Wednesday at Politico‘s “Women Rule” event, senior adviser to President Barack Obama Valerie Jarrett said the reactions at the White House to President-elect Donald Trump‘s victory were “like a punch in the stomach” and “soul-crushing.” Jarrett said, “We were surprised
The conservative watchdog Judicial Watch announced Monday that it’s filing a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Justice seeking access to FBI interviews related to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s criminal investigation.
On Friday, President Obama’s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett and other senior White House senior staff hosted participants and musicians of a concert series promoting gun control.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson visited Louisiana yesterday to reassure local officials and citizens in the state that President Obama cared about the victims of the devastating floods.
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Democrats and the media have already begun to blame Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for the possibility that Los Angeles will lose its bid to host the Olympics in 2024.
President Barack Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett spoke Friday at boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s funeral. Jarrett remembered Ali as having led America from its “original sin of slavery and discrimination” on a “path towards salvation.” “Brash, defiant, pioneering, joyful, never
From Politico: Though President Barack Obama is staying in Washington after he leaves the White House in January, the soon-to-be-former president will emulate his predecessors in keeping a lower profile in terms of weighing in on issues of presidential importance.
TEL AVIV – Deep inside a lengthy New York Times Magazine article, President Obama’s top aides Ben Rhodes and Valerie Jarrett expounded on how President Obama’s early childhood years in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, helped shape the president’s worldview.
White House Chief of Staff Valerie Jarrett says that she doesn’t use the “n word” — a term used by comedian Larry Wilmore while praising President Obama during his speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner suggests First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett are to blame for the failure of the “Grand Bargain” he sought to strike with President Obama in 2011.
President Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett is calling on a group of business leaders and educators to move the world away from “gender biases” in media and toys.
Prominent Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson announced he is running for mayor of the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore native son McKesson plans to fight the political establishment and shake up the system by running as a Democrat, taking on about a dozen other candidates in the city’s April 26 primary.
A former Inspector General for the State Department says Hillary Clinton will never be indicted for her use of a private email server because there are four loyal Democrats standing in the way.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claimed ignorance when asked about her private email scandal at Monday night’s CNN town hall.
Last night featured a terrific national championship college football game, but tonight, it will be President Obama spiking the football. Obama’s State of the Union address tonight will be a triumphalist reading of his massive accomplishments.
As Donald Trump continues to dominate the political headlines – President Obama appears to be preparing a response to the overall Republican characterization of the state of the country under his administration.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has strong words for the National Rifle Association, in spite of–or perhaps because of–its success defending Second Amendment Rights.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett insisted President Barack Obama’s forthcoming executive action on guns would be well within his authority and that it is the fault of Congress for the need of Obama
As part of their continued push for more gun control, President Obama and his senior advisor Valerie Jarrett met with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss the issue at the White House.
Although the White House lighting has been used to advance certain agendas and causes by the Obama administration, it appears that solidarity with France is not one of them.
On October 3, Mark Carman posted a YouTube video in which he equated gun rights with motorcycle ownership–arguing that the licensing requirement for the latter provides some standard to guide licensing requirements for the former–and the White House responded by inviting him to come visit on November 16 and 17.
Obama White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett threw Hillary Clinton under the bus Wednesday at the Washington Ideas Forum, where she told interviewer Andrea Mitchell that the White House gave Clinton guidance forbidding her from using private email.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke called out Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett and other administration officials who recently met with members of the anti-police Black Lives Matter group to discuss criminal justice reform.
Wednesday on the west lawn of he U.S. Capitol at the rally against President Barack Obama’s Iran Nuclear Agreement titled “Stop the Iran Deal Rally,” former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) took a jab at Obama and his senior adviser Valerie Jarrett. Palin said, “You
President Obama’s senior advisor Valerie Jarrett returned to Hollywood to promote the White House’s anti-rape campaign “It’s On Us.”
Last week at the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival, President Barack Obama’s long-time senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said the burden of race relations in America should not be Obama’s “responsibility.” When asked why Obama has not been more passionate about race
“It was a really important point for people to hear. I think he’s glad that he said it,” Jarrett told Politico. “And he is encouraged that people were able to hear his broader message.”
Bruce Jenner debuted as a woman on the cover of Vanity Fair on Monday. Jenner also joined Twitter the same day, quickly amassing over 750,000 followers in less than 24 hours. Her first tweet has been re-tweeted over 140,000 times.
Valerie Jarrett says she has learned to shut out her political critics, thanks to the example set by President Obama.
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.
White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett is praising President Obama for helping “accelerate” the cause of gay marriage,
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.
Obama Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett got a very warm reception before her interview on Wednesday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. Just before the pre-interview commercial break, Jarrett walked on-set and could be seen hugging BBC anchor Katty Kay and
President Barack Obama is calling for an end to psychiatric therapy treatments aimed at changing the sexual orientation or gender identity of gay, lesbian and transgender youth.
Funny or Die, the online comedy outlet co-created by funnyman Will Ferrell, has hired a former Obama administration official to manage a new office it will open in Washington, D.C.
“Everybody has a private email address, everybody has a Gmail,” Valerie Jarrett explains on The View when asked about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails.
A new report from the Washington Post reveals that White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett is preparing to travel to several states to promote the idea of mandatory paid leave policies. The initiative, dubbed “Lead on Leave” begins next month in Seattle as well as Minnesota, California, Oregon, Georgia, Colorado and Pennsylvania.
“These uncorroborated, third-hand allegations are not only nonsense, they are simply not true,” a White House spokeswoman tells Breitbart News regarding allegations Valerie Jarrett secretly leaked details of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account.
President Barack Obama had some laughs at the expense of Hillary Clinton’s email problem at this year’s Gridiron dinner. The New York Post‘s Ed Klein reports his senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, actually leaked the Clinton story to the media.
