The White House feigned ignorance that President Barack Obama had anything to do with the redaction of the transcripts. “The decision about the release of the transcripts is one that was made solely by Department of Justice and FBI officials,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said to reporters during the daily press briefing.
White House press secretary Josh Earnest confirmed reports that President Barack Obama hasn’t called Republican governor of Florida Rick Scott after the terrorist attack at a gay club in Orlando, Florida on Sunday.
“The president’s been quite disappointed that Congress, Republicans in Congress have underfunded our countering violent extremism efforts,” said White House press secretary Josh Earnest during the press briefing today, telling reporters that the president had requested an increase in the budget.
When asked whether Earnest thinks that the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email is criminal, he replied, “I would have no insight in that, because I am not getting any sort of briefings from the Department of Justice about that ongoing investigation.”
The White House press secretary has remained defiant after insisting falsely that the moment was inaudible due to crosstalk. When pressed on the issue, he finally admitted that no, he would not restore the transcript to reflect the truth of what happened during the briefing.
Fox News reporter James Rosen again brought up the incident during today’s press briefing, challenging the notion that the response was “inaudible” although the transcript didn’t include that description.
“Can you state categorically that no senior official in this administration has ever lied publicly about any aspect of the Iran nuclear deal?” That question to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest was asked by Fox News reporter Kevin Corke
The Obama administration is downplaying recent blowups between the Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigns, accusing the media of mistakenly hyping the differences between the candidates.
The Obama administration is defending its decision to open up school bathrooms to students of the opposite sex, arguing that it was an effort to provide more “security” and “dignity” to students across the country.
President Barack Obama is eagerly anticipating the chance to hit the campaign trail to combat Donald Trump, while the Democratic nomination process drags on. “President Obama is keenly aware of the significant stakes of the outcome of the next election,”
The White House is congratulating voters in the city of London for electing a Muslim mayor.
The White House denies playing a role in the Justice Department’s decision to threaten North Carolina over the “bathroom” law passed by the state government in March.
The Obama administration praised House Speaker John Boehner’s sense of humor after he starred in a comedic video with the president for the White House Correspondents Dinner last weekend.
One of the stars from the television show “The West Wing” appeared at the White House Press briefing today, surprising reporters in the room.
TEL AVIV – Following Vice President Joe Biden’s damning remarks about the Israeli government, the White House said that disagreements between Israel and the U.S. are “a matter of policy.”
Monday at the White House press briefing, when asked about President Barack Obama’s remarks to Fox News that his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, had not jeopardized national security, White House spokesman Josh
President Obama will appear on the upcoming Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, the White House confirmed today. Speaking to reporters, White House press Secretary Josh Earnest said that the interview would be taped at the University of Chicago, where the
White House press secretary Josh Earnest stepped up the president’s ongoing anti-Donald Trump messaging by criticizing the Republican front runner at a press briefing today.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest says President Obama would not tolerate a staffer accused of battery like Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
TEL AVIV – Hillary Rodham Clinton is against the UN Security Council imposing terms for an Israeli-Palestinian peace process “from without,” her campaign said on Tuesday. In an op-ed Clinton wrote for the Jewish newspaper the Forward, the presidential hopeful
This afternoon, I had the opportunity to attend a press briefing at Donald Trump’s future residence, the White House. There, if I’m not mistaken, the current Press Secretary advised me to sue Twitter. I wanted to find out if the
In Friday afternoon’s White House Press Briefing, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest told Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos that President Obama “would be the first one to observe that the success of … social media and some of those social media tools is in fact predicated on the idea of freedom of expression.”
Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos was at the White House on Friday, where he asked Press Secretary Josh Earnest a range of questions on topics from free speech to the political bias of social media companies.
Appearing on the John Catsimatidis radio show on AM 970 in New York on Sunday, former police commissioner Ray Kelly accused the White House of slashing anti-terrorism funding for the city to punish Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for opposing the Iran nuclear deal.
TEL AVIV – A report on Israeli television on Tuesday night charged that the recently enacted U.S. Customs policy to label products from the West Bank was an “under the radar” policy change with regard to the settlements. Last month, the U.S. issued a reminder that products imported from the West Bank or Gaza Strip should not be labeled “Made in Israel,” in accordance with a 1995 law. The reminder sparked accusations that Washington was hardening its position against Israeli settlement activity, a claim that U.S. officials rejected.
Breitbart News reported on January 30 that Facebook and Instagram were tightening their anti-gun policies by barring private citizens from advertising gun sales on the social media platforms.
Wednesday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest reacted to Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s plan to skip the Fox News debate Thursday. Earnest said, “Since you brought up the Politico interview, the president himself noted that he
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reacted to Sarah Palin’s comments about her son Track Palin – who was recently ridiculed by critics of the family after police were called to respond to reports of domestic violence.
The United States’ sent Iran $400 million in debt plus $1.3 billion in interest, and the money was disbursed as a ransom payment for four American hostages of the Islamic regime, a top Iranian commander said Wednesday afternoon. Therefore, the U.S. paid the Iranian regime $425 million dollars per American hostage, according to the commander.
The Obama administration is increasingly growing defensive, after two U.S. Navy boats and 10 sailors were detained by Iran, particularly while Republicans running for president argue that America has grown weaker under Obama’s leadership.
Barack Obama has a history of humiliating photo-ops associated with his full-blown Radical Islam Denial Syndrome: the burning consulate in Benghazi juxtaposed with Obama partying it up in Vegas with Beyonce; the dead bodies of ISIS-slain Parisians juxtaposed with Obama telling the world that ISIS could be fought with a climate change summit; corpses in San Bernardino juxtaposed with Obama simultaneously telling a national audience that ISIS was contained.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest stated, “the kind of provocative destabilizing actions that have been a hallmark of Iranian behavior over the last several decades” is why the US made the Iran nuclear deal a top priority on Tuesday’s
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest stated that if the president succeeds in closing Guantanamo Bay, some of the inmates will “probably” be brought to the US on Tuesday’s “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox News Channel. Earnest said [relevant remarks
President Obama announced today that he vetoed legislation sent to his desk from the Republican-led Congress that would repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood.
The White House continues to dismiss concerns from gun owners that President Obama is threatening their Second Amendment rights by enacting executive actions on gun control.
During a January 4 press briefing, White House press secretary Josh Earnest cited debunked Everytown for Gun Safety statistics as one of the reasons behind President Obama’s decision to move forward with executive gun control.
Barack Obama insists his planned executive actions on gun control were “entirely consistent” with the Constitution – even as organizations defending the Second Amendment have warned him not to act on his own.
The Obama administration criticized members of Congress for refusing to address gun control – accusing pro-gun politicians of both parties of causing more gun deaths.
On December 10, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it is “tragic” that Americans are pouring into gun stores to buy weapons because America is already “awash in guns.”
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that attorneys at the White House and Department of Justice have been determining “what kinds of authorities the president does have to pass executive actions” on gun control and hopefully this determination “something
