Highlights from ongoing presidential news conference
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}If you're not able to watch the news conference on Fox, here are some highlights from the ongoing event:
On Iran: "The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings, and imprisonments of the last few days. I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join with the American people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost.
President Obama took a question from an Iranian citizen, via the Huffington Post reporter at the news conference. The question: "Under which conditions would you accept the election of Ahmadinejad? And if you do accept it without any significant changes in the conditions there, isn't that a betrayal of -- of what the demonstrators there are working to achieve?"
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}On Fed Chair Ben Bernanke's performance: "He has done a fine job under very difficult circumstances ... I would say all financial regulators didn't do everything that needed to be done to keep the crisis from happening."
On Smoking: The President was asked if he still smokes and whether he does it alone or in the company of others. Mr. Obama called himself a "former smoker", but notes he has fallen off the wagon every now and then. He doesn't smoke in front of his kids or his familiy. He considers himself "95%" cured.