White House press secretary says she wasn’t aware of Capitol attack (video)

White House press secretary Jen Psaki stated that she was not aware of the situation at the US Capitol while briefing reporters from the podium on Friday.

A reporter asked: “There's a security situation at the US Capitol that I know you're not aware of right now. Can you just remind us with the President not on campus here, who's with him to brief him on issues?”

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“I’m obviously not aware, as Kelly acknowledged, of the situation at the Capitol,” Psaki said at the briefing.

Furthermore, Psaki continued: “The President of the United States always travels with a national security rep, of course within, somebody who serves as essentially an acting chief of staff, typically a member of the press team, who travels regularly to kind of reconstruct the team that's around him in the White House.”

Biden has arrived at Camp David after leaving the White House earlier on Friday.

In the same vein, the White House Correspondent Kelly O'Donnell stated that the "US Capitol lockdown has been lifted so personnel can move about again and leave the complex after deadly incident."

A car rammed into two Capitol Police officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday afternoon, and the driver got out of the vehicle as he was brandishing a knife before being shot by authorities.