Discuss the goals and agenda of the president s commission on combating drug addiction and Opioid Crisis which he established yesterday. The commission which is going to be chaired by chris chris yi is the next step to promise that he would take real action to keep drugs from pouring into our countries and corrupting our communities. Under leadership and working with white house innovation, the commission will bring leaders on both sides of the aisle to protect and treat American People from this epidemic, rather. Many members in attendance with the lunch played a key part in passing bipartisan comprehensive addiction also known as cara, first major federal addiction in over 40 years which authorized over 181 million to fight the opioid epidemic, part of the president s commission will be make sure that funds are spent effectively. Too many lives are at stake to be wasting money in this effort. Moving on later this afternoon, the president will welcome Prime Minister of denmark for a working visit. We will have a readout on bilateral meeting at its conclusion. A couple of followups from yesterdayics hunter asked about the house and Senate Passage disapproving of the federal Communications Regulations on privacy rules from last year, so let me just expand on that a little and let me get to your question. The white house supports congress using authority under congressional act to roll back last years fcc rules on broadband regulation. Treat serve providers differently than edge providers such as google and facebook, we classify them as common carriers, like a hotel or another Retail Outlet and open door to regulatory framework. This would allow to be treated fairly and equal playing field. The president pledge today reverse this federal overreach in which bureaucrats in washington take the interest of one group of companies over the interest of others picking and winners and losers. The president signed more legislation under Congressional Review Act than all president s combined already and will continue to fight washington red ten that stifles innovation and economic great. Jeff was here yesterday. We are following on jeffs question. He asked about the administrations position on the paris climate treaty. We are currently reviewing issues related to the agreement and expect to have a decision by the time of the g7 summit lay mayish if not sooner. Before i take your questions, i want to speak about judge gorsuch and the process of nomination and from the beginning the president has been transparent about his choices, if he had been elected who he would choose from. As a matter of fact the level of transparency and he would pick his choice from the Supreme Court from. The American People sent him to the white house to nominate one of those choices and he did it. Prior to the president making final decision, the white house spoke with 29 senators, more than half of whom were from the democrat side of the aisle including every democrat member of the Senate Judiciary committee to seek advice and consent. The consensus was that the president s pick should be a respected mainstream judge. As i layed out many times before from consent to have tenth Circuit Court of appeals to the extraordinary low rate of majority opinions accompanied by the senate, judge gorsuch is a definition of a mainstream respected judge. Hes offered the Senate Plenty of material to vouch for that. Since his nomination, judge gorsuch met with nearly 80 senators in response to request gorsuch provided the following, over 80, 70 pages of written answers about his personal records in response to 299 questions for the record from democrats on the committee, the most in recent history which he submitted within six days of receiving the questions. Over 75,000 pages of documents including speeches, case briefs, opinions and written work going back as far as college. And over 180,000 pages of email and paper record related to the judges time at the department of justice. In fact, the department of justice provided access to many document that is would normally be guarded by various privileges in a historically unprecedented move in the spirit of cooperation with Senate Democrats. And the judge sat for three rounds and nearly 20 hours of questioning by the Senate Judiciary committee during which he was asked nearly 1,200 questions. Almost twice as many as justices sotomayor,kagne or ginsburg. Many announced to filibuster judge gorsuchs nomination. Unfortunately it looks more, more Like Senate Democrats would rather do all that they did in reading and questioning for nothing more than to than political theater. Finally, before i take a question, a later was transmitted recently to the ranking and chairman of the house and Senate Intelligence committees that said in the ordinary course of business, National Security staff discovered document that is we believe are in response to your march 15th 2017 letter to Intelligence Committee seeking documents, quote documents necessary collected on u. S. Persons was mishandled and leak, end quote. We have an will invite the senate and house Ranking Members and chairman up to the white house to view that material in accordance with their schedule. With that, im glad to take a few of your questions. Cheryl. Sean, im trying to gauge the probability of a Government Shutdown at the end of april, are your directions to the capitol hill to hold firm on the spending cuts that the president wants or to try to wheel a deal and get a bill that can keep the government open . I dont know that theyre mutually exclusive. [inaudible] there generally is. I think that we want both. We want to maintain some of the Spending Priorities as well as some of the reductions in the 2017 budget. We want to do so responsibly and do within priorities that the president has layed out. I think his funding requests and priorities are layed out in the budget that director mulvaney detailed and sent up for the remainder of 2017. Theres some key things in that and i think that it is going to be begin a conversation that we will continue to have with the house and senate but i dont think both of those goals are mutually exclusive. Obviously we dont want the government to shut down but we want to make sure we are funding the priorities of the government. John. A tweet that he tweet out on twitter. He seems to be picking a fight with the Freedom Caucus. The member has 30 members. Does the president realize how important this caucus, this coalition is in terms of passing a replacement bill for the Affordable Care act and passing the rest of he is legislative agenda . Well u of course, he understands that the goal of all legislation is to get to a majority in the house, majority in the senate and so but at tend to have day he recognizes that he has a bold and robust agenda that hes trying to enact, that he ran on and told the American People that he would do when he was president and hes going to get the votes from wherever he can. Can he pass the agenda without the help of the Freedom Caucus . Theres two questions, mathematically, yes, but secondly, i think theres a few members of the Freedom Caucus both prior to last fridays vote and since then who have expressed a willingness to want to work with him rather than necessarily as a block and i think that there continues to be some promising signs in that with that. Again, part of it is if people are more concerned with voting as block and whats the best interest of their constituents and the American People, hes hoping that people will see the bigger picture, the goal that is we outlined and sometimes not enemy of the perfect. That he would be in favor of primarying individuals in the Freedom Caucus. Im going to say let the tweets speak for themselves just for your understanding. It would be improper of me to discuss election or defeat of candidate. Matt. I want fen [laughter] according to New York Times provided nunes with the information last week and according to times senior director who was hired by Michael Flynn started going through documents after the president tweet, the wiretapping tweet. Im wonder if the white house thinks its appropriate for National Security officials to be conducting what is basically a Political Task which is trying to find information but validate something the president said. I read the report and your question assume that is your reporting is correct. I would just suggest to you that the letter that was submitted earlier to the ranking, the chairman of the Ranking Members of the two committees, two Intelligence Committees on the hill, the reason that the white house has asked them to come up is to view that information. Again, i dont want to get in front of that as i said before, we are not as obsessed with the process as much as the substance and our goal is to make sure that the Ranking Members of both committees as well as the chairman see the information that the materials that are important and worry about the outcome at the end of this. And then on a different topic with mrs. Walshs departure today, are you expecting any shakeups . No. [inaudible] im saying that in order to comment on that story would be to validate certain things that im not at liberty to do. [inaudible] who he met with and i understand that. Again, i think theres assumption as i said before, we cannot condone in the same that you protect sources, when i call you and say, you have 18 Anonymous Sources and you go, i cant reveal my sources, chairman nunes in conducting an investigation and review has an opportunity to have his sources. Our view is that the smart move was to make all of the materials available to the chairman and Ranking Member of the relevant committees and i understand the obsession with the process piece but we are focused on the substance of it and i think the goal is to make sure that people have the substance that are looking into this that we have asked to lo look into this. [inaudible] no. We sent a letter within the past few hours to both of those committees informing them that and what kind of message do you think they sent the people in washington . I think it sends a message that we want them to look into this. As we have maintained all along, that theres a belief that the president has maintained, that there was surveillance that occurred during 2016 election that was improper and that we want people to look into this and take the appropriate legal responsible steps to both understand it and then address it. I want to read to you something that you said here on march 23rd when you were asked if the white house had my role in providing information to chairman nunes. You first said that it didnt make any sense and you went onto say, im quoting you here, i dont know why he, chairman nunes would brief rather than brief us on something that he briefed us on. It doesnt really make sense. Theres now reporting which i cant tell its disputing or not that identifies two people within the white house sources of this information. Im just trying to put the things together. Right. You said that it doesnt pass the smell test on march 23rd. Again they were the sources of this and im just trying to put those two things together. Number one, the first quote that youre reading, if you go back, i was responding i was very clear that i said based on what chairman nunes has said, the following doesnt make sense. Im guessing so please tell us no, no. Again, major, ive commented on this both yesterday and today that your obsession with who talked to whom and when is not the answer. It should be the substance. And in the same when you print story with 18 Anonymous Sources, your obsession is the substance. You continue to look at it from a backwards prism. Did something happen in the 2016 election . Did leaks occur . We are not going to engage actively in that kind of leaking that has been a problem. In fact, if you look at the obamas Deputy Assistant secretary of defense thats out there evelyn, she made it clear that it was their goal to spread this information around, that they went around and did this, she said, quote, thats why theres so many leaks. They have admitted on the record that this was their goal to leak stuff and literally she said on the record, trumps team. There are serious questions out there about what happened and why and who did it and i think thats really where our focus is and making sure that that information gets out. Cant the process from your advantage point validate the importance of the substance . Well, i think theres a review that weve asked for probably you told us that youre willing to look into and provide us answers. No, no. Please dont put words in my mouth. I never said i would provide you answers. I said that we would look into it. The responsible thing for us to do is to provide the individuals and the committees who are doing to t review the review, provide materials. Our goal is to be forthright as possible. The intelligence communities and others in a march letter for information. We have decided we are willing to provide them with the information that we have the materials that we have come across and i think that is important. Again, our obligation is to make sure that review is done both house and senate and not to make sure that illegally leak out information to you. Disputing reports of the New York Times . Im not commenting, major. We meaning the white house is not going to start confirming [inaudible] i get it. We are not going to start commenting on one Anonymous Sources that publications published. If it were wrong, would you tell us . Im not going to get into it. How many times you can ask the same question . Hunter. Thank you, sean. Two questions. First, President Trump is pushing for major tax cuts, increase in defense and border wall. Does he think that the agenda has to be deficit neutral or is he open to plan that is might initially add to the debt . When it comes to tax reform, he has three underlying goals. One is tax simplification and two lower the rates and three is to grow jobs and the economy. Part of it is if you look at it dynamically as the plan develops and we are not there yet. As the plan develops, and theres a cost put on it, thats going to be decision that gets looked at. To answer the question without knowing the full scope of it, is looking at something and answering it in a vacuum. Clarify one thing with the New York Times story. I know you wont identify congressman nunes sources. Isnt it clear that some white house officials had to be involved with him getting information here because they would need to help him access the complex . I cannot get into who those individuals were. Someone at the white house . Well, again, if i start going down the path of confirming and denying one thing that we are going down a very slippery slope. Jis jessica. Thank you, sean. I have a couple of questions about that visit, if you entertain me. Can you talk about the location and how it was chosen for this visit . There is as you can imagine on any trip, no matter who the foreign leader, theres a lot of discussion that goes back and forth between the white house, state department and the equivalence of the other state of government, their appropriate counterparts. Those are the things that go back and forth in terms of how long the activities, what will be discussed, every single thing is discussed on both sides. And so that was a long and ongoing negotiation with the government of china and with their representatives lasting several weeks now. How did you abrief arrive at maralago . Both sides discussed various locations and topics and agendas and et cetera and this is where they arrived for the trip. Theres a few things. One, this is an opportunity for President Trump to develop relationship with president xi, he has spoken to him on the phone a few times but we have big problems and everything from the South China Sea to trade to north korea. There are big issues of national and Economic Security that need to get addressed and i think theres going to be a lot on the table when it comes to that over the two days if they will talk. They are expecting the white house to provide some sort of framework and are you prepared for that and can you talk a little bit about the framework might be. Can you expand a little . Looking for how to view the relationship, obviously you had the rebalance and the pivot and the prior administration, is there a tag line or a vision that you will roll out during this visit . We will see. You have any hashtags let me know. I think right now we are not worried too much about slogans as much as progress. We will work on that, kristin. Thanks, sean. Did the president direct anyone in this white house or National Security team to try to find information or intelligence to back up [inaudible] i dont im not aware of anything directly. I would have to look into that in terms of theres two sides to this. One is the information side and two is the policy and the activities and the legal piece of what would happen and i dont thosewill. Its possible . Im not going to comment on. One more, dont sort of the daily questions about this make it necessary to hav