Press Briefing on Swine Influenza by Secretary Napolitano, Department of Homeland Security; John Brennan, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Dr. Richard Bessar, acting director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and Robert Gibbs, press secretary.

12:34 p.m. EDT

Gibbs: Good afternoon, guys. Thank you for taking some time out of your Sunday afternoon. We wanted to bring together many of the people that have the primary governmental responsibility in dealing with the situation and to discuss the government's capacity and capability to discuss the steps the government is taking to address this.

Three people we'll hear from today and then we'll take some questions: First, John Brennan, Assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Dr. Richard Besser, the Acting Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of Homeland Security.

So with that I'll turn it over to Mr. Brennan.

Brennan: Thank you, Robert. And thank you, everyone, for coming here today.