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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre could not answer why President Joe Biden did not know about the baby formula crisis until April.
Jean-Pierre faced a slew of questions Wednesday on the topic, just an hour after Biden himself revealed that he was not aware of the scope of the problem until months after Abbott Laboratories shut down its facility, leading to the nationwide formula shortages.
“We have been working on this issue from day one,” Jean-Pierre dodged in one such exchange. “What you hear from the president is his frustration.”
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In a separate exchange, NBC News’s Kelly O’Donnell pressed Jean-Pierre over her comments about the “information flow” within the White House and why some matters are brought to Biden’s desk and not others. She additionally questioned Jean-Pierre’s answers from earlier in the briefing, claiming that “it sounds like [he was] questioning the April date that the president just gave us.”
“No, I am not questioning the president at all. I’m just saying I have not spoken to the president,” Jean-Pierre responded. “This is a very common way of operating, way of moving. Nothing unusual about this.”
“You’re asking me to confirm something, and I mean, I was in my office, I did not actually hear what the president said. I do not like to speak on something without comments, without having a conversation with the president first,” she continued. “What I’m trying to say is that his team on very high levels, who run his policy offices, who runs his departments, have been working on this since day one.”
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You can watch Wednesday’s entire briefing below.
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