Is if if the president of the United States continues to call in aides and instruct them or give them leave to go out and make comments and starts exciting inconsistent with what the policy is of the administration or changing it, i think that the general is going to have to do this hes going to have to tell the president , look, mr. President , if youre going to tweet, let us know beforehand and let us take a look at it, if you will, and also folks coming into your office, when they come out of your office, if you call them in, instruct them that they will have to come by me and inform me whats been said, and hes going to have to structure this thing. I dont know whether thats going to work, but i do know that those below the general, given what he did today, i think will have gotten the message, and i think hes certainly got the possibility of imposing a new sense of discipline and order on the staff below him but were dealing with the president of the United States i mean, thats one
Before we start i like to bring up National Security advisor, general hr mcmaster and treasury secretary, Stephen Mnuchin to discuss administrations response in the recent antidemocratic actions in venezuela. They will each make opening remarks and take your questions on the topic at hand. Then as always, your favorite time of day, i will come back up and take your questions. Thank you. It afternoon everybody. I thought it might be best to read the present statement. Since President Trumps administration, the ministration has called on venezuelas medora regime to respect venezuelas constitution, respect the role authorities of the constitutional national assembly, hold free and fair elections, address the humanitarian needs of the venezuelan people, release political prisoners, and stop oppressing its great people. The regime has refused to heed this call. In recent actions culminating in yesterdays outrageous seizure of absolute power through the sham election of the National Constitu
Asking to leave . Did he volunteer his resignation . How did that come about . Sec. Sanders im not going to get into the process. As we have said several times before, what matters most as is not who is employed in the white house but who is employed in the rest of the country. We are focused on the president s agenda of growing the economy, creating jobs, and that is what we are going to do. That is what were going to be focused on. John. Was it a chain of command issue . Because scaramucci said that he had a direct line of communication to the president. There has been some speculation that general kelly may try to tighten up the number of inputs the president has. Was it something about the chain of command or have anything to do with the interview scaramucci left . Sec. Sanders look, the president certainly felt that anthonys comments were inappropriate for a person in that position, and he did not want to burden general kelly, also, with that line of succession, as i think we have
Asking to leave . Did he volunteer his resignation . How did that come about . Sec. Sanders im not going to get into the process. As we have said several times before, what matters most as is not who is employed in the white house but who is employed in the rest of the country. We are focused on the president s agenda of growing the economy, creating jobs, and that is what we are going to do. That is what were going to be focused on. John. Was it a chain of command issue . Because scaramucci said that he had a direct line of communication to the president. There has been some speculation that general kelly may try to tighten up the number of inputs the president has. Was it something about the chain of command or have anything to do with the interview scaramucci left . Sec. Sanders look, the president certainly felt that anthonys comments were inappropriate for a person in that position, and he did not want to burden general kelly, also, with that line of succession, as i think we have
Asking to leave . Did he volunteer his resignation . How did that come about . Sec. Sanders im not going to get into the process. As we have said several times before, what matters most as is not who is employed in the white house but who is employed in the rest of the country. We are focused on the president s agenda of growing the economy, creating jobs, and that is what we are going to do. That is what were going to be focused on. John. Was it a chain of command issue . Because scaramucci said that he had a direct line of communication to the president. There has been some speculation that general kelly may try to tighten up the number of inputs the president has. Was it something about the chain of command or have anything to do with the interview scaramucci left . Sec. Sanders look, the president certainly felt that anthonys comments were inappropriate for a person in that position, and he did not want to burden general kelly, also, with that line of succession, as i think we have