"I guess I should be flattered," he said, but went on to suggest that most illegal immigrants were crossing the border for other reasons.īiden conspicuously declined to take a question from Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, with whom the president has sparred in the past.
Yamiche Alcindor, White House correspondent for PBS News Hour, grilled Biden on whether the border crisis was being fueled by "the perception of you, that got you elected, as a moral, decent man." Biden demurred. "I don't know," he added.īiden also issued a thinly veiled threat against Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been tasked with leading the administration's response to the border crisis. "It's going to get a whole hell of a lot better real quick or we're going to hear some people leaving," he said of the situation at the border. Regarding the immigration crisis on the southern border, Biden assured reporters that he would "commit to transparency" in the near future. How soon? "As soon as I am in a position to implement what we're doing right now," he explained. "Anyway … I, we're going to get a lot done." "The best way to get something done if you, if you hold near and dear to you that you, uh, um, like to be able to," Biden clarified. On that topic, Biden cited Republican opposition to Democratic-approved bills as a reason for his willingness to consider eliminating the Senate filibuster to avoid "complete lockdown and chaos" in Congress. "This makes Jim Crow look like Jim Eagle," Biden said in response to a question about so-called voting rights legislation.
The president appeared somewhat lucid at times but didn't always communicate in a comprehensible fashion.
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