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Valerie Jarrett

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first: 2015-10-07
most recent: 2015-10-07
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“Maybe not. Maybe a piece of it we might do a little Snapchat on the side Valerie. Come on. Well, the last State of the Union, we had a whole digital component for the first time.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They are the client, and I take that responsibility pretty seriously. And it's really what I love most about my job is that we are there to make sure that our policies are informed by the public and whether it's a wide range of constituents or whether it's elected officials, mayors and governors, people who actually are on the ground trying to do good. My job is to help them have a voice.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Hopefully, since that's a big part of my job, is to engage and to get people to feel like they're a part of government and that we are actually serving them. The client.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is a trade off we make, although I obviously we have to protect everybody's right to privacy, but in terms of myself, I kind of feel like I'm an open book.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cost benefit analysis. No, you know That doesn't bother me as much. I kind of assume that everything I say and do Maybe because I've been in public life for so long, is going to be transparent. And so I kind of live with a certain amount of. Intrusion”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They'd invent that, yeah. How to stretch it out, and obviously things are progressing so that women are figuring out all kinds of creative ways of having children later in life. But I just always wanted an extra 10 years back in there.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't. Do you know what I would have liked? Like another ten years between twenty and thirty. I always have thought that because I think my daughter is about to turn 30, so I think about it from that perspective. I think at that age, women in particular are working so hard to try to get their career going. At the same time that they're mindful of about a biological clock. And so I always thought if you had another 10 years in there, you could actually do both.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I saw that on TV. This was about a year ago. So would I do that? It left me feeling a little uncomfortable and out of control. And so I tend to think in the car I would like to be in control. Same gas. But on the other hand, saves lives. And I think about my mom, who's 86 and who still drives and is a really good driver. But at the point in time where she can't drive, it'd be wonderful for her to be able to go where she wants to go, when she wants to go. People with disabilities, I think it's a huge, I think it would be a huge service.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm getting the hang of it. My son in law is an engineer. So he hooked me up. He came and he just like set it all up in a little box. I have no idea how any of it works.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I consume it or it is consumed for me and then I get a summary of what might be interesting. I don't hope I don't have a lot of time to just like go through my feed. I follow, I think, about 400.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just signed up on Instagram, but I haven't really gotten into using that. I use Twitter a lot. I probably tweet a few times and consume it a lot. And I consume it”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I have two and two. Right. And what do you use actually? You don't have a private server, right? We talked about that earlier. I do not. I do not get one. It causes trouble for whoever, whichever woman gets one, it's a problem. But I'm not naming names.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No,'cause I'm still not too good on the keypad on the iPhone. I prefer the Blackberry keypad. But there's so many other advantages to the iPhone. So I've moved over to that. I have an iPhone iPad for work and I have an iPad for my personal use as well. So I have two and two.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“iPhone 4 work. Okay, phone six, the new one that just came out? Yeah, with a haptic touch. I have that. I just got that because I cracked my last one.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What are you? Look at yourself It's a cool, that's a good question. It's cool. I feel like I have a lot to catch up on. For example, I would like to know how to code. I don't know how to do that. I'm going to get some of our folks to teach me how to do that before too long. Devices, I have an iPhone for work and I have an iPhone for personal 4?”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, if we can literally, if we can call an Uber in seconds, it's really kind of fascinating that government services aren't quite as, I mean, you know, I don't want you to have Uber run the government, by the way. That could be disastrous. Let's finish up. You don't have to comment on that. Let's finish up that on what you use personally. I'm really always interested. I asked the president a bunch of stuff. People got excited about his answers. What do you use? How do you look at yourself? What are my technology?”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Part of that equation to me, it's where jobs are where if you want healthcare information. One of the things I was talking to someone was about was if you're a mother that needs to get things for your kids, you have to go into the office, you have a low minimum wage job. You should have an app that just lets you figure out all of the different services the government, state and local and federal can provide to you instead of getting on a bus and killing a day and trying to find childcare you can't get and things like that. Oh, absolutely.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Create opportunities for our businesses, for our country, to continue to attract jobs and investment here. And yet we've been unable to get Congress to do the kind of investment in infrastructure generally and digital infrastructure is a part of that equation.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there are lots of investments I'd like to see our government making that unfortunately, given the composition of Congress right now, are not likely infrastructure generally is a big problem. Again, our roads, our bridges, our airports are an embarrassment around the world. And investing in them would only...”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We have got to upgrade our system and the government can't do it alone, and so the private sector has stepped in and been very helpful.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, the president has been putting the spotlight on that issue, working with our partners in the private sector to expand. There is this digital divide. And so what are we going to do to ensure that our entire country is connected? And so whether it's a remote tribe or whether it's the upper peninsula of Michigan, wherever it is where people don't have access, we've got to connect them. That's the only way our country is going to be globally. Well, it's an embarrassment.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. When you talk about this idea of reaching out in this way, you yourself, I want to talk about one other thing and then ask about your own personal tech use and then got to go. But when you, a lot of people don't have access. Access is a big issue. You know, obviously there's issues around net neutrality and all kinds of things with companies. But I think it was, and it's an area you're responsible for, tribal areas, less than 10%. Some incredibly low.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think a background check is an absolutely reasonable thing to ask somebody to go through before you give them. A weapon that can kill somebody”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On both sides, emotions are high, but our view is this, you can respect and abide by the Second Amendment and protect the rights of people to bear arms. But do you really need to have the kind of arsenals that are available without any background check whatsoever that can be put to a horrible, heinous, destructive use? We don't think that's not right. And so we're going to have a conversation about that today.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so on gun violence, yeah, because there are a lot of people out there really working on this issue at the state and local level. And so I want to talk about those conversations and talk about how we can create a groundswell to get Washington to change as well. So when 90% of the country wants to do something and you can't get it to happen here in Washington, we have to continue to create this groundswell that puts pressure on the people. Also, gun advocates are all very active.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have to hold back, I think I have to be appropriate. But I try to I try to engage, and I wish I had more time to actually have conversations. This will have occurred by the time this podcast broadcasts, but I'm doing a Twitter chat today on what's happening on the ground to combat gun violence, for example.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, do you use it liberally or do you hold back? Because you get like you were talking earlier, I was interviewing Lena Dunham, who gets super attacked. You get attacked, the president gets attacked, you hold back.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He actually is the one that decides. We all look at them, but he decides, and that's what keeps it authentic. I think if it gets to the point where it's wordsmith by other people, then it won't be as popular as it is now.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it gets unfiltered. And I think that's part of the magic of social media. And some of that's good and some of it's not good. Does he have like 90%?”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, he doesn't. He actually does. He likes it because it's authentic. And he likes the fact that... He can say, and you know, 140 characters or less something. Bypass the press. He really wants to say.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He absolutely started it. He came along. He will be the technology president who had a challenge, met the challenge head on, and changed the way the federal government approaches technology generally and then communicating through social media. No one was communicating out of the White House through social media prior to President Obama taking office the way we have. Does he like Twitter?”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In an optimal way to be user friendly. And so technology can be extraordinarily helpful in that. And so I think we would like to embed, as to use your word, throughout the federal government, people with expertise that we didn't previously have. And it will improve government. And then once we improve it, whoever comes along after President Obama is going to have to continue it because obviously it can I do. I hope so. He started this.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but it was not user friendly. And the whole point of government is to serve and to take this information that we spend a lot of resources. It was expensive. We're not using it.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. So he's been very helpful in getting us to think about social media as a tool that should be a part of everything that we do, not an afterthought, not something that's off-operating in a silo, but truly embedded in our philosophy for communication. And so we may have a permanent people, we have people coming in as fellows that will come in as a kind of a SWAT team to attack a challenge and then perhaps go back. But I think we're now developing a reputation in Silicon Valley as a government that is open and interested in innovating. And that makes it extraordinarily rewarding. And I think that Our goal is to get sufficient number of people embedded, partnering with the people who are federal employees many longstanding ones who want to improve and who just need somebody to help guide them in how to do it more effectively”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not thinking. I'm curious too. I have no idea. We are. And I think We have been really, really very good at attracting the talent. And I think part of it is Yes, you can make a fortune in Silicon Valley, but once you've made that fortune, do you want to keep making a fortune or do you want to give back to your country that you love? And we have been really heartened to see how many people are willing to say, okay, I could do this, and I could continue to make a ton of cash, or I could come in and really attack.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Download a title free and start listening. It's that easy. Go to audible.com slash decode. That's audible.com slash decode and get started today. So we're here with Valerie Jarrett, who is one of the senior advisors of President Obama and again one of the longest running ones. I'm curious what you're going to do after office. You're not thinking. I'm curious too. I have no idea. But we're talking a little bit about tech and also what the administration is doing and also initiatives around girls and women. One of the big pushes is to get tech people into the government. Now they have enormous fortunes to be made in Silicon Valley. That's one of the issues bringing them here. You know, these people have lots of opportunities. How do you think embedding people into the government works? You're doing it in that kind of way as embedding almost.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, so I'm dating myself here. I'm going to talk about your iPhone or technical expertise. I have none. I am shameless about it. We'll talk about it. We get a lot of help for that. Yes, that's good.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You could, in our view, is it's not an either or it's a both and. We want to use as many different tools as possible to get people engaged. But the fact of the matter is young people are on social media. And so our theory is let's meet them where they are. And they're much more likely to listen to Lady Gaga video than anything we can say. Exactly on their telephone or whatever social media they like.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It took often social media. She's got more followers than just about anybody you can imagine. And it was really a public service to say.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This was a So the second, we've just come up on the second anniversary if it's on us, and we are focusing on the issue of consent. What you have to have consent. If you have sex without consent, that's rape, and that's a crime. And so we engaged a broad array of celebrities to say we need your help. We did a PSA and we featured a lot of celebrities talking about consent. And then we said to everybody else, you do whatever you do that's authentic to you. And so Lady Gaga did a music video, which is very graphic. It's painful to watch. And it shows the effects of rape on the lives of women. It's really powerful.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's a wake up call to them to take the responsibility seriously because we were finding uneven results in terms of how colleges and universities approach this issue. Second thing that we learn from our broad engagement is everybody has a role to play if we want to change the culture, back to the culture issue. Bystander intervention, the CDC shows is a really important tool to prevent it, empowering young people to say, Hey, let me take you home from the party you've had too much to drink. Hey, don't rape some woman because she's had too much to drink. Stop it.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“If it was anything else, you would say, oh my gosh, we have got to do something about it. And so we ran a process to talk to a whole range of stakeholders about what can we do to end sexual assault on college campus. And what came out of it is there's no silver bullet. Yes, the colleges and universities need to take their responsibility serious under Title IX to provide a safe environment for young people to learn. And we have the tool of withholding federal funds if they don't. That is one tool. A punitive tool, but what we have done back to my point about transparency is now if you have a complaint filed in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Education, We're going to be transparent. We publish the list of all the colleges and universities that have these complaints filed against them.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's on us as an initiative that grew out of a task force at the president created that I was one of the coach here to look at the statistics, one in five women are sexually assaulted while in college before they leave college. Right. That's an epidemic”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To work on it and make it so it's intelligible so that you have a scorecard and you can figure out okay this is what I'm likely to get from my investment if I go to this college and so that you have a database that you can compare it to and this transparency is something that we're doing in a host of other areas so for example schools all around the country ubiquitously have a challenge in terms of sexual assault on college campuses”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's all over the place. The goal is to make it Somewhere hidden away. And so the goal is to make it as intelligible as possible so it is useful, so it's user friendly.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I heard that word You embed things? Our whole point is as simple as this we want as much transparency as possible. We want everybody, as you're thinking about whether or not they want to invest in a college, what are they going to get in return for it? What is their return on their investment?”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely. You're 100% right. I'm just mean. I didn't say that pejorative. I heard that word. You're for fixing things. I'm for smacking them around until they fix things. So let's talk about things that you do you're doing. And then we'll get to some other issues. But college scorecard. Explain what you've done. You have the digital service. You have 18F. You've got lots of teams that come in now. You embed things.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Most of the time, I think they really do. Putting a pejorative word on it is, I think. Not as important as figuring out how to convince them it's in their self interest. People tend to be motivated by self-interest”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think what happens is these folks start businesses with their friends and their buddies and the people that they went to college with and they gravitate towards people who are like them. And I think that that's a societal challenge that we have is to get outside of our comfort zone and recognize that you're actually going to be better off if you're talking to somebody with whom you don't see identically on issues.”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And we can too. Well, one last question in this area. One of the words they use in Silicon Valley, and I know you've all used it, is unconscious bias. I hate that word. I think it's because I think it's an excuse for laziness. They know just what they're doing. You know what I mean?”
2015-10-07 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT