Jen Psaki and Fox Information reporter Peter Doocy have shared an adversarial relationship throughout her time as White Home press secretary, however as her tenure attracts to an in depth, they’re leaving issues on a lighter word.
President Joe Biden introduced Thursday that deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will take over from Psaki when she steps down on Might 13.
As Psaki took questions from reporters within the briefing room Thursday, she referred to as on Doocy, who stated: “Thanks Jen. Sorry to see you go.”
“Are you?” Psaki replied with a smile, setting off laughter within the room.
“Sure, and also you’ve at all times been sport,” Doocy replied. “So on behalf of everyone, thanks for the whole lot.”
“Thanks. As have you ever,” stated Psaki.
Psaki and Doocy have sparred and clashed routinely throughout her time on the briefing room podium, although each have admitted their relationship is much much less combative behind the scenes.
“However my engagement with him, folks don’t at all times see this, however exterior the briefing room, it’s totally skilled and fully, hopefully, responsive,” Psaki stated in August. “There’s a performative part from the TV aspect of the briefing room.”
And in an interview on a podcast final month, when requested if Doocy actually was “a silly son of a bitch,” she stated: “He works for a community that gives folks with questions that ― nothing private to any particular person, together with Peter Doocy ― however may make anybody sound like a silly son of a bitch.”
Doocy, for his half, informed the Washingtonian last year it’s “a really low-blood-pressure briefing room” and that when Psaki guarantees to circle again to him on a query, she at all times does inside just a few hours.
