Obama statement on bomb incidents coming ‘relatively soon’

Published September 19, 2016 1:14pm ET



President Obama will make a statement “relatively soon” following the New York City and New Jersey bomb incidents this weekend, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said.

“I think the president will have an opportunity to address this later today,” Earnest said during a CNN interview Monday morning. “What we are focused on is making sure that we are letting the federal investigators who are on the job lead the course of this investigation and follow the facts and get to the bottom of exactly what’s happened.

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