[Watch] Josh Earnest: Conservative Authors To Blame For Hillary Not Honoring Disclosure Rules No intro needed for this one. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest started grasping at straws during todays exchange with ABCs Jon Karl. Karl asked him about Hillary Clintons failure to meet the administrations disclosure rules, and Josh blamed conservative authors and their research for the lapse. Watch. ARVE Error: Element ID could not be build, please report this bug. So Obama White House sets disclosure standards. Then a prominent members of the Administration accepts millions of dollars in donations and fails to disclose them. And now Obama White House ignores the question about the very standards it set in the first place. Obamas disclosure standards are as relevant as his red lines for murderous regimes. 