CBS’s Ed O’Keefe: “When you’re standing there at the White House lectern, you are White House press secretary speaking on behalf of the President conveying his thoughts and views of the administration. And it’s for that reason that you said on his behalf all those times that he had no plans to do what he did on Sunday. Has he expressed any regret to you directly personally for having put you in this position —”
KJP: “You know —”
O’Keefe: “— and now having to go back?”
KJP: “— uh — look, I understand this question, and you started off, I think the way you started off, the question is basically how I feel, right? And I think all of us who work in this administration. I worked for the President. I speak for the president. I — uh — I comment on behalf of what he feels and thinks, and that’s my job. That’s my job as the press secretary, the White House press secretary, the person who speaks on behalf of the President of the United States and that’s how I feel. I feel like it’s my —”
CBS’s Ed O’Keefe: “But did he apologize to you?”
KJP: “Look, there’s no apol — apology needed — maybe to answer that question. No apology needed. What I will say is — um — this is a President — you’ve heard me talk about the legal experts, what they have say — said, how they agreed with the president — um — in taking this action — uh — you’ve heard me say that over and over again. I’ve laid out quotes from different U.S. attorneys, prosecutors who really laid out how the underlying factors of Hunter’s — Hunter’s case would not lead to what had occurred in the past several months, and I will also say this, and you heard this President say this many times before — um — he believes — um — when it comes to his family, when it comes to — um — how he moves forward about thinking about his family, they’re the beginning, the middle — uh — and the end, and — um — he wrestled with this. It was not an easy thing for him to decide. Uh — there’s a reason why I keep bringing up Congressman Jim Clyburn is because this is someone who spoke to the President just two weeks ago and encouraged him to do so to pardon his son, and at the time — um — the congressman said, two weeks ago that this president was reticent. So, obviously, obviously he wrestled with this, so no apology needed from him to me.”
CNN’s Lee: “Zeke asked this question. I just didn’t hear an answer. The next time that the President says he will or won’t do something, why should the American people believe him?”
KJP: “I answered that question. I don’t have anything else to add.”
Lee: “Well, what’s your answer?”
KJP: “I — I answered the question. I answered the question.”
Lee: “Can — can you explain it in a way that’s understandable?”
KJP: “I — well, I — I — can’t speak to you understanding the question or not or my answer or not on this. I — I don’t have anything else to say. I’m not gonna re-litigate this. I — I did this on Monday for 30 minutes. I went back and forth. I laid out — I said, please read the President’s — uh — really comprehensive — uh — statement on this, and I even said the last paragraph of that statement, he talks directly — directly to the American people, and that’s how I answered that question.”
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CBS: But did Biden apologize to you? CNN: no answer? Next time why should American believe him?