On 1/11/2022, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had a heated exchange with reporters over President Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. A reporter asked KJP, “can I just ask if you have any information about why the President’s personal attorneys were at the Penn Biden Center in the first place? Were they looking for something specific? Was there something specific they were doing going through these documents? It just seems like to send — if it was just routine moving stuff, to send a personal attorney to do that is a little —”

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I would refer you to the White House Counsel’s very extensive, kind of, information on Monday that they provided. So, I’d refer you to that.

Reporter: Thanks, Karine. Have you spoken to the President about these documents and their discovery?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I have not — I have not spoken — well, first of all, I have not spoken to the President about any of this specifically, because he’s laid out what he knows. He has said he — he doesn’t know what is in them. So, there’s no way for me to talk about the documents if he has said he doesn’t know what’s in them. And we’re just going to allow the process to continue.

Reporter: So, for the sake of the American public who want these questions asked and answered: Would the President characterize what happened here as a mistake? Would this White House characterize this as a mistake?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: What I’ll say is: This is an ongoing process. You heard from the President; he spoke about this in detail yesterday …

Reporter: I do want to be very clear about something you said and make sure I understand you, following up on one of my colleagues who asked you: You have not spoken to the President about this? Weren’t you traveling with him when he made this public statement?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Well, no, I — no, the way I heard the question is, “Have you talked to the President about the documents?” And he doesn’t know what’s in the documents. That’s the way I heard the question, so that’s the way I was answering the question.

Reporter: You’ve talked to him about the revelation of these documents?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yes.
Reporter: Okay.

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: We’ve talked about the CBS story. We talked about the revelation of the documents, obviously. But about the documents itself, what’s in them, that is something that the President doesn’t even know. And I’m just going to leave it there.

Reporter: Has he — okay. Has he conveyed to you when he was briefed? And if not, can you go back and get that answer for us?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I — I have not talked to the President about that. What I can tell you is I know you all have a lot of questions. There is an ongoing process …

Reporter: In the President saying that he was surprised to learn about these documents, is he saying that he did not bring those documents to that office?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I’m just not going to go beyond what the President said.
Reporter: Do we know who did bring those documents to the office?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I’m not — I’m not going to go beyond what the President said.
Reporter: But you’re saying you want to be transparent and do things the right way. We’re not going to get —

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yes, and we —
Reporter: — any more answers to any of these questions?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: And his team of lawyers did do that. They did the right thing by turning over the — by turning over the documents to the Archives. That’s what they did once they realized that they had them and that they were there.

Reporter: In the President saying that he was surprised to learn about these documents, is he saying that he did not bring those documents to that office?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I’m just not going to go beyond what the President said.
Reporter: Do we know who did bring those documents to the office?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I’m not — I’m not going to go beyond what the President said.

Reporter: But you’re saying you want to be transparent and do things the right way. We’re not going to get —

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yes, and we —
Reporter: — any more answers to any of these questions?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: And his team of lawyers did do that. They did the right thing by turning over the — by turning over the documents to the Archives. That’s what they did once they realized that they had them and that they were there.

Reporter: It was not clear, Karine, how the documents got from the White House to this office?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I’m — Steve, I appreciate the question.
Reporter: Sure.
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: It’s under review.

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