through many challenges. challenges of global and financial crisis, dealing with with the challenges of terrorism, dealing with the challenges of what we face in the middle east where servicemen and women are fighting side-by-side with their american comments so this is a historic moment. it has been a long campaign. it is one that australians have witnessed with all, with consternation indeed from time to time. let me reassure all australians that the ties that bind us straley in the united states are profound and strong. they're there based on our enduring national interest. politicians and governments, congressmen, senators, prime ministers and cabinets will come

and go according to the will of the people of australia and the united states, but the bond between our two nations, are shared common interests, our shared national interests are so strong and committed that we will continue to work with her friends in the united states through the trump administration just as we have through the obama administration. just as we always will. we have so much in common. short shared values, democracy, the rule of law, maintaining the international order upon which our security and prosperity depends. the american people have made a great and momentous choice today. we congratulate president-elect trump and we were look forward to working closely as ever with his administration as it is formed

and when it takes office early next year. thank you very much. >> will continue to bring a postelection analysis and reaction tomorrow. we'll start at [roll call] for look at the policy implications of the 2016 election 16 election period that begins five at 8:45 a.m. eastern and will continue through the day. in the afternoon, conservatives who support and oppose donald trump said down at the heritage foundation to talk about with the results mean for the future of the country. we'll be there at noon eastern, live on c-span. later, pollsters, pundits pundits and journalists have followed the election discuss the lessons learned. that is left at 6:45 p.m. eastern on c-span.

>> white house press secretary josh enders briefed reporters and took questions the day after donald trump was elected president. question focused on the election and the impending transition between administration. this is about an hour and 45 minutes. >> good afternoon everybody. i think the briefing will go a little different than we anticipated it would 24 hours ago. but i will do my best to answer as many questions you may have in the aftermath of the election. let me just a couple of things at the top. three things. the first is, i think the the president and the tone and the priorities that he exhibited in the rose garden are indicative

of the approach the white house staff is taking to ensuring a smooth transition. and working to ensure the success of the president-elect in leading and uniting the country. the second thing is the results of the election are not even 12 hours old. it is far too early, at least for me to discern exactly what message the voters were trying to sent last night. there certainly is a lot of speculation about what that may have been, most of the speculation amulets from people who predicted a different result last night. that's the essence of punditry. nothing wrong with that. it is why a think it will require more than 12 hours of consideration and investigation to get to the bottom of what was actually motivating so many people who cast votes at the polls

yesterday. the the last thing is there a lot of questions raised about what impact the outcome of the election will have on the policies this administration has prioritized over the last eight years. i think it will be a difficult, again less than 12 hours after the outcome of the election is known it's difficult to offer precision and answer those questions today, but certainly in the weeks and months ahead we may get greater insight into that. so with those two cautions at the top i will do my best to answer your questions today. >> and all of the campaign for hillary clinton he talked a lot about continuing progress and

she often talked about being the one to continue that progress, despite what you said at the top does the president feeling anyway that the polls last night were not only a rejection of hillary but a rejection of him? >> that's an entirely fair question to ask. i think it's important to answer, i don't know that anybody has a direct answer because there are some relevant facts. the first is that secretary clinton won the popular vote. now when the popular vote is not what gets you the keys to the oval office. you have to win the electoral vote. but it does -underscore the depth of support and enthusiasm for her messaging campaign.

that is a testament to her leadership and her ability to build support for a national campaign. the other thing that happens to be true is there are a lot of people, again the mast requires us who voted for barack obama in 2008, who voted for his reelection in 2012 and voted 2012 and voted for donald trump in 2016. i think, i don't have an explanation for that to put it bluntly. but i think certainly all of your networks and you will spend time pondering that question and spend time looking at the returns and the exit polls and maybe even spending time in

those communities across the country where mr. trump, president-elect trump enjoyed such a strong support. support that exceeded the expectations of everybody, even of the trump campaign. that's over the question. but i'm not going to pretend i have a direct answer for you. it is one that is worthy of careful consideration. >> another thing we heard was that progress was on the ballot and if hillary wasn't on the elected that progress would go down the drain and be lost. was it known on. >> again just with the caution

that we are 12 hours, less than 1212 hours away from the selection being decided, there are some things we knew to be true before the results started being tallied. one one of those things was the next president, whether secretary clinton or mre some difficult challenges and some difficult questions to answer with regard to a range of policies. we know our economy is facing intense headwinds from overseas. what is the kind of approach the next president will take to ensure our economy can strengthen and navigate those headwinds in a way that benefits

the american middle class, not just those at the top. that's a difficult challenge any president will have to face and certainly president-elect trump will have to confront that. either president would inherent a country that has some deep and passionate to political differences. but will president-elect trump do to unite the country? it won't be easy, we know that is for sure. we know he can count on the support of president obama and secretary clinton who have both pledged their support as he works to do that. either president or secretary clinton or trump would've faced a deeply divided congress. that appears totally dysfunctional or at least it has in the last two years. it is difficult to know and to see how that will change. they will have to navigate that

situation it will not be easy either. so, i guess the point is that it's too early to tell exactly what the impact will be. there will be an impact, but we knew there would be regardless of the outcome of the race. there certainly were some priorities where secretary clinton did not agree with president obama and a different scenario you would be asking me the same question about some of those policy priorities too. i what is true is that the president-elect has some difficult questions to answer and some big challenges to tackle. that is white so important for there to be a smooth and effective, efficient transition

from president obama's presidency to's presidency to the trump presidency. as americans, we are rooting for the success of our president in leading and uniting the country. >> are there any more details you can share about the conversation between president obama and the president-elect? >> my understanding is it was not a lengthy called. it took place very late last night. based on the fact that there is a discussion about meeting in person on thursday the specifics of any policy discussions would be left till then. >> i was it like less than a minute. >> i don't know exactly what the details are there's more details we can provide we will do so. >> on the policy she was there anything at the white house that your administration will do in the coming months to shore up

priorities on areas like the affordable care act, climate change, the iran deal, all of which president-elect trump called into question. >> let me start by saying president obama will remain in office and will be the president of the united states until january twentieth. we will pursue policies accordingly. including the kinds of priorities that you have just enumerated. what is also true is president-elect, in the context of a smooth and effective transition will have an opportunity to get briefed by members of president obama's team and actually have a conversation with president obama himself about some of these priorities. i'm not good to speak for him or predict exactly what policy decisions you will make, and he

was pretty explicit on the campaign trail. part of a smooth transition is ensuring that they have the latest available information about the status of these policies and that is something our administration is committed to providing. >> is there anything the president will not do to put up a firewall to maintain some of these programs in place against will probably be efforts to repeal obama care were climate change or. >> our position on those issues is well known and we've reviewed and it someone i felt spare you most of that. i think what i, the way i respond to that is there's no specific thing i have in mind that we are going to do differently now. our plan all along was to ensure

the successful implementation of those and other priorities. we are going to be committed to doing everything we can to ensure the excess sex success of those policies between now and january 20. these east example is the affordable care act. this administration will continue to make a strong case that people should go to healthcare.gov and consider the options available and sign up for healthcare. the vast majority of people who do it will be able to purchase health insurance for $75 per month or less. that is a policy priority that benefits the american people cynthia fort affordable care act went into effect at 20,000,000 americans got access to healthcare. we want to make sure many americans understand the opportunity that's available to

them. the president-elect when he enters office will have his own opportunity to set the course of healthcare policy in this country in a way that he sees fit. it will require some cooperation with congress and that will not be easy. but there is a lot at stake. republicans in the congress have voted 50 times to repeal the affordable care act. each time they did them their voting to take healthcare away from 22 million americans. to strip vertically important consumer protections from people that prevent them from being discriminated against because ever pre-existing condition or pain more because their woman. those that don't just benefit those who got healthcare when it came into effect but that 100 or hundred 50,000,000 americans who have access to health care

through their employer. these are the kind of decisions that the incoming administration and congress will be challenged to make. >> you know these things will continue -- >> the first is this administration will be committed to implementing the policies through january twentieth. we will look to the commitments we have made in each of those areas as we do so. second, there is a tradition, particularly with executive agreements with successive presidents preserving preserving some element of continuity. i don't know if that will plan this case. as a part of this effective, smooth transition, president obama will be able to talk with

president-elect trump about some of the policies and the benefits. the president-elect's team will have the opportunity to be briefed by the national security experts in the obama administration who have been working on implemented the policies. ultimately the president-elect will be the person that is responsible for setting the path of foreign-policy for the united states for the next four years. presumably some of that strategy he will pursue will involve reassuring the allies of the enhanced national security of the united states. that was part of president obama's foreign-policy path that president obama charted. previous presidents have as well. president-elect trump will have to make that decision himself once he's in the oval office on january 20. >> josh.

when to go back to a conversation, is this conversation tomorrow or when it comes to -- with the president what with that conversation look like that the president would offer about, tweaking but not getting rid of it. >> the thing i can tell you is that is top priority is not his legacy but those who have gotten healthcare insurance since it came into effect. he's quite concerned about stripping the protection from the millions americans who benefit from preventing insurance companies from discriminated against them or imposing lifetime caps, that's really put young people with an illness at grave risk. those of of the kind of consumer