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LISTEN: Susan Rice Talks About Potential Role in Biden Administration

April Ryan
August 21, 2020

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Now Joe Biden has accepted the Democratic party’s nomination for president, there is an active effort under way to build the administration for Biden if he is elected as the 46th president of the United States.

White House Correspondent April Ryan talked with former Susan Rice, former US Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Adviser to President Obama, about what potential role she could play in the Biden administration.

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I’m proud to endorse @JoeBiden for President.

Here he is comforting me on 1/4/17 just after my mother passed away. There is no one kinder, more empathetic and caring than @joebiden. He will lead America with the same deep compassion and decency. pic.twitter.com/4IBscj75VN
— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) March 2, 2020

FILE – In this April 5, 2016, file photo President Barack Obama looks to Vice President Joe Biden, left, as National Security Adviser Susan Rice, sits right, before he speaks to media during a meeting with Combatant Commanders and Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is in the final stages of selecting his running mate. Among the contenders is Susan Rice, who worked closely with Biden in the Obama administration and regularly briefed him on pressing foreign policy matters when she served as national security adviser. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

April Ryan has a unique vantage point as the only Black female reporter covering urban issues from the White House, a position she has held with AURN since the Clinton era. Her position as a White House Correspondent has afforded her heightened insight into the racial sensitivities, issues, and attendant political struggles of our nation. April has written three books; The Presidency in Black & White: My Close-Up View of Three Presidents and Race in America, At Mama's Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White, and Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House. Twitter: @aprildryan