accountable. >> reporter: jay carney, battered in briefings all week, insisted the president has set a high standard and won't tolerate anything less. >> he wants and instructs everyone who works in the government, whether they work for him or our civil servants, to hold themselves to that standard, and when he he finds out there have been failures, he acts on them. >> reporter: the white house will try to turn attention today to international issues that the president meets with the turkish prime minister here at the white house. we expect that syria will be on the ajenna. during the joint news conference following the meetings, we expect that most of the questions will be on tough domestic issues. after the president made the irs announcement yesterday, rnc chair says it wasn't enough and that the president owes the american people, especially those who were targeted, an