NEW: "This has been a learning process" per @ChiefPentSpox on sailors aboard the #USSTheodoreRoosevelt retesting positive for #COVID19
"This is a very stubborn infectious disease...We're taking every step possible to get the ship fully clean, fully ready"
.@ChiefPentSpox adds #USSTheodoreRoosevelt could be at sea if it was needed in a crisis
Q from @JenGriffinFNC: What's the "super duper" missile @POTUS just referred to at the White House?
@ChiefPentSpox: Refer you back to White House
.@EsperDoD says US will have #COVID19 vaccine for US, allies by end of the year
"Fair for the secretary to be confident that when the president tasks & that Congress & the entire American ppl are behind an effort that we'll be successful" per @ChiefPentSpox
"We've set a goal" adds @ChiefPentSpox "You set a goal and then you work back from there"
"It's a matter of how quickly you want to do and how many resources you want to put to it"
"We have a goal. We put the team together" per @ChiefPentSpox "We're going to obtain that goal"
re #COVID19 vaccine by year's end
Why don't @DeptofDefense official wear masks at White House?
@ChiefPentSpox says DoD has been ahead of the curve on mitigating risk
"You have a system where testing takes place" he adds of WH "You may choose not to wear a mask"
NEW: #Afghanistan "We're still moving forward with the force reduction levels" to get down to 8,600 per @ChiefPentSpox "We expect to meet that within the timeline laid out with the #Taliban"
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