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March 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Mr Cameron also used the nationally televised interview to promote the
London Olympics, promising that Britain would be “rolling out the red
carpet for the whole world”.
“Everything is on time and on budget, all the stadia are built and
everything’s ready to go. We’re just ready to welcome a lot of people to
London,” he said.
Mr Obama said he was eager for Mr Cameron to meet the “wonderful folks”
of the American heartland and to see more of the country than the coastal
cities usually frequented by foreign visitors.
He also joked that Mr Cameron had met a British student at the Ohio game, “so
he had some constituencies here”.
23.42: It’s half-time now and the Leader of the Free World is having a
little stretch. Expecting interview fairly soon.
23.10: BREAKING – PM and Potus have both eaten hot dogs, the
pool reports. Cameron made the mistake last time he was in the US of eating
a New York dog without any relish.
23.04: Dave paying close attention. Someone in the West Wing may
be in trouble for allowing the President to wear a shirt that translates so
badly onto the TV camera.
Cameron and Obama in Ohio. Picture by Eugene.
22.56 The White House pool adds this:
The president was greeted with loud cheers as he entered the arena with Mr
Cameron and the rest of the entourage. The arena is not quite full, but it’s
a boisterous crowd.
A White House official said Mr Cameron and Mr Obama spent the entire flight
in the president’s office on Air Force One, talking.
In the early moments of the first-round game between Western Kentucky and
Mississippi Valley State, the score is tied at 4. At times, Mr. Obama
appeared to be explaining aspects of the game to Mr. Cameron as they sat
huddled next to each other.
22.55 Our own Amy Willis is watching the game on TruTv – a
bizarre American channel devoted mainly to conspiracy
theories that somehow has obtained the rights to both the game and
the half-time interview.
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22.25: The game in Ohio has just started. The two leaders,
looking supremely relaxed, are sitting in a stand with 500 Air Force family
members whose loved ones are deployed overseas. Also with them are 20
students from the University of Dayton.
22.15: More from the White House pool:
Air Force One landed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio at 5:42 p.m.
Mr. Obama and Mr. Cameron were greeted on the tarmac by Ohio Gov. John
Kasich and several other dignitaries.
The president took off his jacket and spent several minutes shaking hands
with a few dozen Air Force service members. As he departed, he shouted to
them, “Keep up the good work!” They cheered and took photographs.
The motorcade is moving at 6:02 p.m. heading for the University of Dayton
arena for the NCAA Tournament game.
21.55: The game is expected to start in around half an hour,
with the joint interview another half hour or so after that.
21.35: There’s a bit of consternation in the US about Cameron’s
decision to wear jeans tonight. A little too casual and a little too trendy
heading into America’s Rust Belt? Say what you want but he looks more
relaxed than this man:
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21.20: Only a couple of hours after getting off his British Airways
flight, Cameron is again airborn, this time heading for Ohio, where he will
watch Mississippi Valley State and Western Kentucky University.
Hopefully he’s swotted up on their records because at half time he’s doing
an interview with CBS Sports on his impressions of the game. No doubt
the Foreign Office has received assurances that he’s not going to be asked
to take three-point shot.
21.10: Here in the DC bureau, we’ve had a sudden burst of latent
patriotism. Rule Britannia! is blaring, it’s like last night of the
proms.
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20.55: The two leaders have reached Air Force One now but, somewhat
amusingly, the ladder at the back of the helicopter has broken so President
and Prime Minister had to scramble down the front. They’re accompanied by: Jay
Carney, the White House press secretary, Jack Lew, Mr Obama’s
chief of staff and Ed Llewellyn, the PM’s chief of staff.
20.44: Andrew Woodcock, the Press Association’s political editor, is
onboard Air Force One, waiting for take off to Ohio.
20.36: And, as if by magic, we have our first pool report on their
progress. A word on pool reports: since Kennedy’s assassination there has
always been a journalist travelling with the president, filing on his every
movement in a report that goes to all White House correspondents. The
reports are full of mind-numbing detail but on days like today they’re very
useful. This from the Wall Street Journal’s Carol Lee.
President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron left on Marine One from the
Ellipse to Andrews AFB.
Pool walked from the Palm Room to the Ellipse while POTUS and Cameron rode
over in the motorcade, arriving at 4:15pm. The two leaders sat in one of the
two SUVs adorned with British and American flags. (The other SUV was packed
with aides.)
Cameron, wearing blue jeans and a black long-sleeve shirt, carrying jacket,
exited and waited a moment for POTUS to walk around from the other side of
the SUV. POTUS is wearing his usual casual outfit – slacks, blue and white
checkered shirt and light jacket.
The two men chatted as they walked over to Marine One.
Once at the foot of the stairs, POTUS patted Cameron on back, and the prime
minister boarded first.
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20.30: Seems like everything is running a little bit behind schedule. DC
and BO were due to be back at Andrews by now en route to
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Not clear where they are at the
moment.
20.20: While their husbands are watching basketball in Ohio, Michelle
Obama and Samantha Cameron are heading to a mini-Olympics with
school children from three schools in Washington DC. It’s a joint
celebration of the London 2012 Olympics and the Let’s Move! programme – the
First Lady’s strategy to combat obesity among American children.
It was announced today that Mrs
Obama will head up the US delegation to the Olympics this summer.
She follows in the steps of her predecessors Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush,
who led the American delegations to the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer,
Norway and the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy respectively.
20.00: And here’s some footage of that very fashionable arrival:
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19.55: Samantha Cameron, long a champion of British fashion, has
arrived flying the flag for UK designers.
Our fashion team have had done a comparison Sam
and Michelle’s styles.
19.05: One of the highlights of the trip will be tomorrow’s joint press
conference at the White House. Normally the British press embarrasses the PM
by asking about domestic politics but sometimes they get under the skin of
the American president, too. Here’s the beginning of the testy
relationship between the BBC’s Nick Robinson and and George W Bush.
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19.00: Jon Swaine has been taking the temperature of the phone hacking
story in the American media.
The arrests of Rebekah and Charlie Brooks produced embarrassing media
coverage for David
Cameron on his arrival in Washington and raised fresh claims that
Rupert Murdoch’s empire may face legal trouble in America.
The New York Times described Mr Brooks as “a decades-long friend of Prime
Minister David Cameron from their days at Eton”. The New Yorker said the
relationship between Mr Cameron and the couple reflected the
“incestuousness” between News International and British authorities.
The arrests were discussed on CNN while footage of Mr Cameron’s arrival was
shown. Viewers were told they represented a “big embarrassment”
for the Prime Minister and threatened to spoil his “red carpet”
moment.
18.55 The Prime Minister may be grateful for this trip out of Britain
for reasons besides the balmy weather (24 degrees) and the good food. Christopher
Hope and Matthew Holehouse report:
David Cameron could be questioned on oath at the Leveson judicial inquiry
about this friendship with Rebekah and Charlie Brooks, Downing Street has
admitted.
Mrs Brooks and her husband were among six people who were arrested this
morning on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice by
police officers investigating allegations of phone hacking.
The former editor of the News of the World and her husband Charlie, the
racehorse trainer and Telegraph columnist, were arrested at their home in
Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, sources said.
Mrs Brooks, a former editor of The Sun, had been on bail after being
questioned by detectives last summer on suspicion of phone hacking and
corruption.
18.46 The plan as we understand it is that Cameron will now make the
relatively short drive from Andrews AFB in Maryland to the White
House in central Washington DC. He’ll shake hands (maybe fist bump) with
Obama and then the pair will board Marine One – the presidential
chopper – and head back to the air base and a waiting Air Force One.
18.35 The two leaders first met in the shadow of Big Ben on a summer
day in July 2008, when Cameron was Leader of the Opposition and Obama
was the junior senator from Illinois. Even then, the Conservative recognised
the American’s star power and had his media team rush out this Webcameron
video (remember those?) from their meeting.
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18.30: Here’s a painstaking itinerary of the British visit that
we compiled earlier:
Tuesday
The Prime Minister arrives in Washington with his wife, Samantha, for their
first major overseas trip together. Mr Cameron heads straight to Dayton,
Ohio, with President Barack Obama to watch a university basketball game. Mrs
Cameron and Michelle Obama attend a mini-Olympics with school children from
Washington DC. George Osborne and William Hague have dinner with Hillary
Clinton, the US Secretary of State, and Timothy Geithner, Secretary of the
Treasury, at the British ambassador’s residence.
Wednesday
Mr Cameron and Mr Obama have one-on-one talks in the Oval Office with
Afghanistan, Iran and Syria expected to dominate discussions. Mr Osborne and
Mr Hague also hold meetings with their American counterparts. The President
and Prime Minister give a joint press conference at the White House.
Vice President Joe Biden and Mrs Clinton hold a lunch in honour of the British
visit at the State Department. Mr and Mrs Cameron visit with school children
from the local area.
Mr Obama hosts a formal dinner at the White House with hundreds of American
and British guests from the worlds of art, business and entertainment.
Thursday
Mrs and Mrs Cameron depart Washington for New York and Newark, New Jersey,
where they will meet with mayors from both cities as well as business and
banking leaders. The Prime Minister will visit Ground Zero and the memorial
to victims of the September 11 attacks and hold an informal discussion
session with American university students.
The British delegation departs from New York for London.
18.25 The trip is essentially a return for the state visit the President
made to London in May of last year. The trip gave us a raft of memorable
images and moments but probably the highlight was Obama’s joke at the
beginning of a speech to both houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall.
18.20 Via the Press Association we have a little more detail on
the landing itself. Mrs and Mrs Cameron were greeted at Andrews Air Force
Base by: Ambassador Capriccia Marshall, US Chief of Protocol; Sir
Peter Westmacott, Britain’s man in DC; and Ambassador Louis Susman,
the Obama political supporter who now represents the US at the Court of St
James’s.
18.15 In case you missed it: the PM and the President
penned a joint
article for today’s Washington Post, where they made the case for
the “special relationship” in the 21st century.
The alliance between the United States and Great Britain is a partnership
of the heart, bound by the history, traditions and values we share. But what
makes our relationship special — a unique and essential asset — is that we
join hands across so many endeavors. Put simply, we count on each other and
the world counts on our alliance…
Our troops and citizens have long shown what can be achieved when British
and Americans work together, heart and hand, and why this remains an
essential relationship — to our nations and the world. So like generations
before us, we’re going to keep it up. Because with confidence in our cause
and faith in each other, we still believe that there is hardly anything we
cannot do.
18.10 There’s a bit of gigging in the British press corps already: the
PM is being met later by a man named Randy Bumgardner, the Assistant
Chief of Protocol and general manager of Blair House, the offical guest
house across the street from the White House.
18.02: James Barbour, the head of press at the British embassy in
Washington and a very busy man this week, tweets this picture of an American
marching band waiting to meet the British Airways flight.
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18.01: As is so often the case, first news of the British premier’s
arrival came from Twitter. Paul Waugh, of Politics Home, is one of a
gang of British political journalists travelling with Cameron.
18.00: Hello and welcome to our live coverage as Prime Minister David
Cameron touches down in Washington for the beginning of a two day visit
with Barack Obama.
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