The White House press briefing room was briefly evacuated Tuesday after a bomb threat. The secret service determined it was safe and the press briefing resumed about half an hour later. Press Secretary Josh Earnest returns joking, but questions quickly start to pile up and the story, as usual, doesn't make much sense.
APRIL RYAN, AMERICAN URBAN RADIO NETWORKS: We're just feet from your office, feet from the Oval Office and also feet from the residence. There's a close proximity. Was anyone else told maybe in the residence to move while this was going on? Because it seems like a very serious situation, they had gone in offices, under desks, had dogs come through here. And no one was told to move of shelter in place...
JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE: April, I'm sharing all the information I have with you right now, which is that based on a threat that the Secret Service received from another law enforcement agency, about the press area at the White House, the press are was evacuated for the safety of all of us, and the Secret Service, using resources that they keep here at the complex, were able to quickly search this location and see that it was safe.
As soon as they did we were able to all come back in the room and pick up where we left off.
APRIL RYAN: But they moved us. We went outside to keep us cool. We were out there, you were in the office. They, we went to pebble beach first, and they moved us down to the next building even further back. It wasn't for coolness it was because of a fear.
So my question is:
With the proximity to everyone here, the seat of power just feet away. They were not moved, but we were moved all the way back. There is something not jiving, not mixing, it just seems odd.