Karine Jean-Pierre Pressed On WH Official’s Meeting At Morehouse Ahead Of Biden’s Speech

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During a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about Biden’s upcoming commencement address at Morehouse College.

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00:00 Thanks, Corrine.

00:01 A senior White House official recently met with some students and faculty at Morehouse

00:04 College.

00:05 Can you talk a little bit about some of the concerns raised from those students and faculty

00:09 members and how the White House responded?

00:11 So what I can say is, and you're speaking about Steve Benjamin, right?

00:15 Mayor Benjamin, who is also the Director of the Office of Public Engagement.

00:20 I can confirm that he did have a meeting at Morehouse.

00:23 I won't get into the specifics, but he regularly does this.

00:27 He regularly goes on the road.

00:29 Speakers directly from Americans, and directly in this instance would be students and faculty,

00:36 obviously.

00:37 And I just don't have anything beyond that to share.

00:40 The President is certainly looking forward to his commencement address this coming Sunday

00:45 at Morehouse.

00:46 He's looking forward to speaking not just to the students, but obviously families and

00:49 loved ones who are here, who will be there to hear, you know, to celebrate the students,

00:55 but also to hear a message from this President.

00:58 I don't have anything more to share, but I can certainly confirm that Steve Benjamin

01:02 was at Morehouse recently.

01:03 And how many American medical workers does the White House estimate are currently trapped

01:07 inside Gaza and unable to get out?

01:09 And is there a plan to help them?

01:11 So I certainly - look, what we have said over and over again, and we will continue to say

01:17 this, that humanitarian aid workers obviously are brave to do the work that they're doing,

01:23 not just in Gaza, but around the world, whether it's Sudan, Haiti, many places that they

01:28 actually go out there and do that brave work to offer assistance much needed to folks on

01:34 the ground.

01:35 And so we appreciate that.

01:36 We want to see them protected.

01:38 We want to make sure that they have the ability to continue that work.

01:42 I don't have an estimate for you on the number of people, to your question, but it is imperative,

01:48 it is important that we see humanitarian aid workers protected.

01:52 And those are conversations that we continue to have with the Israeli government.

01:55 Thanks a lot.

Karine Jean-Pierre Pressed On WH Official’s Meeting At Morehouse Ahead Of Biden’s Speech

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