Jen Psaki admits she tells Biden ‘don’t take questions’

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President Biden taking questions from reporters outside the formal setting of a White House press conference “is not something we recommend,” Press Secretary Jen Psaki admitted Thursday. “A lot of times, we say, ‘Don’t take questions,’” Psaki disclosed. “But he’s going to what he wants to do because he’s the president of the United States.” The first time I traveled with him, he took questions from the pool three times that day, and I thought, ‘Am I going to be fired when I get back?'” Psaki recalled later in the program. “So he does do that, and he likes doing that. I mean, the thing is, he likes the press corps and likes that back-and-forth and that engagement.” His strength is that he says what’s on his mind, and his weakness is he says what’s on his mind, and sometimes that’s not helpful,” said Axelrod,

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