‘Leaders Have Expressed Concern’: Jean-Pierre Pressed On International Calls For Biden To Step Down

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During a press briefing on Friday, White Hosue Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre answered reporter questions on the leader of Poland's calls for President Biden to step down.

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00:00Some of the NATO leaders have expressed concern about the president.

00:07Some of the NATO leaders have expressed concerns about the president.

00:12The leader of Poland, for example, has said he believes the president should step down.

00:16Of course, Poland is a country that has particularly high stakes in the continuation and the strength

00:23of NATO.

00:24All right.

00:25So a couple of things.

00:26Look, I'm going to let world leaders speak for themselves.

00:32And I've shared this before, and I've said moments ago, he's had – world leaders have

00:36seen him, obviously, in action.

00:37He's had personal engagement with them.

00:38You have German Chancellor Schulz, who said, I think that Joe Biden is someone who is very

00:46clear, who knows exactly what he is doing, and who is one of the most experienced politicians

00:51in the world, especially when it comes to international politics.

00:54I've had the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu.

00:56I've had more than a dozen phone conversations, extended phone conversations with President

01:01Biden.

01:02He also came on a visit to Israel during wartime, which is a historic first, and I found him

01:06very clear and very focused.

01:08Look, again, he's made the alliance much stronger, and that's because of what this president

01:15has been able to do.

01:16I'll give you one more.

01:17Brett Merger recently did an interview about the five-hour stretches the president spent

01:22in the Situation Room with – that he spent in the Situation Room with the president,

01:26seeing his judgment on full display, handing incredibly difficult situations.

01:31So – and you've heard from the chair of Joint Chiefs, Mark Milley, who spent hours

01:35with President Biden every week to speak to his – to speak to last year when he retired,

01:40saying – engage with him frequently and alert sound, does his homework, reads the

01:45papers, reads all the read-ahead material, and is very, very engaged in issues of every

01:51kind, serious matters of war and peace and life and death.

01:54That's what I've experienced.

01:55That's what many of my colleagues have experienced.

01:57And this is what also world leaders have experienced themselves in those personal engagements.

02:01I think the concern is that for a lot of these leaders, they hadn't seen him in a while,

02:09so when they saw him before versus when they saw him recently, there was a big change.

02:14Hold on a second.

02:16G7 world leaders were there.

02:17He engaged with them.

02:19He interacted with them.

02:20Normandy, there were world leaders who were there.

02:23He engaged with them.

02:24He interacted with them.

02:25And so he has seen world leaders.

02:27He has engaged with them.

02:28And so now he'll get to do that again at the NATO summit.

02:32And so he's looking – the President's looking forward to doing that.

02:35I think it's going to be an important moment for all of us.

02:38And I mean, look, guys, we are stronger and have stronger relationship with our partners

02:44and allies because of what this President did.

02:46And with age brings experience and wisdom.

02:50And that's what we have seen with this President, because he was a senator for 36 years, because

02:55he was vice president for eight years.

02:56And I think that matters.

02:58That wisdom and that experience that the President has brought has been important and an important

03:02factor as we talk about world leaders and what he's been able to do.

‘Leaders Have Expressed Concern’: Jean-Pierre Pressed On International Calls For Biden To Step Down

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