Showing posts with label Josh Earnest. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Breaking His Silence

June 13, 2015 Iraq , ISIS 1 Comments
GWBush: You Need Boots On The Ground 

By Jesse Brynes, Jun. 12, 2015, The Hill

The United States will need combat troops on the ground to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), former President George W. Bush suggested in a new interview.

"The president will have to make that determination," Bush said in an interview published Friday with the Israel Hayom newspaper when asked if ISIS could be defeated without ground troops.

"My position was that you need to have boots on the ground," he said.

Bush made the comments days after President Obama said he was sending more troops to Iraq. Obama has authorized sending up to 450 additional U.S. troops "to train, advise, and assist" local Iraqi forces battling ISIS, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. They will not serve in combat.

There are currently 3,100 U.S. military members in Iraq, with all serving in an advisory role. The Obama administration has also opted for airstrikes to combat the terrorist group in Syria, where it has taken over large areas of land.

Bush said he faced the "very difficult decision" as president to double-down and send additional U.S. troops to Iraq amid mounting casualties and eroding public support for the war.

"I think history will show that al-Qaida in Iraq was defeated," said Bush, who in the interview described al Qaeda as "ISIS as far as I am concerned."

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Sunday, May 24, 2015

By Primary Season, She'll Say, "It's Old News"

By Primary Season, She'll Say, "It's Old News"

May 24, 2015 Benghazi , Hillary Clinton 0 Comments
W.H. Pressed on How Now-Classified Material Ended Up at Clinton’s Private Server

May 22, 2015



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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Hey, Ignore Obama's Slam Against Fox

Hey, Ignore Obama's Slam Against Fox

May 14, 2015 Barack Obama , Josh Earnest 0 Comments
Earnest to FNC’s Kevin Corke on Obama’s Fox News Swipe: ‘Don’t Take it Personally’

May 13, 2015



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GOP Backs Obama--His Democratic Base Opposes Him

GOP Backs Obama--His Democratic Base Opposes Him

May 14, 2015 GOP , Josh Earnest 0 Comments
Earnest: Failure To Fast-Track Trade Deal A ‘Procedural Snafu’

May 13, 2015



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Thursday, April 2, 2015

4 More Years! 4 More Years!

4 More Years! 4 More Years!

April 02, 2015 Barack Obama , Bret Baier 0 Comments
James Rosen: Iranian Nuke Negotiations Could Extend into 2017

Apr. 1, 2015



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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Raising Taxes--THROUGH EXECUTIVE ORDER???!!!

Raising Taxes--THROUGH EXECUTIVE ORDER???!!!

March 04, 2015 Ed Henry , Josh Earnest 0 Comments
Earnest: We’re Not Ruling Out the Option To Raise Taxes by Executive Action

 Mar. 3, 2015



HENRY: “Yesterday, you had a question from Bloomberg about executive action on taxes. And some people are interpreting this that you left the door open to the president raising taxes by executive action. Is that possible?”

EARNEST: “Well, Ed, what I will leave open is always the president’s ability to use his executive authority to move the country in the right direction, to expand opportunity for the middle class –“

HENRY: “Raising taxes is moving country forward? I didn’t ask you about moving the country forward or backward. Would the president raise taxes by executive action?”

EARNEST: “Well, Ed, there are laws that are in place that deal with Congress and their power of the purse. And it is Congress’s responsibility to make decisions about the budget. It’s why we have had such an extensive conversation about the Department of Homeland Security. The president has put forward his own tax proposal for how he thinks we can work with Congress to close loopholes that only benefit wealthy and well-connected corporations, and use the revenue that’s generated to invest in the kind of infrastructure that will create jobs and strengthen our economy over the long term. We’ve been very clear about what those policies are. But when it comes to specific steps the president may or may not take, I’m not going to rule anything in or out. This is related to the president’s ability to use his executive authority to do what he thinks is the right thing for the country. That, after all, is what the American people elected him to do. And the fact is we haven’t seen a lot of efficient production out of Congress over the last couple of months. Maybe, however, with the passage of funding for the Department of Homeland Security, maybe they’ve turned a corner.”

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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Doubling Down!

Doubling Down!

March 01, 2015 Ed Henry , ISIS 0 Comments
Earnest to Ed Henry: John Kerry Had ‘Evidence On His Side’ When He Said World Is Safer

 Feb. 26, 2015



HENRY: “I want to ask you about ISIS and Secretary Kerry. Yesterday, he testified on Capitol Hill and said, ‘Despite ISIL, despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally. Less deaths, less violent deaths.’ When you have, tragically, American families have seen their family members beheaded by ISIS, we see these images every day. How could Secretary Kerry make the claim to the American people, to the world that we’re safer than we were before?”

EARNEST: “Well, I think he could do so with the evidence on his side. What he was able to demonstrate, and I think what he was discussing, is the success that our military campaign has had in applying significant pressure to the ISIS leadership; that there are thousands of strikes that have been conducted by the United States and our coalition partners to take out ISIL targets, in some cases, even ISIL leadership targets; supply lines have been destroyed, fighting positions have been destroyed. And what this has done is it has prevented ISIL from being able to operate comfortably in Iraq and in Syria. We have been concerned from the very beginning that ISIL would attempt to use all of the instability and chaos in Syria to try to establish a safe haven that they could then use to launch targets in other locations in the world, and because of the pressure that we have applied, because of the strategy that we have pursued to have fighters on the ground to take the fight to ISIL, and to back them up with military and coalition airstrikes, that pressure has been applied and that has reduced the ability of ISIL to expand their reign of terror. That said, ISIL continues to be very dangerous, and there have been tragic incidents of violence in which Americans have been killed —“

HENRY: “You just said this is preventing ISIL from expanding their reign of terror?”

EARNEST: “That’s correct, Ed, that we have been concerned that ISIL would try to establish Syria as a safe haven where they could then use that area to plan and execute terror attacks all around the globe.”

HENRY: “Would you disagree with James Clapper, the President’s Director of National Intelligence, because he gave very direct testimony today, among other things, said that 2014 is shaping up to be the most terror attacks and deaths than the previous 45 years that this data has been collected, and said that in 55 years of his personal involvement in intelligence, he’s never seen a bigger threat to the world right now. How does that square with everything you just said? He’s the President’s Director of National Intelligence.”

EARNEST: “That’s right, and he is somebody who is reviewing this intelligence on a daily basis. What we’re talking about here is their capacity. Their capacity has been limited because of our efforts in Iraq and in Syria, because of our efforts to shut down their financing, because of our efforts to use military airpower to take out ISIL targets, because of our efforts to arm and equip fighters on the ground to take the fight to them. We are seeing the ISIL leadership is not operating comfortably in that area of the world, and they’re under extensive and extreme pressure. That does not mean that the threat that they pose has been eliminated. There is significant work that remains to be done and it’s important for us to be vigilant. It’s why we’re going to continue to pursue this multifaceted strategy to shut down their financing, to try to shut down the flow of foreign fighters, to try to counter their messaging that radicalizes people around the globe. And we’re going to continue to train and equip even more fighters to take the fight to them on the ground. And we’re going to continue this airstrike campaign against them. And that has allowed us to make progress against them. But the effort to degrade and ultimately destroy them is one that’s going to continue.”

HENRY: “And last one. Last summer you said that a lot of the president’s efforts have brought tranquility to the world. Do you stand by that?”

EARNEST: “I stand by the fact that what the President has done on numerous occasions — has used American influence, American diplomacy, and American military power to try to make the world a safer place for the American people. And there is no doubt that we face significant threats from terrorist organizations and others around the globe. The world is a dangerous place. But there is no doubt that the President is using his authority as the Commander-in-Chief to protect the American people and to make it a safer place for the American people.”

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Friday, October 31, 2014

Obama flat-out hostile

October 31, 2014 Barack Obama , Benjamin Netanyahu 0 Comments
White House Tries To Ease Flare-Up Over Netanyahu Insults

Oct. 29, 2014, FoxNews.com

The White House on Wednesday sought to tamp down the controversy over a magazine piece that detailed deep tensions between the U.S. and Israel – and quoted an unnamed senior Obama administration official calling the Israeli leader a “chickenshit.”

Administration officials, including White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, did not deny the quote. They also did not signal there would be any robust effort to find out who said it.

But Alistair Baskey, spokesman for the National Security Council, said the criticism does not reflect how the rest of the administration views Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Attkisson Wastes No Time Linking Carney's Successor To Benghazi --Biased header: She's suppose to first "waste time"?

June 03, 2014 Benghazi , Josh Earnest 0 Comments
By Tom Kludt, May 30, 2014, Talkingpointsmemo.com

Sharyl Attkisson, the investigative reporter who left CBS News earlier this year reportedly because of her frustrations with the network's perceived liberal bias, said Friday that the new face of the White House's press team stifled her efforts to get more information about the 2012 attack in Benghazi.

Almost immediately after President Obama announced that Josh Earnest would replace Jay Carney as White House press secretary, Attkisson reacted to the news on Twitter.
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