On 12/19/2022, a reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Let me ask you one more question, just to punctuate what we’ve been saying about what happened on the Hill today. Obviously, we’re getting the executive summary, getting new details about all of this. And I know you don’t want to get — interfere in any form with what the Department of Justice is going to decide. But the fundamental motivation for the President running for office was, as he described it, this “battle for the soul of the nation.” About 964 people, as I have counted so far — I think is the latest number — have been charged for their role as rioters. But we heard from Jamie Raskin today: “Ours is not a system of government where foot soldiers go to jail and masterminds and ringleaders get a free pass.” If no, quote, “masterminds” or “ringleaders” are charged, will the Pre- — how does the President sort of view the status of this battle for the soul of the nation?”
KJP: So I’m certainly not going to get ahead of any legal outcome that can — may come out of it.
Reporter: What’s the status of the battle for the soul of the nation?
KJP: Look — but the President — I said this just moments ago — he believes that our democracy is still under attack …
Reporter: The latest “Twitter Files” show that the intelligence community was actively involved in discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story. Does it bother the President and those at the White House that a government agency like the FBI was involved in suppressing a legitimate news story?
KJP: Again, I’m just going to refer you to the FBI. I’m not going to comment from here about that. Go ahead.
Reporter: Can I ask you specifically then on the President’s thinking on the fact that this NDAA obviously includes the termination of the military vaccination program?
KJP: … Clearly, the President was opposed to rolling back the vaccine mandate. But we saw that Republicans in Congress decided that they’d rather — rather fight against the health and wellbeing of …
Reporter: So to be very clear: Would the President welcome those who left the service or refused to get vaccinated if they now say, “I want to serve the United States military”?
KJP: So, look, that is something that the Department of Defense has to decide on specific service members. What I can tell you —
Reporter: But would he welcome them?
KJP: Look, that — again, they have a process on how that runs — the Department of Defense. We will let them run that process. What we can say is that, you know, the President — as I mentioned, he’s going to sign the NDAA. He was very clear, I was very clear from here about how — you know, how he — he opposed the fact that congressional Republicans removed the vaccination mandate from that piece of legislation.
Reporter: Okay. And then on — on another topic. The President said, when he was in Nantucket, that he will be getting his physical before the end of the year. I’m wondering if you have any update on when that will be and if those results will be made public before whatever announcement he might make about his future political plans.
KJP: So, I’m not going to get ahead of his future political plans. Not going to do that from here. As you know, I’m covered by the Hatch Act … He will have a physical in the upcoming months, and the results will be released like they were most recently, in the same way. And it will — we will be transparent.
Reporter: So is it still the case, as he told reporters in Nantucket, that he’ll be getting it before the end of the year, or has that — has that timeline changed?
KJP: I just don’t have a specific timeline. All I can tell — tell you is that in the incom- — in coming months, we will — he will have a physical, and we will certainly release those results in a transparent way, just like we did last year. That hasn’t changed.
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