Charlie Spiering

Behind the scenes of the response to the Baltimore riots, the White House is working to recruit celebrities to deliver a message of peace to their citizens.

“What I think the people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth,” President Obama says. “That’s what people around the country expect.”

“You can have the nicest computer in the world, and the best books in the world, but if you’re lazy, and sittin’ around just playing video games all day, not really interested in it, well you’re probably not going to be a great student,” President Obama tells school children.

“There have been some people – frankly on a variety of sides of this issue – who’ve complained about what the president says, but people complain about what the president says all the time, for a variety of reasons,” White House Spokesman Josh Earnest says.

“How can I do that kind of work?” President Obama told schoolchildren, pointing out he was inspired to begin community organizing before he even got a law degree or got into politics.

The president doesn’t have as much time for reading as he used to, apparently. But at least he’s reviewed the classics.

President Obama runs long while answering a question about writer’s block. The president rambled for more than three minutes before a middle schooler politely intervened.

Susan Rice now says there is “no military solution” to the situation in Yemen. It’s a far different message than the president delivered in September.

“You don’t need to be filming this, put it down, you’re not reporting,” President Obama told reporters he met at a tea shop. The shooter then ended the broadcast of his video, but not before hundreds of viewers had tuned in to watch the president.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest is defending President Obama’s use of the word “thugs” and “criminals” to describe looters in Baltimore.

After President Obama addressed the situation during a press conference this afternoon, Jarrett praised the citizens of Baltimore on Twitter for working to clean things up.

During his press conference today, President Obama addressed the violence in Baltimore, claiming his political agenda would help solve some of the problems found in impoverished urban communities, such as the one where the violence occurred.

President Obama strongly condemned the riots in Baltimore, describing the looters that struck Baltimore last night as “thugs” who needed to be “treated as criminals.”

White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett is praising President Obama for helping “accelerate” the cause of gay marriage,

“Today is also a chance for Americans, especially our young people, to say thank you for all the things we love from Japan, like karate, karaoke, manga, and anime and of course emojis,” President Obama said as the audience laughed.

As the rioting grew fiercer in Baltimore following the funeral of Freddy Gray on Monday, the Obama administration issued statements vowing to end the violence.

The White House reacted to criticism from former President George W. Bush regarding President Obama’s policies on fighting terror by suggesting that Bush was responsible for the rise of Islamic State terrorists in the Middle East.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest signals that the federal government – and the Justice Department – will not take a central role in the chaos following the riots in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray in local police custody.

Damning her with faint praise? Vice President Joe Biden says Loretta Lynch will be as good an attorney general as Eric Holder was.