September 29th, 2011
03:28 PM ET
Biden takes ownership of economy? Obama administration officials often cite the economic conditions they inherited pre-2009 to beat back Republican attacks over the slow recovery. But what the Bush administration did is “not relevant,” Vice President Joe Biden told Florida radio station WLRN Thursday, a seeming departure from the standard White House’s talking points:
Later, White House spokesman Jay Carney appeared to walk back Biden’s comments at Thursday’s daily briefing.
 Supporters reach out to shake hands with US President Barack Obama as he arrives to speak on his proposed American Jobs Act ON September 27, 2011 at Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver, Colorado. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
September 29th, 2011
10:41 AM ET
September 29th, 2011
08:50 AM ET
Morning Briefing: Ala. immigration law, Mass. terror plot & European debt crisis After President Obama took several questions on immigration from Latino voters yesterday, the White House has immigration on its mind again today due to yesterday’s ruling by Federal Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn blocking several portions of one of the strictest state-level immigration laws in the country. CNN’s Bill Mears describes yesterday’s ruling in Alabama as “a partial victory for both sides” as Blackburn left many of the law’s more stringent provisions in tact, while enjoining others until a “hearing on the larger issues raised in the appeal are resolved.” Check out CNN’s readout here. The White House will also likely be keeping its eye on the case involving Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen living in Ashland, Massachusetts who was charged yesterday by the FBI with plotting to fly remote-control aircrafts armed with explosives into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol building. [Boston Globe] Here are some other stories the White House is reading this morning. Disaster funds deal comes up for House action [CNN Wire] Merkel dodges bullet with euro vote victory [Reuters] EPA needed more data before ruling on greenhouse gas emissions, report says [Washington Post] Bernanke: U.S. Unemployment a ‘National Crisis’ [Bloomberg] European Stocks Rise as Germany Backs Enhanced Euro Rescue Fund [Bloomberg] Stocks prep for gains after German vote [CNN Money] 
September 29th, 2011
07:38 AM ET
President Obama's day ahead: Meetings with Cabinet members, local interviewsGood Thursday morning from the White House. Today the president has a couple closed-door meetings with members of his cabinet – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in the morning and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the afternoon. Yesterday President Obama and Vice President Biden met with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. In between today’s meetings, President Obama will participate in a series of local TV interviews in the Diplomatic Room at the White House. The interviews will begin airing at 5pm on WTVF-TV Nashville, Tennessee; WXII-TV Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and WESH-TV Orlando, Florida. He’s expected to continue to make the case for passage of his jobs plan. The press briefing today is at 1pm. Here’s the full schedule:
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