Sean Spicer Holds First Formal Press Breifing — Transcript

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1. 0:00uh I was going to start with a little
2. 0:01recap of the inauguration but I think
3. 0:02we've covered that pretty well um by the
4. 0:05way just as I get started uh I know that
5. 0:08Josh Ernest was voted the most popular
6. 0:10press secretary by the Press Corps so
7. 0:12after reading checking my Twitter feed I
8. 0:15shot Josh and email last night letting
9. 0:16him know that he can rest easy that his
10. 0:18title is secure for at least the next
11. 0:20few
12. 0:21days uh let me Begin by saying that the
13. 0:23president has been closely monitoring
14. 0:25the severe weather in the Southeast he
15. 0:26spoke by phone with Governor deal of
16. 0:28Georgia yesterday and offered his
17. 0:30condolences and support today president
18. 0:33Trump is focused on fulfilling his
19. 0:34pledge to pursue trade policies that put
20. 0:36America First the president began his
21. 0:38day with a breakfast with key us
22. 0:40Business Leaders where the focus of the
23. 0:42discussion was on job creation and
24. 0:44growing our manufacturing base Business
25. 0:47Leaders who attended included Michael
26. 0:48Dell the founder and CEO of Dell Jeff
27. 0:51feedig the CEO of World poool Mark
28. 0:53Fields the CEO of Ford Alex Gorski the
29. 0:56CEO of Johnson and Johnson Marilyn
30. 0:59Houston the the CEO of locked Martin
31. 1:01clus kleinfield the CEO of arconic
32. 1:04Andrew liveris the CEO of Da Mario longi
33. 1:07the CEO of us steel Elon Musk of SpaceX
34. 1:11and Tesla Kevin plank of Under Armour
35. 1:14Mark Sutton of International Paper wendo
36. 1:17weeks the CEO of Corning Chief of Staff
37. 1:19RS Prius uh Chief strategist Steve
38. 1:22Bannon the vice president's Chief of
39. 1:24Staff Josh pitock and Senior advi
40. 1:27advisor Steven Miller the breakfast uh
41. 1:29is an opportunity for the president to
42. 1:31hear directly from America's Top
43. 1:33Business Leaders about the challenges
44. 1:34they're facing and take some suggestions
45. 1:37about what policies and action can be
46. 1:39taken to help them create jobs and grow
47. 1:41our manufacturing base the meeting
48. 1:44included a really great exchange of
49. 1:45ideas that the and the president has
50. 1:48decided to reconvene the group in a
51. 1:50month and then have them meet on a
52. 1:51quarterly basis as you know the
53. 1:53president's vision is to negotiate fair
54. 1:55trade deals that create jobs increase
55. 1:57American wages and reduce Americans
56. 2:00trade deficit he's appointed a trough
57. 2:03tough and smart number of trade experts
58. 2:05who will fight on behalf of American
59. 2:07workers with that vision in mind the
60. 2:10president has already taken several
61. 2:11steps today first he issued a
62. 2:13presidential me memorandum withdrawing
63. 2:15the United States from the trans-pacific
64. 2:17partnership TPP is a multilateral
65. 2:20agreement that includes the United
66. 2:22States and 11 other countries as the
67. 2:24president has said many times this type
68. 2:26of multinational agreement is not in our
69. 2:28best interest and he's moving quickly to
70. 2:31advance train policies that increase the
71. 2:33competitiveness of the American worker
72. 2:35and manufacturer this executive action
73. 2:37ushers in a new era of us trade policy
74. 2:40in which the Trump Administration will
75. 2:41pursue bilateral trade opportunities
76. 2:44with allies around the Grobe this is a
77. 2:46strong signal that the Trump
78. 2:48Administration wants free and fair trade
79. 2:51throughout the world