Press briefings

May 1, 2007 -- MS. PERINO: Good morning. We're on our way to MacDill Air Force Base. This morning the President had his normal briefings. At 11:40 a.m. he'll have his briefing at CENTCOM. It is stills at the top. I think the schedule says closed, but it will be stills at the top.

Let me tell you -- the main people that the President will be meeting with for the briefing are Admiral William Fallon -- he's the Commander of U.S. Central Command -- General Doug Brown, Commander U.S. Special Operations Command, and General David Petraeus, Commander Multinational Force Iraq.    » read more »

April 26, 2007 -- PARTICIPANTS:

Dana Perino, Deputy White House Press Secretary
Judy Ansley, NSC Senior Director for European Affairs
Rod Hunter, NSC Senior Director for International Trade, Energy and the Environment    » read more »

April 26, 2007 -- MS. PERINO: Eighty days after President Bush submitted his troop funding bill, the Senate has now joined the House in passing defeatist legislation that insists on a date for surrender, micro-manages our commanders and generals in combat zones from 6,000 miles away, and adds billions of dollars in unrelated spending to the fighting on the ground.    » read more »

April 25, 2007 -- PARTICIPANTS:

Dana Perino, Deputy White House Press Secretary
Dennis Wilder, NSC Senior Director for Asian Affairs
David McCormick, NSC Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs

MS. PERINO: Good morning. I'm going to do the schedule for you, and then we have some guests from NSC to set up the Abe visit. And then I'll take the rest of your questions.    » read more »

April 25, 2007 -- MS. PERINO: Good afternoon. I have no opening statements, I'll just go straight to questions. Terry.

Q The House Judiciary Committee took another step today in its investigation of the firing of the eight U.S. attorneys. They voted to grant immunity to Monica Goodling, the former aide to Attorney General Gonzales. Does the White House think that's a good strategy?

MS. PERINO: That's up to the committee; it's not something we're going to comment on.

Q But you don't object to them trying to force her testimony through an immunity --    » read more »

April 23, 2007 -- MS. PERINO: Hello. I'm going to start off today with a statement by the President that will be released after I provide it to you here, about the death of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin.    » read more »

20 April 2007 -- The following is a near-verbatim transcript of today’s noon briefing by Michèle Montas, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, and Ashraf Kamal, Spokesperson for the President of the General Assembly.

Briefing by Spokesperson for the Secretary-General

**Statement on Mission to Fiji

Good afternoon. First, a statement attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General:    » read more »

April 20, 2007 -- MS. PERINO: I have a few things to announce, and I also have the week ahead, which is kind of lengthy, so we'll do that at the end, okay?    » read more »

April 19, 2007 -- MS. PERINO: A quick update. The President had a phone call this morning with President Karzai. They spoke this morning at 7:50 a.m., from the Oval Office. The President reaffirmed the joint partnership and strong relationship shared between the two countries. They discussed ongoing security operations against extremist elements, as well as progress on implementation of the comprehensive approach, security, governance, and economic development and reconstruction. They also talked about ongoing counter-narcotics efforts.    » read more »

April 18, 2007 -- MS. PERINO: I have a few announcements, and then we'll get ready to answer your questions.    » read more »

April 16, 2007 -- MS. PERINO: Good afternoon. I have several announcements and then we'll go to questions.    » read more »

April 13, 2007 -- MS. PERINO: Good afternoon. Happy Friday. Okay, I don't have anything to announce. I'll just go to questions.

Q Have you been able to determine why Karl Rove's ability to delete emails was --

MS. PERINO: No, not between the gaggle and now, I haven't.

Q Okay. How about the list of the 22 officials; are you ready to release that?    » read more »