Overview

• A source familiar with Karine Jean-Pierre’s transcribed interview said she reported seeing no change in Joe Biden’s competency, while noting he was not the same speaker she first knew and that health-related talking points were controlled at the senior level.
• Jean-Pierre, who served as White House press secretary from 2022 to 2025 and later left the Democratic Party, spoke for nearly five hours and did not take questions before or after the session.
• Committee leaders say their autopen investigation is in its final stages after collecting documents and testimony, with emails cited by Republicans showing Justice Department concern about late-term clemency procedures using the mechanical signature device.
• The panel’s witness roster includes more than a dozen former aides, with several—among them White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor—invoking the Fifth Amendment; former chief of staff Jeff Zients is scheduled next week for a transcribed interview.
• Republicans are scrutinizing whether thousands of clemencies and other actions signed via autopen were properly authorized, while Biden has said he personally made clemency decisions and Democrats have characterized the inquiry as partisan.