robert gibbs is former press secretary to president obama. eugene robinson is a columnist and analyst and host to the reid report in the afternoon, maria is from voter latino. it s a team here. i want to start with you. getting ready for one of the press conferences, this is a lot of potential targets for the press. does he have a plan of what he wants the headline to be? as kelly said, that s why you do that opening statement. you want to put points on the board before. what was your batting average? not great. and certainly not great when the fbi announces who hacked sony definitively a couple hours before you do a news conference. those are the questions you prepare for. i think it s always the kind of broad maybe intro expectative questions. did you make a mistake.
ran across the north lawn, behind me. went into the unlocked front door and basically past a set of stairs that leads to the private quarters of the first family. got through much of the length of the corridor before was tackled by a secret service, not even somebody assigned there. so incalculable how much more area he could ve covered had that person not coincidentally ben there. a panel of investigators have done this report. it s not clear right now how much detail we ll learn. jay johnson said earlier today here on msnbc that a lot of it is classified. has law enforcement information. so some of this has been delayed, the release of this report as they figure out what exactly they want to release to the public. just a short time ago, josh ernest was asked whether the president has seen the report. he said he had not. although, he repeated what we heard many times from him, that
killed, apparently, by u.s. air strikes? well, i think we have to temper this a little bit. several of these individuals, when we say six weeks, there was a report in late july that one of these individuals was actually killed. so the other one, the amir of mosul, or isis commander, he was (s÷ @&h(lc% sources. so some of these individuals seem to be fairly high ranking. certainly, if he s the commander of mosul for isis, that s a senior commander. but this is not that recent. this is it s kind of odd they re making this announcement right our. because, you know, some of these guys have been dead for a while now. and, you know, just to be put this in context, in conversations i ve had with folks in u.s. intelligence, the reaction that i ve gotten has been u.s. air strikes really are not that effective in the sense that they have stopped isis campaign temporarily. but they re not achieving that many big hits in terms of senior isis leadership or in terms of
the president and the first family, have complete confidence in the secret service. nevertheless, there was a lot of concern here at the white house when this breach happened. and we expect to get more details today about that and some reaction potentially from the president who it was announced today will hold his annual end of year news conference tomorrow afternoon. joy? and chris, very quickly to follow up. you said the white house is continuing to express complete confidence in the secret service. are you hearing any rumblings there at the white house there may be further shake-ups at the agency as a result of the report? well, as you know, there s an acting director. and one of the things i asked today, and they re obviously very happy with the way things have been going because there already have been some changes in advance of this report. there is no time line, nor any personnel announcements is the way they always put it from the podium to announce. clearly they re going
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