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Howard Kurtz tweeted Tuesday: “Obama holds presser day after my column on not holding pressers. Coincidence? Ha!” A coincidence indeed, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs tells Greg Sargent. “We had plannned for the President to go into the briefing room to make this statement probably a week ago.”
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