Jay Carney

A reporter confirmed with Jay Carney, today at the press briefing, that President Obama met with his chief of staff and the treasury secretary many times over the last month and that neither official told the president of the IRS scandal:

White House spokesman Jay Carney says no one is more outraged at the IRS scandal than President Obama:

"I mean, nobody's been more outraged by the reported conduct here than the president of the United States," said Carney.

White House spokesman Jay Carney says it's "been a good week." He made the comment to the New York Times.

CNN’s Jake Tapper has obtained the verbatim text of an email from Ben Rhodes, a top Obama adviser on foreign policy and national security, which I referred to in two recent pieces on the Obama administration’s manipulation of the Benghazi talking points. It's a good scoop. Assuming the email is accurate, it adds some additional detail to the 24-hour period when the CIA talking points were substantially rewritten.

Jay Carney responds to the AP's story on phone records:

White House spokesman Jay Carney refused to answer questions about the federal government monitoring the Associated Press's telephone records. Instead, Carney "referred questions" to officials in the Justice Department. 

Here's the report of the pool reporter asking Carney, while covering President Obama's New York fundraisers:

Jay Carney aggressively defended the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks and the revision of CIA talking points Friday in an uncharacteristically hostile White House press briefing. But in his attempts to protect himself and his administration colleagues, Carney offered a series of highly misleading answers that seem likely to do additional damage to his cause and White House credibility.

At a White House press briefing on May 1, Barack Obama spokesman Jay Carney attempted to frame new reporting on the Benghazi attacks as old news by noting that the attacks had taken place "a long time ago." 

Just ten days have passed since he uttered that infelicitous phrase. But it feels like a long time ago.

Ron Fournier, writing at National Journal on the growing Benghazi scandal:

The White House today hinted that it supports 15 year olds being able to get Plan B over the counter. Here's spokesman Jay Carney, speaking to reporters on Air Force One en route to Mexico:

Q    Have you had a chance to talk to the President yet about his feelings on the morning-after pill?  The Justice Department appealed the judge's decision last night.