So when you do sit down at your desk or laptop or iPad, your work is cut out for you and ready to engage with the actual content you have to consider.

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Can you talk a little bit about the object of that and how the White House is getting ready for that, how you want that to play out tomorrow?

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Once you open your doors, get ready for your staff to walk out through them at a moment's notice.

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