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White House insists Dem leader Hakeem Jeffries didn’t pick up the phone to be alerted about Iran strikes The White House on Monday insisted it called Dem House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries to give him a heads-up about the airstrikes in Iran — but said he didn’t pick up the phone. “First of all, we did make bipartisan calls,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told “Fox & Friends” — pushing back on what she called “fake news” reports that Democrats weren’t given advance notice about the attacks while also contending the administration wasn’t “obligated” to do so. “The White House made calls to congressional leadership. They were bipartisan calls. In fact, Hakeem Jeffries couldn’t be reached,” Leavitt said of the New York pol. She said a CNN report that claimed “the White House did not give a head’s up to Democrats is just completely false.” 3 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said there were false reports that Democrats weren’t given the heads-up about the strikes. REUTERS A source familiar with Jeffries’ situation told The Post his office “received a … no-details notification” similar to what other Dems were given shortly before the strikes were announced. The source said the notification came on an unsecure line and that Jeffries did not get key details or a fuller classified briefing about the strikes before they occurred. The pol’s office did not respond to
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