Josh Earnest: The President and His Team Are Focusing on the Wrong Things

‘They’re focussed on the wrong things’

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EARNEST: “President Obama, when he gave his campaign announcement speech way back in 2007, used a phrase that's so applicable to this weekend. Then-candidate Obama described the smallness of our politics and how it seemed misaligned with the big challenges that our country and the world is facing. That feels particularly true with this moment. It doesn’t mean that the issues we are talking about aren’t important, but it does mean that the President and his team are focusing on the wrong things. If they’re focusing on how they can prevent a 20-year veteran of the F.B.I. to prevent him from collecting his pension, if they're talking about how they can enforce a nondisclosure agreement with an adult film star, these are not the questions, these are not the consequential generational questions that are facing our country and the world and the leading role the United States is supposed to play in it right now. They’re focused on the wrong things.”

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