Mr. Spicer welcome back. Great to see everybody. Thank you all for coming. Great to see the interest is still there. I want to start off by noting the president got off the phone a short time ago with canadian Prime Minister trudeau to discuss the vicious atock on a mosque in quebec city. And the president expressed his condolences. This is another act of violence that cannot be tolerated. He will support the Canadian Police and intelligence service. President trudeau was appreciative and cautious to draw conclusions and the president shared those thoughts. Canadian Law Enforcement officials are actively investigating this matter. We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms. It is a reminder why we must remain vigilant and why the president is proactive rather than react i have. We are prying for those injured in the attack and keeping in close attack with officials in quebec and canada and moving into a quick recap of the events f the past few days. He had a weekend of action. The president spoke with eight foreign leaders and signed executive orders deliffing on some of the Biggest Campaign promises and met with staff to continue to plan another busy week. We carried out a successful raid against al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula which resulted in 14 deaths and capture of intelligence that will counter and prevent future terrorist plots. Tragically, during this raid, the life of a brave Service Member was taken and four were wounded. Our thoughts and families are with the fallen American Hero and those Service Members who sustained injuries. As a quick recap, on friday, you saw the president s enthusiastic reception at the department of defense for the swearingin of secretary mattis as our secretary of defense. The president signed two executive actions to protect america from those who wishes to do us harm. His focus on securing our borders and homeland was what the president campaigned on and he is doing exactly what he told the American People he would do. The president will always put the safety and prosperity of our Country First and foremost. We kicked off saturday by launching the weekly address which debuted for the first time on facebook live. 11 million were reached by the address online and 1. 1 Million People engaged. And as of this morning the video was viewed more than five million times. This is another example of the president taking his message directly to the American People. On saturday, the president signed three executive actions from government ethics to National Security. As part of the president s plan to drain the swamp in washington and return power to the American People, he signed an executive order imposing strict postemployment rules on all federal political appointees and fiveyear lobbying ban and fulltime ban. The president continues to make it clear, if you want to be part of the trump administration, you will be serving the country, not yourself. The president signed a memorandum modernizing the structure of the National Security council and the Homeland Security council. There has been a lot of misreporting this week about what this memo does and does not do. Let me walk you through this. There are two issues at hand, one is the makeup of the n. S. C. And the Principals Committee. And it is the n. S. C. Minus the president. The idea is that the chairman of to remove f staff is this utter none cease. To be clear, the memo lays out if there is a principals meeting that is outside their scope, a domestic issue that doesnt pertain to the military, they arent required but welcomed. Certain homelaec certain Homeland Security issues may not be military issues and will not be in the time. We called several outlets who were misreporting the topic to better inform them about what this memo means. Let me walk through this real quick. This is the 2001 n. S. C. Standup memo and 2009 memo and then this one is the the 13 here as well or 2017 right here. This is the language that the language that consists of the National Security team, the director of the Central Intelligence and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff shall also attend n. S. C. Meetings, that is the identical language in 2017 as it was in 2009 whens bauma drafted his, veer bait im, identical. The makeup of the Principals Committee is as exactly as it was in both 23017, as it was in 2001. We add the word also. I think its pretty clear if you look at all three of these, thats what it does. To be clear, the memo just yesterday, we called that out, starting with the membership with the n. S. C. , the language that is part of the president s memo is identical to the language from president bush in 2001. The only thing thats changed in this is the addition of the director of National Intelligence, as a position that didnt exist in 2001. For what its worth. Same as obama except for the word also. As you can see from the very language here and i will give you 2017 on the Principals Committee. This is the Principals Committee in 2017 and this is the 2001 Principals Committee. It is literally 100 the same. 2001 and 2017 are identical. So this idea there has been a change or downgrade is utter nonsense. With respect to the joint chiefs in particular, the president holds chairman dumford in the highest regard. The suggestion that he would downplay in matters of National Security reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of the tremendous respect that the president holds and the chairman himself and the joint chiefs as a whole. As a record, someone tweeted out where was the c. I. A. In this . The c. I. A. Isnt part of the n. S. C. Since the d. N. I. Was sworn in for the first time in 2005. The president has respect for director pompeo and the president will amend the memo to add the c. I. A. Back into the n. S. C. I know there was a tweet yesterday from the former National Security adviser that said where is the c. I. A. Out of everything. I would like to remind the former National Security adviser when the memo was drafted in 2009, i dont see the Obama Administration including it in theirs. President trump who is including it in the n. S. C. After the d. N. I. Was named and sworn in in 2005, we are the administration that is adding it back into the n. S. C. It was the Obama Administration that didnt have it in. To answer the former National Security advisers tweet, the c. I. A. Was in ours and wasnt in theirs. Ith respect to over the moving on to, the president signed another memo when he was at the department of defense instructing the joint chiefs of staff to deliver a plan to defeat isis. It must include a recommendation to changes of any rules of engagement and other policy restrictions that exceed the requirements of International Law regarding the use of isis, public diplomacy, Information Operations and Cyber Strategies to isolate and delegitimize isis, identification of new Coalition Partners in the fight against isis and policies to fight isis and its affiliates, mechanisms to cut off support including financial transfers, money laundering, the sales of art, historical facts and a detailed strategy to rebusly fund the plan. This memorandum is a profound statement that the president s clear objective is to destroy and defeat isis. This is not only a necessary step for americas National Security but a humanitarian imperative. If isis is left in power, the threat it poses only grows. It has attempted to develop chemical weapons capabilities and maintains recruiting homegrown terrorists. The United States must take Decisive Action and the president is taking the necessary steps. Over the weekend, the president also held constructive phone calls with the head of government from australia, france, germany, japan, russia, saudi arabia, south korea and the united arab emirates. I reafffirmed our interests throughout the world. The safety of the American People and security of americas homeland continues to be the president s top priority. His outeach is a critical step in turning the page of the failed foreign policies of the past eight years. He did all this in the face of extreme obstructionism from Senate Democrats who are holding up 17 leads that require confirmation. 10 days into his term, president obama only had seven people and president bush had four. Senate democrats think they will be ok with continuing business as usual and confirming nominees, they misunderstood the message this november. The truth is, these cabinet members are qualified and will be confirmed by the senate. And democrats know this. So its time to stop playing political games. The office of the u. S. Trade representative sent 12 letters notifying the nations to the Transpacific Partnership that the u. S. Has withdrawn from the agreement. The next step in fulfilling the president s Campaign Promises to get our country out of unacceptable trade deals. The president will continue to negotiate better trade agreements and increase american wages and reduce our trade deficit. The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs is making sure that all lines of communication are open. As of today, the white house has made contact with all governors offices in every state and territory in deep and dive conversations have taken place with 32 governors. Outreach efforts have touched 2250 states attorneys general and 16 speakers of the house, the leaders of the 10 largest finally recognized tribes and leaders of the largest counties and municipalities. All have expressed enthusiasm on working with the white house on issues impacting their local communities and families. The office is preparing is preparing for the National GovernorsAssociation Meeting at the end of february which the president plans to host a dinner. He started his day with a breakfast and listening session with Small Business leaders. A list of attendees is available. It comes on the heels of meetings that the president held last week with top Business Leaders and union leaders. He has made it clear in his first week in office, through executiver orders and he is committed to working. The Vice President hosted a breakfast with King Abdullah at the naval object serve tower and the president expects to greet the king. The Vice President thanked the king tore his efforts in advancing peace and stability in the middle east and reafffirmed the United States commitment to jordans security and economic development. They discussed events in the region including ways to defeat isis and promote a political solution to the syrian conflict. The Vice President welcomes the kings views on potential changes involving the embassy in israel and the United States is in the early stages of this Decision Making process. The two leaders discussed how to make progress towards a comprehensive agreement between israel and the palestinians. The president and king agreed on strengthening u. S. Jordan relationships and pledged to stay in close contact. The president signed an executive order controlling regulatory costs. It directs the director to issue guidelines for every one new regulation, two existing regulations in an agency be eliminated. We are calling it one in, two out. The cost of regulations finalized must be no greater than zero for each agency. And beginning in 2018, each agency will have a cost cap set by the director of o. M. B. Beyond which can not issue regulations. This is the stirs step in the president delivering his promise to slash bureaucratic red tape. Under the president s leadership, the federal government would no longer punish americans for working and doing business in the United States. Over year, overregulations costs billions of dollars and reduces the wealth in every american household. This will help the economy get back on track and create 25 million new american jobs in the next decade. Its worth noting that this order is perhaps the most significant administrative action in the world of Regulatory Reform since president reagan created the office of information and Regulatory Affairs in 1981. A few administrative notes. Im pleased to announce that Prime Minister netanyahu of israel will visit the white house on february 15. It is crucial to the security of both our nations and the president looks forward to discussing strategic, technological and military and intelligence cooperation with the Prime Minister. Tomorrow at 8 00 p. M. , the president will announce who he intends to nominate for the supreme court. And its interesting to some tweets have come out against these unnamed individual. I would take a few questions. Reporter President Trump asked the Prime Minister to join him. When can syrian civilians expect to receive this support . Mr. Spicer it is an Important Note that there is such agreement with how we address this problem and seeing it across the spectrum. Its important we have stability in the region and the idea this was an idea of mute tall discussion and agreement, when we talk about stability in the region, we will have continued discussions but the first step of getting both sides on the first page was a great step forward. Reporter the president stayed today in that oncamera session about how the market has run during the last couple of months. Today, it happens to be a big market drop since october and one of the unsernlts is that tax reform might not get done this year. My question to you is, can the administration commit to major tax reform in 2017 . Mr. Spicer its a twoway street and you have seen a commitment to fight on behalf of Small Businesses. It cant underscore how important it is. Since 1981, we havent seen anything of this magnitude to address the Regulatory Impact that Small Businesses face. We are going to continue to work with both houses of to develop a comprehensive tax plan and there is eagerness on behalf of congress to do that as well. When you look not at the ups and downs of a market, but Consumer Confidence and market indicators, the trump indicators brought confidence back to traders and investors and job creators and look at the number of individuals, the Small Businesses, the Large Businesses, the auto makers all coming in and saying i want to be part of your effort, your agenda to make the country better, to bring jobs back here. I think its a positive sign, not just on the ups and downs on one day, but the overall commitment that businesses have to want to work with this administration, to add jobs, to create better jobs, to add benefits to find out how the president can ease the regulatory burden. There is a process being undertaken to unleash the American Economy and the approach he is takeing not with large and Small Businesses but the energy sector, how do we unleash americas resources, and how do we do that to create goodpaying jobs and get the economic boon to come out of it. Reporter two questions, how important is National Security information to you . You are saying they are at the table mr. Spicer thats not what i said. I dont think i can underscore this enough, what were saying, nothing has changed. The director of National Intelligence and the chairman of the joint chiefs are part by the n. S. C. , full stock. What we have done is make sure on issues of Homeland Security and domestic policy they are always welcome to attend. 100 . However if the issue is on pandemic flu or other domestic type nates that dont involve the military, it would be a waste of time to have the chairman of the joint chiefs to come over. To talk about downgrad