“Do you think he should be president right now?” Keilar asked. “Do you think that he is capable right now of being president? Because that was what you were advocating for, someone who would be president in his current state until 2029?”

“I did not see anything that concerned me when he decided to run for president. I did not,” Jean-Pierre said. “This is someone that I saw every single day. Again, he was on top of the policies. He was sharp. He was someone that cared about what the outcome of the issues that were in front of the American people and what we were doing. I‘m speaking from my own personal opinion. I‘m speaking from what I saw on a day-to-day basis.”

Jean-Pierre’s new book has criticized the Democratic Party for how it ousted former President Joe Biden from his re-election bid. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Ben Curtis/AP Photo)

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Jean-Pierre is promoting a new book, “Independent,” about her break from the Democrats. She vents in the book that her boss was treated cruelly by his party when they pushed him out of the White House race.

Keilar’s colleague Jake Tapper co-authored the bombshell book “Original Sin” this year that laid out, in painful detail, numerous anecdotes of Biden’s mental decline behind the scenes and his inner circle covering it up.

“I can’t speak to sources,” Jean-Pierre said Friday. “I can’t speak to a book I actually haven’t read.”

Keilar was incredulous.

“You say you haven‘t read it, and you don‘t plan to read it,” Keilar said. “I mean, why not? I mean, if most people, a lot of people, if the leadership of their workplace imploded and someone wrote a book with 200 sources, many of them good, they would want to read it. They‘d want to reflect on that. Why not?”

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Jean-Pierre has repeatedly insisted she had no concerns about Biden’s mental faculties, and she reiterated that on CNN. Biden eventually left the race last year and was replaced by Kamala Harris on the Democratic ticket, who went on to lose to President Donald Trump.

Jean-Pierre is harshly critical of Democrats for not doing enough for Harris, in addition to what she considers a betrayal of Biden.

Jean-Pierre’s interviewers this week have pointed out the numerous sources who said Biden had clearly declined during his presidency, forgetting people he’d known for years and appearing lost and confused both behind the scenes and in public.

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Jean-Pierre pivoting to criticizing the Trump administration during the CNN interview, saying she wanted to talk about being in an “unprecedented situation.”

Karine Jean-Pierre discusses her new book during a town hall event with SiriusXM host Clay Cane at SiriusXM Studios on Oct. 20, 2025, in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

“These are dangerous times, and so I‘m asking, like millions of other Americans, for the Democratic Party to meet the moment,” she said. “I‘m trying to create a conversation.”

“We talk about it every day on the show about this moment that we are in and the things we see happening every day,” Keilar replied. “We would be remiss if we didn‘t talk about how we got to this moment. That is certainly essential.”

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Biden told journalist Tommy Christopher on his Substack platform that while he had not read Harris’ book, he’s been hurt by the things he’s heard coming from it – feeling she had betrayed a sense of loyalty to former President Joe Biden.

“I don’t know, I’d have to admit, it’s personally painful,” Biden said. “I just think that people like particularly the vice president is that–I guess my… Personally, you know, sense of loyalty.”

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Hunter Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images; Big Event Media/Getty Images for HumanX Conference)

He continued, “Is it for her to, in a book, to try to distance herself and take the– what I would call the really easy path to distance herself. To–what I guess she thinks. I think that the biggest complaint about the vice president has always been is that, which I never believe, and I really mean it, is that she is not authentic.”

He accused Harris of trying to “play both sides” with her memoir, such as her retroactively suggesting that she should have encouraged the former president to drop out of the race sooner.

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris has been going on tour to promote her new presidential campaign memoir, “107 Days.” (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS via Getty Images)

“[Joe Biden] chose her out of loyalty and I just don’t understand, I guess I don’t understand why someone would choose the expedient path as it relates to that relationship, their own political expediency,” Biden said.

Despite his frustrations, Biden said Harris had an “incredible résumé” and that he would have “gladly” voted for her for president in a different race.

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Hunter Biden accused former Vice President Kamala Harris of trying to distance herself from his father. (Saul Loeb/pool/AFP via Getty Images)

“Anyway, but that just makes me, again, it’s like, you know, because I really love, I love what she represented, and I love the fact that my dad made the decision,” Biden added.

Harris’ office declined to comment to Fox News Digital.

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Harris’ memoir, “107 Days,” which offers a look inside her brief presidential campaign, has pushed the former vice president back into the spotlight as she promotes the book on tour. The tour has received mixed reviews from liberal critics.

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Harris, who was defeated by President Donald Trump in last year’s election, told the BBC she is keeping her options open and dismissed polls that view her as a 2028 outsider. She also branded the president a “tyrant.”

“I am not done,” she told the United Kingdom outlet. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service, and it’s in my bones.”

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris discusses her new memoir “107 Days” at the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival 2025 in London Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025. (James Manning/PA Images via Getty Images)

Harris lost the electoral college to Trump 312-226 and went down by 2.3 million votes in the popular vote. She entered the race as the Democratic primary nominee after President Joe Biden withdrew from the election after a disastrous debate performance.

Since the defeat, Harris kept a low enough profile until the publication last month of her book, “107 Days,” detailing her short, failed presidential campaign. In the book, she argues she had too little time to define her message or distance herself from Biden’s record. She also cited Democrat infighting and a lack of donor confidence.

In her BBC interview, Harris left the door open to another White House run, saying her grandnieces would “in their lifetime, for sure” see a female president.

When asked if that person could be her, she replied, “possibly,” signaling she’s considering another bid.

Harris said she hasn’t made a decision but still sees herself as having a political future.

There is no clear frontrunner to lead the Democrats into the 2028 election, and a potential crowded list of nominees includes California Gov. Gavin Newsom; former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt;, and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, among others.

Harris said she was undeterred by unfavorable polls.

“If I listened to polls, I would have not run for my first office or my second office, and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here,” she said.

The full interview will air on Sunday, but the BBC released excerpts Saturday.

Harris said her concerns that Trump would act like an authoritarian have come true.

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Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, takes the stage at the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago Aug. 22, 2024.  (Reuters/Mike Segar)

“He said he would weaponize the Department of Justice, and he has done exactly that,” Harris told the BBC.

She pointed to the suspension of late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel by ABC after he made a joke about Republican reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk.

Kimmel’s show was suspended by ABC after Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened broadcasters, and the move was celebrated by Trump. Kimmel appeared to falsely suggest the alleged assassin was a MAGA supporter and was brought back on air the following week.

“You look at what has happened in terms of how he has weaponized, for example, federal agencies going around after political satirists. … His skin is so thin he couldn’t endure criticism from a joke and attempted to shut down an entire media organization in the process,” Harris said.

Harris labeled Trump a “tyrant,” accusing business leaders and institutions of cozying up to the president and bowing to his demands.

Donald Trump and Melania Trump during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Fla.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“There are many … that have capitulated since day one, who are bending the knee at the foot of a tyrant, I believe, for many reasons, including they want to be next to power because they want to perhaps have a merger approved or avoid an investigation,” Harris said.

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The White House was dismissive when asked by the BBC for a response to Harris’ comments.

“When Kamala Harris lost the election in a landslide, she should’ve taken the hint. The American people don’t care about her absurd lies,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told Fox News Digital in a statement. “Or maybe she did take the hint, and that’s why she’s continuing to air her grievances to foreign publications.”

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