White House: We’re Always Looking for ‘New Talent’; Look at John Podesta

“This is obviously as important an operation as there is in the world. So the way I see it is, we are constantly looking to add new talent, fresh legs, fresh blood, fresh thinking, as often as we can. That goes back to when I started and when I began to recruit John Podesta to come in to work with us. Over the course of last several months we had very important recruiting gains with Bob McDonald at the VA, with Julian Castro at HUD and even with Megan Smith from Google, who is our new chief technology officer here in the White House, and then with John Allen and Ron Klain, who are doing important things as it relates to ISIL and Ebola. So the one thing I disagree with [indecipherable] is every day is an opportunity to look for more renewal, more ideas, more fresh thinking here in the White House. That’s not something we do once every two years when the American people vote. It's something we do every day."