This is a half hour. Mr. Spicer im going to try to keep this on the short end. This might be present at a listening session with the attorney general and fraternal order of police, with the Vice President to discuss lawenforcement issues related to terrorism and innercity violence. The fraternal order of police, the Worlds Largest organization of sworn Law Enforcement officers with more than 330,000 members. They represent those who dedicate their lives to protecting and serving. The advocate for improved working conditions for Law Enforcement officers and for the safety of our communities. Enforcement officers and for the safety of our communities. The president thanked the fop leadership for the support, reaffirmed his pledge to have their back. The president remarked his highest duty is the security of our people and pointed to several actions hes already take to enhance our domestic security including the creation of a task force on reducing Violent Crime and Interagency Task force to dismantle criminal cartels and historic action to secure our borders and remove criminals from our country. The group held an indepth discussion about the rights of Violent Crime in some parts of the country. Registered increase of members of Law Enforcement being targeted, ambush style attacks and the need to address the countries opioid academic, epidemic comics tuesday. Attorney general sessions still the fop leadership he looks for to continuing to work closely with them to tackle the challenges facing Law Enforcement as they work to keep our community say. Communities safe. As i mentioned at the top the president will sign an executive order on Energy Independence at the environment of Protection Agency headquarters. The president strongly believes believe protecting the environment and promoting our economy are not mutually exclusive goals. This executive order will help to ensure that we have clean air and clean water without sacrificing Economic Growth and job creation. First it directs all agencies to conduct a review of all regulation, rules, policy and guidance documents that put up roadblocks in Domestic Energy production and identify the ones that are not either mandated by law or actually contributing to the public good. It also rescinds a number of the previous administrations actions that dont reflect this administrations priorities. The full list is laid out an executive order which will be provided to link today after the president signs it. Next the order directs the epa to take several actions to reflect this president environmental and economic goals including a review of the new performance standards for coalfired and natural gasfired plants that amount to a de facto ban on new coal plant production in the united states. This is great news for states like wyoming, West Virginia, kentucky, pennsylvania and others. Finally the order establishes a direct of agencies use the best adipocytes and economic in the regulatory analysis moving forward. For too long the federal government has acted like a barrier to Energy Independence and innovation. By reducing unnecessary regulatory obstacles we will free up American Energy companies to responsibly use our vast energy resources, protecting the environment while creating wellpaying jobs throughout the country. American electricity producer, producers have done an amazing job of adapting and utilizing new technologies to deliver clean power to the united states. Under President Trump the federal government is going to acknowledge that that progress and adjusted priorities accordingly. Moving on, later this afternoon the present will meet with secretary of state tillerson and sector, and security kelly. This eating the president and first lady walzer host a reception in the white house for senators and their spouses. This would be the first on the President Trump has imbibed all current senators to the white house and he looks forward to this opportunity as well as to speak with some of the senators about the places where they can come together and make this country better. One of those places he hopes to find Common Ground with Senate Democrats tonight is the confirmation of judge neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Yesterday Many Democrats begin declaring support for Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer is partisan filibuster of judge gorsuch. As i said these senators come if they get their way, this would be for successful filibuster of our nominee to join the Supreme Court. Leading democrats have limited these tactics as recently as last year. Senator schumer wrote last year in an oped in the New York Daily News and the quote at a a time when americans want to move forward the last thing we need, the last thing is a new recipe for gridlock in the Supreme Court. Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton said of the Supreme Court confirmation progress quote it should not be an exercise in political brinksmanship and partisan posturing, and that nominees to a quote for an fair hearing followed by a vote. Claire mccaskill of missouri tweeted the constitution says the senate shall advise and consent and that means having an up or down vote. So who are Senate Democrats going to enact this on an external links to block . Extraordinary links to block . Its an individual frankly who the body including senator schumer unanimously confirmed for a seat on the tenth circuit not too long ago. This is a jet received a unanimous wellqualified rating by the american bar association. He was a harvard law graduate who received the Edward J Randolph award for Outstanding Service in the department of justice. So it cant be the qualifications are taking issue with. Judge gorsuch is frankly a mainstream judge. Here are some figures to point that out. Number one, in 90 of the cases which issued the opinion he received unanimous support of all of his colleagues. Second, in divided cases of the last five years involving both republican and democrat appointed judges come judge gorsuch sided with the democrat appointed judge one in three times. When the shoe was on the other foot when the Supreme Court nominee for democratic president went to the confirmation hearing in meetings meeting with senators from both parties, neither justices taken nor so to my or face an attempted senate filibuster. Both received repugnant votes in republican votes in support of the confirmation. During that kagan nomination when senator harry reid plan to file a cloture motion to bring it to about it was then senator and now current attorney general Jeff Sessions who stopped him and said quote i have a High Standard before i would attempt to block an up or down vote and asks him to read to proceed with a boat without the need for overcoming a republican filibuster. Judge gorsuch has met with most of the Senate Democratic caucus. He is gone two days of hearings and answer probing questions. He is eminently qualified and deserves the deference and consideration from the minority Senate Democrats. That president obama selections were given once theyre through the confirmation process. A few things i want to highlight. Last night the president announced his intent to nominate to serve as assistant attorney general of the antitrust division at the department of justice. And thats when we announced the president s declaration of major disaster in a state of nevada and ordered federal assistance to supplement Recovery Efforts in areas affected by severe storms, flooding and mudslides this past february. And finally the president is pleased to announce 1. 2 billion investment in green manufacturing facilities in michigan, just two weeks after automobile executives came to the white house and met with the president. This adds to the growing wave of positive jobs is under president continued investment from charter communication, his approval of the permit for keystone xl pipeline on friday and in addition Energy Transfer partners reported monday that the Dakota Access pipeline has been filled with oil as a end of as they enter the final stages of preparation that will finally put this into service. According to data released by the Conference Board in march Consumer Confidence quote sore to its highest level in 16 years. From individual announcements a significant boost in both consumer and ceo confidence generally its clear the president s economic agenda is what americas business have been waiting for. These businesses have spent years doing held back by unnecessary bureaucratic red tape and what were seeing is a taste of the heights our economy can reach once those burdens are removed. And lastly i want to make a comment on a false report regarding former acting attorney general sally yates. As a matter fact i like to walk you through the sequence of events just which are and what is abundantly clear on what happened. On march 14, chairman newness and Ranking Member gates onvited sally march 28. Sally yates attorney sent a letter to the department of justice asking for their consent to testify without constraints. On march 24 the department of justice responded the president own to those privileges to discuss the communications they were requesting to talk about and referred them to the white house. Also on the 24th herb attorney sent a letter to the white house counselcounsel requesting that consent specifically stated that if they did not receive a response by march 27 at 10 am they would quote conclude that the white house does not assert executive privilege over these matters. The white house did not respond and took no action that prevented ms. Yates from testifying. Thats the story. Thats with the documents show, and without im glad to take some questions. Id like to follow on that because there are reports that even though they hearing that was set for the 27th was not scheduled, it was canceled by devin nunes to prevent this white house from publicly invoking or claiming executive privilege. Can you speak about . Mr. Spicer i hope she testifies. I look forward to it. Lets be honest. The hearing was never, was actually never notified. If they choose to move forward great. We have no problem with her testifying. Plain and simple. The report in the Washington Post is 100 false. The letters that they frankly published on the website all back up everything i just read. All of the letters are available on their website. I hate to give them the traffic but the route is that they specifically say if you dont respond were going to go ahead. We didnt respond if we encouraged them to go ahead. Which is suggesting any way, shape, or form that we stood in the way of that is 100 false. Brian. A couple things you said earlier. A couple quick followups. Best available science, does that mean there would be no further Scientific Research . You dont want to Fund AdditionalScientific Research . Number two, what other issues would you like to see the president reach out to democrats do it tonight . On the first one best science, and best science available. But is it a code for no. Thats a code for its got to be available. Plain and simple. You should read anything into that. The president will speak more to that at todays signing at 1 30. At 2 oclock rather, sorry. I think theres a host of issues. Talk about health care, if you want to come together infrastructure, tax reform. Wed love to have as much support as possible. A couple questions. Cold. Coal. Your action today, the white house is thinkable reverse president obamas were on call war on coal. A lot of people in the coal industry suggest john shall not come back in the Industry Based on the way to his just change, technology and other things. Does this administration of an estimate of how many jobs will be created as a result of the actions taken today . Mr. Spicer im not aware of one, estimate. I know the president has met with some of the coal miners the other day and senators from West Virginia and other some kentucky that were here. We did that sign a few days ago. I will tell you that from a mining perspective, the miners and the owners are very, very bullish on this. The people who are actually in the business applaud this effort , and believe it would do a lot to revive the industry. Its a private interest is not going to get into who does what, but i know that the industry itself said so. Steve. Im sorry. [inaudible] two weeks after the automakers met here at the white house. Did the white house and the president do anything and that meeting . Mr. Spicer i think theres been some regulatory effort and some commitments on the regulatory efforts Going Forward in the future that i think may have played a role. I would ask forward on that. I think weve seen a number of industry leaders, union leaders, truckers, Truck Companies come in, talk about burdens. Theres been several cases where meetings in the white house or frankly we went to michigan and held that roundtable out there as well, the meetings that we have have a very positive followup in terms of a commitment from a company or an industry to create jobs, to invest more in this country. In each of these cases does the white house get political credit for this . I will leave it up to forward to make that determination. We are pleased with more americans getting jobs throughout various sectors, and i think we will continue in the president made it clear he continued to fight to bring back jobs in manufacturing here in the country. Steve. Tax reform, could you go through what is the president s of bottomline . The president s bottom line . Does it need to have middleclass tax relief, Corporate Tax relief . Can you do it comprehensively or piecemeal . Do you add Infrastructure Spending to it somehow . How are you looking at this . Mr. Spicer on the first two, those are both key components, the middle class, individual tax piece of it and then the corporate rate has to come down. Think those are Guiding Principles that the president has laid out. As far as how the process works, there are i think, i dont want to get ahead of the folks in the legislative affairs of the guys on capitol hill but i would suggest to you theres attitude out there that at 418 reconciliation is probably the most likely people to move some of this. F. 18. What what to do is keep a lot of options on the table in terms of do we put in for stark and his infrastructure in. Is there another vehicle to drive that . But part of gathering folks together now from capitol hill from industry, from groups is to begin the discussion to talk about what needs to go in, what the way forward is and then so that conversation has begun and it is continuing. Do think you have some recommendations to take to the president . Mr. Spicer well, integrally the team has been talking to him for a while. I think theres a big discussion that has to happen as we branched out with outside groups, industry, members of capitol hill, et cetera, that start to formulate some Additional Listing that needs to happen on this, and again i think part of it is that the legislative strategy and needs to tie this. Blake. Does the white house truly involved in any negotiation on is the white house involved in negotiation of the Health Care Bill . If so, in what manner . Mr. Spicer staff has met with individuals and listened to them. So i dont know how detailed you want. I mean, have we had some discussions . Yes. Are we actively planning an immediate strategy . Not at this time. There is a discussion that began as a mentioned yesterday of a lot of individual both sides of the aisle reaching out to both the president and key Staff Members to share ideas and additional ways forward. So there has been a discussion and i believe there will be several more. What would you say to the folks who have a genuine concern that if you could not get healthcare done, how do you go about giving bigticket items like tax reform and infrastructure done . People say she cant get one, how are you going to the next . What would you say to that concern . Again, i mean, were going to build a coalition for this. I think each of them have different constituencies and i think we will work with members of both sides of the aisle on both of those bigticket issues to see what we can find agreement and move forward but i dont want to prejudge the outcome at this point. John. Thank you, sean. We will do both. All right. Just as a followup question, did the president himself had have have any discussions with speaker ryan or later mccarthy or anyone over the weekend about healthcare and making an actual vote on the American Health care act . And one got the impression from s