Fox’s Doocy Spars With White House Over Harris Getting Tough On Southern Border: She Doesn’t Think ‘Biden Is Effective’

Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy sparred with White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday over Vice President Kamala Harris calling for more border agents while campaigning on a tougher approach to the southern border.

“How long have you guys known that Vice President Harris does not think President Biden is doing a good job at the border?” Doocy asked a clearly bemused Jean-Pierre.

“Wait, say that one more time?” Jean-Pierre replied.

“Well, she’s now promising to hire thousands more border agents than there are now under President Biden,” Doocy replied.

“Wait. Let’s start your question again. All right?” repeated Jean-Pierre.

“How long have you guys known that Vice President Harris does not think that President Biden is effective with his border?” Doocy reiterated.

“I mean, you’re you’re making a huge jump there. She did not say this. This is something that you are assuming. I don’t understand why you would assume that. it’s not true,” Jean-Pierre replied.

“She has a campaign ad where she is saying they need more Border Patrol agents. If President Biden’s doing such a good job, why do they need any more agents?” Doocy replied.

“Really, we believe that. The president does want more Border Patrol agents? You know who’s getting in the way, you know is getting in the way. Republicans in Congress, they’re getting in the way. You know who else is getting in the way? The former president Donald Trump, he’s getting in the way,” Jean-Pierre replied, concluding:

I mean. There’s no daylight here. I’m not understanding the question because there’s no daylight. The president believes that as well, and he’s worked towards doing that. There’s a bipartisan I know you guys probably get get sick of me saying this, but there was there was a bipartisan agreement that was on the table that the president worked through for a couple of months with Republicans in the Senate and Democrats. They were told not to move forward because it would help Joe Biden by the former president. That’s their decision.

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