W.H.: Obama Doesn’t Plan to Watch Netanyahu’s Speech

‘I haven’t looked at the president’s schedule for tomorrow’

JANSING: "Given your comments and Secretary Kerry's comments earlier today, that concern extends to the speech tomorrow by Benjamin Netanyahu?"

EARNEST: "Well, what is true in any context is that the release of this information that was provided to Israel, our allies, in the context of regular detailed classified briefings -- that releasing that information would betray the trust that exist between two allies. And that would be --again, that would be true even if the Israelis were to claim that they had obtained that information from somewhere else."

JANSING: "Will president watch the speech tomorrow?”

EARNEST: "I haven't looked at the president's schedule for tomorrow. I doubt that he will spend his whole time watching this speech."

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