--- title: Watch Live: President Obama Makes a Statement description: President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a statement from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Wednesday at 12:45 p.m. ET. canonical: https://time.com/3148772/obama-live/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-20T16:41:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:46:09.282Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: President Obama Makes a Statement og:description: President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a statement from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Wednesday at 12:45 p.m. ET. og:url: https://time.com/3148772/obama-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99b56821c6c12cb0/6986a030169ab064e827acc5/barack-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Barack Obama og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: President Obama Makes a Statement twitter:description: President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a statement from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Wednesday at 12:45 p.m. ET. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99b56821c6c12cb0/6986a030169ab064e827acc5/barack-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: President Obama Makes a Statement on James Foley Beheading by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Aug 20, 2014 4:41 PM UTC  U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement at the White House in Washington on Aug. 18, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement at the White House in Washington on Aug. 18, 2014.Olivier Douliery—Pool/Corbis by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Aug 20, 2014 4:41 PM UTC President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a statement from Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., on Wednesday at 12:45 p.m. ET. Obama is expected to address a video released Tuesday that appears to show a militant of the group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria executing American journalist James Foley, who was kidnapped in Syria in November 2012\. National Security Council Spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said Wednesday morning the U.S. intelligence community believes the video to be authentic. Watch Obama’s address live above. Watch Live: President Obama Makes a Statement ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3148772/obama-live/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3148772/obama-live/"},"headline":"Watch Live: President Obama Makes a Statement on James Foley Beheading","datePublished":"2014-08-20T16:41:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:46:09.282Z","description":"President Obama is scheduled to make a statement from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Wednesday at 12:45 p.m. ET","url":"https://time.com/3148772/obama-live/","keywords":["White House"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99b56821c6c12cb0/6986a030169ab064e827acc5/barack-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99b56821c6c12cb0/6986a030169ab064e827acc5/barack-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Barack Obama","caption":"Barack Obama","creditText":"Olivier Douliery—Pool/Corbis","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3148772/obama-live/","name":"Watch Live: President Obama Makes a Statement on James Foley Beheading"}}]}] ```