Perino: The White House is letting Karine Jean-Pierre twist in the wind
'The Five' co-hosts discuss White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stonewalling reporters about the classified documents found at President Biden's Delaware home and the Biden Penn Center.
Fox News' Dana Perino slammed the White House for allowing press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to "twist in the wind" during this week's contentious briefings over classified documents.
Jean-Pierre has come under fire for stonewalling reporters' questions about the timeline of when multiple batches of classified documents were found at President Biden's Delaware home and the Biden Penn Center in Washington, D.C.
The press secretary was asked on Jan. 11 if a second search had been completed after more documents were found at the president's Delaware home, to which she responded, "You should assume it has been completed, yes."
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attends a press briefing at the White House on January 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Jean-Pierre spoke on the classified documents found at President Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
However, a day later, on Jan. 12, a third batch of documents was again found in Biden's Wilmington garage.
Perino said Biden and White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain are to blame for allowing Jean-Pierre to lead briefings without the full picture.
"One, they either didn't tell her. And I believe when she said she didn't know, she found out the same day the press corps did," she explained.
"So it looks like she was involved in a cover-up if she did know. But she didn't know. So then they're like, 'Oh, wait, so you don't know what you're talking about? So you don't have the confidence of the chief of staff?' And they just sit there and let her twist in the wind every single day."
"The Five" co-host also questioned where Vice President Kamala Harris was in this debacle and why she wasn't helping the press secretary.
"If I were Kamala Harris, I would go into the chief of staff's office [and] into Biden's, and say, tomorrow somebody from the Justice Department is going to help her out, and they're going to walk through this timeline, or you are ruining her ability to have a command in that room," Perino said.
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"And when you have White House reporters start to talk to the press about how unhappy they are, it's very hard to dig out of that."
Jen Psaki, White House press secretary, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. President Biden released a multi-pronged strategy to secure critical supply chains in products ranging from medicines to microchips, and is also weighing a potential trade probe that could result in U.S. tariffs on certain magnet imports. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Perino argued the White House is like a construction site that says "80 days without a safety incident."
"At the White House, they have zero days of providing inaccurate information," she noted.
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"But the president himself and Ron Klain, the chief of staff, owe her something better than what they have provided because they are making her job so much harder than it needs to be."
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