Private firm amends White House transcript after Earnest refuses

Published June 10, 2016 4:32pm ET



A private transcription service popular inside the Washington beltway has amended its transcript of an early May press briefing to correct an error related to the Iran nuclear agreement, an error that White House spokesman Josh Earnest has said the White House won’t fix in its own transcript.

Federal News Service, a transcription service owned by CQ-Roll Call, acknowledged a mistake in its transcription of the May 9 press briefing, and the company has since corrected it.

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