1st DONALD TRUMP Press Briefing - SEAN SPICER Looses His Mind over Inauguration Crowd Size — Transcript

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1. 0:04good evening uh thank you guys for
2. 0:06coming I know our first official press
3. 0:08briefing is going to be on Monday but I
4. 0:09wanted to give you a few updates on the
5. 0:11president's activities uh but before I
6. 0:13get to the news of the day I think I'd
7. 0:15like to discuss a little bit of the
8. 0:16coverage of the past 24 hours yesterday
9. 0:19at a time when our nation and the world
10. 0:21was watching the peaceful transition of
11. 0:23power and as the president said the
12. 0:25transition in the balance of power from
13. 0:27Washington to the citizens of the United
14. 0:29States memb some members of the media
15. 0:31were engaged in deliberately false
16. 0:33reporting for all the talk about the
17. 0:35proper use of Twitter two instances
18. 0:38yesterday stand out one was a
19. 0:41particularly egregious example in which
20. 0:42a reporter falsely tweeted out that the
21. 0:45bust of Martin Luther King Jr had been
22. 0:48removed from the Oval Office after it
23. 0:50was pointed out that this was just plain
24. 0:52wrong the reporter casually reported and
25. 0:56tweeted out and tried to claim that a
26. 0:57secret service must agent must have just
27. 0:59been standing in front of it this was
28. 1:02irresponsible and
29. 1:04Reckless secondly photographs of the
30. 1:06inaugural proceedings were intentionally
31. 1:08framed in a way in one particular tweet
32. 1:11to minimize the enormous support that
33. 1:13had gathered on the National Mall this
34. 1:15was the first time in our nation's
35. 1:17history that floor coverings have been
36. 1:19used to protect the grass in the mall
37. 1:21that had the effect of highlighting any
38. 1:23areas where people were not standing
39. 1:25while in years past the grass eliminated
40. 1:27this visual this was also the first time
41. 1:30that fencing and magnetometers went as
42. 1:32far back on the wall preventing hundreds
43. 1:34of thousands of people from being able
44. 1:36to access the mall as quickly as they
45. 1:38had in inauguration past inaccurate
46. 1:41numbers involving crowd size were also
47. 1:43tweeted no one had numbers because the
48. 1:47National Park Service which controls the
49. 1:49National Mall does not put any out by
50. 1:52the way this applies to any attempts to
51. 1:54try to count the number of protesters
52. 1:56today in the same fashion we do know a
53. 1:58few things so let's go through the facts
54. 2:00we know that from the platform where the
55. 2:02president was sworn in to Fourth Street
56. 2:04holds about 250,000 people from Fourth
57. 2:07Street to the media tent is about
58. 2:09another
59. 2:10220,000 and from the media tent to the
60. 2:12Washington Monument another another
61. 2:14250,000
62. 2:16people all of this space was called when
63. 2:18the president took the oath of office we
64. 2:21know that 420,000 people used the DC
65. 2:24Metro Public Transit yesterday which
66. 2:26actually compares to 317,000 that used
67. 2:30for President Obama's last Inaugural
68. 2:32this was the largest audience to ever
69. 2:34witness an inauguration period both in
70. 2:37person and around the globe even the New
71. 2:40York Times printed a photo a photograph
72. 2:42showing the that a a misrepresentation
73. 2:45of the crowd in the original tweet in
74. 2:47their paper which showed the full extent
75. 2:50of the support depth and crowd and
76. 2:52intensity that existed these attempts to
77. 2:54lessen the enthusiasm of the
78. 2:56inauguration are shameful and wrong the
79. 2:59president president was also at the Cal
80. 3:01as you know the president was at the
81. 3:02Central Intelligence Agency today and
82. 3:04greeted by a rockus overflow crowd of
83. 3:06some 400 plus CIA employees there were
84. 3:09over a thousand requests to attend
85. 3:12prompting the president to note that
86. 3:13he'll have to come back to greet the
87. 3:15rest the employees were ecstatic that
88. 3:17he's the new commander-in-chief and he
89. 3:19delivered them an powerful and important
90. 3:22message he told them he has their back
91. 3:25and they were grateful for that they
92. 3:27gave him a five minute standing ovation
93. 3:29at the end in a display of their
94. 3:31patriotism and their enthusiasm for his
95. 3:34presidency I'd also note that it's a
96. 3:36shame that the CIA didn't have a CIA
97. 3:38director to be with him today when he
98. 3:41visited because the Democrats have
99. 3:43chosen Senate Democrats are stalling the
100. 3:45nomination of Mike Pompeo and playing
101. 3:48politics with National Security that's
102. 3:50what you guys should be writing and
103. 3:51covering that this instead of sewing
104. 3:54division about tweets and and false
105. 3:57narratives the president is committed to
106. 3:59unifying our country and that was the
107. 4:01focus of his inaugural address this kind
108. 4:04of dishonesty in the media the
109. 4:05challenging that bringing about our
110. 4:07nation together is making it more
111. 4:08difficult there's been a lot of talk in
112. 4:10the media about the responsibility to
113. 4:12hold Donald Trump accountable and I'm
114. 4:14here to tell you that it goes two ways
115. 4:16we're going to hold the Press
116. 4:17accountable as well the American people
117. 4:19deserve and as long deserve better and
118. 4:22as long as he serves as the messenger
119. 4:23for this incredible movement he will
120. 4:25take his message directly to the
121. 4:27American people where his Focus will
122. 4:29always be and with that a few other
123. 4:32updates from the day the president had a
124. 4:34constructive conversation with prime
125. 4:35minister Tau of Canada about
126. 4:37strengthening the relationship between
127. 4:39our two Nations they also discussed
128. 4:42setting up additional meetings in the
129. 4:43days to come which we will follow up on
130. 4:46uh he also spoke to prime minister
131. 4:49panato of Mexico and talked about a
132. 4:52visit uh on trade immigration and
133. 4:55security that will occur on the 31st the
134. 4:58president has welcome his first foreign
135. 5:00leader this Thursday when the United
136. 5:03Kingdom Teresa may will come uh to
137. 5:06Washington on Friday on uh tomorrow the
138. 5:10president will oversee his assistance to
139. 5:12the president being sworn in he will
140. 5:15then uh the staff will then have an
141. 5:16Ethics briefing and be a briefing on the
142. 5:19proper use and handling of classified
143. 5:21information um further updates as far as
144. 5:25what he will do oh and then in the
145. 5:26evening he will have a reception for law
146. 5:28enforcement and first responders that
147. 5:30helped uh support the inauguration thank
148. 5:33you guys for being here tonight I will
149. 5:35see you on Monday