reporter mike you are going to increase the military budget, but asking the people in the defense department to say where can we cut or look to make sure we are spending the amount of money, is that part of the process? absolutely calm that is what second mattis and i have always thought, he wants to drive more efficiency into the department of defense, and all of that will be incorporated in our larger budget in may. reporter: so not just a blanket throwing money and you do what you do. reporter: does this account for the presidents spending in the wall, or the $54 billion money, does that include the wall? more likely a little bit of both. we do expect to include some money in a future supplemental for 2017 for the wall and the 2018 budget will also contain longer-term dollars for that. thank you all very much. press secretary spicer: thank you, director.
this process is the number is going to the dod today, and over the course of the next ten days to two weeks, we will come up with those types of details. i have time for more one. reporter mike you are going to increase the military budget, but asking the people in the defense department to say where can we cut or look to make sure we are spending the amount of money, is that part of the process? absolutely calm that is what second mattis and i have always thought, he wants to drive more efficiency into the department of defense, and all of that will be incorporated in our larger budget in may. reporter: so not just a blanket throwing money and you do what you do. reporter: does this account for the presidents spending in the wall, or the $54 billion money, does that include the wall? more likely a little bit of both. we do expect to include some money in a future supplemental
i think the president had no problem with the fact that he acted in accord with what his job was supposed to be doing. he had the ability to talk about issues that were important whether it is that or the 30 other countries he spoke to, that was part of his job as has been noted by many people. that is with the national security advisor and friendly other positions do. they begin the process of preparing their incoming job by talking to counterparts, people have previously held the job, et cetera. if he had not done that, there would be questions on whether he was properly prepared for day one. the issue is not whether or not what he discussed, there s been a complete legal review of that, no issue with that. the issue is whether or not he failed to properly inform the vice president or not be honest with him or not remember it. that is plain and simple the issue, when he lost trust with the president is when the president asked for and received his resignation. reporter mike yesterd
the opposite of what it intended to do, and i think when you look at the regulation hdr 41 the president signed today, this is another example of the president taking decisive action to rollback regulations that are frankly creating more of a burden on our nation s banks and businesses than helping them. i think the president is going to be very clear with making sure that we do things that build up the goal of what dodd-frank actually intended to do peer right now, we have taxpayers more on the hook then leaving them off, we ve created more institutions in more guarantees for the federal government to bail out these institutions if they exceed their authority. john roberts. reporter mike back to what you said at the beginning, white house counsel office reviewed this and determined there was nothing illegal. what evidence did they look at and making this determination, secondly, democrats up on the hill say that they want ann bece looking into what did the
workers at boeing, the number one exporter in the millions of americans workers involved in aerospace. this trip has been months in the making, we are thrilled to celebrate the rollout of this amazing plane. with that, i would be glad to take some of your questions. reporter: back in january, the president said there was no one in his campaign had been in touch with the russians. now today, can you still say definitively that nobody on the trump campaign, not even general flynn, had any contact with the russians before the election? press secretary spicer: my understanding is what general flynn has not expressed as during the transition period we were very clear during the transition period he did speak with the ambassador cover part of mike i m talking about during the campaign. press secretary spicer: there is nothing to make me think anything has changed in that time. reporter: if the present was notified 17 days ago that he could have misled the vice president and other