While we wait for this event with Health Secretary Sylvia Burwell to get under way, well show you some of todays white house briefing. Good afternoon, everybody. I to not have any announcements at the top, so we can go straight to questions. Could you say what role the white house played, if any, in terry carter ordering the pentagon to stop recruitment recoupment of the enlistment bonuses sought from some guard members . Mr. Earnest as you know, the president makes the fair treatment of our Service Members a top priority. Officials at the department of defense and as i alluded to yesterday, the president has been pleased to see in the last 24 hours the department of defense make some specific commitments to ensuring that our Service Members are treated fairly. When a promise is made to our men and women in uniform, we should keep it. Certainly thats the view of the president. And we certainly want to avoid a situation where Service Members are punished because of nefarious or fraudule
Next president ial administration but a transition of power if it should occur on the hill. We have olivier wright, then kimberly heffling. Xt to kimberly is margaret talus, senior White House Correspondent for bloomberg the nd jackie kahn for new york times. Our panel is well versed on issues this morning. Weve got 21 days until election day. Journalists are probably thinking, what next . We hope this panel gives you some insight and practical tapes tips on how to 1 2 gate the prans education to the transition to the next administration and what happens on the hill. So let me just ask the panel, what are your tips for covering the transition for the next, not only 21 tais but for the first 100 days of the next administration. Olivier . Olivier the principle of coverage of this is no different than principle of coverage of the white house. When you cover the white house its best not to cover the white house. Talk to congress, the agency, talk to the political operatives, talk to above
Thats something we ought to look at. Im very interested to see what happens. That may give us an opening. Im happy to stand here with my colleagues and can certainly tell you that i the frustration that we all feel should really culminate in positive action. Thank you all for being here. Cheers and applause] mr. Larson just so you know, and its a hue rumor, we want to make members aware of this, there are reports that theyre going to come back in, some said at 7 00, other reports say 8 00, we to take up legislation so urge people to be close to the floor and be with mr. Lewis during this time period. Our next speaker is dina titus. While dina is coming down, im going to give you the order of people right after dina, marcy kaptur and then Eddie Bernice johnson. Dina. Ms. Titus thank you, john, thank you, mr. Lewis, thank all of you for staying with us tonight. Others have spoken much more eloquently than i can but i want to add my voice to this proud chorus of democrats calling for acti
Vision. The urn says nearly 4 million syrians are in need of humanitarian blade. Oscar pistorius wants to last month an Appeals Court threw out his manslaughter conviction and found him guilty of the murder of his girlfriend two years ago. Pistorious claimed he thought he was shooting an intruder at the 2012 olympics, pistorious was the first amputee sprinter to compete against ablebodied athletes. Staying over overseas for the first time, a member of spains royal family on trial. Princess cristina accused of taking part in a massive embezzlement scam that involved her husband and 16 others. She is the sister of the king of throne. If convicted she faces eight years behind bars. The trial resumes next month. New details in the spree of Jewelry Store robberies in five states across the southeast. Abigail lee kemp made her First Court Appearance yesterday and it was revealed she told fbi agents that lewis jones iii was also involved in the robberies. After the fbi asked for the publics h
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