New Press Secretary on the Hot Seat

“The honeymoon ended quickly for new White House press secretary Josh Earnest,” the Washington Post reports.

“Earnest made his official debut Monday as the Obama administration’s top spokesman. The hour-long daily briefing went fairly smoothly until the final question, when a Bloomberg reporter asked him to confirm a report from Moscow that President Obama had spoken with Russia’s Vladimir Putin about Ukraine. Earnest confirmed it. That’s when things got testy.”