now that weren t reported last year? the ones that he s questioning. so what is the official policy on assad s position? should he stay or go? look, as we said, we don t have any changes and to pass statements that we ve made on that front. nothing new. blake? on cfpb, does the white house believe that leandra english is unqualified for that position? we believe that director mulvaney is the right person at this time to lead that agency and that s why he s over there. if you believe that he s the right person, i guess the follow-up then is what is the white house or what does the president have against leandra english in that spot? i m not saying that we do have anything against her. we want director mull vain toe lead this agency and that s the decision that the president is allowed to make and one that he s made and has legal authority to do so. john? thank you, sarah. two questions about personnel. the president s appointment of
mick mulvaney calling the agency a sick, sad joke. what would you say for someone like that leading this agency that was designed to protect them? i think consumers should be glad that they have someone in there that wants to fight for consumers and not fight for their own political ambitions which we ve seen in the previous leadership in which should be a different change under director mulvaney. david? sarah, at this point, senator al franken has allowed that there may be more women coming forward. he doesn t know that there are, but he said there might be more women coming forward. at what point does the president condemn him? how many accusations does it take before the president says al franken should resign and is he holding back because of unresolved accusations again of himself? look, the president is not going to weigh in on every single matter like this. look, every single day we ve got people from the media, from hollywood, from members of congress that have allegati
aren t really going anywhere. what does the president propose to do? does he see that happening in congress in the next few weeks? or wait for a stand alone bill? are you talking specific to i m sorry. i missed the first part. d.r.e.a.m.ers. look, we hope the democrats will not put our service members abroad at risk to hold the government to partisan politics. we laid out what our principles on immigration are. we of the to see responsible immigration reform that would include daca, but that would also include the priorities that we ve previously laid out. if they don t come out with anything? we hope that the democrats are hoping to make responsible immigration reform and we laid out what we want and the president s got a meeting with various members tomorrow and i would imagine that that would come up at that time. sarah, what would you say to consumers who are concerned about somebody who once called the agency that he s now ostensibly leading.
any of the democrats want to come out and support tax reform we would welcome and be happy to celebrate with them after and as my guess most of the republican senators would be excited about that as well. thanks, guys. have a good afternoon. let s analyze. dana bash and jeff stelter back with me. the president was standing in this room flanked by, you know, folks in their 80s and 90s, right? who served in world war ii, these native americans and made a joke, a horrible joke about pocahontas and saying the word pocahontas and in the company that he was in and not that it should matter to use a racial slur and you heard sarah sanders holding back saying it wasn t a racial slur and putting it back on elizabeth warren and saying what people should find offensive is about elizabeth warren lying about her career. what did you make of that attempted pivot?
chairman of the fed. whose idea was this or did the president decide to give the dual mogzs to director mulvaney? look, the president felt he was the right person to lead this agency and he made the decision. i don t think there s more to it than that. fred? thank you, sarah. as far as reforms to the agency, the house has the act and no action on that senate. does the administration see this as an opportunity to push congressional reform to the agency? look, this is director mulvaney s first day. we re going to let him get settled in before we start announcing new policy, but when we do, we ll certainly keep you guys posted. anita. sorry. i ll try to jump around to save time. the other day the d.r.e.a.m.ers, the issue of the d.r.e.a.m.ers would not be in the spending bill and we re reaching the end of the year now and i m wondering that the president said he would take this back up if congress couldn t act and negotiations