Karine Jean-Pierre Asked If President Biden Is Trying To Send A Message To Chief Justice Roberts
At a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about President Biden's Supreme Court reforms.
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00:00A follow-up foreign policy question,
00:01but just to follow up on Jackie's question.
00:04If Supreme Court reform does not pass,
00:06and it seems unlikely under this Congress that it will,
00:10what does the President hope his effort will accomplish?
00:14Is it to get the American people used to the idea
00:18of the need of reform?
00:19Is it a message to Justice Roberts?
00:21What does he think this would lead to?
00:24I will say majority of the American people support
00:28and want to see reform, right?
00:32They want to see this.
00:33This is where majority of Americans are.
00:35And I will say this, the President and the Vice President
00:38believe that the rule of law
00:40is the foundation of our democracy.
00:42It is the foundation of our democracy,
00:45which is why the President took action yesterday,
00:47and he's calling on Congress to do the same.
00:49Now, what we welcome is a debate,
00:52as we've seen as many times
00:54as the President introduced legislation
00:57or some ideas on how the direction of the legislation
00:59that's important to the American people.
01:01We see a healthy debate.
01:02I listed out moments ago
01:04when I was having a back and forth with Jackie here,
01:08conservative legal experts who support,
01:10for example, term limits.
01:12And so I think that was important to note.
01:14Senator Marco Rubio, who I also mentioned,
01:17who's obviously a current senator in the U.S. Senate,
01:20supports term limits.
01:22So there are ways that we can work together.
01:25I'm not going to get into
01:27what that legislation is going to look like.
01:28We're going to have a healthy debate.
01:30We think that's important.
01:31But we're talking about the rule of law here.
01:33We're talking about the rule of law,
01:35which is the foundation of our democracy.
01:37The President is going to say something.
01:39The President is going to make sure
01:41that is protected, as he has done.
01:43That is one of the reasons he decided to run.
01:46That is one of the reasons of the work
01:49that we were able to do.
01:512022, the rule of law, democracy,
01:54was one of the top issues that Americans cared about.
01:57Could it also be a message to Justice Roberts?
02:00I'm not going to get into messages to the Chief Justice.
02:05That's not what we're talking about here.
02:07We're talking about the right thing to do.
02:09We're talking about the right thing to do here.
02:11And on the foreign policy side,
02:12there's reporting that North Korea
02:14could conduct another nuclear test
02:16to coincide with the U.S. election,
02:18the presidential election.
02:20How concerned is the administration about this?
02:22Is this a real threat?
02:23Do you have a message to Pyongyang?
02:24I'm just not going to get into hypotheticals from here.
02:26What's your next question?
02:28On today's sanctions on Iran that Treasury announced,
02:33individuals and entities related to its ballistic missiles
02:35and drones program, can you speak about the timing?
02:38Today, the Iranian new President
02:40is being sworn in by the parliament.
02:42So, look, what I can say, this is something
02:43that the Department of Treasury did.
02:45They announced new sanctions, as you just said,
02:47targeting five individuals and seven entities
02:49based in Iran, the PRC, Hong Kong.
02:53That have facilitated procurements
02:55behalf of Iran's military forces.
02:59The designated entities have been involved
03:01in procuring key components of Iran's ballistic missiles
03:05and UAV program.
03:07These sanctions are part of,
03:08you've heard us talk about sanctions before,
03:10especially in the last three and a half years.
03:13They're part of our ongoing efforts
03:14to counter Iran's destabilizing activities,
03:18including its arming of proxies in Middle East
03:21and its enabling of Russia's war in Ukraine.
03:24You've heard talk about this.
03:26Again, this is part of announcements
03:28that we ongoing efforts
03:30that we've had here in this administration,
03:32and that's how I would view it.
03:33Nothing specific on the timing?
03:34It's ongoing.
03:35This has been ongoing sanctions
03:37that we've had throughout this administration.