Karoline Leavitt Asked Point Blank If President Trump Will Make An Endorsement In NYC Mayor Race

At a White House press briefing on Monday, Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt was asked about the NYC mayoral race.

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00:00Two questions. On the New York mayoral race, does the President plan to make an endorsement?

00:05And secondly, on Jerome Powell, a lot of the focus obviously has been on interest rates and

00:09him keeping them high, but a new controversy erupted today. My colleague first reported that

00:16he's facing, the Chairman Jerome Powell is facing accusations of lying to Congress,

00:21which is a potential crime, about luxurious details of the Fed's $2.5 billion renovation

00:28project. Senator Loomis has called attention to this. Some experts want him to be investigated.

00:34Does the White House want these allegations investigated and if found substantiated, punished?

00:40I'll have to take a look at those allegations and I will raise them to the President's

00:44attention and let him speak on them himself. To your first question regarding the mayoral race,

00:50the President was asked that yesterday by Maria Bateromo. He refused to give an endorsement,

00:55so you won't get one from me at this podium unless he wants me to do that.

00:58Phyllis. Phyllis, go ahead.

01:00Oh, okay.

01:01Sure. And then you, I...

01:02Phyllis, go ahead.