Cliff Sims

Do I do this thing that's the right thing to do?

Or do I allow myself to be convinced that it's actually, I shouldn't do that because it's gonna cost lives or it's gonna infect our interest in some other way.

Trump was confronted with the same briefing.

And at some point he said, hold on just a second.

I think everyone here is confused about there being a debate over whether we're going to do this.

I promised I was gonna do it and we're doing it.

So the conversation is over with, start executing on doing it.

So the president makes this decision and he announces it.

And after he announces it, I'm standing with him

in the outer Oval, just outside the Oval Office, there's a little room where his assistants sit there.

And he comes out because I'm getting ready to take him to the next meeting that we're gonna go into.

And he looks up and there's a TV on the wall.

And every TV in the West Wing has four panels on it, split in four.

It'll have Fox, CNN, MSNBC, and Fox Business.

So you can see in one look what's the coverage, what's everybody focused on traditional media-wise.

At a moment's notice, you can see that all day.

They don't have the Sean Ryan show streaming in there?

They haven't got it streaming yet.

You guys haven't gone 24-7 live yet.

We need to get a 24-7 live stream of your life and we can get it put on the screens in the West Wing.