During a White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about President Biden's campaign rhetoric and if there would be a shift in tone following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
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00:00After the President paused his campaign events over the weekend, obviously he didn't go to
00:06Texas.
00:07Now he's heading to Las Vegas this afternoon.
00:08Can you give us a preview of what to expect?
00:09Are we anticipating a different tone out on the road than we're used to seeing with the
00:10President when he's out on the trail?
00:18So as I mentioned a couple times before, and as the President has said, we have differences
00:22in our agenda.
00:23We do.
00:25What we believe is very different than what Republicans believe in how we see the future
00:30of this country.
00:31And that is important to have differences.
00:34It is important.
00:35It is okay to have differences.
00:36And so we will, he will talk about each of those differences.
00:40It is crucial though, it is important that we bring the temperature down.
00:44That's what the President has said.
00:45That's what he wants to see.
00:47And you know, he's going to live through those values.
00:50And that's where you're going to see.
00:51Talk about his agenda, highlight his agenda.
00:54That's what you'll see in the next couple days.
00:55Go ahead, Jackie.
00:56Taking another stab at the question you've answered several different ways, but I guess
01:00more simply, are we going to continue to hear the President in official events or on the
01:05campaign trail use the phrase threat to democracy specifically?
01:10I want to be very clear.
01:12The President's always going to denounce violence, forcefully denounce it.
01:18He's always been against this throughout his career, throughout the last four years.
01:23We do not want to politicize this.
01:24It's unacceptable to do that.
01:27That's what the President has said.
01:28It is time to bring this country together, to bring American people together.
01:32That's what he wants to see.
01:33And so that's where I'm going to leave it.
01:35He wants to unite this country.
01:37And that is something that he's been saying since 2019.
01:39That can be really hard to do though, if you're trying to make a shift away from what has
01:44been the platform of this administration, of his campaign, in that the view is that
01:51Trump and the MAGA Republican agenda is a threat to democracy.
01:55So how do you get that message across while bringing the temperature down?
02:00How is that phrasing going to be replaced?
02:01Is it going to be replaced?
02:02Well, look, what I can say is this.
02:05We have our differences and it's okay to have our differences.
02:09And it is okay to speak to someone's record, to speak to someone's character.
02:17That is important to be able to do to show the American people what you're all about.
02:25We're just going to continue to denounce violence.
02:30It is important to do that, forcefully be against violence.
02:34Political violence has no place in America.
02:36It should not be.
02:38It does not have a place here.
02:39The President's going to continue to be very, very forceful about that.
02:43But we have a difference of agenda.
02:45That is the truth.
02:47That is the truth.
02:48And we're going to continue to speak to that difference and the President's going to highlight
02:51his agenda.
02:52Does the President view Trump's agenda as a threat to democracy?
02:56Look, what I will say is right now we're not going to politicize what happened on Saturday.
03:00What happened on Saturday was horrific.
03:02It was.
03:03It was sick, as the President said.
03:06And we got to move forward in the way that we respect each other, that we don't have
03:15this type of discourse.
03:17Can you bring us inside the room, though, in a way that you're asking to bring down
03:22the temperature and have people consider the language that they use in order to dial back
03:28where we're at?
03:29So how are those discussions going on inside?
03:31Is there reflecting on language that's been used?
03:34What example is the President setting for others?
03:37Well, I think the President has set an example on Saturday.
03:41No, but we can't also discount what's happened in the past three days, right?
03:46We can't discount what the President did on Saturday, right?
03:49We can't.
03:52He spoke to the former President.
03:55He was briefed by his team.
03:57He addressed the American people the same night, right?
04:01Came back to D.C.
04:03Yesterday, he had another briefing with his team.
04:08Right after that briefing, he went into the Roosevelt Room, spoke to the American people,
04:12and then used the Oval Office, one of the most important tools to use, important places
04:19to make a – to make an – to give an important address to the American people in prime time
04:26on a Sunday.
04:27I think that's important.
04:28He wanted to make sure that he – that the American people heard directly from him, from
04:35the President of the United States, and also wanted to lay out that we should be able to
04:40have differences.
04:42Violence shouldn't be a part of that, right?
04:44He wanted to lay that out and say we have to bring the temperature down.
04:49That was – I feel like those three moments that we've seen in the last three days shows
04:54how the President is moving forward.
04:56It does.
04:58And it is lowering the temperature, saying violence has no part in our democracy in America,
05:06and saying it is okay to have differences.
05:08He also said that.
05:09He also said it's okay to have differences.
05:11Go ahead, Annie.