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i think we having criticized for doing things too quickly in our being criticized for dealings to slowly. maybe i m right in the middle of the sweet spot, but the president hit the timing perfectly and i will tell you i. one of the block and tackle things was get the money right. he has picked a cabinet full of people that no business operations and business functions you re listening to the white house homeland security adviser while we await the question portion of the daily press briefing. how to bring and frank gordon from washington. kevin is live as well from capitol hill. greg, the president signed an executive order earlier this afternoon focusing on protecting federal agencies to develop a plan for cybersecurity. office throughout this executive order is about? of the most unprotected pieces of u.s. government infrastructure after 9/11 has an the cyber part of it. it is shocking, shocking to a lot of americans how antiquated a lot of the government equipmen ....
another like crowd today. good afternoon. before we get started i would like to bring up homeland security advisor tom bossert to tell you about executive order on cyber security at the president just signed. he will take a few of your questions and respectfully i ask that you keep your questions for him on the topic of the executive orders. don t worry, i will come back and answer the rest of your pressing questions when he wraps up. with that i will turn it over to tom. tom bossert: thank you. thank you very much for your time. a couple things positive to report. the first is that president trump about an hour ago signed an executive order on cyber security. that executive order is going to keep his promise that he has made to the american people to keep americans safe. including in cyberspace. i would like to do a few things. i promise we will district distribute the executive order. i will preview it for you, walk you through it and then take your questions. amo ....
but the broader question is delay, i don t really much take that either. i think sometimes we ve been criticized for dong you things too quickly. and now maybe we re doing things for too slowly. so maybe i m right in the middle of the sweet spot, i would argue. but i think the president has hit this timing perfectly, and i will tell you three reasons why. one of the things he told us to do before the executive order was get the money right. he has picked a cabinet full of people that know business operations and business functions have to follow first so that you can then provide policies to implement. you don t have the right money and backoff infrastructure to enforce those things, you ll have to change your vision or change your amount of money. so just off the top of my head, the first, i already preemptive answered and that is we learned a lesson here that we don t want to innovate and secure policy on the security side without doing that in tant em. and you saw th ....
questions from reporters. this is 45 minutes. another light crowd today. good afternoon. first off, before we get started i would like to bring up homeland security adviser tom mosser to tell you about executive order on cyber security at the president just signed. he will take a few of your questions and respectfully i ask that you keep your questions for him on the topic of the executive orders. don t worry, i will come back and answer all the rest of your pressing questions as soon as he wraps up. i will turn it over to tom. thank you. thank you very much for your time. a couple things positive to report. about one hour ago president trump signed an executive order on cyber security. that executive order is going to keep his promise that he has made to the american people to keep americans safe. i would like to do a few things. if i could preview the executive order for you, we will get through three primary sections and then take questions. among other things, a ....