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Q Is he back on the job?
Q Is she at work?
Q Is she back at work?
MR. MCCURRY: Yes.
Q Did it give you any clues?
MR. MCCURRY: Any clues as to what?
Q Mike, are you considering limiting your daily briefings?
MR. MCCURRY: Limiting in what fashion? Clearly, not. (Laughter.)
Q Like not having them every day?
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questions to answer, when to answer them? Does it tell you that
stonewalling,
while it may not work, is uncomfortable here —
MR. MCCURRY: If I could illuminate any of that, I would. It's kind of
can't illuminate that right now.
Q Mike, how does the obviously enthusiastic response the President got
yesterday, how will you factor that into deciding whether or not — how i
MR. MCCURRY: I don't think that one speech in middle America or in
Wisconsin
tells you a whole lot about things like that. I think you have to use the b<
judgment that you can bring at the time and move on.
MR. MCCURRY: She's a decent person who didn't deserve to be in a
position where
she was frightened.
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MR. MCCURRY: No. I mean, I've got to be here. There are days where
don't
do briefings, when we've got something like a State of the Union addres
something. But 1 show up here pretty regularly, regardless of the
circumstances.
That's fair to say, right?
Q What's the President's view of the Air Force pilot yesterday who ran i
the
Q As to what the public wants to know, what the public is demanding tc
know,
whether or not we represent the public's interest or not.