WH Counsel spokesman surprised by reporter questioning credentials, asking for boss: 'Should I be offended?'

A White House Counsel spokesman was taken aback Friday when a reporter took issue with his credentials and asked for his boss to take over because he had given "factually incorrect" information.

The White House press briefing attempted to discredit observations in Special Counsel Robert Hur's report that have renewed questions about President Biden's mental acuity. Ian Sams, spokesman for the White House Counsel's Office, said the report cleared Biden of any wrongdoing related to his handling of classified documents, but offered sharp criticism of Hur's description of the president as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

"Unfortunately, the gratuitous remarks that the former attorney general talked about have naturally caught headlines in all of your attention," Sams told reporters at the briefing. "They're wrong and they're inaccurate."

However, Sams himself was called out for being inaccurate.

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"Two questions just for clarity," Jon Decker, the White House correspondent for Gray Television, began. "You're from the White House Counsel's office, correct? But you're not a lawyer, correct?"

Sams replied affirmatively to both and said, "I'm a spokesperson."

The reporter then asked to speak with Sams' boss in his stead, "Any chance that we'll get the White House counsel to come out here and answer questions directly?"

Sams, visibly taken off guard, asked, "Should I be offended by that?" He stammered in surprise, "What? I mean, come on."

"I get offended all the time," press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre assured Sams.

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