Karine Jean-Pierre, the former White House press secretary, is participating in a media tour to promote her new book, Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines . Her numerous appearances with otherwise ideologically friendly interviewers—Stephen Colbert, Tim Miller, Gayle King—have not gone well, for a very specific reason: She has no satisfying answer to the question on everyone's minds.

That question, which has rightly been put to her every single time she appears on television, is: How could you not have known the president was in such bad shape?

When King asked her version of the question , Jean-Pierre responded thusly.

"I was his White House press secretary, which means I had a role that saw him practically every day and traveled with him for more tha

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