Josh Earnest, who served as White House Press Secretary for the last 2 1/2 years of Barack Obama’s presidency, has joined NBC News and MSNBC as a political analyst, according to an announcement from the networks on Monday. “With his wealth of experience and insight, Josh will be a great addition to our roster of […]
Hillary Clinton, who desperately wants to be the next president, hit a serious speed bump yesterday with the revelation that she never had an official State Department email account while she was Secretary of State. Instead, she used an unsecured private email account to conduct official business, in violation of government record-keeping laws. While the […]
Sounds about right, considering that she’s earning six figures for speeches across the country and has yet to say she’s running in 2016 and why she should be elected.
Following on the heels of MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews’ statement last week that he thinks the Senate will go to the Republicans in November, former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told Meet the Press host David Gregory that Democratic control of the Senate is “absolutely” in danger this year. Gibbs: If he [Obama] doesn’t get […]
According to reports in The Daily Caller and Mediaite, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is preparing to leave the White House this spring. Carney first came to the White House in 2008 as Director of Communications for Vice-President Joe Biden, and was named to his current post in 2011, succeeding Robert Gibbs. In his […]
Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe this morning to talk about the White House’s claim that the Obamacare website is now working more than 90 percent of the time: Mark Halperin: Is the administration being as forthcoming as it could be or should be about what’s working and what’s not? […]
Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski on Monday that he didn’t recall the exact discussions surrounding President Obama’s pledge that people could keep their health insurance if they wanted to under Obamacare, but he admitted that it was the “wrong move.” Brzezinski: Robert, you’re a communications guy and […]
One of the largest liberal websites—The Huffington Post—has weighed in on the launch of the Obamacare website, and they don’t like what they see . A broken website imperils the largest expansion of the American safety net since the Great Society. More than two weeks into the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov, the website created by President […]
On Sunday’s Meet The Press, former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Hillary Clinton’s early-stage presidential campaign would do well to distance itself from the presidencies of Barack Obama, and of her husband Bill. Gibbs was responding to Meet The Press anchor David Gregory’s question on how Hillary should position herself “vis-à-vis” Obama, noting that his […]
Former White House press secretary and current MSNBC contributor Robert Gibbs appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday and took a swipe at New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, after her latest column critical of President Obama appeared on Sunday. Gibbs was asked by Mika Brzezinski whether or not he had read Dowd’s latest column. I […]