afternoon, the president made yet another rare appearance here in the briefing room interrupting jay carney's daily briefing saying he had a personnel announcement saying carney was leaving. there's no connection between the departures of shinseki and carney. the president wanted to get both moves out of the way before he heads to europe on monday night. particularly in the case of shinseki. one of the stops will be at normandy for the 70th anniversary of d-day. the bottom line is the president wanted to get shinseki out before having to go there. >> at least he didn't say he read about the resignations in the newspaper. >> that's right. >> dana perino will be here later with reaction. sally barnes breen and deborah allen, thank you both for being here. >> thank you. >> sally, i have read your story. both of your stories have brought me to tears. how do you feel about today's news? is it enough that he's stepping down? >> not at all. this is not intriguing me in the least, no. >> deborah, what do you think it's going to take? i know there is nothing they can do to make this up. the massive mi

media keep pressing on and on because yesterday during the exchange between abc's jonathan karl and jay carney, carney said specifically when asked who gave the line about the video he said, oh, the cia's jim more elle gave that in his testimony. >> mike more elle. >> mike more elle. that's not true. anywhere in his testimony say the line originated from the cia. jay carney was standing up lying right to jonathan karl's face. to your point about new information, isn't it true that a new round of documents that could take months to come out is slated through judicial watch to also be released? so there is more to come. >> we expect more to come. but, you know, i want to be clear. i'm not saying that benghazi should go away forever and ever as an issue if there's no new e-mails in the next week or two just like the health care law, it's something that we and others will be talking about for a long time because the law will be implemented over the next several years. today i think jay carney may have gotten three or four questions about health care. that doesn't mean it's no longer important, tha

somebody just tweeted me that jay carney should be on "dancing with the stars" because he was doing a lot of tap dancing today. >> second day in a row that carney was under fire getting tough questions from various people in the briefing room. the key question, this ben rhodes e-mail we've been talking about, these talking points helping prepare susan rice, then the u.s. ambassador to the united nations for those five appearances on the sunday talk shows, the question being, was this about benghazi or not? jay carney saying for the second straight day, they did not turn over this document for well over a year because it was not about benghazi, even though we now know that it was turned over in the last few days because judicial watch was demanding documents about what? benghazi. that's why i asked this question -- if the e-mail was not about benghazi as you said yesterday and you say again today, why did the white house turn it over to a conservative group seeking information about benghazi? >> you would have to ask the state department about how they responded to foia requests. i wou

jay carney is stepping down as white house press secretary.ays after carney leaked the identity of the top cia agent in afghanistan but despite the monumental misstep, the president was full of praise. take a look. >> jay has become one of my closest friends and is a great press secretary, and a great advisor, he's got good judgment and temperament and he's got a good heart and i'm going >> dana, what are your thoughts? the press secretary, an honor to work for a president obama and to have -- i can't imagine how sort of fulfilled and joyous he felt. no matter how embattled the press secretary has been, that's something they can't take away. the job on press secretary has changed a lot since the regan and bush 41 era. marlin who was press secretary under regan and stays for the first bush term for 41 stayed in that job for eight years. now remember there was no internet then. there wasn't the 24/7 news cycle. fox news was not a glimmer, we had nothing like that at the time and changes with how much preparing you have to do and have on call con

announces jay carney leaving, appointing josh earnest now to fill that post. i take it this was a big surprise, right? >> well, it was. jay carney had given no hint that he was ready to give it up, but after two years as vice president's biden's press secretary and three years for president obama, he really was pushing the limits at a demanding job, it's easy to get burned out. >> jay has become one of my closest friends and is a great press secretary, and a great advisor, he's got good judgment, he has a good temperament, and he's got a good heart. >> carney says he won't be leaving right away, he's looking at the second or third week in june before taking the summer off, gretchen? >> so tell me a little bit more about his replacement, i mean the reporters know who he is, he's been, there right? >> josh ernest is the guy you see sitting beside jay carney, he's from kansas city, he's 37, his mother's a psychologist and his father's a school athletic director, he will pick up the president's trip to europe to celebrate the 70th anniversary of d-day. and the fre

jay carney aside, you've been in d.c. a long time.e about the job of a white house press secretary. just how tough is it having to deal with reporters like yourself who are going to ask tough questions and want answers? >> i'm not over there. there are a people lot tougher than i am over there. it's not nearly as good a job as it probably was 30 or 40 years ago. and i think most press secretaries really aren't intimately involved with policy. i think probably carney's predecessor, robert gibbs, was an exception to that. but it's not unimportant because it's the face you present on some issues to the public. but it can be a very frustrating job. >> "political capital" host a.l. hunt. you can see his full interview with house minority leader nancy pelosi and congressman peter roskam, republican from illinois, on "political capital" tonight at 9:00 p.m. washington time right here on bloomberg television. stay with us. we're going to have another check of the market movers on the other side of the break. "bottom line" on bloomberg televis

jonah you have role of jay carney in all this. >> jay carney is unusual creature in washington. on one hand is very confident liar and other hand he is not very believable liar. usually those two things go together. he said, initially that he white house changed the exactly one word in these talking points. he is saying that these talking points had nothing to do with benghazi which strains credulity even for the biggest offenders. this memo was written on september 14th, i believe the day that the bodies were coming back and hillary clinton and went and hugged the families, telling them that we're going to go after these people with the video. the idea that somehow this memo was talking about americans who were done harm and all of that wasn't about benghazi, is the kind of thing that, even barack obama's biggest defenders in the press corps are going to have a hard time swallowing it is such nakedly unpersuasive untruth. jon: jonah goldberg, nationalreview.online. ron fournier also with us there from "national journal." gentlemen, thank you both. >> thank you. jenna: new fallo

do with the talking points and now it's been exposed they do, are you going to go along with the jay carneydon't believe that crap, do you? no no, that's a yes or no. >> let me just say this. what carney said is that particular e-mail did not cover benghazi. those were general talking points. >> and three days after -- >> but what i would also say is that what the e-mail shows is that it seemed like no one really knew what the other was doing. >> hang on. basel, you didn't answer my question. i asked you do you believe three days after the attack that killed four americans in the lead-up to sunday shows with susan rice prep, are you telling me you buy that crap that they're spewing in the white house? you believe that bull? >> you know what? i didn't buy it, and i'll tell you exactly why. >> i didn't think you did. >> i didn't buy it because that soon after the fact, to me it was going to be really difficult to get all the information you needed to get to make a great assessment about what happened. >> well, that's the nature of our news cycle today and the 24-hour news. everyone demands an

out and you will see, according to jay carney, that there was nothing nefarious about it. let the facts speak for themselves. i think they should be cooperating. in jay carney was in the press corps where he used to be, he would be demanding for this information to come out. that's the nature are where he was before. i think that the administration should be supportive. trey gowdy is a very responsible member of congress. he will play it straight and i have every reason to believe he will run a very good, clean investigation, that's not trying to predict the outcome. i think he wants to see what the facts are. >> you were on the inside of the white house. did you find it unusual that the national security spokesperson, the former one, a few days ago with brett bair said that president obama was not in the situation room on the night of the attack. >> i don't think that's odd. the president does not have to be in the situation room with every crisis. usually they're interested enough where they want to go but they also know there is a lot of work being done. my question wou

not an easy day for jay carney as the president's spokesperson. continues to be hammered by a slew of reporters now on the v.a. scandal. and whether or not the president still has confidence in secretary shinseki. and also, what about this criminal investigation that now some members of congress are suggesting should happen? jay carney continues to deflect many of these questions about when the president's going to respond yet again to this or when he might take action and ask for the resignation of eric shinseki. we are keeping a close eye on this briefing. we will bring you more fireworks as they continue. >>> in the meantime, a lot of heat going on capitol hill right now as veterans affairs committee grill top v.a. officials following that scathing new i.g. report revealing a quote, systemic breakdown nationwide. and for one freshman lawmaker whose father served in the military, the issue is deeply personal. >> our focus remains on caring for these veterans. we join you in this -- may i finish? >> no, because i have five minutes. if that has be

we have yet to see if it's a similar environment today with jay carney. yesterday carney said referencing those talking points susan rice had which we now know were false, he referenced that that was the best information that we had at that time. why didn't they come out and say that rather than doing what we now know was misleading the public and putting out false talking points? it's going to be really tough for democrats to try to distract from this conversation right now. >> yeah. steve, welcome again to the program. give us your thoughts. you've seen this news develop throughout the day here. >> well, you know, what's interesting is let this be a lesson to the kids watching right now. when you tell a lie and you get caught, you get in trouble. you were talking earlier about how there's clearly been a cover up because they got caught, but there was also system sort of a conspiracy because the general lovell today said we knew at 3:15 in the morning that it was not the video. the white house knew, the cia knew. we knew at fox news the next day that it

>> jay carney said that he will address these matters "soon."at could be tomorrow, that could be a week from now, could be a month from now. frankly, it was almost a month ago that i asked the president at a news conference in manila when this scandal first broke in phoenix about allegedly 40 patients dying as they were waiting for care. so he says the president will address this at some point but it is interesting because they keep saying he's angry about this, he's telling his staff he wants something to be done, but i pressed jay carney as well on why have we not heard more from him and what can we expect in the days ahead. >> why do you keep saying, and you've been saying, the president is mad as hell. >> he is mad as hell. >> why are we not hearing that expressed from him. >> i'm sure you'll be hearing from him soon. he did answer not sure if it was in response to your question or someone else's when these allegations first arose. he's strongly supported the action taken by general shinseki. he's sent deputy rob neighbors to assist in that

there is press secretary jay carney. no doubt going to take pointed questions of what is going on in the va. let's listen in. >> over all, well, as secretary on issues like homelessness and gi bill and 9/11 gi bill and working with us to reduce the backlog. he's put his heart and soul into this thing and taken it seriously. when it comes to the current situation inquiries and allegations, the president wants to see the results of these reports, he as you know made clear that he believes there ought to be accountability once we establish the facts. >> does that leave open the question of whether secretary shinseki can lead the apartment. >> the president identified that he expected a preliminary report from secretary shinseki's internal audit very soon and when he receives that, he will be able to evaluate those findings along with what we have seen from the inspector general. and assess where we are at that time. >> is it fair to say that the white house moved from the point where the president has confidence in secretar

shinseki's departure, president obama returned to the podium to reveal that white house press secretary jay carney stepping down too. deputy josh ernest will take his place. in april, jay came to me in the oval office and said he was thinking about moving on, i was not thrilled to say the at least. i will miss him a lot. i continue to rely on him as a adviser. be nice to jay on his fare well tour. be nice to josh. >> what's jay going to do now with all his spare time? >> what are you going to do? >> i might manage my son's band which is on the verge of taking off, but i haven't made any decisions yet. i've managed over the past months to have some conversations about what my future might look like and i'm scpietd by -- excited by some of the possibilities. >> well, bob, the press secretary job is one of the best experiences that anybody will ever have. it's such an honor and jay carney has served for quite a while under this pretty excruciating circumstances but he did say through the re-election, and then he did -- i'm sorry, the 2014 election. there's been some rumors out there that he was going

jay carney has said they didn't have any guidance. one more thing. this e-mail was classified at first. it was classified, so it didn't go up to the hill originally. then it was declassified and put up there redacted, so they couldn't see who sent it and who received it. the judicial watch request was for benghazi e-mails or documents. nothing else. and the judge ordered that they had to comply. this is an e-mail that came out and jay carney says it is not a benghazi e-mail. >> this is what i believe is a smoking gun. do you think it's a smoking gun? do you think jay carney's explanation was plausible? >> i don't know if it's a smoking gun. i'll let that be for others to decide. it's clear when you look at the narrative by multiple obama administration officials they were all reading from the same page. whether or not carney is correct that that particular e-mail dealt with benghazi or did not deal with benghazi, it was the message that was put out by hillary clinton when she smoke to t -- spoke to families upon return of the bodies. >> you mentioned

does any of this you find difficult to swallow, jay carney's propaganda? >> i don't share your belief, you're entitled to your belief -- >> they are called facts. >> got to let me finish. >> it's a fact. >> are you going to let me finish. >> go ahead. >> you had plenty of time in your opening. i don't believe jay carney lied and i have one fact you did not address. i read the 13 versions of the talking points beginning with version one that the cia said it drafted that was circulated and went back and forth over 13 different versions. >> i did, too. >> one sentence never changed in all 13 versions, fact, the cia wrote the words this was a spontaneous demonstration, that's their phrase, and then it ended with triggered by cairo protest. fact, that was written by the cia, was not invented by the obama white house or the state department or ambassador rice. if there was a mistake, and there was a mistake made in the intelligence assessment about this being a spontaneous demonstration, we now know that was wrong. >> here is the problem, here is the problem wit

jay carney under fire from all new's organization approximate benghazi. said the cover up is bogus and a gp conspiracy. coming up we'll demand the answers. nnone of them think it is a video. none of them. the military, the cia. the cia station chief and state department. all of them. and the va scandal continues to grow we'll have an interview with the florida governor. va hospitals have blocked inspectors from coming inside. >> politics now. president obama facing dismal approval numbers and slim support for the health care law and bruising military election and a long list of foreign policy problems. and an interesting editorial caught our news. writing for clear politics. larry said "obama is what abraham lincoln called using steam boat lingo, as a dead point. weak abroad and frustrated and home and looking at a brutal november." we havero talk show host and contributors. the comparison is that the obama administration is essentially dead in the water and not going anywhere. captain policies are mired in a lack of support, do you agree? >> no, no. we a

i think we should also note jay carney pointed out today.emember, it was mitt romney after the michelle attack who did put out a statement blasting the president. was there politics at the white house? yeah. was there politics by mitt romney we should also note, yeah. >> ed, thank you. >> thank you. >> while jay carney was at the podium in the press briefing room. the house oversight committee dancing for answers from a top military intelligence official. >> alive. usama bin laden is dead. al qaeda is on the run. when really they are standing at the front door of our facility in benghazi getting ready to murder our ambassador and burn it down. >> once the first word that we have problems at this annex. it could have lasted 12 hours, 24, 48 hours, so the idea that somehow looking back in hindsight and saying oh well, you know, we didn't wouldn't have got therein in time. that doesn't satisfy me. am i wrong in that? >> no, sir. i didn't believe you are. >> did they ever tell to you go save the people in benghazi? >> not to my knowledge, sir. >

>> now back to jay carney about to answer questions about the v.a.ndal. >> i think you saw the statement i put out yesterday reflecting the president was extremely troubled by that preliminary report. when it comes to the overall issue, as you know, from what the president has said and others have said, we are focused ongetting to the root of the problem and full scope of the problem so we can get most importantly veterans care they deserve and they need and they've earned. as the president said last week, this is very important, the v.a. should not and must not wait for current investigations of v.a. operations to conclude before taking steps to improve care. you have seen a reaction to that insist steance in reactions the v.a. has taken this week, when it comes to moving more quickly to reach out to those veterans who have been identified as having been on waiting lists for far too long, and allowing for greater eases when it comes to, if there is a need to having veterans receive care from private or nonprofit hospitals. earlier this week, as i --

jay carney has been fielding tough questions about eric shinseki for weeks. suddenly they are both gone. >> one day, two abrupt anouxts. in a few minutes ago, secretary shinseki offered his res nation. jay is a great press secretary. >> the first order of business was dealing with the veterans administration scandal. shinseki resign in the oval office. except last night, shinseki told veterans groups he had no plans to step down and shortly before the president's announcement, the secretary had a speech that talked about firing officials. >> i've initiated the process for removal of the leaders of the phoenix medical center. we will use all authority at our disposal and force accountability among senior leaders. >> democrats note that administration sent signals that the president had lost confidence in shinseki all but forcing him to resign. jay carney did not deny that. >> i'm not going to get into internal back and forth. >> what was at least gentle nudging from the white house came in part from pressure from congressional democrats calling for shinseki to

as bad as it is did press secretary jay carney today just make it worse.co-host of the five and former press secretary for president george w. bush, she joins us. good evening, deign. >> that hi. thanks for having me. >> dana, how did jay carney handle this today? how do you look at this? >> well, here's one of the ways that i look at going into the briefing room is that if you're walking down the ramp and into the briefing room and think i have got this handled. you maybe should turn around and go back in the office and get yourself together again. because there is always just one more thing that is going to be asked about. and condescending tones, i think, back fire in the briefing room. i think today what they were looking for in the white house press corps was asking for some candidness, something that would be sincere and refreshing. i don't think that they got that. i have always approached the communications world and especially the amazing role of press secretary as one of just tremendous, enormous responsibility. and 50% of what you do as press se

respond to the claimdividual by jay carney there has never been more transparent information.arrett i'll roll my eyes and bull you know what and on and on it goes. they clearly think the white house is not telling their stories on the irs, obamacare. >> it's true we in the media tend to focus on stories maybe like monica lewinsky and stories that maybe have more legs on that maybe donald sterling but it is very difficult for the media to somehow spend an amazing amount of time on an issue that is important to the public. >> it's harder to figure out the irs controversy. >> more legs, that was a nice way of working in the sexual angle. when president obama took office, he gave interviews and rarely does he give interviews to hard news people. instead, he's on with ellen or picking brackets on espn or g more. >> so you think he thought it would be easier and he did face tougher questions. >> president barack obama got lulled and especially in the second term when he hasn't accomplished much, he's finding out he lost that. >> they lost the love. panel, see you sunday at 11:00 a.m

the principal dep toy jay carney, a grueling job.f years, he has been take something tough questions on the va scandal and men other issues, talker about how he has young kids, his wife, claire, an accomplish it journalist at abc news, wants to spend more time at home with the family, a little less time with me. >> i would ask if you guys gave him a bear hug. you're so close. >> we'll take him to lunch. it'ses a very sayreal -- it's adversarial but here web site. tell me about his replacement. >> near the end, jay carney let him come up to the podium. josh ernest filled inch a kid from missouri and worked through the obama campaign. i decided to press him on, we have to get down to business right away. and secretary shinseki steppings down today and as the president said earlier today, that something the secretary was deeply disappointed about is that bad news did not fill their up to him. i pressed josherness on -- josh ernest why the information never came to the president. >> no doubt the president wished he had a better sense of

apparently jay carney, i read a john carl said it nine times or mentioned it nine times. nine times in one press briefing to get it wrong why did he do that? >> i don't know if he misunderstood. i can't speak for what he was thinking. i know what the american legion's intentions are. reform at the top of the v.a. leadership take charge of what's going on over there straighten this out immediately. the american legion has been a long standing partner with v.a. over the years. we want to make sure that it's run correctly. and calling for the resignation of someone who is getting ready to leave on retirement anyway, it might have been better if they would have said hold on, you are not retiring now, we are going to hold you here until this investigation is done. that might have been a stronger statement. >> should shinseki resign? >> we called for secretary shin shin shin shinseki's resignation. we were disappointed. we felt that the secretary was woeful ely unprepared for that we felt he was ill advised and we were disappointed in the amount of knowledge the secretary had a

. >> you are talking about press secretary jay carney? >> i'm talking about jay carney. i knew him for years. i knew him as a pretty straightforward journalist. he has destroyed his own reputation by that statement that what clearly was the talking points, which had saying it had nothing to do with benghazi. that, to me, is an all-time low for a presidential spokesperson. >> i didn't have any particular interest in where the president was that night. i assumed that he was busy working on this as all presidents are. the fact that they won't tell us has made me enormously suspicious. this guy that they sent, tommy veiter that i had never seen until the other night. so flip about it he is the one in the situation room. >> didn't remember after all. but since when does 19 months go by and it has to be a court order for information. you know, in return for the confirmation of brennan as cia director. we were all told that everything to do with benghazi would be released. now the question is, is what else don't we know about it? and what's been destroyed? >> i don't like the f

so i know that you pressed jay carney on that memo we reported about at the top of the show. memo from 2010 showing the v.a. knew about some of these problems. what did you ask jay? >> we pressed him on your point, which is that, look, jay carney at the podium day after day said these are just allegations. and it has to be investigated. this memo you're reporting on was from 2010, a v.a. official acknowledging inside the department that some of these credit waiting lists and the like were going on. that was four years ago. now, the white house just revealed that they're sending people to phoenix, trying to deal with this and all of that, rob nabors, the white house aide overseeing the v.a. review, is going to phoenix on wednesday night to try to get to the bottom of it. i pressed jay carney on why that didn't happen sooner. listen. four years ago -- they were saying it's not just allegations, but a top v.a. official determined this was going on and they had to immediately take care of it. will you admit at least that it's not all allegations, that in fact some of this has happ

heard jay carney's explanations about the newly revealed ben rhodes e-mail. they pass the smell test? >> that's the question. if there weren't documents addressing other protests other than the protests in benghazi, widespread protest, do they have ones that address benghazi? what other information in documents that weren't produced because the warrant specifically about bren georgia si -- benghazi that might lead to us other conclusions. so that re-invigorated the push. >> what happened on that day, september 11, 2012, nobody really cared a few dies later about protests in cairo, for instance. what all of this country was talking about was the fact that we had the first ambassador in nearly 30 years who had been killed on the job, and three other dead americans. >> right. that would be the big news of the day, and jay carney today and yesterday read headlines from the week, trying to prove it wasn't sort of a central focal opinion, but it absolutely was. that argument doesn't really seem to hold water, and that's why we're seeing so much contention in these

jay carney knew. it was not the result of a video. the attacks were planned by al qaeda. the cia never said that it was a video, in fact, said it wasn't. they altered the talking point. this e-mail from september 14th is a smoking gun because it reveals that the white house knew it and they wanted to prepy shows to say that it was the video. and they were clearly covering obama for reelection. it had a potentially substantial effect on his reelection because if it would have shown that it was a result of an al qaeda attack, it could have cost obama the election because he said he had ali qaeda on the run. they prepped susan race to say we're doing everything we can to protect our facility and the ameri american people. we are bringing them to justice. this wasn't caused by terrorism but a video. three of the four bulletins were out right lies. administration is concerned about covering its own you know what and its own pr like it was in the gulf oil spill. it's never concerned about the american interest and this is outrageous and i really believe and i'll shut up in a se

when you see abc going after jay carney on that, it makes some of the other media have to pay attention to it because it's no longer just a fox story. it now becomes somehow a legitimate story about the white house misleading the american people. >> well, yes. what you saw is reporters getting angry at realizing they'd been played right? they've been sold on the story we just should stop and think about the fact the white house is able to convince other reporters because fox is covering something that it is not news. something quite spectacular, something is hard to imagine how you couldn't be curious about it right? we have an attack, four americans are dead. clearly the white house is, has a story, a narrative going to fit their campaign talking points. yet, they bought it hook, line, and sinker. now, they're realizing because of a request they've been lied to. i think they're angry. >> the thing is, mark you were in the bush administration. if you had another press secretary, if you had dana perino or tony snow had been caught in as many misrepresentations as jay carney has been caug

what did jay carney do. after me and fox and said you and your bosses haven't been able to prove a conspiracy theory as if i'm personally pushing this which i take offense at because i'm not. you are saying that has traction inside. >> that is my point if you are attacking one of the folks and saying this is some crazy conspiracy theory. >> are they that dumb? are your colleagues at the white house that stupid. >> check your transcripts and see how many people follow up. i know there were folks in the front row pushing on this. there are others who haven't asked the question at all. has been it's not going to go anywhere. i don't know where this story leads. and i certainly don't believe in conspiracy theories. >> you mentioned major garrett. former fox news correspondent. >> now at cbs. >> cbs news didn't do anything last night on signature broadcast they didn't mention it? >> interesting. he asked about it at the briefing today. >> he didn't get on. and that coupled with sharyl attkisson saying hey, i inve

. >> reporter: jay carney repeatedly deflected by saying the president is waiting for a second report as early as friday from shinseki and a third report from the v.a. health care system weeks from now by rob neighbaib. republicans note the president has a tough time firing top officials. >> he's decisively indecisive. i think we're going to continue to see him indecisive on the v.a. >> as for how the white house leaked the identity of a cia official over the weekend, carney says the white house chief of staff has asked the council to review. >> has anyone been fired? >> as for wednesday's speech at west point, it got panned from the left with the "new york times" editorial page declaring, quote, the address did not match the hype. was largely uninspire, lacked strategic sweep. many still doubt he fully appreciates the leverage the united states has even in a changing world. falling back on hackneyed phrases like america is the indispensable nation told us little. a harsh review from the man who oversaw the wars in iraq and afghanistan, the head of u.s. central command, retired genera

i wanted to go back to jay carney because of this memo and it was written back on april of 2010 by aundersecretary that in order to improve scores on access measures, certain facilities have adopted use of inappropriate scheduling practices sometimes referred to as gaming strategies to avoid these types of scheduling practices and when i asked jay carney about it, to ask whether or not people inside the white house have known about this for some time given this memo has been out there for some time and jay carney said in response that basically at this point what the white house wants to do, what the president wants to do is wait for these investigations to wrap up that are under way right now. here's what jay carney had to say. >> we, the president and the rest of us, away the results of those two inquiries and he is not at all pleased with some of the allegations and will be extremely unhappy if some of them prove to be true. but he will wait for the facts and the investigations as we all should and then insist that action be taken and people be held accountable. >> how long has th

the president just announcing that jay carney is # moving on from press secretary.ke a listen. >> that's why believe it or not, i think he will miss hanging out with all of you, including the gooirs in the front row. but, jay has become one of my closest friends and is a great press secretary and a great advisor, he's got good judgment, he has a good temperament and he's got a good heart. and i'm going to miss him a lot. i will continue to rely on him as a friend and advisor, after he leaveses to spend as mitch of the summer as he can with his kids before he decides what's next for him, whatever it is, i know he's going to be outstanding at it. of course that meant i had to make a decision, which is who succeeds jay and we have got enormous talent around here. but i have decided that we're going to put in this slot somebody who is also a friend and advisor. so today, the flack jacket is officially passed to a new generation, mr. josh hurst. josh is the coach's son from kansas city, he still roots for the royals, i guess. as you know, his name describes his demeanor.

>> oh, please. >> a much different definition of fun than i got. >> i jumped into jay carney. he said you want to talk to me. jay, i would like to talk to you. i can't talk to you on camera. you won't come on fox. >> then what happened when you we want up to eric holder too? >> that was the biggest mistake. >> and then remember when you and greg caught accused of doing a selfie photo, including erin andrews. >> whether he called president obama a very bad word that caused clooney to storm off. stay tuned. >>> welcome back to the fastest seven three striking stories. seven spirited minutes. did you hear the black and forth between las vegas casino owner, steve wynn. >> they are molly coddled, they are highly privileged. we're talking about successful artists like george or barbara streisand. they left in a relatively small world. the people around them are very solicitious and caring for them. they have a world view that therefore everything should be given to everybody because everything has been given to them. george clooney is fun to me, as i -- to be with, as i said and you

press secretary jay carney today, struggled to attempt to persuade the white house press core this e-mail, dateed 3 days after the terrorist attack, was not even about benghazi. >> this is not about benghazi, it was about overall situation in the region, the muslim world, you saw protests at outside of embassy facilities, across the region, so-called. talking points around benghazi it has been reported on. were prepared by the cia. and in this case, overall issue of unrest in the muslim world. >> so then, why did the white house hold back this e-mail, a document that was originally classified before being released to congress, but in retkapbgted form, to protect the author and recipients if there were always two sets of talking points, why was it released at all, if it did not pertain to benghazi because that was the specific request by the frie freedom of information asserted by. >> you dishial watch, jay -- judicial watch, jay carney was asked and would not answer. >> why were you holding back this information, why was it not turned over to congress, this is relevant, why did you hold i

he's been jay carney's deputy. his wife is the communications director over at the treasury department, so part of an experienced and loyal obama team and this fits the pattern that the president has shown in picking loyal younger members of his inner circle and staff and move them to jobs that become open in the second term. >> does this also fit the pattern of duration in terms of how long press secretaries serve? is it shorter than normal or longer? >> i don't think it's shorter than normal. the white house jobs in general are intense. very, very demanding and it's difficult for people to stay in them for a long time. my old friend mike mccurry served as press secretary for president clinton. he left probably after a little more than three years in the job, i think. jay's been in the job i think it's coming up on three years. i don't think it's out of the ordinary in terms of the duration. >> john, thanks a lot for that. >>> meanwhile let's get you caught up on where the markets stand right now. they don't look

is still calling republicans looking into this a conspiracy theory. >> i think jay carney also saidt was up to nancy pelosi and she's made her decision. it's a strong group of five thoughtful democrats. i think we're going to have a real process now. i think the good news is that i hope this won't take so long. there's already been so much that's been unearthed and so much work done by all the other committees. hopefully they can bear down, focus on a few key things that are still outstanding and get this thing wrapped up. >> how can it suddenly be that democrats are in favor of this committee? >> well, i think it will be easier to obstruct the effort from inside the hearing room, quite honestly. look, we have nothing but unanswered questions here when it comes to this. and among the people that had no interest in a select committee were john boehner until we discovered that the white house had been misleading the congress in their earlier investigations by redacting key memos coming out of the white house, which only became public because of a freedom of information act request. >>

as for jay carney there is no connection between the two departure. carney told the president back in april of his plans to leave. get going and move on to other things in the summer. the president is heading to europe monday night for a big trip dealing with ukraine and other matters. and the bottom line is he wanted to get both of these moves, i'm told, out of the way before that trip. especially since shinseki, part of the president's trip will be to normandy for the 70 oth anniversary of d-day. such a solemn ceremony. a lot of veterans going to be there he wanted to rip this band-aid off before going there. >> any names at all to replace general shinseki at the v.a. >> there is a lot of former military leaders, retired military officials who have been ban teed around whether it's peter, the former vice chief of staff at the army. a lot of well-qualified people. i think what the president made clear today is that he wants to give the acting secretary a chance to right the ship and the biggest reason to get shinseki out basically this has become a hu

jay carney feeling pressure. it makes you wonder what it takes to get jay carney fired. he didn't have a lot of answers today. >> does the president have confidence in president shinseki. >> john, the president atreddred this question. >> he wasn't asked directly. >> the president believes that and is confident that secretary shinseki has served his nation admirably. >> the president promised at that podium, quote, once we know the facts i assure you it will be punished. who has been punished? >> a preliminary report -- we got a report yesterday. the president found the report extremely troubling. >> why is he still tolerating it and where is the punishment? >> ed, i don't ask how else to disappoint you, but i'll give you the same answer. >> it's not me you're disappointing. there's veterans waiting 115 days. >> the sniffing, the alaughing, why can't he answer the question? >> i think what's happened is the president hasn't made a it decision yet so jay carney is in a position where he has to represent the president and give the president a little bit of wiggle room poss

it is extraordinary that jay carney was asked. does the white house have a firm grasp on what happened that night and he said there is an active investigation. 20 months later and that is ridiculous. and i am encouraged that trey gowdy looks like he will run the committee. the white house has not given answers on their own violation. >> the only person arrested is the guy who made the youtube video. >> which is outrageous. >> thank you very much. >> do not miss bret baier's special benghazi, white house cover up and that is saturday weekend at 10 o'clock p.m. and sunday at 9 o'clock p.m. that is here on fox news channel. >> and president obama and german chancellor anglecamerkel wrapped up a now's conference on the problem of ukraine. it came the way separatist forced their way in a police line and taking over the prosecutor's office that proves no match. and uukraine and launches the offensive with the pro russian forces. leland? >> the ukranian offensive began with a bang this morning and night fall here in ukraine tis a whimper

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