President Obama held a private meeting with top national security journalists on Thursday afternoon following his national security policy address at the National Defense University in Washington, POLITICO has learned.

Among those Present at the meeting were Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist; David Igantius, the Washington Post columnist; Jeffrey Goldberg, the Atlantic correspondent and Bloomberg View columnist; and Joe Klein, the Time Magazine columnist.

Obviously, the columnists are in line with President Obama’s foreign policy approach. The meeting signals an effort on part of Obama to defy the skeptics over his change of policy, seeking broad support for his actions on Syria and Iran.

The meeting, which was scheduled to last for one hour but lasted for two, was held in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

(Jacob Kornbluh – YWN)