10:06 A.M. EST MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon. Good morning. Good night. (Laughter.) Before we take and do our regularly scheduled program, John Brennan — who you all know as the President’s chief counterterror and homeland security advisor — is…
Category: Press Briefings
11:15 A.M. EST MR. GIBBS: Mr. Feller. Q Thanks, Robert. A few topics, please. On the President’s meeting with the Hispanic Caucus that’s going on now, I assume — MR. GIBBS: Yes. Q Can you…
12:44 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS: Mr. Feller. Q Thanks, Robert. A few questions on START. Can you give us your updated sense of where we stand? Does the White House feel that it has — still has the votes? MR.…
12:00 P.M. EST SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good morning. I appreciate very much the President’s words about Ambassador Holbrooke. It was a week ago this morning that he and I and members of our team were meeting about this review…
2:15 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon. Let’s — let me do a quick readout from the President’s Afghanistan meeting — Pakistan meeting this morning. President Obama met for nearly two hours with his national security team on Afghanistan and…
1:50 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS: Mr. Feller. Q Two topics. On the health care ruling, the passage here in which the judge says that the unchecked expansion of congressional power to the limit suggested by the minimum coverage…
1:48 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS: Mr. Kuhnhenn, take us away. Q Thank you, Robert. We had a little House Democratic action today, and in the wake of that, the Speaker said that the tax plan would not come to the…
2:16 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS: You heard from the President today — make the case why we need to get this done, and most importantly, why we need to get this done for our economy. So I know some of…
2:25 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Before I answer a few questions, I just wanted to say a few words about the agreement we’ve reached on tax cuts. My number one priority is to do what’s…
10:51 A.M. EST MR. BURTON: Thank you all for joining this flight down to North Carolina. This is Hannah August. It’s her first flight on Air Force One. She promised not to break anything. Okay, any questions? …
