policy should unite us. that is calling out hate, calling out divisiveness based on the color of one s skin, one s gender. president called it out before with respect to certain particular situations. he made it very clear at the opening of his joint address, that s what he led with, is a call to denounce hate, no matter where we come from politically. he s also talked about it. the night that he took the stage on that wednesday morning around 2:40 a.m. about how one of the things that he needed to do and wanted to do as president was unite all americans. i think there s one other piece to this, april, that i want to be clear on. anti-hate, semetism where it exists. in your case in particular, while i don t know all of the details and i don t want to reference one specific case, but we saw this the other day with some of the behavior that was going on with respect to people, the jewish faith. it s that we saw these threats coming into jewish community
when the president choosing kushner for the office. obviously, jared kushner has 60 some days of experience in washington. never had a priority government job. does the president vow that as an advantage? in some cases. when you look at the individuals he s bringing in. one of the things that jared and again they may talk more about this later. one of the thing its he s looking at is the procurement and technology aspects. if you have dealt with the government and recognized how outdated and unmodernized some of this is, it s not serving the american people and the swabts that many departments have. look iing at how we procure different things and procure technology in particular is importa important.
president had made it very clear that he wants to give the commanders on the ground much more flexibility to execute their mission, especially when it comes to defeating isis. that s a very big change in philosophy. it also depends on the magnitude of the mission, the number of ground troops in particular. so this is an on going discussion that he has with secretary mattis an others. on the review, are you waiting? is the president waiting until the review is complete before you announce sort of a new posturing strategy? or as conclusion come in, you re adjusting day to day? i think some of it is an on going discussion that we re having with the chairman of the joint chiefs and secretary mattis, dod. there are certain times when they meet. they ll update him on certain things and give him an update on where they re headed right now. as the review is on going, there are certain events that are part of, will be part and parcel of
jared kushner for this new office. obviously jared has 60 some days of experience in washington. never had prior government jobs. does the president view that as an advantage? in some cases. where you look at the individuals that he s bringing in. one of the things jared and again they may talk more about this lear. one of the things jared s looking at is some of the procurement, the technology aspect. if you ve ever really dealt with the government and recognized how outdated and unmodernized this is. it is not serving the american people. it is not serving the constituents that many departments have. looking at how we procure different things and procure technology in particular is important. it s important when i think when you look at the va in particular and recognize how it handles certain thing. there are certain things it does very well. it buys prescription drugs really well.
all of what i know has been available through public comment. i know chairman nunes confirmed he was on white house grounds tuesday. frankly any questions regarding who he met with or why he was here should be referred to him. i have seen some of the comments he s made to your out let in particular about whom he met with. i would refer you to his comments that he made. i m not going to get into who he met with or why he met with them. i ll let him answer. he is the one who has discussed what he is reviewing, and so i will leave it up to him and not try to get in the middle of that. i m asking a slightly different question. which is, does the white house know what happened now beyond public accounts? and are you satisfied that you don t have a leak in the executive branch. no, we re not concerned about that. i know that he is everything