Karine Jean-Pierre Goes on Offense After Peter Doocy Asks How Biden Can ‘Be Trusted with the Nuclear Codes’

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fielded questions about President Joe Biden’s mental fitness one day after Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report called it into question.

Hur concluded that Biden should not be criminally charged after he “willfully retained” classified documents after leaving the Senate and the vice presidency. The report stated that the president would likely present to a jury “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.” It also said Biden did not remember when he was vice president or when his son Beau Biden died. The president blasted the report’s characterizations in a press conference on Thursday.

On Friday, Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre about Hur’s report:

DOOCY: If the special counsel says President Biden’s got significant limitations on his memory, then who is helping him run the country?

JEAN-PIERRE: The president of the United States. runs the country. The commander-in-chief runs the country.

DOOCY: How can he be trusted with nuclear codes if–  I get that you’re saying that nobody in the building would say that he’s got an issue with his memory. But just the little part of what we get to see, he’s made mistake after mistake after mistake on camera this week.

JEAN-PIERRE: So, I wanna be very clear. The reality is that report, that part of the report does not live in reality. It just doesn’t.

DOOCY: So the special counsel is lying about the president’s memory?

JEAN-PIERRE: It was gratuitous. You heard from Ian Sams, my colleague [earlier in the briefing]. It is unacceptable and it does not live in reality. That is just the facts. And look, it is a closed case. That is what the special counsel said.

Jean Pierre then pivoted to tout Biden’s record:

And what matters is, here, is that the president in the last three years has delivered on the economy, has delivered on healthcare, has turned this country around after the last president left us with an economy that was in a tailspin.

That’s what we were dealing with. That’s what we were dealing with. If you think about the world leaders. World leaders and issues that have been going on in this country for the past two, three years, not in [just] this country, in the world. You think about Ukraine. The president was able to bring together NATO, NATO allies. They have been the strongest they’ve ever been and make sure that we are providing what Ukraine, the great people of Ukraine need as they’re fighting aggression, Putin’s aggression.

And that is what this president has been able to do. His experience as former senator, as former vice president, and now president has gotten us to a place where we’ve been able to turn things around in a way that we meet the needs of the American people, whether it’s domestic issues or national security issues. And that is what matters. That part of the report does not live in reality.

When taking questions on Thursday night, Biden called on Doocy first.

“How bad is your memory and can you continue as president?” Doocy asked.

“My memory is so bad I let you speak,” Biden replied.

Watch above via C-SPAN.