Building on the progress that weve made. You know, and my advice as i said to the president elect when we had our discussions was, that, Campaign Something difficult from campaigning is different from governing. I think he recognizes that. I think he wants to be a successful president and movingg this country forward and i dont think any president ever comes in saying to himself, i want to figure out how to make people angry or alienate half the country. I think he is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only for the people who voted for him and the people at large. The good thing is there will be elections coming up, so there is builtin incentive for him to try to do that. But, you know, it has only been six days and i think it will be important for him to, to have the room to staff up, to figure out what his priorities are, to be able to distinguish between what he was campaigning on and what is practical, what he can actually achieve. You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but dont always translate into good policy and you know, thats something that he and his team i think will wrestle with in the same way that every president wrestles with. I did say to him, as i have said publicly, that because of the nature of the campaigns and the bitterness and ferocity of the campaigns, and that it is really important to try to send some signals of unity and to reach out to minority groups or women or others that were concerned about the tenor of the campaign. And i think, you know, that is something that he will, he will want to do. But, this is all happening real fast. He has got commitments to supporters that helped to get him here and he is going to have to balance those and, over the coming weeks and months and years, my hope those impulses ultimately went out, will start to make judgments on that. [inaudible] meeting with him . You know, i think that he successfully mobilized a big chunk of the country to vote for him and he is going to win. He has won. He is going to be the next president and regardless of what experience or assumptions he brought to the office, this office has a way of waking you up and those, those aspects of his positions or predispositions that, dont match up with reality, he will find shaking up pretty quick because reality has a way of asserting itself. And some of his gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, you know, those are ones that hopefully he will put to good use on behalf of all the American People. Scott. Thank you, mr. President. Youre off to europe which is facing some of the face populist pressures we see at work in this country. When you spoke at the u. N. You spoke about immigration and building walls, what choice do you think the American People made last week and is there a chance for what you called a course correction before europeans make some of their choices . I think the American People recognize that the world has shrunk. That it has interconnected and youre not going to put that genie in the bottle. The American People recognize that their careers or their kids careers are going to have to be more die nam i believe. They might not be working at a single plant for 30 years but thcareers. They might have to get more education. They might have to to retool or retrain. The American People are game for that. They want to make sure that the rules of the game are fair. And, what that means is, that if, if you look at surveys around americans attitudes toward trade, the majority of the American People still support trade. But they are concerned about whether or not trade is is fair. And, whether we have got the same access to other countries markets as they have with us. Is there just a race to the bottom when it comes to wages and so forth. Now i made an argument, thus far unsuccessfully, that the trade deal we had organized, tpp, did exactly that, that it strengthened workers rights and environmental rights and leveled the Playing Field and as a consequence would be good for American Workers and american businesses but thats a complex argument to make when people remember plants closing and jobs being off shored. So, but part of what i think this election reflected was people wanting that course correction that you describe and , the message around stopping surges of immigration, not creating new trade deals that may be unfair. I think those were themes that played a prominent role in the campaign. As we now shift to governing, my argument is, that we do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful, immigration process but that it is orderly and lawful that immigration is good for our economy. It keeps the country young and dynamic. We have entrepreneurs and strivers coming here willing to take risks and that is part of the reason why america historically has been successful. It is part of the reason why our economy is stronger and better positioned than most of our other competitors is because we got a younger population that is more dynamic. When it comes to trade, i think, you know, when youre governing it will become increasingly apparent that if you were to just eliminate trade deals with mexico, for example, well, you have got a Global Supply chain. The parts that are allowing auto plants that were about to shut down to now employ double shifts is because theyre bringing in some of those parts to assemble out of mexico and so it is not as simple as it might have seemed. And, you know the key for us, when i say us, i mean americans, but i think particularly for progressives is to say, your concerns are real, your anxieties are real. Heres how we fix them. Higher minimum wage. Stronger Worker Protections so workers have more leverage to get a bigger piece of the pie. Stronger financial regulations, not weaker ones. Yes to trade but trade that insures that these other countries that trade with us arent engaging in child labor, for example. Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it, and offering prescriptions that are going to help folks in communities that feel forgotten. That is going to be our most important strategy. And, i think we can successfully do that. People will still be looking to the United States. Our example will still carry great weight. And, it continues to be my strong belief that the way we are going to make sure that everybody feels a part of this Global Economy is not by shutng ourselves from each other, even if we could, but rather by working together more effectively than we have in the past. Martha raddatz. Thanks, mr. President. Some. Harsh words you had about mr. Trump, calling him tempermentally unfit to be commanderinchief, did anything surprise you about president elect trump when you met with him in your office . Also i want to know, does anything concern you about a Trump Presidency . Well, we had a very cordial conversation and, that didnt surprise me to some degree because i think he is obviously a gregarious person. Somebody who likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate. And, whats clear is that he was able to tap into, yes the anxietieses but also enthusiasm of his voters in a way that that was impressive and i said so to him because i think that, to the extent that there were a lot of folks who missed the trump phenomenon, i think, that connection that he was able to make with his supporters, that was impervious to events that might have sunk another candidate, that is powerful stuff. I also think that he is coming to this office with fewer set, hard and fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other president s might be arriving with. I dont think he is idealogical. I think ultimately he is pragmatic in that way and, that can serve him well as long as he has got good people around him and he has a clear sense of direction. Do i have concerns . Absolutely, of course ive got concerns. He and i differ on a whole bunch of issues. But, you know, the federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It is an ocean liner, as i discovered wn i came into office. It took a lot of really hard work for to us make significant policy changes, even in our first two years when we had larger majorities than mr. Trump will enjoy when he comes into office. And, one of the things i advised him to do was to make sure that before he commits to certain courses of action he is really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out. I will use a obvious example where we have a difference but it will be interesting to see what happens in the coming year and that is the Affordable Care act. So, obviously this has been the holy grail for republicans over the last six, seven years was, we got to kill obamacare. The now, that has been taken as an article of faith, that this is terrible, it doesnt work and we have to undo it. But now that republicans are in charge they have got to take a look, lets see, we got 20 Million People who have Health Insurance who didnt have it before. Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since obamacare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal treasury hundreds of billions of dollars. People who have Health Insurance are benefiting in all sorts of ways that they may not be aware of. Everything from no longer having lifetime limits on the claims that they can make, to seniors getting Prescription Drug discounts under medicare, to free mammograms. Now it is one thing to characterize this thing as not working, when it is just an abstraction. Now suddenly youre in charge and you are going to repeal it. Okay, what happens to those 20 Million People who have Health Insurance . Are you going to just kick them off and suddenly they dont have Health Insurance . And, in what ways are their lives better because of that . Are you going to repeal the provision that insures you have Health Insurance on the job or you lose your job or you changed jobs or you start a Small Business youre not discriminated against because you have a preexisting condition . That is really popular. How are you going to replace it . Are you going to change the policies that kids can stay on their parents Health Insurance plan until theyre 26 . How are you going to approach all these issues . Now, my view is, that if they can come up with Something Better that actually works and, a year or two, after they have replaced the Affordable Care act with their own plan, that, 25 Million People have Health Insurance and it is cheaper and better and running smoothly, ill be the first one to say, thats great. Congratulations. If on the other hand whatever theyre proposing results in millions of people losing coverage and results in people who already have Health Insurance losing protections that were contained in the legislation, then, were going to have a problem, and i think that is not going to be unique to me. I think the American People will respond that way. So, i think on a lot of issues, what youre going to see is now comes the hard part. Now is governance. We are going to be able to present to the Incoming Administration a country that is stronger, a federal government that is working better, and more efficiently, a National Security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policyies that are resulting in not just less pollution but also more jobs. And i think the, president elect, rightly would expect that he is judged on whether we improve from that baseline and on those metrics, or, things get worse. And if things get worse, then, the American People will figure that out pretty quick. And if things get better, then, more power to them. I will be the first to congratulate them. Mr. President , you had talked specifically about his temperment. Do you still have any concerns about his temperment . As i said, because, athena asked the question, whatever you bring to this office this office has a habit of magnifying and pointing out and hopefully then you correct for. This may seem like a silly example i know myself well enough, i cant keep track of paper. Im not wellorganized in that way. And so, pretty quickly after im getting stacks of briefing books coming in every night, i say to myself, ive got to figure out a system because i have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits. And ive got to find some people who can help me keep track of this stuff. Now, that seems trivial but actually it ends up being a pretty big piece of business. I think what will happen with the president elect, there will be certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them because, when youre a candidate and you Say Something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when youre president of the night. Everybody around the world is paying attention. Markets move. National Security Issues require a level of precision in order to make sure that you dont make mistakes. And i think he recognizes that this is different. And so do the American People. I will take just a couple more questions. Then i get out of here. Nadia. Thank you, mr. President. President elect Trump Iran Nuclear deal which your administration worked very hard to [inaudible]. What it are you concerned if he alters part of this and what would you advice since he said i is open to advice. Syrian regime is [inaudible] you talked passionately two years back about you warned against killing of civilians. Many criticize you for short comings in this area. Are you you willing to [inaudible] the next trump statement that you wont support the syrian opposition, thank you . Iran is a good example of the gap i think between some of the rhetoric in this town, not unique to the president elect, and the reality. There was a really robust debate about the merits of the iran deal before it was completed. And i actually was pretty proud of how our democracy processed that. It was serious debate. People of goodwill were on both sides of the issue. Ultimately we were both able to persuade members congress, at least enough of them, to support it. At the time, the main argument against it was, iran wouldnt abide by the deal. That they would cheat. We now have over a year of evidence that they have abided by the agreement. That is not just my opinion. It is not just people in my administration. That is is the opinion of Israeli Military and Intelligence Officers who are part of a government that vehemently opposed the deal. So my suspicion is when the president elect comes in and is consulting with his republican colleagues on the hill, they will look at the facts. The facts preventing iran from pursuing a Nuclear Weapon would be hard to explain, particularly if the alternative were to have them freed from any obligations and go ahead and pursue a weapon. Keep in mind this is not just an International Agreement between us and iranians. This is between the p5 plus 1 and other countries. Some of them are our closest allies, and,. For us to pull out would require us to start sanctioning those other countries in europe, or china or russia still abiding by the deal, because from their perspective, iran had done what it was supposed to do. So it becomes more difficult i think to undo something that is working than undo something that isnt working. When youre not responsible for it, call it a terrible deal and when you are responsible for the deal, then preventing iran from getting Nuclear Weapons, youre more likely to look at the facts. That is going to be true in other circumstances, for example, the, there has been a lot of talk about possibility of undoing this International Agreement. You have 200 countries that signed up to this thing and, the good news is. The good news what weve been able to show over the last five, six, eight years. That it is possible to grow the economy really fast and, possible to bring down Carbon Emissions as well. It is not just a bunch of rules that we set up. Youve got utilities that are putting in solar panels and creating jobs. You have got the big three automakers who have seen record sales and are overachieving on the fuel efficiency standards that we set. Turns out that people like not having to fill up as often and save money at the pump, even if it is good for the environment. Youve got states like california that have been moving forward on clean energy agenda, separate and apart from any federal regulations that have been put forward. In fact 40 of the country already lives under, in state that are actively pursuing whats embodied in the Paris Agreement and the clean power plant rule. Even states like texas, that, you know, politically tend to oppose me, youve seen, you have seen huge increases in wind power and solar power around youve goat some of the countrys biggest countries like google and walmart pursuing Energy Efficiency because it is good for the bottom line. What weve been able to do is embed a lot of these practices into how our economy works and made our country more efficient, it helped the bottom line of folks, and it cleaned up en