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More secure. from south korea, the vice president will head to japan. continue to provide updates as they warrant during the vice president's trip throughout the rest of the week. looking ahead, tomorrow the president heads to wisconsin where he will talk about his buy america hire america at snap on tools in wisconsin. for those who aren't aware, snap-on is a prime example of a company that builds american-made tools. we'll have a background briefing here in this room later this afternoon with senior administration officials regarding the details of the trip. turt guidance should be coming ou...

Plus this today. not to get you real excited, but we will have another one tomorrow morning in advance of the nato meeting with the secretary general. this afternoon's briefing, we will discuss a plan on reforming the federal government in reducing the size of the federal civilian workforce that omb was directed to produce by executive order, so we will be spending a lot of quality time together over the next 48-24 hours. in with that, i will be glad to take a few questions. >> reporter: on russia to start, does the meditation belief that russia had any advanced knowledge of the chemical attac...

Kevin clark at the white house with the latest. it's very that the intelligence is very clear. they don't doubt it a bit. >> no question. neil, i had a chance to sit in on a background briefing and the administration laid out step by step this idea that not only do the syrians use chemical weapons, it's entirely possible that their partners in moscow have known about it. based on what we listento today and based on what we're learning, even the many days after the fact, there are more questions, new questions about what the russians knew and as the old saying goes, when they knew it. the secre...

Consensus within the intelligence community that there was involvement. >> reporter: in the background briefing, trump officials accused the russians of covering up syrians attack. in the past, the president has called us to be a very smart yet expressed admiration, does he still think he is smart and does that change the relationship? >> press secretary spicer: a couple things. number one, the president made it clear from the beginning that he entered office, thinking if he could get a deal with russia and our national interest which i discussed during the opening remarks as part of second ti...

The executive branch. that gives us three briefings plus this today. not to get you real excited, but we'll have another one tomorrow morning in advance of the nato meeting with the secretary general. this afternoon's briefing we'll be discussing the plan on reforming the federal government and reducing the size of the federal civilian work force that omb was directed to produce by executive order, so we'll be spending a lot of quality time together over the next 48, 24 hours. with that i'd be glad to take a few questions. >> russia, does the administration believe that russia had any advanced...