Spicer starts first daily press briefing in DC — Transcript

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1. 0:00I was going to start with little recap
2. 0:09the inauguration but I think we've
3. 0:10covered that pretty well by the way just
4. 0:14as I get started I know that Josh
5. 0:16earnest was voted the most popular press
6. 0:18secretary by the press corps so after
7. 0:20reading checking my twitter feed I shot
8. 0:23Josh an email last night letting him
9. 0:25know that he can rest easy that his
10. 0:26title is secure for at least the next
11. 0:28few days let me begin by saying that the
12. 0:31president has been closely monitoring
13. 0:32the severe weather in the southeast he
14. 0:34spoke by phone with Governor deal of
15. 0:36Georgia yesterday and offered his
16. 0:38condolences and support today president
17. 0:41Trump is focused on fulfilling his
18. 0:42pledge to pursue trade policies that put
19. 0:44America first the president began his
20. 0:46day with a breakfast with key US
21. 0:48business leaders where the focus of the
22. 0:50discussion was on job creation and
23. 0:52growing our manufacturing base business
24. 0:55leaders who attended included Michael
25. 0:56Dell the founder and CEO of Dell Jeff
26. 0:59fettig the CEO of whirlpool marked
27. 1:01fields the CEO of Ford Alex Gorsky the
28. 1:04CEO of Johnson & Johnson marillyn Hewson
29. 1:07the CEO of Lockheed Martin Klaus
30. 1:10Kleinfeld the CEO of our connick Andrew
31. 1:13Liveris the CEO of Dow Mario Longhi the
32. 1:16CEO of u.s. steel Elon Musk a SpaceX and
33. 1:19Tesla Kevin Plank of under armour mark
34. 1:22sutton of international paper wendell
35. 1:25weeks a CEO of corning chief of staff
36. 1:27ranks previous chief strategist Steve
37. 1:30Bannon the vice president's chief of
38. 1:32staff Josh peacock and senior advisor
39. 1:35Stephen Miller the breakfast was an
40. 1:38opportunity for the president to hear
41. 1:39directly from America's top business
42. 1:41leaders about the challenges they're
43. 1:42facing and takes some suggestions about
44. 1:45what policies in action can be taken to
45. 1:47help them create jobs and grow our
46. 1:50manufacturing base the meeting included
47. 1:52a really great exchange of ideas at the
48. 1:54and the president has decided to
49. 1:56reconvene the group in a month and then
50. 1:58have them meet on a quarterly basis as
51. 2:00you know the president's vision is to
52. 2:02negotiate fair trade deals that create
53. 2:04jobs increase American wages and reduce
54. 2:07Americans trade deficit he's appointed
55. 2:10eight rough tough and smart number of
56. 2:12trade experts
57. 2:13who will fight on behalf of American
58. 2:15workers with that vision in mind the
59. 2:18president has already taken several
60. 2:19steps today first he issued a
61. 2:21presidential memorandum withdrawing the
62. 2:24United States from the trans-pacific
63. 2:25partnership TPP is a multilateral
64. 2:28agreement that includes the United
65. 2:30States and 11 other countries as the
66. 2:32president has said many times this type
67. 2:34of multinational agreement is not in our
68. 2:36best interest and he's moving quickly to
69. 2:39advance train policies that increase the
70. 2:41competitive of the American worker and
71. 2:43manufacturer this executive action
72. 2:45ushers in a new era of us trade policy
73. 2:48in which the trump administration will
74. 2:49pursue bilateral trade opportunities
75. 2:51with allies around the globe this is a
76. 2:54strong signal that the trump
77. 2:56administration wants free and fair trade
78. 2:58throughout the world