The White House pool reporter confirms a People magazine tweet saying that President Obama had lunch today with Hillary Clinton. Here’s the pool report:
The White House confirmed that Hillary Clinton had lunch with President Obama today after People magazine tweeted about the meeting – a tweet that has since been deleted.”The President enjoyed an informal, private lunch with Secretary Clinton at the White House this afternoon,” a White House official said on background in a response to an inquiry from your pooler.
Your pooler also lodged a complaint about the lack of transparency on the meeting with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.The lunch was not on the president’s public schedule.
And here’s the People tweet which has been published again:
PEOPLE’s @sswestfall chats w/@HillaryClinton before her @WhiteHouse lunch. Hope she wasn’t late for @barackobama! pic.twitter.com/6MAVgsXXzO
— People (@people) May 29, 2014
