12:34 P.M. EDT

MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon, guys. Thank you for taking some time out of your Sunday afternoon. We wanted to bring together many of the people that have the primary governmental responsibility in dealing with the situation and to discuss the government’s capacity and capability to discuss the steps the government is taking to address this.

Three people we’ll hear from today and then we’ll take some questions: First, John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Dr. Richard Besser, the Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security.

So with that I’ll turn it over to Mr. Brennan.

MR. BRENNAN: Thank you, Robert. And thank you, everyone, for coming here today.
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Via email from the White House:

WASHINGTON – Obama administration officials will host an on-camera briefing this afternoon in the White House Press Briefing Room to provide an update on swine influenza in the United States and the government response.

WHO: Secretary Janet Napolitano, Department of Homeland Security
Dr. Richard Besser, Acting Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs

WHEN: Sunday, April 26, 2009 – 12:30pm EDT

WHERE: White House Press Briefing Room