White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest responded to a question on Monday about the violent video reportedly showing NFL star Ray Rice beating his then-fiancee unconscious.
MSNBC’s “The Reid Report” aired footage of Earnest’s comments from Monday’s press briefing:
This administration and this President do believe strongly that the scourge of violence against women is something that needs to be aggressively combated. I don’t want to comment on the individual decisions that are made by, in this case, by an individual football team. But you have seen the President and the vice president make very forceful public comments in talking about how important it is for men in particular to step up and step forward and make clear that violence against women is something that is, is not and cannot be tolerated. And that the most important thing, or one of the most important things that we can do to try to end the scourge of violence against women is for men to band together and to send a very clear signal that it is unacceptable.
h/t Mediaite