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Category: Press Briefings

12:54 P.M. EDT         MR. CARNEY:  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  Thank you for being here.  I have a brief statement from the President on the attacks in Mumbai today.           “I strongly condemn the outrageous attacks in Mumbai. …

12:55 P.M. EDT         MR. CARNEY:  I think we’re ready.  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  Thanks for being here on this very, very warm day in the summer in Washington.         I have no announcements to make, so I will…

1:06 P.M. EDT         MR. CARNEY:  Thank you all.  Get set up here.  We’ll let that be my topper and I’ll go straight to questions.         Mr. Feller.         Q    Thanks, Jay.  The President said that the talks were very…

4:54 P.M. EDT         MR. CARNEY:  That pretty much sums it up.  Anybody have any questions?  Mr. Feller?         Q    Thanks, Jay.  Let me follow real quickly on two points the President made.  So is he then ruling out White…

12:30 P.M. EDT         MR. CARNEY:  Before I get started I just wanted to say that today, as you know, I believe, the White House announced through its official Twitter account, @whitehouse, that it will host its first ever Twitter…

11:30 A.M. EDT         MR. CARNEY:  How is everyone today, good?  Happy to be here? Awesome.  Okay.  Just a quick bit of background on the President’s trip to the Alcoa Davenport Works Factory in Bettendorf, Iowa.         Today President Obama…

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:53 P.M. EDT MR. CARNEY: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Let me begin with a brief readout. I just went in and spoke to the President about his meeting with Senator Reid, the meeting…

12:52 P.M. EDT         MR. CARNEY:  I have a week ahead.  Do you want me to read that, or do you want to go to questions —         Q    Can you put it at the end?         MR. CARNEY:  Let’s…

2:13 P.M. EDT         MR. CARNEY:  I’m sorry, I didn’t realize we weren’t on a long flight.  I’ll just start with this.  Just to let you know, on June 28th, the President will visit Alcoa Davenport Works factory in Bettendorf,…

Via Conference Call 3:32 P.M. EDT MR. VIETOR: Thanks, everybody, for getting on. We are going to do this on background from senior administration officials. The goal is to preview the President’s speech with a hard embargo at 8:00 p.m.,…