What happens to those 20 Million People who have Health Insurance . Are you going to kick them off and suddenly, they dont have Health Insurance and what ways are their lives better . Are you going to repeal the provision that insures that if you do have Health Insurance on your job or change jobs or lose jobs and start a Small Business and not going to have Health Insurance because you have a preexisting. Are you going to change the policy that kids can stay on their parents Health Insurance plans until they are 26 . How are you going to approach these issues . My view is if they can come up with Something Better that actually works and a year or two after they have replaced the Affordable Care act with their own plan that 25 million have Health Insurance and its cheaper and better and running smoothly, ill be the first one to say, thats great. Congratulations. If, on the other hand, whatever they are proposing results in millions of people losing coverage and results in people who already have Health Insurance losing protections that were contained in the legislation, then we are going to have a problem. And i think that is not going to be unique to me. I think the American People will respond that way. So i think on a lot of issues, what you are going to see is now comes the hard part. Now comes governance. We are going to be able to present to the Incoming Administration, a country that is stronger, a federal government that is working better and more efficiently, a National Security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values, Energy Policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs and and i think the president elect, rightly, expect rightly would expect that he is judged on whether we improve from that baseline and on those metrics or things get worse. And if things get worse, then the American People will figure that out pretty quick. If things get better, more power to him. I will be the first to congratulate him. Reporter you talked about his temperament. Do you have any concerns about hisperament echo temperament . As i said,bama whatever you bring to this office, this office has a habit of magnifying and pointing out and hopefully correct for. This may seem like a silly example, i cant keep track of paper. Im not well organized in that way. And so, pretty quickly, after im getting stacks of briefing books coming in every night, i say to myself, i have to figure out a system, because i have bad filing, sorting and organizing habits and i have to find some people who can help me keep track of this stuff. That seems trivial but that ends up being a big business. The president elect, there are certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them, because when you are a candidate and you Say Something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you are president of the United States. Everybody around the world is paying attention. Markets move. Issues requirety a level of precision and noted to make sure you dont make mistakes. Recognizes this is different. M going to take a look take a couple of more questions and then i am going to get out of here. Reporter mr. Trump talked about [indiscernible] concern if he took part of this . And what would you advise considering he is open to advice . [indiscernible] you talk if you years back about benghazi. Many people criticize the administration for the shortcomings in syria. [indiscernible] that you dont support the Syrian Opposition . President obama iran is a good example of the gap, i think, between some of the rhetoric in this town. Not unique to the president elect and the reality. I think there was a really robust debate about the merits of the iran deal before it was completed. And i actually was pretty proud of how our democracy was. There was a serious debate. People of goodwill were on both sides of the issue. Ultimately, we were able to persuade members of congress and the public, at least enough of them to support it. At the time the main argument against it was iran wouldnt abide by the deal. That they would cheat. We now have over a year of evidence that they have abided by the agreement. Thats not just my opinion and not just people in my administration, but the opinion of Israeli Military and Intelligence Officers who are part of the government that opposed the deal. So my suspicion is when the president elect comes in and hes consulting with his republican colleagues on the hill, that they will look at the facts because to unravel a deal that is working and preventing iran from pursuing a Nuclear Weapon would be hard to explain , particularly if they were freed from any obligations and pursue any weapon. Keep in mind, this isnt just an agreement between us and the iranians but other countries, some our closest allies. And for us to pull out would then require us to start sanctioning those other countries in europe, china or russia, that were still abiding by the deal because from their perspective, iran has done what it supposed to do. It becomes more difficult to undo something thats working than to undo something that isnt working. And when youre not responsible for it, i think you can call it a terrible deal. When you are responsible for the deal preventing iran from getting a Nuclear Weapon, you are more likely to look at the facts. That is going to be true in other circumstances. For example, the Paris Agreement. There has been a lot of talk about the possibility of undoing this International Agreement. There are 200 countries that signed up for this thing. And the good news is that what we have been able to show over the last five, six, eight years is that its possible to grow the economy really fast and possible to bring down Carbon Emissions as well. Its not just a bunch of rules we have set up, youve got utilities that are putting in solar panels and creating jobs. You got the big three auto makers who have seen record sales and overachieving on the fuel efficiency standards that we set. Turns out that people like not having to fill up as often and save money at the pump, even if its good for the environment. You have states like california, that have been moving forward on a clean energy agenda, separate and apart from any federal regulations that have been put forward. 40 of the country already lives under in states that are actively pursuing whats embodied in the Paris Agreement and clean power plan. And in states like texas that politically tend to oppose me, you have seen huge increases in wind power and solar power and you have some of the countrys Biggest Companies like google and walmart pursuing Energy Efficiency because it has been good for their bottom line. We have embedded a lot of these practices into our economy works into how our economy works and helped the bottom line of folks. What the Paris Agreement now says that china and indian yeah china and india and other countries potentially polluting, come on board. Come on board so you guys do the same thing. And the biggest threat when it comes to Climate Change and pollution isnt going to come from us, its going to come from china with over a billion people and india and if they are pursuing the same kind of strategies that we did, our kids will be choked off. And so again, do i think that new administration will make some changes . Absolutely. But these International Agreements, the tradition has been that you carry them forward across administrations, particularly if once you actually examine them, it turns out they are going to do good for us in the behavior that will help us. Last question. You are right about that. With respect to syria, in benghazi we had a new insecurity. Esolution we had a u. N security resolution. The goal of preventing benghazi from being slaughtered fairly quickly. Its no secret, and you know this region that syria is a much more messy situation with proxies coming from every direction. So i wish that i could bring this to a halt immediately. We have made every effort to try to bring about a political resolution to this challenge. John kerry has spent an infinite amount of time trying to negotiate with russians and states andd gulf other parties to end the killing there. But what youre asking is do we have the capacity to carry out the same military action in syria that we did in libya . The situation is different. We dont have that option easily available to us. So we have to continue to pursue as best we can, a political solution and in the interim, put as much pressure as we can to arrive at humanitarian safe spaces to alleviate the suffering thats on the ground. I recognize that that has not worked. And it is something that i continue to think about every day and we continue to try to find some formula, that would allow us to see that suffering end. But i think its not surprising to you, because you studied this deeply, that if you have a Syrian Military that is committed to killing its people indiscriminately as necessary and it is supported by russia, that now has substantial military assets on the ground and are actively supporting that recommending emand iran actively supporting that regime and we are supporting what has to be our number one National Security priority which is going after isil in raqqa. That the situation is not the same as it was in libya and there are some those who question the steps we took in libya. I continue to believe that was the right thing to do. I indicated before in the aftermath of that campaign, i think the war of communities did not support the security structures there and now is a structures that we have to get back into a better place. I have given you ok. Last question. Reporter i wanted to ask about two things. As you prepare for the trump administration. Three quarters of a million undocumented immigrants provide [indiscernible] is there anything you can do to reassure them . Immigration. The administration wants to maintain the restraint on you by congress [indiscernible] an unconstitutional infringement on your rights. Concern that the gradual transfer will continue under a trump administration. Is this the time to test that theory . President obama both excellent questions. On the Deferred Action Program that we have, known as daca, relates to dreamers, i will urge the president elect and the Incoming Administration to think long and hard before they are endangering the status of what for all practical purposes, practical purposes are american kids. They have done nothing wrong, they have gone to school and pledged allegiance to the flag and some of them joined the military and enrolled in school. By definition, if they are part of this program, they are solid wonderful, young people of good character. And it is my strong belief that the majority of the American People would not want to see suddenly those kids have to start hiding again. And thats something that i will encourage the president elect to look at. , it respect to guantanamo is true that i have have not been able to close the darn thing because of the congressional restrictions put on us. What is also true, we have greatly reduced the population. You now have significantly less than 100 people there. There are some additional transfers that may be taking place over the next two months. There is a group of very dangerous people that we have strong evidence of having been guilty of committing terrorist states,inst the united but because of the nature of the evidence and in some cases that evidence being compromised, its difficult to put them before an article 3 court. And that group has always been the biggest challenge for us. My strong belief and preference is that we would be much better off closing gitmo and moving them to a different facility that was clearly governed by u. S. Jurisdiction and do it a lot cheaper and just as safely. Congress disagrees with me and i gather the president elect does as well. We will continue to explore options for doing that. But keep in mind, its not a matter of what im willing to do. One thing being president is that there are norms and laws and you have to Pay Attention to them. And the people who work for you are also subject to those rules and norms. And thats the piece of advice that i gave to the incoming president. I am very proud of the fact that we will knock on wood, leave this administration without significant scandal. We made mistakes and been screwups, but i will put the ethics of this administration and our track record in terms of just abiding by the rules and norms and keeping the trust of the American People, i would put this administration against any administration in history. And the reason is because we listened to the lawyers, we had a strong ethics and counsels office and people in every agency whose job it was to remind people this is how you are supposed to do things. Doesnt mean that everybody did things the way they are supposed to. We have two Million People working in the federal government, we had to try to institutionalize as much as we could. And one of my suggestions to the incoming president is that he take that part of the job seriously as well. Again, you wouldnt know this if you were listening to some news outlets or members of oversight committees in congress. But it works. And this is just one example of the ways in which the federal government is much better than the way it was. You look at v. A. People remember that legitimate problems that were publicized in phoenix. It was scandalous what happened. We have brought in well over a Million People who were getting benefits that werent getting it before. Foren the backlog disability benefits way down and made the agency work better, not work better. Work better, not work perfectly but work that are. And the moderates have said better is good. Perfect is attainable, better is possible. We will try to share the lessons that we have learned with the incoming president and my hope is he makes things better and if he does, we will benefit from it. Thank you everybody. Some of you who are traveling will have a chance to ask more questions. [indiscernible] [crowd noise] conference, press president obama spoke to organizers about the Election Results saying, your president feels your pain on this later president obama took off in route to athens, greece to just greece, for his last overseas trip as president. Republican donald trump is elected as the next president of the United States and the nation collects a republicancontrolled u. S. House and senate. Follow the transition of government on cspan. We will take you to events without interruption. Watch live on cspan and ondemand at cspan. Org or leeson or listen on our free cspan radio app. City,mp tower in new york president elect Donald Trumps former campaign manager, kellyanne conway, spoke briefly with reporters. Working on all that. What are your priorities. All of the above. Reporter some criticism. What is your response to that . It kellyanne frankly, people should look at the full resume. He has a Harvard Business degree. A naval officer. It has success in entertainment. Brilliant tactician. Reporter [indiscernible] kellyanne i am personally offended that you would think 66 million plus i know people werent prepared for us to win , so we are reaching around to of wereme examples should really focus on the role which was to elect donald trump as president. [indiscernible] his mission to unify the country and implement his 100 day plan. [indiscernible] yes, i do know that and i saw some of that in the press release. I think you can refer to that. Reince will certainly have a hand in communications. In my view, it is important for trump to have those around him who were with him because loyalty is important. It was a winning formula. Im very happy that Reince Priebus and steve bannon reporter do you expect him to continue to use his password and handle for twitter . Kellyanne i have no idea about that, i will leave that to him. What is the priority on the agenda today . We will continue the transition. President elect trump is taking calls. Meetings, interviews. We have been ensconced in trump tower. The Transition Team down in d. C. I will be there tomorrow. He continues to take as many calls from elected officials, folks he ran against in the primary, other people, other team leaders and i talked to mrs. Trump. She is also interviewing people. I talked to Vice President elect pence and he is obviously very involved in the transition. Reporter do you anticipate any travel . Kellyanne it is more likely to happen this week and they are also talking about the Supreme Court vacancy. Reporter will you be doing this week . Kellyanne to be determined. Reporter any preference for a candidate for the Supreme Court . Kellyanne he has promised to have somebody in the judicial philosophy in mind. Reporter any foreign leaders . Kellyanne no, i wont comment on that. Thank you very much. Announcer in their firs