EXCERPT:
JEAN-PIERRE: “Hi, I’m Karine Jean-Pierre and I am the author of a new book that’s coming out this fall called ‘Independent.’ It’s coming out on October 21st, so please, please, do grab it. And the reason I wrote this book coming out of the White House, you know, serving as the White House press secretary was an honor and a privilege. But since I have left, the people that come up to me, strangers that come up to me just across the country as I’m traveling, and sometimes right in my neighborhood, at a grocery store, supermarket, airport, my daughter’s school, the number one question they ask me is, ‘Karine, how do we get out of this? How do we protect our democracy? How do we protect vulnerable communities among us? What do we do next? Because we don’t have answers here.’ That’s what they ask me. And this is my answer. And what I mean by that is, in an era of misinformation, disinformation, the regressiveness of social policy, what we’re seeing currently right now, what I have decided to do — and I really have thought long and hard about this — is to follow my own compass. And that’s what I’ve done, and that’s what this book does.”