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During a press briefing on Tuesday, State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce answered a question about the murder of a journalist in Gaza.
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00:00We're moving on. Go ahead, Tom.
00:02I mean, you've said on the killing of these journalists that you refer us to the government of Israel.
00:07Yes.
00:08I mean, this is one of the worst, if not the worst, single attack on journalists in modern history, this particular incident on Sunday.
00:16As of all the journalists being killed, probably many of them by American weapons that are supplied by the U.S. package.
00:21Well, let's not. I'm sorry. I respect you enough to know, to not project something that serious and saying probably.
00:28So the vast majority of weapons that are used have been supplied by the United States, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayers.
00:36So there is a very strong accountability issue for the American government.
00:40So on this instance, has there been any internal process to look at what happened and to see whether it was within the laws of war?
00:49Well, obviously, there's many internal processes.
00:52I'm discussing with you a suggestion about who to reach out to, who has the answers for you.
00:57And that is due to the fact that more than aware, of course, there's internal processes, which I will not be discussing with you because of the nature of them
01:04and the importance of the diplomatic work that is continuing to this day to stop that that carnage.
01:11Is there an internal process on this particular incident?
01:15I am not going to discuss the details for you.
01:17I'm not going to do that.
01:19And I think, you know, and I appreciate you need to ask the question.
01:22But we're in the midst of not just any conflict, but one that we have stood by and worked on and spoken and dealt with everyone from the beginning of this administration
01:34to stop special envoys, the president, the secretary, food aid, the coverage, my comments here from the podium.
01:43Yes, I mean, it's clearly something that the Trump administration has spoken with about directly.
01:50It is clearly a major consideration for this administration.
01:54That has not stopped.
01:55And it is not something any of us asked for, let alone the Gazan people.
02:01But, yes, we're we're working on and dealing with, well, many things that might not be.
02:07Just on the human rights report, just a quick question.
02:09You talked about new issues, you know, new areas of concern for the administration, one of which is censorship.
02:16On the UK and on countries in Europe, this has been a big theme in the report.
02:19You talk about censorship of ordinary Britons becoming increasingly routine in the last year.
02:24And one of the cases relates to the killing of three young girls when there was an online speculation, which was false, that it was carried out by an asylum seeker.
02:33There was then very serious incitement of violence against asylum seekers in the UK, leading to very, very violent incidents.
02:42And people were prosecuted for that.
02:43It's a criminal offence to incite violence and racial hatred in the UK.
02:48Your report seems to be suggesting that it's a human right for people to have the freedom to carry out this incitement on American social media platforms.
02:57Is that what is a new principle in this report?
03:00I would ask everyone to go and read the reports for themselves and come to their own conclusion about the nature of where we stand.
03:08We've been very vocal about the issue of censorship, people being able to speak their mind.
03:13But it also can't be distilled into a couple of sentences that project a particular political point of view.
03:23I say, for context, read the reports yourselves.
03:28All right.
03:29And now.
03:29Yes.

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