{"id":448362,"date":"2010-03-19T16:45:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=14635"},"modified":"2010-03-19T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T20:45:16","slug":"white-house-press-corp-vs-gibbs-on-sestak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/448362","title":{"rendered":"White House Press Corp vs. Gibbs on Sestak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='width:600px; text-align: center;'><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/publish.vidavee.com\/publish\/trh\/embedAsset.js?autoplay=off&#038;width=375&#038;height=282&#038;vtag=yes&#038;startVolume=50&#038;hidecontrolbar=no&#038;textureStrip=yes&#038;displayTime=yes&#038;volumeLock=no&#038;watermark=no&#038;loadStream=off&#038;dockey=2470D35655CD95D9744EB812C7C2A08F&#038;originalMovieLink=http%3A%2F%2Fliveshots.blogs.foxnews.com%2F%3Fp%3D14635&#038;auth_base=s%3Dmpd%7Cd%3D2470D35655CD95D9744EB812C7C2A08F%7Cts%3D1269271874%7Cttl%3D3600&#038;auth_sig=aff8573433f94c8fe1d1d5a79d8c3556\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>For weeks the White House Press Corp has been challenging White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about claims made by Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa. that Sestak was offered a federal job in exchange for not running in a Senate primary race against Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa.<\/p>\n<p>Sestak says he turned the alleged job down, but has declined to reveal who in the White House made the\u00a0 apparent offer.<\/p>\n<p>If the allegations were proven true, it could be violation of the U.S. Criminal Code, Title 18.<\/p>\n<p>Reporters first started pressing Gibbs on February 23 and had six exchanges with him by mid-March.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday they finally got somewhat of an answer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m told that whatever conversations have been had are not problematic. I think Congressman Sestak has discussed that this is &#8212; whatever happened is in the past, and he&#8217;s focused on his primary election,&#8221; Gibbs said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Be sure to also read my colleague James Rosen&#8217;s piece\u00a0 <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/03\/19\/anatomy-scandal-curious-case-joe-sestaks-job-offer\/\"><em>Anatomy of a Scandal: The Curious Case of Joe Sestak&#8217;s Job Offer<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For weeks the White House Press Corp has been challenging White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about claims made by Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa. that Sestak was offered a federal job in exchange for not running in a Senate primary race against Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa. Sestak says he turned the alleged job down, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}