On 1/3/2023, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre started press briefing, “There’s, like, an apple box here. I’m not sure why.”

Reporter: Shall we take it?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Someone — someone is trying to tell me something. (Box is removed from stage floor.) With that, Happy New Year, everybody.

On 1/3/2023, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “Thank you, Karine. Happy New Year.”

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Happy New Year. Happy New — not a daddy yet?

Doocy: We’re in the birth month.

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Oh, boy. Ooh.

Will Joe Biden announce a reelection bid by January 30th? (Laughter.)

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I thought — no, wait — I thought you were going to — you were going to ask for my okay to name your daughter “Karine.” I thought that’s where — I thought that’s where we were going here.

Doocy: Josephina — (laughter) — for the President. Yeah.

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I don’t know. “Karine” sounds — “Karine” sounds — I think “Karine” sounds — sounds just as good, too. I’m just saying.

Doocy: Okay. We’ll take it under advisement.

Reporter: Thank you. You said that you couldn’t comment on whether the President has any view about whether Democrats or Democrat-aligned groups should consider returning some of the donations Mr. Bankman-Fried made. I’m just circling back on that to see whether that’s still the case.

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yeah, that —

Reporter: He has no view on whether this money should —

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: That is still the case. I don’t have anything to share or any change of my comments that I’ve made before on this.

Q Did the President, over the holidays, reach out directly to Senator McConnell to invite him to the event tomorrow as a show of the bipartisanship that you guys say?

MS. Jean-Pierre: So, as you know, we do not talk about or lay out private conversations with congressional — congressional leadership. What you —
Q Sometimes you do.
MS. Jean-Pierre: Well, sometimes we do. But —
Q When it’s in your interests, you do. (Laughter.)
MS. Jean-Pierre: Well, you know —
Q Sorry, I —
MS. Jean-Pierre: All right, you may have caught me there a little bit. (Laughter.)
But, look, I’m just not — I’m not going to

Reporter: Sure.

And the President had said that he was going to spend this lovely holiday season talking to his family. (Laughter.) Has he decided whether or not to run for reelection? And when will he tell us?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Oh, goodness.

Reporter: Now would be fine. (Laughter.)

Reporter: You can tell us now.

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, look, as you know, I have to follow the law, in terms of what I can discuss here. We do believe in the rule of law. I know some of you had something to say about that just a couple of weeks ago, but we do believe in the rule of law, and we will respect it. And we will honor that here from this administration … Again, I’m just going to reiterate what I said, I’m going to reiterate what the President said: He intends to run. And certainly, as I know from my job, I’m not going to get ahead of any announcement.

Reporter: When it comes to the President’s legislative agenda, do you have any sense of when the State of the Union is going to take place? Do you expect that to be this month?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: That’s a good question. I don’t have anything to share with you. As you know, the State of the Union is an important opportunity for the President to lay out his vision to — in front of the — not just Congress, but to the American people for — for this year. And so I know he looks forward to doing that as he did last year. I just don’t have anything to share on that.

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KJP: to name your daughter “Karine”; Democrats return Mr. Bankman-Fried donations?