Doocy, KJP Tussle After He Accuses Biden Of Being ‘MIA’ On Campus Violence

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy verbally battled with press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Wednesday throughout her day by day briefing after he accused President Joe Biden of being “MIA” on the anti-Israel protests sweeping school and college campuses.

After weeks of escalating violence and on-campus squatting, regulation enforcement has intervened in a number of states the place college students established encampments to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and the severance of all ties between their colleges and Israel amid the battle within the area. At Columbia University in New York, the NYPD cleared out an administrative constructing that protesters had occupied as a part of their demonstration.

Doocy accused the president of being largely silent on the anti-Israel protests, which KJP denied.

“I understand that President Biden historically has spoken very forcefully about antisemitism, but this week, he’s not. He’s MIA. Is he that worried about losing the youth vote with these protesters?” Doocy requested.

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“I’m going to be mindful. You’re talking about the youth vote. You’re talking about 2024,” Jean-Pierre mentioned.

At that, Doocy tried to interrupt, however Jean-Pierre lower him off.

“No, no, no, no. I — I have to say what I have to say and just give me a second,” she mentioned, occurring to recite a number of insurance policies she says youthful Americans support, akin to Biden’s legally and constitutionally questionable scholar mortgage giveaways.

“The president has taken a lot of policy actions here that he knows that young people care about and a lot of those actions are popular with those young folks, whether it’s giving a little bit of breathing room with student debt relief — so we made announcement today, as a matter of fact, and we are going to continue to do that, because we think it’s important as families or as an American and you’re coming out of college and you want to build a family [and] buy a home, you have the opportunity to do that and not be crushed by student debt,” she started.

“The president understands how important it is to deal with that issue. Climate change [is] something that young people really truly care about,” she continued. “One of the crises that the president mentioned he got here into having to take care of was the local weather change disaster.

“This is a president who has taken more — who has taken aggressive, aggressive action to deal with climate crisis. You know, look, I can’t speak to youth voters or their support, but we’re going to continue to take actions that we believe helps all Americans and all communities,” she added.

During Wednesday’s press convention, Doocy additionally inquired as as to if Biden is searching for an investigation into whether or not “agitators” on the campus protests obtained support from overseas entities. New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) attributed a lot of the heightened tensions throughout protests to “outside agitators” and expressed his intention to “look into” whether or not they have backing from overseas influences.

“We’re being told that there are professional outside agitators involved. We don’t know if they’re being paid to sow chaos by domestic folks or foreign entities. Does President Biden want his administration to find out who is funding some of these protests?” Doocy requested.

Jean-Pierre responded by saying that state and native police could be dealing with such investigations however added that the Justice Department and the FBI would provide help.

“The DOJ and FBI is going to continue to offer support to universities and colleges with respect to federal laws, so that is something that the DOJ and FBI is doing,” she mentioned. “As far as local organizations and what is all being reported on the ground, that is something that I’m [sure] that local law enforcement, I’m certain, is looking into.”

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