White House Suggests Trump Team Sent Putin ‘Talking Points’

Barack Obama, the man once known as the “hope candidate”, on Monday warmly feted a team that had gone more than a century without much hope – the world champion baseball team the Cubs from his adopted hometown of Chicago.

According to NBC News, Obama said, “Chelsea Manning has served a tough prison sentence”. “For the most part, they’ve been very precise precision strikes against Al-Qaeda and their affiliates, and we’re very careful in terms of how it’s been applied”, he once said, dismissing well-documented evidence that many civilians have killed by American drones. In that vein, he also endorsed members of the press being “in this building”, the White House, a reference to a New York Times report on the Trump transition team’s consideration of moving news organizations’ workspace outside of the building.

“Of the folks that I’ve had the great joy and pleasure of working with over the last 10 years on this incredible journey, you know, this guy ranks as high as just about anybody I’ve worked with”, Obama said.

Earnest said in his final daily press briefing that the first family will fly to Palm Springs after Trump is sworn-in to office.

“It doesn’t work if we don’t have a well-informed citizenry and you are the conduit”, Obama said.

“His job is to quench droughts”, Obama said of Epstein.

Obama also gave lengthy interviews to historian Doris Kearns Goodwin for a Vanity Fair feature and to Jann Wenner for his 10th Rolling Stone magazine cover.

Obama opened the news conference rebuffing Trump, issuing a vocal defense of the White House press corps, insisting the reporters who covered his administration were an essential facet of a functioning democracy.

“I don’t remember (an exit) that has been as orchestrated and fulsome as this one”, said David Gergen, co-director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy School and an aide to four presidents.

Scum, he has called them, the lowest of the low.

Mr Obama said what made him most proud of his daughters was that they were not cynical about the election result.

“I believe in this country”. He added that when he comes into office, and sees the complexities of certain issues, “that may lead him to some of the same conclusions that I arrived at, once I got here”.

He also talked about voters rights, saying, “When we feel stressed, when we feel pressure, when we’re just fed information that encourages some of our worst instincts, we tend to fall back into some of the old racial fears”.