 EST |
WH pool report 2 — return to WH The president's motorcade pulled into the South Lawn driveway at 2057 after an uneventful, 26-minute, 14-mile drive along the closed-off highways and roads. By the time the press vans came to a halt, he was already out of the Suburban and inside the White House. Pool was therefore unable to ask him why he's still so old. |
| November 29, 2023 21:04 EST |
WH pool report 3 -- lid At 2059 the White House press office declared a lid for the day. The opportunity to serve as your In-Town Print Pooler this next to last day of November has once again brought a small bit of joy. A la prochaine. |
Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Pool Reports of November 29, 2023 Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/368195