Q: free & open press important democracy? A: disagree with your premise

#shorts On 11/7/2022, Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “But doesn’t the President’s own warning, though, that democracy is on the ballot plus this potential for unrest, make it that much more important that the President avail himself to the free and open press that he has allotted as indispensable to the functioning of democracy?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: The President has been very clear about where he stands when it comes to democracy. You’ve heard him talk about democracy over and over again … So, I, you know, disagree with your premise as if it is something that is not important to him. He’s made this an important issue. And, again, I’m not going to get ahead of it. You will — the American people, which is what matters, specifically, is going to hear from the American people.

Another Reporter: The question was about press access, not democracy.

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Q: free & open press important democracy? A: disagree with your premise

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#shorts On 11/7/2022, Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “But doesn’t the President’s own warning, though, that democracy is on the ballot plus this potential for unrest, make it that much more important that the President avail himself to the free and open press that he has allotted as indispensable to the functioning of democracy

• JEAN-PIERRE: The President has been very clear about where he stands when it comes to democracy
• You’ve heard him talk about democracy over and over again
• So, I, you know, disagree with your premise as if it is something that is not important to him