and he was very hartened by his ommitment to formally join the terrorist targeting center and showing commitment to this issue. reporter: you mentioned tax reform at the top. marc short had trouble yesterday trying to resolve what the administration's position on revenue neutrality is. the reason i raised this, milk mulvaney was quoted as saying several folks in the white house said they are interested in pushicing a larger tax bill rather than adding to the deficit. that is milk mulvaney. marc wasn't sure whether revenue neutrality is a key priority. can you assist us? mr. spicer: part of that there is a discussion ongoing with congress. director mulvaney and secretary mnuchin are talking about the plan going forward. that's a conversation as i mentioned that the president is going to have a conversation in the next several minutes with house and senate leadership and will be a topic they will discuss. reporter: an increase in the deficit is something that the administration would find acceptable on tax reform? mr. spicer: if there is a conversation that is going to go on with congre

. >> i have been really hartenned by the way democrats and republicans have spoken out against this.ble tweets like we have seen. i would say like none other. we are in the middle of a major major discussion about health care in this country. and there are people of good will that want to get something down here. and now it is his time to show leadership, instead what does he do? he starts sending out obnoxious vile tweets. i don't understand what would motivate him to do that when the very people he is trying to get vote with him, people like susan collins has come out to condemn the tweet. it doesn't get one more vote, it doesn't give one more american health care, and it sets us a back wards. >> enjoy the holiday. >> i want to say since the white house is no longer allowing video of the press briefings, i'm so glad you put me on instead. >> thank you for coming on. that's a great segue to this, today's off-camera white house briefing just a few smnts frminm now, we're keeping our ears on it. no, i'm good. come on, moe. i have to go. (vo) we always trusted our subaru impreza would

the most hartening e-mails i get are from people who tip owe don't follow our proceedings or don't work in this field so much, but citizens out there in the country who say thanks for publishing it. i might agree disagree with what you did but at least i can see now what you were actually doing. there, the openness and transparency has been. i don't think it's a big deal to let the public know what the commission is doing in advance. as for a burden, i think it has focused the ex parte meetings they have had in the weeks leading up to a meeting. instead of the hushed conversation that parties to the commission -- we have heard this might be a paragraph, can you confirm or deny it. the commissioner would describe what was non-public information. well, i can't confirm or deny it but you might be on the right track. it was a strange game of wink, wink, nod, nod, here it's out there, no innuendo, nothing but the cold hard text of the document that explains it in cold hard english. for the staff the urden changed. i wouldn't say it's increased. with you it's changed. previously the staff wou

i was hartened that there was an order to order 24 more on existing prucks lines. i was dishartened when that number arrived in our office as number 14. i would like -- since this has been the number one one fly in the unfunded priority list for the third year in a row, i need to understand how that 24 number got to 14 and what those 10 fighter jets, the money for those, what that was used to pay for. that f-18 look at but the total number of superhornets to address the challenge we are going to be facing when they go through the life extension program. and we need a solid 80 and that number will -- may go up. we'll have to see our review. to me, the solid 80 that we laid into the five-year program, the near year 2018 when we look at industrial base considerations, we also factor in foreign military sales. we are working hard on the foreign military sales side that involves a significant quantity of aircraft which in addition to the 14 we laid into the budget gives us the front end stability and look in the following five years, we get to our ultimate 80. we need a