WH press secretary Josh Earnest explains that the president has not been "defeated" on gun control in Washington. "The president is determined to do everything he possibly can to try to make our country safer. He certainly believes that members of Congress should have the same impulse," Earnest said. "The president has talked at great length about how frustrating and in some cases infuriating this is for him."



"That is why the president has asked experts to scrub the law, to search for actions the administration can take using executive authority."





JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE: There are hundreds of federal law enforcement officials who are working on this case even as we speak... It is a reason for people to resist the urge to jump to conclusions about what exactly happened, and what potential motives of these two killers may have been.



People should not jump to conclusions. [Obama] is not going to jump to conclusions. Investigators are not going to jump to conclusions. They're going to allow the facts to guide the investigation as they should.



WH PRESS CORPS MEMBER: He didn't specifically note Congress, the Republicans objection to new gun control measures, in a statement today, does that mean, he talked about legislatures maybe having to get involved? Is he shifting to something broader? A new approach, maybe something outside of Washington? Decided he's defeated here and moving elsewhere?



EARNEST: Of course not.



I think the president is determined to do everything he possibly can to try to make our country safer. He certainly believes that members of Congress should have the same impulse...



The president has talked at great length about how frustrating and in some cases infuriating this is for him.



That is why the president has asked experts to scrub the law, to search for actions the administration can take using executive authority.