People are filing in. I want to thank everyone for coming out today. On behalf of our president thomas burr and the 3,000 members of the National Press club i want to thank everyone who braved metro road closings and construction here at the press club for coming out today. And i think one of the reasons we have such a good crowd is to talk about a president ial transition gives people hope that theres light at the end of the tunnel after the Long Campaign but at the same time i learned that sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a locomotive coming at you. And so today what were going to do is were going to talk about sort of that tunnel. Whats going on in terms of president ial transition and what needs to be done to get us to noon on inauguration day. We have a really great panel for this discussion. And so with us today, we have clay johnson who served as the Deputy Director for omb in the Bush White House beginning in 2003 and before that he was an assistant to the presid
People are filing in. I want to thank everyone for coming out today. On behalf of our president thomas burr and the 3,000 members of the National Press club i want to thank everyone who braved metro road closings and construction here at the press club for coming out today. And i think one of the reasons we have such a good crowd is to talk about a president ial transition gives people hope that theres light at the end of the tunnel after the Long Campaign but at the same time i learned that sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is a locomotive coming at you. And so today what were going to do is were going to talk about sort of that tunnel. Whats going on in terms of president ial transition and what needs to be done to get us to noon on inauguration day. We have a really great panel for this discussion. And so with us today, we have clay johnson who served as the Deputy Director for omb in the Bush White House beginning in 2003 and before that he was an assistant to the presid
Not my president no kkk, no racist protests erupt following trumps victory. Lets look at what theyre protesting. Theyre protesting democracy. You have people who are terrified. If you want unity we have to hear the pain first before you there will be casualties on both sides. There will be because people have to die to make a change in this world. Your party is in tatters. No question. My party is in tatters. the Republican Party is in tatters. Donald trump, crushed two political dynasties in the bush family, and the clintons. Donald trump is going to be our president. We owe him an open mind, and the chance to lead. We all want whats best for this country. Thats what i heard when i spoke to him. Markets opening with gop control of both houses of congress, and the presidency, enthusiasm actually on wall street. His promise was to make America Great again and donald trump has launched his transition website greatagain. Gov. All that. No matter how you feel about the result of this elect
In the paper, but then you can say like one person was telling me that, he was telling me that the memoranda they read, that there were not a lot of mistakes in those memoranda because nobodys going to put on paper what host carefully be, yeah. Carefully. Guest but he said that once he sat down with people id say, well, you know, youd think you might want to organize geographically the nsc this way, but we tried this, and it just didnt work, and it didnt work for the following reasons. So that was particularly important to be able to have that time, that obama appointed people early enough that they could do that. But also important was the work that steve hadley did. And so they could take those memoranda which had been passed through the intelligence community, state department, and president bush. So they could take those and ask questions about them. Those were the ones that didnt have a lot of things that had been done wrong but they were willing to be very open in their discussio