Jay Carney: “it's unacceptable to demand a ransom from the American people in return for not defaulting, it's not going to change.”

We absolutely categorically condemn the violence. We call on the Syrian regime to cease the violence. We are working with our partners internationally to put pressure on the Syrian regime to get it to cease. And we believe that it is clear…

We are extremely disappointed that the Russian government would take this step despite our clear and lawful requests in public and private to have Mr. Snowden expelled to the United States to face the charges against him. He's not a…

There are no options we're taking off the table. But what we're focused on are the options that we can take to affect the situation in the near term.

What Senator McCain has failed to note is that President Obama's administration actively tried against the wishes of his own party to maintain a residual force in Iraq and the sovereign government of Iraq refused to negotiate a status of…