What $50 Million Can Buy: Inside the Sleek New White House Situation Room

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : When the president wants to call a world leader, often with little notice, a crew of up to a dozen people from the Watch Floor springs into action, setting up the secure video connections and making sure that both sides of the conversation are in sync.
56% : At the desks sit 17 officials from agencies around the government; every military branch and spy agency is represented, along with State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and a few others.
54% : In its place are two small, secure "breakout" rooms for people like the secretary of state, attorney general or secretary of defense to work privately when they come for meetings with the president.
53% : A world clock listed the current times for cities including Tehran and Kyiv.

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