The final moments of the last ever White House briefing with Karine Jean-Pierre (KJP) had a fitting end – an unanswered question, a literal shrug emoji, and reporters chuckling that she’d tell them privately what she thinks about Karoline Leavitt.

KJP: “All right guys, I have to go. Thank you.”
Brazilian TV’s Raquel Krähenbühl: “Have you been in touch with Karoline yet? Were you able to?”

KJP: “I was just asked this question. I was just asked this question. I have not, I have not been in touch with her, but I certainly wish her luck. Thanks everybody.”

Associated Press’s Zeke Miller: “Karine, why have you not been in touch with her?”
KJP [SHRUGGING]: “Come talk to me in the back.”
[REPORTERS LAUGH]
Miller: “Thank you.”

ABC’s Karen Travers: “Does the President intend to leave a letter for President-elect Trump before he leaves offices as Trump did for him?”

KJP: “Uh — well — uh — I guess we’ll see. We’ll see. We’ll see. I don’t have anything — uh — that’s gonna be up to the President. I don’t have anything on that, but it’s a good question. I’m curious too.”

CNN’s Kayla Tausche: “And just, finally, Karine, a new CNN poll that’s out this morning shows that just 36% of US adults say they approve of the way that Biden has handled the presidency. To what do you attribute that?”

KJP: “I mean, look — I’ve been very careful in talking about polls and not speaking to every — every pole, I understand this is a CNN poll. Uh — what I can speak to is what the President has done to get things done — to get things — um — delivered for the American people, if you — if you think about — um — beating big Pharma, if you think about — um — lowering health care costs, bringing manufacturing job — jobs back or manufacturing back here more broadly — uh — if you think about insulin — to capping the insulin at 35 bucks a month for seniors. All of those things that I just listed out are very popular with the American people. ”

NBC’s Peter Alexander: “[I]t’s tradition that at the end of the year, the President would do a news conference — in advance of departure, the president would take questions on a variety of different topics. What was the decision making? Why did this President decide not to do either of those before his departure?”

KJP: “Well, I think the President, especially in the past couple of days has — uh — has been pretty very much engaging with all of you — taking questions. He did it today. Uh — he — he himself wanted to stand up — uh — a — a — a moment to talk about the economy, but also take your questions just a couple of days ago. That is something that he wanted to do and your colleagues took — wait, let me — let me finish your colleagues asked some really important questions that he was able to answer — an array of questions, and what I can say is I don’t have anything to preview at this time, but certainly he’s going to continue to engage with all of you — uh — and you know, we have been — you know — uh — he’s been very much involved in — in going back and forth with all of you in the past couple of days, and that is something that he wanted to make sure that he — he did that.”

NBC’s Peter Alexander: “Were there any concerns about his public performance in a setting like that?”

KJP: — “I — well, I mean — I think — the — the issue that I have with that question, Peter, is that he literally did a press conference with all of you days ago with some of your colleagues and took multiple —”

Alexander: “Right. Candidly, that’s different, you know, than an hour-long press conference.”
KJP: “— I — I — I —”
Alexander: “That’s why I asked the question.”

KJP: “— no, I mean, look, but he — he took questions. He took questions on an array of issues, went back and forth, and he took questions today. He’s been pretty consistent over the past couple of days — uh — in doing that, and that shows his performance — that those are questions that he doesn’t know what you guys are going to ask, and he takes them and he answers them and — and I think that is something that is important to him. This goes back to the freedom of the press, understanding how important you all are to our democracy and understanding how having that continuation of a back and forth — uh — even when we don’t — we don’t agree is important. Uh — and so, I’m pretty sure you all will continue to hear from him — uh — in the last couple of days of his administration, and he certainly looks forward to it.”

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