According to The Daily Wire, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki disclosed that a “good portion” of President Joe Biden’s recent extended press conference was “unplanned and unscripted.”
Psaki shared her remarks on Rob Lowe’s podcast “Literally! With Rob Lowe”
“So I have a question for you,” Lowe began. “This was the week where the President did his two-hour press conference. And now how did … That was a long press conference. Let’s face it, it was a long …”
Psaki interjected that it was “record-breaking.”
“Record-breaking,” Lowe echoed. “[It seems] he was answering the same question five times. Was that planned? Was it on the fly, or was it like, ‘You think this guy can’t talk in front of the country? We’re putting him out there for two hours,” Lowe quipped before asking, “What was the thinking behind it?”
Psaki replied, “It was not planned. It was planned to be an hour.”
Reflecting on how Biden has been tethered to a teleprompter and the regulations regarding which reporters the President can call on and when, Lowe responded, “Oh, my God.”
“Right,” Psaki quipped back. “It was going to be an hour…and, you know, I think in the moment, he just decided to take some more questions, and that went on for a record-breaking amount of time.”
“Were you pulling your hair out?” Lowe asked. “I mean, there is a moment where like, Look, let’s face it, it’s not – it’s not a knock on anybody. You just go declare victory and get off the field.”
A smiling Psaki replied, “Yeah. I mean, I’m a pretty chill person. I think people who work with me would say. But I think when some of the questions started to be off in ‘Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs’ land there, I was thinking, Oh my, what? Where are we going here with this?”
Psaki added. “And that’s obviously not on the President.”
Commenting on the unusual length of the press conference, Lowe concluded:
“I watched it from the beginning at work. I’m watching. I’m watching it in my trailer, and then I go — I literally went and put out five fires and saved three people and came back and the President was still talking.”
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