Subject: White House Press Briefing 04-27-16
From: "Debose, Levi" <[email-masked]>
To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 12:10:03 -0700

No flags

WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING

Joke about Trump speech at Top

Flint

Can you talk about POTUS trip to Flint?

*         Want to remind them that America is still behind them

*         Wants to help community to recover

*         Need Republicans in Congress to respond

*         Administration is committed to responding and ensuring that no other communities have problems

Is this a problem to blame on what level of government?

*         Concerns with some administration

*         A lot of problems at the state level, but investigators still focused on the federal level

*         Congressional Republicans don't want any type of Flint funding

Will POTUS announce changes when he visits?

*         POTUS has addressed the Flint problem

2016 Election

Does POTUS think HRC is the presumptive nominee?

*         The Democratic voters will determine who nominee will be

*         He participated by casting a vote in the IL primary

*         No details to announce on when POTUS will engage in debate

POTUS will speak at convention?

*         Not sure if the day has been selected

*         Will most likely speak

Will the contested primary hurt Democrats?

*         No it gives a chance to build infrastructure

*         Especially if it is about the issues, which is happening on the Dem side

Trump is giving his FP speech? He talked about leaders not respecting US?

*         POTUS is concerned about Iran, which is why he signed the deal

*         We are respected

*         Everyone wants the economic progress that we have seen since POTUS

How many world leaders are concerned about Donald Trump and his FP?

*         POTUS is very confident about American people

*         Concerned about Trump's policies

Has there been a clear, gold-bullet way to end ISIS?

*         POTUS has a plan, reason why he went on foreign trip

*         ISIL is losing money and land

*         POTUS wants to destroy ISIL

Trump said he could eliminate ISIS?

*         Check with his advisor to ask them what he means

*         We have taken 40% of land in Iraq and 16% of land in Syria (populated)

What do you think of Trump's new style?

*         I will not try to describe him

*         Voters will take stock of the candidates

How seriously does WH take Trump Foreign Policy?

*         I consider this briefing more important than the ins and outs of a campaign

*         The people/voters should care

*         POTUS is an avid consumer of the media. Aware of the debate on both sides

Zika

Have you provided information to congressional Republicans?

*         Yes, we have and they haven't budged

*         They need to protect Americans and provide funding for Zika

Has congress gotten all the research?

*         We brought up to experts to this podium to talk about research

*         We have provided research

*         Will take more than a year to get a vaccine, so they need funding

Puerto Rico

What do you think about Puerto Rico package?

*         Republicans don't want to deal

*         Need to pass the package

*         We are making a strong case that GOP obstruction

SCOTUS

What is Chief Judge Garland doing?

*         He is doing more congressional interviews

*         Coburn said that Senate should do their job / if he was in the Senate, he may not vote for him, but he should at least get a vote