he s also asking those protesters to be peaceful and specifically mentioned churches have been attacked. so, jake, asking for peace on both sides, do you get anything would by not cracking down and saying enough is enough? a senior white house official told me that the way that this came about is that, first of all, yesterday president obama had been briefed on the situation in egypt by his national security adviser dr. seuss susan rice. but this morning the president had a phone call which is referred to as the principals meeting. secretary of defense, secretary of state, director of national intelligence. it was in that briefing that the president heard what the result was of yesterday. what actually how bad it was after the smoke cleared. that motivated him to come out today and call for calm. and he called for not only the
been up dadated by his national security staff. i don t have a characterization of his reaction to development except to say he s monitoring it closely. the disappoint we feel is every dent by what i just said. you want answers on why snowden s passport wasn t pulled sooner in. i think there s been let me say a couple of things about that because the statement department explained this yesterday. as a routine matter persons with felony arrest washtss are subject to having their passports revoked. such a revocation does not affect citizenship status. persons wanted on felonycharges should not be allowed to proceed in any international travel other than necessary to return them to the united states. because of the privacy act and
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