On 11/22/2022, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre started the press briefing with, “Hello! Hi, hi, hi.”
Reporter: You have gifts.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I know, I — I bring bearing gifts. I have some Thanksgiving cookies for all of you.
Reporter: Awww —
Reporter: I came on the right day.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Happy holidays. There you go. Well, you guys are going to have to pass this around. I’m not — (laughter) —
Reporter: Are these from the White House, or did you bake them yourself?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Sure!
Reporter: If you have time to bake, I’ll be truly impressed.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I — it would be quite impressive, wouldn’t it be?
Reporter: You were, yeah.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Oh, I know.

Reporter: On a separate topic, we’ve learned through recent reporting about the President’s granddaughter living here at the White House. I was wondering if you have any more details on whether she plans to continue to live here and whether any other family members or other people besides the President and the First Lady live at the White House.

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I don’t have any fur- — anything further to share on that.

Reporter: Yeah, thanks very much. You said from the lectern that the wedding of Naomi Biden and Peter would be a private one —

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yeah.

Reporter: — and that it would be closed to the media. Yet I’m reading all about it and looking at pictures on the Vogue website. Can you just talk us through what happened there?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, first of all, let’s level-step here for a second. This was not a national security meeting. This was not an economic meeting. This was not — or economic summit. This was a young couple’s wedding with their friends and families. This is what this was. This is what happened here on Saturday. So — and, secondly, just to be very clear, Vogue did not attend the wedding. They were not there. So, what you’re reading is inaccurate. They did not attend the wedding.

As I told you all before, there was no press access at the wedding. It was a private family event. And so — wait, you’re asking me the question. Let me just lay this out for you, and then I — I’m happy to take one follow-up, and then we’re going to go. The couple asked that their wedding events be closed to the media, and it was. It was a closed event, a private family event.

Vogue did a portrait shoot on Thursday afternoon, before the wedding, in the Green Room. I would also remind you that many photos were released to the public on Saturday, after the wedding, to everyone. Vogue actually held their photos. They embargoed it until today so that — so it would give ample time for the photos to be in the public sphere. And so, it is inaccurate, completely wrong — it is not right to say that it was open. To suggest that it — that a Vogue cover was open to the press, it was not. And so, I just want to be very, very clear what you’re reading right now is not accurate.

Reporter: Yeah, I mean, I wasn’t suggesting that —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: No, but that’s what you just said.
Reporter: No, my question was: You had said it was going to be a private wedding.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: It was.

Reporter: I mean, I think — I mean, it seems as if you are saying it would be — the media would not be allowed access on their wedding day. But I think those of us might think that dressing up in a wedding dress, having a photoshoot, talking about the wedding is coverage of the wedding.

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: The wedding was private. It was a private family affair. There was no press access to the wedding. We were very clear about that. There is no — no reason to mince our words here. The fa- — the family and the — and friends were invited to this family — to this wedding. It was a private event.

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KJP: I bring bearing gifts, Vogue private event: wedding photo in Green Room, granddaughter living at White House