You know, is doing well was a function how much the university spent and you know in florida youre now seeing questions like, what is your Graduation Rate . How many students are graduating are holding jobs . So youre seeing a focus on outcome as opposed to spending and the point i was trying to make and i will reiterate, is that we, we tend in washington to simply say, how much more money can we spend on something rather than lets think outside of the box and try to solve a problem. And i think we owe it to the american taxpayer that is ultimately footing this bill to focus less on how much we spend and more on whether in fact the problems are being solved. So thank you very much. Thank you very much, mr. Secretary for coming by today. I want to take a moment to acknowledge the three servicemembers killed this weekend in afghanistan. The injury, excuse me the incident is under investigation but our thoughts and prayers are with families of these american heroes who lost their lives in this tragic event. As the secretary said this is workforce week at the white house. That will be major emphasis for the administration moving ahead on several other items on the president s domestic and Foreign Policy agenda. Today the department of agriculture released guidance for american beef producers who are preparing to shift u. S. Beef to Chinese Markets for the First Time Since 2003. As we announced last month as part of the u. S. China 100 day action plan that followed up on the president s meeting with president xi china agreed to open this 2. 5 billion market to american ranchers and cattle producers. Before the market was closed u. S. Was chinas largest supplier of beef. Providing 70 of it is imports. The actions by u. S. Department of agriculture are important first step in the process reopening this lucrative market for american businesses. He will talk about the department of health and Human Services about the death spiral of obamacare and we need to repeal and replace it with a patientis trick alternative. The president was in wisconsin over weaken and will be there tomorrow where americans lost their doctors and a lot of hope for this family law. President trump will never stop fighting for families that are facing impossible choices every day as their premiums and deductibles continue to skyrocket. He wont rest until we fix this. The president s task force is Holding Meetings and discussions at principle level and staff level that as we work toward consensus plan that will deliver middle class and tax simplification for everyone. Treasury secretary mnuchin and director cone will lead a listening session on tax reform with Auto Industry leaders later this week. These meetings have been incredibly productive and we think tax reform is well on track for the president to sign later this year. Together the three pillars of infrastructure, tax reform and repeal and replace of obamacare is key to reach the president s goal of a booming and vibrant American Economy of the administration will work every day to turn the president s promises into policies. Looking ahead on friday the president s commission on combating drug addiction and Opioid Crisis will meet here. The meeting will be open to the public through a live stream on whitehouse. Gov. Im pleased to announce President Trump will welcome indian Prime Minister modi to the white house on june 26th. He thinks roar ward to discussing ways to strengthen our ties between the United States and india and advancing our common priorities promoting security and fighting terrorism and reforms and support in the indopacific region. They will look for Common Partnership of the u. S. India partnership worthy of the indian citizens. I want to wish the 41st president , George Herbert walker bush a happy 93rd birthday. From all of us at white house we hope he has a fantastic day. With that i will take your questions. On your India Announcement the president in the speech to [inaudible] said if he elected he will be the best friend of india ever in the white house. What steps does the president want to take in the fox four years or eight years to implement this promise that he made during the we read these out a few times and the president and Prime Minister had a number of positive phone conversations and expect to further the discussion as they meet in person on june 26th. As i mentioned before, economic growth, fighting terrorism, expanding cooperation as major defense partners, u. S. India trade has grown six fold since two thou. From 19 billion to 116 billion in 2016. Indian economy is growing at over 7 . U. S. Technologies including natural gas is helping build Prime Minister modis vision for a new india creating house thousands of jobs. They expect to set forth a vision that will expand the u. S. India partnership in a way to expand both country. Sean, two questions on trade. You talked about the beef arrangement s that beginning today . Can you flesh out a little bit more what i understood there would be announcement from usda are we waiting for that before its a fact or where are we in the process . U. S. Department of agriculture will have much more details on the process moving forward but the announcement is coming from them today. The lead is today . No the announcement is coming today. Question on steel and aluminum what the administration is doing. Yeah. The president said, quoted in one of the pool reports that there is legislation being drafted on antidumping. The 232 process to goes to congress anyway of the was he referring to additional legislation or the 232 review you initiated as reported by secretary ross . Secretary ross should have further update on the 232 review later this week. When that comes out certain recommendations will be made to congress to address antidumping provisions in the steel and aluminum and other markets. So when that comes out what i think there will be recommendations to congress to follow up on how to rectify some of the problems. Trey . Thank you, sean. First, couple questions does President Trump have audio recordings and of meets between fbi director james comey and. The president would have announcement shortly. Do you have anytime when the announcement will be . When the president is ready to make it. From the perspective the President Trump what role did attorney general Jeff Sessions play in the firing james comey. I will not discuss private conversations between the president and attorney blake . When Jeff Sessions testifies tomorrow do you think he should invoke executive privilege on conversations between him and president. Depends on the scope of questions. To get into a hypothetical at this point would be premature. In any way did Jeff Sessions, folks at doj ask for the white houses permission in essence for him to testify publicly tomorrow . I dont know the answer to that question. I know congress generally speaking sets the, whether a hear something open or closed based on sensitivity of the subject. Is the president than okay with him testifying in this opening setting tomorrow . I think he is going to testify. Were aware of it. Go from there. John. Follow on to that, president seemed to indicate he thought it was a mistake for Jeff Sessions to recuse himself from the russia investigation. He said his preference would have been to the contrary on camera. What does the president think about the fact that sessions will be testifying tomorrow and according to the department of justice, wanted to testify in open session rather than closed classified session. I think president has been clear last week in the rose garden that he believes that the sooner we can get this addressed and dealt with. There has been no collusion. He wants this to get investigated as soon as possible and be done with it to continue with the business of the American People. Can i ask but the other headline of today, state of maryland, district of columbia filing lawsuit against the president. Right. Seeking, rulings on two points of emoluments clause in the constitution. Rnc thinks this is bogus lawsuit. What does the president , what is the white houses perspective . The president s interests previously discussed do not violate the emoluments clause, for reasons at length department of justice filing enumerate in their friday night filing with respect to the crew lawsuit, which is the first one. This lawsuit today is just another iteration of the case that was filed by that gripe crew, filed actually by the same lawyers. So it is not hard to conclude that partisan politics may be one of the motivations behind the suit. The suit was filed by two democratic attorney generals. Lawyers driving the suit are Advocacy Group with partisan tice. It started started with a press conference as opposed to filing it which is interesting. The suit challenges business transaction everyone from Penny Pritzker who served in the last Administration Others engaged in while in office. Well continue to move to dismiss the case in normal course of business. Thanks, sean. I want to ask you two questions, why leave open this question of whether there are tapes . Dont the American People, do they deserve to know whether comey was lying to the senate . I mean, why leave this question open . I think the president made it clear what his intention is on friday. But i mean it is open question. I understand that. He said he would answer that question in due time. But, followup, speaking of lawsuits, for the ninth circuit they came out and failed to block. Right. The travel ban. Any response to that . Were currently reviewing that opinion. I think we can all attest these are very dangerous times. We need every available tool at our disposal to prevent terrorists from entering the United States and committing acts of bloodshed and violence. We continue be confident the president s executive order to protect this country is fully lawful and you ultimately will be upheld by the supreme court. Sean, two questions. I want to follow up on the tape issues. If the president has evidence that the fbi director lied under oath, what he is waiting for. The president made it clear on friday he would get back as soon as possible on this and his position on that conversation. What is he waiting for . What is the delay. He is not waiting for anything when he is further discuss he will. He laid out his position very clearly and concisely on friday. Travel ban, second question, you stopped to the ninth circuit ruling cited president s tweets from june 5th on the travel ban. Cites our statements that the administrations tweets are official statements. So given that measure, given the travel ban is obviously priority for the president , how is it that the president is not putting his own agenda in danger when it comes to his twitter habits . I think bottom line as i noted, cases should be decided on the rule of law and on the that. When you look at the, when you look at what the law is in the u. S. Code allows the president to do whatever he has to, that is what were deciding on. Frankly any lawyer worth their salt, 100 agrees the president is fully within his rights and his responsibilities to do what is necessary to protect the country. Olivia. Sean there is question. Oy left olivia. Thank you. Sean. Thank you. What is the president s reaction to russian governments crackdown on antigovernment protest. Are you saying in general with respect in particular, i assumed that would be part of your overall i want to be clear were talking about the same thing. United states strongly condemns the detention of hundreds of Peaceful Protesters in russia happened on june 12th. He detaining Peaceful Protesters and human rights observers and journalists is affront to core democratic values. United states will monitor the situation. We call on the government of russia to release all Peaceful Protesters. The russian people like people everywhere deserve a open marketplace of ideas, equal treatment under the law and ability to exercise their rights without fear or retribution. Thank you. One more. President mention Ad Press Conference on isis review. Did he say where and when and has he made a decision to change the policies . When we have update on schedule i will let you know but we dont have one at this time. Thank you. Francesca. President wants to see the Russian Investigation and investigations wrapped up as soon as possible. He said on friday would he be willing to testify under oath. Can you say when he would be willing to do that . Would he be willing to do that before Congress Goes into reses to get this over as soon as possible. He was asked whether or not he would talk to director mueller. So he made his clear his position was. I want to be very clear. He is not saying he would go before congress . I dont know i would not have a further discussion with that what he said exactly on the rose garden is exactly what he believes. Do you have confidence in director mueller, sean. Thank you, sean. Two questions, does the president have a reaction to the vote in puerto rico yesterday, nonbinding measure calling for statehood, as the first choice of the people for their future . This matter is something thats going to be determined now that the people have spoken in pour rico. This is something that puerto rico, this is something congresses that to address. That will have to work out through congress. My other question was, there are widespread stories and speculation when the president goes to miami this friday he will undue the executive orders from the Obama Administration that eased relations with cuba. Can you confirm whether he will undo all of them or some of them . Good try. I will say that when we have announcement on the president s schedule well let you know. But, just stay tuned. We have very busy week. Ambitious agenda this week. George . Thanks. Is following on some of the stories in ending lands, when a president signs up on a foreign trip how much does he factor in his personal popularity in that country . None. So since you brought it up, i dont, just so were clear on that, the her majesty extended an invitation to the president. He has accepted an invitation. We look forward to scheduling that trip but there was nothing scheduled. We look forward to working out mutually acceptable date with the United Kingdom and looking forward to sharing that date with you all when we have it. Thank you, have a great monday. See you trish sean spicer, just wrapping up his press briefing there. We heard from labor secretary alexander acosta. Talking about a apprenticetype program. Ivanka trump joining her father in this. The market is 51 points off. Show you the s p and nasdaq which are lower right now, everything lower across the board by not a ton. Im trish regan. Welcome to the intelligence report. Joining reaction of what they just heard, evan siegfried, ashley haig, former chair of the dc democratic party, scott bolden. A lot on the table. Jobs important from labor secretary acosta. I will get to that in a second. Start with comey and aftershock if you would of all of that. Your thoughts, evan where they go from here, given were looking forward to hearing Jeff Sessions . Were in the middle of a first act of a fiveact play. Certainly director comeys credibility is many coulding into question after he told attorney general sessions after valentines day he didnt want anymore oneonone interactions with the president. Yet he picks up the president s call when the president phones him has a oneonone conversation. Doesnt sit well for me. Trish doesnt sit well. James comey had the opportunity to get right, scott bolden . He had the opportunity to tell somebody along the way. He did not take that. Instead took what some would say rather questionable approach to write everything down and call up your friend and have your friend leak it to the New York Times. Why not sit down do an interview with a reporter proper way . Will he did a lot more than that quite frankly. As former prosecutor i got to tell you, i listened to his testimony critically in regard to Decision Making he had to deal with. One, he took those notes like all good lawyers do, whatever the motive, doesnt matter. He did take it to the leadership of fbi, not attorney general but a close circle of people and made the decision they did not want to harm the ongoing investigation, one. And two, who could he tell . There were temporary they knew dojag would be recusing himself. They knew the acting ag would not be there. That is plausible quite frankly. More importantly, you can disagree with that, but those were decisions that were made. Trish heres trumps tweet on vindication, ashley. Let me share it with you. Despite so many false statements and lies total and complete vindication, wow, comey is a leaker. He is. Trish youve got americans watching this president say look, someone is looking, someone is leaking. Turns out the director of the fbi is one of them that was leaking. That is not true. Trish tells you how many other people are leaking . Is this the mode of operation actually for those in the swamp . It is, it is absolutely true. He admitted to it. He used government computer and government car, typed out a memo. Sent it to his friend. It was very calculated. He thought he had an ace up his sleeve he would use to hold over the president. The president wasnt going to put up with this type of relationship with him and, called him out, fired him. And now, comey is going to have to be held accountable for these criminal actions of leaking information that he should have gone to actually they werent crimi