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Everybody all set up . Obviously im grateful to have my fellow president s here as well as the Vice President. Before i begin, i want to say a few words about the situation in syria. As you have seen, today we released our unclassified assessment detailing with high confidence that the Syrian Regime carried out a chemical weapons attack that killed well over a thousand people, including hundreds of children. This follows horrific images that shocked us all. This kind of attack is a challenge to the world. We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a ...

This terrible tragedy could have been our worst. For me, the lesson is clear for every attack we experience, every threat we face, and every decent intelligence we come across, we learned. We assess our preparations and capabilities. We make changes. We become more flexible and in the actions we take and we get stronger and more nimble. The boston attack was not the only terrorist plot we confronted over the past 4. 5 years. We dealt with the attempted Christmas Day coming aboard an airliner down for detroit. 20 10 air cargo threat as well as other plots that were effectively mitigated. Some m...

President that were about to hear. Good afternoon. The headline from President Trump today is that hes declaring a National State of emergency under the auspices of two federal mandates. One is the National Emergencies act. The other is the stafford act. Declaring an emergency under the stafford act will allow the president to tap into the fema Disaster Relief fund. A total of 42 billion in that fund right now of which 35 billion would be available. That is the same fund, by the way, that fema uses to address natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, things like that. So the pres...

And new guidelines on Cyber Security. Well get to jack lews confirmation in a moment. First the cbo director Douglas Elmendorf testimony. He warned of the sequester could cost 750,000 jobs. Could you tell me in terms of the negative Economic Impact of the sequester, the. 6 , what does that translate in point of lost jobs . Our estimate is that the sequester alone would reduce gdp growth this year by zero point six percentage points. It would lower that gdp at the end of the year. We think that would reduce by about 750,000 jobs. 750,000 jobs between now and the end of 2013, right . Right. That...

Story, the president s decision to rescind protection for the socalled dreamers. Its now on congress. As the attorney general. Im here today to announce that the program known as daca that was effectuated under the Obama Administration is being rescinded. The nation must set and enforce a limit on how many immigrants we had met each year and that means all cannot be accepted. This does not mean they are bad people or that our nation disrespects or demeans them in any way. It means we are properly enforcing our laws as congress has passed them. Martha he lays this out as a legal argument but as...