‘Do You Know If Taylor Swift Will Be Coming?’: Karine Jean-Pierre Asked About Chiefs’ Visit To WH

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During a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about the Kansas City Chiefs’ upcoming visit to the White House.

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00:00 Obviously the chiefs are coming on Friday. Their last celebration was disrupted by a shooting.

00:05 Does the president plan on using this moment to talk about gun violence,

00:09 particularly since we haven't seen any kind of legislative movement,

00:12 either at the federal level or even at the state level?

00:14 Well, I mean, look, let's take a full look of what we –

00:17 Since the shooting.

00:18 Well, since the shooting, okay, I'm glad you made that point,

00:22 because this president has taken more executive actions than any modern-day president,

00:27 more than two dozen executive actions on gun violence,

00:30 on trying to prevent this epidemic that we see across our country.

00:34 As you know, there was a bipartisan bill that was passed about two years ago now,

00:38 going to be two years ago, and so the president has been incredibly active on this.

00:42 And since the shooting, he did create an office of gun violence prevention,

00:48 which is the first historic office to happen.

00:52 Obviously the vice president is the head of that.

00:56 But it has taken on the different executive actions that we have been able to get through,

01:03 also components of the law that was passed in a bipartisan way to move that,

01:08 to move some of those actions forward a lot quicker

01:11 and offer, obviously, assistance on the ground.

01:14 So, look, the president takes every moment that he can when there's an opportunity

01:19 to speak on gun violence prevention and to call on Congress to take more action.

01:24 I'm not going to get ahead of the event, as you just stated, with the Kansas City Chiefs on Friday,

01:32 so we will certainly have more to share as we get closer to that day.

01:35 Do you know if Taylor Swift might be coming?

01:37 That's a good question.

01:39 I think the Swifties behind these double doors are hoping that Taylor Swift makes an appearance.

01:46 I don't have anything for you.

01:49 I don't know. I can't speak to her schedule.

01:51 But I know there's a lot of interest in this building, on this campus.

‘Do You Know If Taylor Swift Will Be Coming?’: Karine Jean-Pierre Asked About Chiefs’ Visit To WH

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