Karine Jean-Pierre, who served as press secretary in the Biden administration, is doing a round of interviews to plug her new book,  Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines . It’s been a disaster. In conversations with MSNBC  and The New Yorker, she sidestepped questions of whether Biden’s ironclad support for Israel amid its destruction of Gaza was appropriate, and if she was confident that the president could have governed effectively through January 2029.