Biden Makes Reporters Laugh With Pithy Response About Jim Jordan’s Stalled Speakership Bid

President Joe Biden took questions from reporters during his flight home from Tel Aviv on Wednesday and was asked to weigh in on the House speaker debacle as well as the bombing of the Gaza hospital.

“Do you have a view of Jim Jordan’s current predicament? Unable to secure the speakership?” a reporter asked Biden.
“I ache for him,” Biden replied to laughter, before adding, “No. Zero. None.”

The New York Times’s Peter Baker then asked, “About the hospital, sir – people in the region are upset about the hospital and don’t necessarily believe you or the Israelis that they didn’t have anything to do with it. Do you have a message to people on the streets right now?”

“Well, I can understand why in this circumstance they wouldn’t. I can understand that. But, I would not, you notice, I don’t say things like that unless I have faith in the source from which I’ve gotten it. Our Defense Department says that it’s highly unlikely that it was Israelis,” Biden said before trailing off a bit, adding:

And so that’s why if you notice, I didn’t say it first. I wanted to make sure that I knew. And look. And I’m not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it either. This whole thing, got to learn how to shoot straight.

Biden agreed with Israeli intelligence assessments while in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, saying that the Pentagon independently concluded Islamic Jihad was responsible for the hospital bombing that reportedly killed hundreds of civilians.

Israel’s Channel 12, a major center-left network in the country, also broadcast footage from one of their cameras live on air and had a military analysis walk through the moment rockets are launched from Gaza and the hospital explodes, frame by frame.

Watch the full clip above via MSNBC.