White House Press BriefingsPress Briefings by the White House Press Secretary and other Administration officials.Press Briefing by Dana Perino - 12192007- December 19, 2007 MS. PERINO: Hello. I have an update for you on the fire. Today, at 9:15 a.m., the D.C. Fire Department received a call about smoke in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building -- that's also known as the EEOB. Firefighters arrived and found that the second floor through the fifth floor of the EEOB was fairly filled with smoke. They located an area on the second floor of the EEOB. Initial reports is that it appears to be an electrical room, a closet -- or a telephone bank, they're not quite sure..http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071219-7.html Press Briefing by Dana Perino - 12182007- December 18, 2007 MS. PERINO: Hello. I have two for you, first the news that you've been asking for for a while, and we tried to get to you, but we can do it today, which is details, as many as we can give you today, on the President's trip to the Middle East.http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071218-2.html Press Briefing by Dana Perino - 12132007- December 13, 2007 MS. PERINO: Hello. I realize I don't have anything to start with, because we released the President's statement on Lebanon. So I'll go to questions.http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071212-5.html Press Briefing by Dana Perino - 12112007- December 11, 2007 MS. PERINO: Good afternoon. This morning I told you about the federal response in helping deal with the severe winter storms impacting the Midwest, and I wanted to provide you an update on the federal response. First and foremost, our thoughts and prayers are with the families who've lost loved ones because of the storm. This morning, the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff briefed the President about the storms, and provided him an update on our efforts to assist state...http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071211-7.html Press Briefing by Dana Perino - 12102007- December 10, 2007 MS. PERINO: Hello. I have one quick statement. Today is International Human Rights Day, and last week the President met with Syrian and Belarusian democracy activists. And this morning Mrs. Bush held an event on Burma. Today, Secretary Rice is going to be making an announcement on some awards that the President called for in his speech on freedom when he was in Prague, so look for that; and then there will be a statement from me following.http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071210-1.html Press Briefing by Dana Perino - 12072007- December 7, 2007 MS. PERINO: Good afternoon. I don't have anything to start with on this Friday, so I'll go straight to questions. Jennifer.http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071207-2.html Press Briefing by Dana Perino - 12062007- December 6, 2007 MS. PERINO: Hi, everybody. Just a quick comment. The President, as you know, at 1:40 p.m., is going to make a statement after getting a briefing from Secretaries Paulson and Jackson on housing. In August, the President proposed legislative reforms to assist struggling homeowners. Among the President's reform proposals was Federal Housing Administration modernization. The President actually proposed that first in April of 2006. He's also proposed tax reform, endorsing one of Senator Sabenow's...http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071206-11.html Press Briefing by National Security Advisor Steven Hadley - 1232007- December 3, 2007 MR. HADLEY: Good afternoon, I'm Steve Hadley, the President's National Security Advisor. I want to talk a little bit about the recent National Intelligence Estimate that was released to the executive branch and to the Congress today. There was an earlier briefing this afternoon by the Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Don Kerr, and also by the Director of Central Intelligence, Mike Hayden. And I wanted to give a little bit more context and set the findings of the NIE in a broader...http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/12/20071203-10.html |