Karine Jean-Pierre Refuses To Responds To Mitt Romney Saying Biden Should’ve Pardoned Trump

4 months ago

During Thursday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) saying Biden should have pardoned Trump.

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00:00 >> The Press: Thank you, Bri.

00:01 Republican Senator Mitt Romney said in an interview overnight

00:05 that he believes that President Biden

00:06 should have pardoned his predecessor

00:10 from federal charges.

00:12 And Romney argued that it's now been a win-win for Trump

00:15 in his campaign and in his public profile

00:17 that he's been able to use these charges to his benefit.

00:21 >> Ms. Psaki: I'm not going to speak to pardons from here.

00:23 I'm just not, especially for a candidate for 2024 election.

00:28 I'm just not going to speak about it from here.

00:29 >> The Press: But the presidency is obviously

00:30 a presidential power.

00:31 >> Ms. Psaki: I'm just not going to speak about it from here.

00:33 Okay.

00:34 >> The Press: It's great. The Bureau of Labor Statistics

00:37 yesterday released inadvertently some CPI data

00:42 about 30 minutes before they were supposed to.

00:44 It came a month after it was demonstrated

00:47 that an economist had been talking to Wall Street firms,

00:50 and a couple years after,

00:53 there was some suspicious trading activity.

00:55 So I'm wondering what level of concern you guys have,

00:58 how confident you are in the BLS leadership,

01:01 and if you think there should be an outside investigation.

01:05 >> Ms. Psaki: And to your question,

01:06 it was an inadvertent leak yesterday by BLS,

01:10 and there was a statement that they put out,

01:11 BLS has alerted the Office of Management and Budget

01:14 and DOL's Office of the Inspector General of the Incident.

01:18 BLS takes its data seriously and security, obviously, seriously,

01:22 and is conducting a full investigation

01:25 into its procedures and controls

01:26 to ensure the incident is not repeated.

01:30 BLS can obviously speak more into their investigation.

01:33 We have the President, we have confidence

01:35 that this will get done.

Karine Jean-Pierre Refuses To Responds To Mitt Romney Saying Biden Should’ve Pardoned Trump

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