reports he s received or other information? i m not going to get into what the president knows. there s a reason that we are under going an interagency process to look at the deal. yeah, jessica? i had a second question. sure. okay. on general flynn, anyone who is at his level and some levels below under goes an investigation by the fbi with a final report. was the president ever given a final security report by the fbi on general flynn? i don t know he was the department of defense intelligence agency. he had an existing clearance. jessica? on north korea, sean, can you talk a little bit more ab the overall efforts of the administration. we know the united nations meetings yesterday. now you ve got an up and coming meeting with congress. are you trying to get a coalition together to build a stronger diplomatic case around
there are things we need to do to protect our country like human trafficking, flow of illegal drugs and gangs that will make sure that while we ve achieved a significant drop in illegal alien border crossing, down to 61% this january, this is something that s in our country s long term national security interest. the national construction will wait until the fall. there s not a question of wait until the fall. when will you start doing construction? you have to start doing planning. we will take the first steps and will continue to seek funding through the fy-18 and further budget to make sure it is completed. on michael flynn, does the president feel that he was misled by general flynn? i think the president made a decision a while ago because general flynn was not straight with the vice president at the time and let him go. i think he stands by that decision. it s up to others to review all the information that s coming out. lot of facts are still coming out, jonathan
executive orders that the president has put forward? today is the deadline for the regulatory reform officers to be in place. how many of those are there? i don t have a number on that. i can talk to our personnel office and get back to you. i think we have been able to work with, in many case, and i think i went over this early on in the process. but we installed beach head teams during the transition process. we put 400 plus individuals into these departments that, in most cases, transform into schedule c employees. so we have been able to be up and running on almost every one of these in a very very early process, when you look at the totality of how we handled the transition of government. on taxes for a minute, the president said he s going to present his plan tomorrow. can you give us a sense of what we re going to see and when we re going to see it? no. we ll wait until tomorrow. we ll have plenty of time to talk about that tomorrow. adam? just a bit of color. the presid
administration. those are not documents that the white house would ever possession on any employee. they come from the requesting authority. okay. so in that case remember, they sent out a form letter to i think five or six agencies requesting the same document. the place for the documents that they requested did fulfill that request. i m just trying to find out, from your perspective, is there no obligation from the transition or the white house to do anything more than you have done or has been done in this matter? everything that the white house has been asked to do we the only documents that were made available to them that they asked for were the ones that the department of defense had. how ab these calls made when he was working during the transition on behalf of a future president trump? aren t those things that you should have some, either responsibility or obligation to provide, if you can? i think, again, if you can. when you ask for every call no, but that
adviser. katie pavlich is the editor at townhall.com and a fox news contributor. katie, the hot topic, michael flynn, and they seem to press on no matter how many times mr. spicer said hey, look, that was a long time ago, these papers happened before he came to the white house, basically we don t know anything. i think it s becoming increasingly clear that michael flynn should have never been hired by the administration. he was very dishonest in a number of ways. when he filled out his background check forms which is alarming considering the closeness he had with president trump. he served as a distraction for the administration for months. you saw the commerce secretary was there today and the goal was to talk about this tariff on lumber from canada. to talk about putting america first, in the sense of harvesting lumber in the u.s. that s not the headline. the headline, again, is michael flynn. so he s become a distraction. it s very clear that he really should have not been put in