'How Do You Explain His Silence?': Doocy Presses KJP About Biden Silence On Pro-Palestinian Protests
Peter Doocy asks Karine Jean-Pierre about President Biden's response to the pro-Palestinian campus protests.
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00:00 Go ahead. Thank you, Corinne. Some of these encampments, they have matching tents. We're being told that there are professional outside agitators involved.
00:09 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?
00:21 What I can say, you know, I cannot speak to the organizations that are being reported on the ground. That is not something for me to speak to.
00:36 That is obviously something that local governments, local officials are going to speak to. They'll have better information on that.
00:47 What we have said, and I don't think I've iterated that yet from here, is that the DOJ and FBI is going to continue to offer support to universities and colleges in respect to federal laws.
01:00 So that is something that the DOJ and FBI is doing. As far as local organizations and what is all being reported on the ground, that is something that local law enforcement certainly is looking into.
01:14 And I understand that President Biden historically has spoken very forcefully about anti-Semitism. But this week, he's not. He's MIA. Is he that worried about losing the youth vote with these protesters?
01:28 I'm going to be mindful. You're talking about youth vote. You're talking about 2024.
01:32 Support of young people.
01:34 I have to say what I have to say. And just give me a second. So I'm not going to speak about somebody's doorbell. Is that a doorbell?
01:41 An alarm.
01:42 An alarm. Okay. All right. And I'll speak more broadly. I can't speak to youth and support and voters. That's not something I can do from here.
01:53 The President has taken a lot of policy actions here that he knows that young people care about.
02:02 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.
02:08 We made an announcement today, 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 by home, you have the opportunity to do that and not be crushed by student debt.
02:22 The President understands how important it is to deal with that issue.
02:25 Climate change, something that young people really, truly care about. One of the crises that the President said he came into having to deal with was the climate change crisis.
02:34 The President has taken more -- has taken aggressive, aggressive action to deal with climate crisis.
02:39 Look, I can't speak to youth voters or their support. What we're going to do is continue to take actions that we believe helps all Americans in all communities.
02:50 You mentioned what he said in 2017 after Charlottesville. He said about Trump's response then, Charlottesville for me was a moment where I thought silence would be complicity.
02:59 So how does he explain, how do you explain his silence this week?
03:03 The President has not been silent on this issue when it comes to hate speech, anti-Semitism.
03:09 He started -- wait -- he started -- he launched the first ever anti-Semitism strategy to counter anti-Semitism, something that no other President did.
03:20 No other President --
03:21 A school building at an Ivy League campus got taken over.
03:25 And we called that out and we said that is not peacefully protesting. Taking over a building at a university or college is not peacefully protesting.
03:35 And we've been very clear, we've been very clear, taking more than 100 new actions to deal with anti-Semitism in this administration, no one has ever done that before.
03:45 Not any other administration has ever done that before.
03:48 We're going to continue -- we're going to continue to do the work. And it's not just here in the White House. We're talking about DOJ.
03:57 We're talking about Homeland Security. We're talking about Department of Education. Talking and working with campuses and colleges to deal with this issue.
04:07 We have seen an uptick in anti-Semitism in the last, certainly several months, in the past year.
04:13 And we have to call that out and it is not okay. It is not okay.