‘Our Patience Is Running Out’: White House Weighs In On Dispute Over Venezuela Election Results

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During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby was asked about the election in Venezuela.

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00:00about that.

00:01Okay.

00:02Thank you so much, Karine.

00:03Hi, John.

00:04On Venezuela, two questions.

00:06One about the call with President Lula yesterday.

00:09Did President Biden ask anything specific from the Brazilian president, any kind of

00:14help to moderate the situation in Venezuela?

00:18The President was grateful for the time with President Lula.

00:20They obviously talked about the electoral results in Venezuela and our concerns about

00:25where that's leading to.

00:27I won't go beyond the readout, though, in terms of specific asks.

00:31The President was grateful for President Lula's time.

00:33And another one, because as you were saying, the United States and other countries like

00:37Brazil are asking for the full release of the voting count.

00:42But three days later, as you were saying, the patience is running out.

00:44There is no indication that Maduro will release, give in to this international pressure and

00:50release the data.

00:51On the opposite, as you were saying, there is violence now.

00:54They're persecuting people, protesting against the results.

00:57So does the U.S. still believe that Maduro can be convinced to release this data?

01:05And how long is the U.S. willing to wait?

01:07What is the strategy?

01:08They need to release it.

01:10We've been calling for it.

01:11As I said, our patience is running out.

01:13Those electoral authorities, which obviously work for Mr. Maduro, they need to release

01:18the data, the tabulated data, so the world can see exactly what happened here.

01:23And we're going to continue to call for that.

01:24And as for consequences, I won't get ahead of policy decisions that haven't been made

01:28yet.

01:29Okay.

01:30Does the White House recognize that Edmund Gonzalez won the election?

01:34Again, we want to see the full tabulated data from the polling places.

01:38We want to see something that can be verifiable and can convince not only the United States

01:43but the international community about what the results actually were.

01:46Okay.

01:47A couple more.

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