Reporter Continues To Grill Karine Jean-Pierre On Biden’s Motivation Behind Leaving The Race

3 months ago

During Thursday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about President Biden’s motivation behind leaving the race and his goals for Supreme Court reform.

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00:00And again, today, you insisted that the president

00:02didn't make this decision because of a medical condition.

00:04It wasn't about his health.

00:06Yesterday, you said that he couldn't finish a second term

00:08if he won one.

00:11So was this decision to step out of the race

00:13just a political calculus?

00:14He just didn't think he could beat Trump.

00:16I don't have anything else to add

00:17to what the president said himself last night,

00:19to what he penned and released to the American people on Sunday.

00:22Don't have anything more to add to that.

00:24He wanted to unite the country.

00:26He wanted to pass the torch.

00:28He felt, after 50-plus years of public service,

00:31the time was to do just that.

00:33I don't have anything else to add.

00:35Do you have anything to add on what

00:36he teased about proposing reform of the Supreme Court?

00:39So that is something, certainly, that the president

00:43would talk to more about in the upcoming weeks,

00:47just for folks who may have missed that.

00:49He said last night, he said, I'm going

00:51to call for Supreme Court reform because this

00:53is critical to our democracy, Supreme Court reform.

00:56And I answered this question, this part,

00:58I said this part of to a question yesterday.

01:01He believes if you are serving in high office,

01:05you should be held to transparency, accountability,

01:09and you should be held to a high ethics.

01:11That's what the president believes.

01:12I'm certainly not going to get ahead of the president,

01:15and he will have more to share with all of you soon.

01:17I can't time him.

01:18Just, I don't know.

Reporter Continues To Grill Karine Jean-Pierre On Biden’s Motivation Behind Leaving The Race

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