A jab from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre caused Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy to blush during what was expected to be their final press conference together in the White House briefing room.
"If I don't see you again in the briefing, thank you for always ... You could have stopped taking the hard questions years ago, and you didn't, so we appreciate that," Doocy said at the beginning of his questions on Monday.
"This is, let's say, one last dance, right?" Jean-Pierre noted. "How will I fill that void without you? Start some rumors in here, I guess."
"He's getting red, too, a little bit," a nearby reporter pointed out.
Doocy blushed as he asked his final question: "Between next Monday and 2028, who's the leader of the Democratic Party?"
"Oh, my goodness," Jean-Pierre replied. "Wow. Honestly, that is for people much smarter than I to make that assessment, that decision."
"I cannot predict the future, so that is not something that I'm going to do from here," she added.
"So, no leader of the party," Doocy quipped.
"That's not what I said," the press secretary shot back. "I'm regretting this right now, regretting all of this. That's not what I said."
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"You asked me about what 2028 is going to look like between now and 2028," she remarked. "That's not for me to decide. That's not for me to speak to."
"So look, this is a president that has served more than 50 years, who has given all of himself, if you will, right, as a public servant, whether as a senator, as a local elected official, as a vice president, and now as president," Jean-Pierre continued.
"I think anybody who has served that long and does it from their heart and soul because they believe this country deserves so much more, they believe that the American people deserve more, and has worked day in and day out, certainly as president in the last four years, I think deserves some respect."
