'If He's Awake...': Karine Jean-Pierre Calls Out Reporter After Remark About The President

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At a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre spoke about a comment from a reporter on President Biden.

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00:00Does the President have a duty to review data, like polling information that's coming in,

00:06donor information, the fears and concerns or anxieties expressed by Democrats?

00:11Does he have a duty to review what's happening now?

00:14When you say a duty, can you say more about the duty piece?

00:18You're saying that he's absolutely running.

00:19Yeah.

00:20Well, he's saying that, and I'm sharing with you his view.

00:25And we would invite the President to come here and tell us that directly.

00:28Noted.

00:30But he's awake.

00:32That's inappropriate.

00:33As you heard from your colleague, the President of the WHA, that's inappropriate.

00:37Thank you, Kelly.

00:40My question is, information is coming in and assessment is happening within the party.

00:44Does he have a duty to review that?

00:46Has he closed the door on reviewing the data?

00:50So I'm going to be really mindful, because obviously you're asking me about campaign

00:54numbers and data that's coming in.

00:57And look, what I will note is that this is a President that looks at everything, takes

01:04in all the information.

01:05It's important to him to do so.

01:07I don't want to get into hypotheticals here.

01:10That's not what I'm here to do.

01:12What I can say is, in this moment, we move forward on building on this unprecedented

01:17record that the President has been able to lay out for the American people.

01:21And that's going to be our focus.

01:22I don't want to get into hypotheticals.

01:24I don't want to get ahead into anything else.

01:27It doesn't sound like closing the door to reviewing this over a period of time.

01:31What I can say is the President is moving forward.

01:34He's moving forward as being President.

01:36He's moving forward with his campaign, as his campaign has been very, very clear about

01:40that.

01:41That's what I can speak to, and that's what I can say.

01:45And that is the President's focus.

01:47The President's focus is, how does he continue to do that work?

01:51And anything else that we're hearing or that's being reported is absolutely false.

01:55Is the President telling people he's evaluating the race?

01:59Absolutely false.

02:00That is absolutely false.

02:01I saw that reporting.

02:02We were not given enough time to get back to that reporting, just a couple of minutes.

02:07And we asked the President.

02:08The President responded directly when asked about this question, because we said that

02:13we would.

02:14And the President said, no, it is absolutely false.

02:17That's coming directly from him.

02:19What steps would the President be taking, or would you as a team plan to try to prevent

02:26another episode in public that would be deemed worrisome?

02:29I would not call it an episode.

02:31I would call it, we had a bad night, right?

02:36It was not his best night.

02:38He had a cold.

02:39He was jet lagged.

02:41You heard directly from the President about this.

02:44And when we get knocked down, when he gets knocked down, he gets right back up.

02:49And that's what I would focus on, the President continuing to be very steady and continuing

02:55to work for the American people.

'If He's Awake...': Karine Jean-Pierre Calls Out Reporter After Remark About The President

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