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Category: Press Briefings

10:36 A.M. HAST SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL:   Good morning, everybody.  Thanks for coming by and allowing us to come by. I think you just saw in the note we sent out, the President had a series of phone calls this morning…

1:22 P.M. HAST SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL:  Well, hi, everybody.  Thanks for getting together for a couple minutes here. One thing that wasn’t immediately apparent during the President’s remarks today is shortly before his remarks he had a secure conference call…

 MR. McDONOUGH:  — (in progress) — and then I had a brief update with him at the site of the remarks over on the Marine base.  And then he’s continuing to get written updates twice daily from the National Counterterrorism…

11:28 A.M. EST MR. BURTON:  Good morning, guys.  Thank you for joining us.  I asked the President if he had any special message for you guys — he would like for you to relax and to not anticipate any public…

10:25 A.M. EST MR. GIBBS:  Hello, guys.  Good morning.  I thought — last week we did a sort of happy hour briefing — today we’d do sort of a brunch briefing.  Welcome to the last press briefing of the year. …

10:30 P.M. CET   EL PRESIDENTE:  Permítanme comenzar con unas declaraciones y luego responderé un par de preguntas.   Hoy hemos logrado un avance significativo y sin precedente – un avance significativo y sin precedente aquí en Copenhague. Por primera…

2:27 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS:  Mr. Feller, take us away. Q    Thank you, Robert.  Two topics, please.  The climate talks in Copenhagen appear to be deadlocked, or at least in some trouble.  Is that how the White House sees it? …

1:44 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS:  Good afternoon.  Before we — well, let’s just get started.  I want to go through just a little bit of what the President — feedback I got from the President on this afternoon’s — or…

1:45 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS:  All right, I’ll just get slightly organized. Q    Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said not too long ago that a signing on a START I replacement would happen soon, and I’m wondering if you can flesh…

2:01 P.M. EST MR. GIBBS:  Good afternoon, guys.  Sorry we pushed it back a couple of times — the President ran a little late this morning in some meetings and wanted to make sure the pool had access to this…