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Sean Spicer

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  1. “Go out of country, who go out and then want to sell back. And I think what we have to do is remember that right now we have a regulatory system and a tax system that almost benefits countries from leaving America going overseas, setting up and then coming back and selling their goods and services. I think we have to look at the entire...”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “It is, but remember what happens is we go into trade agreements with very little to bargain for. And so to some degree, sometimes we give away because we start at, let's say, zero and they're at 20 and we don't have much to give away because we're already down at zero or one or two. And they're saying, okay, I'll cut my tariff from 20 to 10. We're already at zero. So we have to figure out something to give them when we're already tariff-free on a product or something. And I think that's a very complicated thing. I think to some degree, we've got to recalibrate where we go into some of these negotiations.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “I think I know where he's coming from. Some of it, I do believe. I believe that some of our focus on multilateral agreements probably hasn't been to the best. But one of the things that we as a country have got to remember is we have low tariffs to begin with. And so when we go into negotiate these things because we're almost a tariff-free country for the most part on a lot of goods and services and other countries have high tariff and high barriers of entry, whether it's agriculture or manufacturing or a lot of cases services. But we have a philosophy in this country that if you come here and you set up, so if you want to set up a bank or an insurance institution, as long as you abide by the rules, for the most part, you can set it up. A lot of countries restrict that access if you're not a domestic based”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “We've traded away the ability to maintain a manufacturing base and that our workers have suffered because of the trade agreements that have been passed.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Well, I think it's not that different. I think one of the things that if you go back and you look at Reagan, which is what a lot of Trump talks about is bilateral deals and making sure and what we had gotten into later into the Bush years was multilateral agreements, the Doha agreement, TPP was started back in the Bush administration. And I think that's where you start to, it becomes a little bit more tricky crafting a deal because you've got so many countries involved in these and you've already got trade agreements with some of them. You've got tariff barriers and non-tariff barriers in some countries. And so by nature of a multilateral agreement, more people have to get on board. And sometimes that may not fully benefit the U.S. in the same way. I think that there's a degree to which currency manipulation and tariffs on steel and things like that probably will be more prevalent in a Trump administration. But he believes in trade. I think he just believes too often.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Oh, yeah. And so I did that. And then at the end of the cycle, I got a call from Jim Nussell. And he had been one of our targets in Iowa that had gotten re-elected. And he said, you know, can I sit down and talk with you? Now, I assumed it was about getting ready for his next cycle, and I thought, okay, I'll sit down with him, meet with him. He offered me, he said, I really enjoyed how you handled yourself at the NRC. Would you come over and lead the communications for the House Budget Committee? I did that for three years. Then I spent a year at the House Republican Conference, which is sort of the messaging office of our leadership in the House, and then went and spent the last three years of the Bush administration as the Assistant United States Trade Representative for Media and Public Affairs, which is like one of those two-line business card things.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Tom Davis from Virginia was the chairman at the time and said, Hey, do you want to head up? We called back then incumbent retention, which meant the guy who helped the members that were elected. He's a brilliant.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Nomenclature over there. We do. I went in 2000, did clay Shaw's race, and I got sent down at the end. He was in Florida's, I think it was 22nd district. It was probably the best district in America. It was three miles wide, like 90 miles long from Miami Beach up to Palm Beach. I mean, if you weren't on the beach, you were out of the district. And he faced a very tough election for the first time since he had been elected in 1978. So I got sent down at the end. They said, if you can help save this great, but we think it's a goner. We ended up pulling out the vote by 321 votes. In 2000, our district was Broward, Miami Dade, and Palm Beach County, which happened to be some very popular counties for Vice President Gore and then Governor Bush fighting out. We actually had a really, really intense recount that was coupled by the recount for the presidential race. It was a great campaign. After the race was done, the folks at the NRCC, which is our congressional committee that focuses on re-electing House members and getting new ones on board.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Every day is like a campaign, but instead of trying to win an election, you're winning an idea, you want to win a vote in Congress, you want to get the American people on board on you with a policy. And I think that's a very unique. And so that part of governing I like is when you're advancing an agenda that you can see the fruits of.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I think there's a part, you know, I would say I'm a house guy versus a Senate guy. The nice thing about a house member is that you usually have a scrap for that story. You're having to be creative. How do I get the media that's got two senators who's got who are important by nature of being a United States senator? If you're a freshman congressman, for the most part, you're scrapping. You're figuring out how do I be creative? How do I get this story out there? How do I get reporters to show up? How do I amplify this message? And I think it instills a sense of creativity in press people. I enjoyed the house side to the extent that I had members that I worked for that were either going to have tough RELX or really wanted to engage on key issues. And so it was a daily, it was adrenaline. It was almost like a campaign, which is what, you know, and you know that from the White House. You have issues or initiatives or policies that you're pushing. And so.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “So I basically went down budget committee. Yeah, I started, I interned in the House Ways and Means Committee right after we took control of Congress in 1994, worked for a freshman congressman after that, went out and did a campaign, ran Franco Biando's first campaign in New Jersey's second district, which is the lower half of New Jersey. Did”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “No, I'd say there's a good amount of them, but more and more you're seeing less reporters focus on good stories, in-depth stories, factual stories. I've disagreed with a lot of reporters in a lot of stories, but I've said, you know what, you gave us our due. I think it was balanced. I don't like the outcome of it, but I think you did a good job on that. That's very different than there are stories that I've really liked where I think the reporter did a bad job. I mean, you can like a bad story because it came out in your favor, but you look at it and say that really wasn't done well. We actually ended up with a good story.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Because I loved. I love the immediacy of it. You either, when a story comes up or an issue, you either get the story out the way you want it. You either kill the story or you're dealing with it and it's this adrenaline rush all times. Are you getting your message out? Is it going out the way that you wanted to? Are you shaping it in a way? But that story happens or not usually on a daily basis and you wake up and you fight again the next day and it's never boring. And I find that exhilarating.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Oh, yeah. Yeah, and I mean, look, so in New London, Connecticut, I lived in the attic of a townhouse for free in 1995 or 96. I lived literally in a trailer with no electricity in New Jersey. But I would go, my first job managing a campaign was in 1996 out in western Pennsylvania, Green, Westmoreland counties. I desperately wanted to get into press and managing campaigns. And so I got a call from a pollster who had been involved.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “So we had the Connecticut 2nd District in 1992 was a guy named Ed Munster who had been a one-term state senator, worked for Pfizer in eastern Connecticut, and ran against Sam Gageon, who had been a long time institution down there. And literally, I think we spent a total of $50,000. The 2nd District was, I think, 52 towns and cities. The third, eastern third of Connecticut. So it's very diverse, but rural in a lot of places. And I wrote letters to the editor and helped do field work in New London, Connecticut. We lost the race by 3,000 votes with no money. And it kind of really was a shoe leather campaign. And I said I'm going to go to Washington right after college in 1993, went down, and immediately Munster called and said, hey, I'm going to run again. Would you come back and be one of my field directors? And it just...”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Liberal government, and I felt challenged. I wanted to, and so I definitely wasn't some hardcore conservative, it was those kind of academic exchanges and the intellectual curiosity that really brought out a lot of philosophical understanding of where I wanted to go politically. I got involved and started campaigning on races. I interned in the state house.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “What's going on over there? No, but so, yeah, definitely. And, you know, I got bitten by the bug. I actually went to college to Connecticut College. And if you're from Rhode Island, going to New London, Connecticut, which is right over the border is like a big deal. You left the state. But I went to Connecticut College with the intent of being a Japanese language major and spent the first two years studying Japanese language and was horrible at it. But I grew up in a very at best middle class household and I was told, hey, if you, Connecticut College had one of the premier East Asian studies programs, I thought if I went and learned Japanese, combined it with an interest in economics, you know, that I could make a ton of money in New York and Wall Street. And so for two years, I kind of did that. And I frankly wasn't that good at it. But also I wasn't inspired. And I took a couple of government classes in politics. And they were your typical sort of.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Chafee. We had Claudine Schneider, and Ron Makeley was growing up the first district. We've had a lot of Republican governors over time. You know, the interesting thing is I didn't grow up in a political household. My parents both voted, but I think we didn't talk politics at the dinner table much. We talked issues. And I think as I got into high school, there was this, I really kind of grew interested and excited about government and politics. And I think that's one of those. Your mom is...”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “You know, it's a great question. I think in Rhode Island, we actually elected a lot of Republicans. We have a history of.”

    2017-01-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 110 - Sean Spicer · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source