White House press secretary Jen Psaki was put on defense during a sit-down interview with 'CBS Mornings' when anchor Gayle King the Biden administration's 'very bad behavior.'
'[Biden] appears to be under the gun on so many different levels,' King said.
'That's what you do as president - you navigate crises,' Psaki shot back. 'You weather storms and we're certainly doing that right now.'
On the heels of the frenzied Afghanistan withdrawal, Psaki said that President Biden would at the United Nations General Assembly portray a message that 'we're not going to look inward after a 20 year war, we're going to look outward at what is most important to address.'
'Its good to say we're going to look outward but we can't ignore what's happened before,' King said.
'We're still getting hammered for how the withdrawal from Afghanistan happened ... we all agree that's not a good look,' she continued.
'That's what you do as president - you navigate crises,' Jen Psaki, above, said when CBS' Gayle King said that Biden appears to be 'under the gun.' 'You weather storms and we're certainly doing that right now'
'You look at what's happening with immigration, you look at France now saying they've been betrayed by the US, so I get that we have to look forward but what are we doing to justify, to explain what appears to be very bad behavior on our part?' King asked Psaki
White House press secretary Jen Psaki was put on defense during a sit-down interview with 'CBS Mornings' when anchor Gayle King the Biden administration's 'very bad behavior.'
'You look at what's happening with immigration, you look at France now saying they've been betrayed by the US, so I get that we have to look forward but what are we doing to justify, to explain what appears to be very bad behavior on our part?'
'We don't see it that way,' Psaki replied, admitting that France was 'displeased' with the US for stepping in on their market of selling submarines to Australia as part of the AUKUS deal.
France, miffed at what it considered a backroom deal, recalled its ambassador to the US last week.
'But we have a long, abiding friendship with them that is going to endure,' Psaki added.
King and her co-anchors also pressed Psaki on the images of border officials trying to get a handle on the sudden influx of Haitian migrants at the southern border.
Psaki said the images and video were 'horrific' and would be investigated. Video and images circulated yesterday where Border Patrol officers pushed migrants back to the Mexico side of the Rio Grande. In some images, officers are swinging the reins of their horses toward migrants in a display that some characterized as whipping.
