Prearranged Question at Presidential Presser
The Huffington Post‘s Nico Pitney got the rare opportunity to be called on by President Obama at Tuesday’s press conference, rather than the other way around. As reported on Politico.com, Pitney told CBS Radio’s Mark Knoller the White House called him Tuesday morning to request that he be ready to ask a question.
And White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton told Politico.com, “We did reach out to him prior to the press conference to tell him that we had been paying attention to what he had been doing on Iran and there was a chance that he’d be called on.
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