While we wait for this event with Health Secretary Sylvia Burwell to get under way, well show you some of todays white house briefing. Good afternoon, everybody. I to not have any announcements at the top, so we can go straight to questions. Could you say what role the white house played, if any, in terry carter ordering the pentagon to stop recruitment recoupment of the enlistment bonuses sought from some guard members . Mr. Earnest as you know, the president makes the fair treatment of our Service Members a top priority. Officials at the department of defense and as i alluded to yesterday, the president has been pleased to see in the last 24 hours the department of defense make some specific commitments to ensuring that our Service Members are treated fairly. When a promise is made to our men and women in uniform, we should keep it. Certainly thats the view of the president. And we certainly want to avoid a situation where Service Members are punished because of nefarious or fraudule