Subject: White House Press Briefing 5-09-16
From: "Debose, Levi" <[email-masked]>
To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 11:56:52 -0700

WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING

Topper: NGA Zika Virus release / Push for GOP congress to pass legislation

North Carolina

How will the suit affect the review that agencies can be able to give money to states?

*         No change in the review

*         DoJ has spoken to their compliance to the law

*         Inconsistent with fairness and equality

*         HB2 is inconsistent with the 14th Amendment

Is POTUS telling the agencies to review in order to now have agencies move money out of North Carolina?

*         Consistency is necessary

*         In order to coordinate the message and portray consistency.

Fundamentally, what are POTUS' views and has he called on congress?

*         Let me follow up with you

*         The law that was passed by NC is mean-spirited

*         Businesses are leaving due to the law

Zika Virus / Congress

Has the administration gotten any word about tests for treatment?

*         CDC is working on it now

*         They need more funding in order to come up with a better treatment quicker

*         Congress is not good at acting quickly, but we need them to act quickly

What are Republicans saying to WH about why they aren't?

*         I don't know what they are saying / They can make their own cases

*         Common sense things in order to fund the spread against Zika

How much concern is there that the islands finances will affect Zika there?

*         Financial turmoil is hurting health care in Puerto Rico

*         Bad time for money problems

Howard University

How much of the speech was his?

*         He came up with the idea and he edited it at his own will

*         He was focused on the graduates not a presidential campaign

2016 Election

*         Sec. Clinton has influenced POTUS thinking on FP

*         POTUS respects the work of Sec. Clinton

What does POTUS think about the debt proposal by Trump?

*         In 2011 GOP tried to shut down the budget

*         You have to have confidence in the 'full faith and credit'

*         POTUS will not renegotiate debt of the US

Criminal Justice Reform

Will POTUS work on criminal justice reform?

*         Eight months to go, so he will work on criminal justice

*         POTUS working on clemency with the DoJ in order to help

Does the President want to give felons gun rights and voting rights?

*         VA also just made news

*         POTUS and the administration want

*         POTUS with it for voting but not firearms

How does the pardon system work?

*         Padron attorney sits with the POTUS and reviews applications

Supreme Court

Sen. Hatch was here today, did POTUS and Sen. Hatch talk at all?

*         No they didn't talk from what I know

*         More importantly he was here to honor the 1983 North Carolina Tar heels