Donald Trump's Press Secretary Sean Spicer RIPS THE PRESS A NEW AZZ HOLE at first conference 1-21-17 — Transcript

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1. 0:02good evening thank you guys for coming i
2. 0:05know our fish first official press
3. 0:07briefing is going to be on Monday but I
4. 0:08wanted to give you a few updates on the
5. 0:10president's activities but before I get
6. 0:12to the news of the day I think I'd like
7. 0:14to discuss a little bit of the coverage
8. 0:15of the past 24 hours yesterday at a time
9. 0:18when our nation in the world was
10. 0:20watching the peaceful transition of
11. 0:22power and as the president said the
12. 0:24transition and the balance of power from
13. 0:26Washington's to the citizens of the
14. 0:27United States remember some members of
15. 0:29the media were engaged and deliberately
16. 0:31false reporting for all the talk about
17. 0:33the proper use of Twitter two instances
18. 0:36yesterday stand out one was a
19. 0:40particularly egregious example in which
20. 0:41a reporter falsely tweeted out that the
21. 0:44bust of Martin Luther King jr. had been
22. 0:46removed from the oval office after was
23. 0:49pointed out that this was just plain
24. 0:51wrong the reporter casually reported and
25. 0:54tweeted out and tried to claim that a
26. 0:56Secret Service agent must have just been
27. 0:58standing in front of it this was
28. 1:00irresponsible and reckless secondly
29. 1:04photographs of the inaugural proceedings
30. 1:06were intentionally framed in a way in
31. 1:08one particular tweet to minimize the
32. 1:11enormous support that had gathered on
33. 1:13the National Mall this is the first time
34. 1:15in our nation's history that floor
35. 1:17coverings have been used to protect the
36. 1:19grass in the mall that has effect of
37. 1:21highlighting any areas where people were
38. 1:22not standing while in years past the
39. 1:25grass eliminated this visual this is
40. 1:28also the first time that fencing and
41. 1:30magnetometers went as far back on the
42. 1:32wall preventing hundreds of thousands of
43. 1:34people from being able to access them
44. 1:36all as quickly if they had in
45. 1:38inaugurations tasks in accurate numbers
46. 1:41involving crowd size were also tweeted
47. 1:42no one had numbers because the National
48. 1:46Park Service which controls the National
49. 1:48Mall does not put any out by the way
50. 1:51this applies to any attempts to try to
51. 1:53count the number of protesters today in
52. 1:55the same fashion we do know a few things
53. 1:57so let's go through the facts we know
54. 2:00that from the platform where the
55. 2:01president was sworn into fourth Street
56. 2:03holds about 250,000 people from fourth
57. 2:06Street to the media tent there's about
58. 2:08another 220,000 and from the media tent
59. 2:10to the Washington Monument another
60. 2:12other 250,000 people all of this space
61. 2:16was full when the president took the
62. 2:18oath of office we know about 420,000
63. 2:21people used the DC metro public transit
64. 2:24yesterday which is actually compares to
65. 2:26317 thousands that used it for President
66. 2:29Obama's last inaugural this was the
67. 2:32largest audience to ever witness an
68. 2:34inauguration period both in person and
69. 2:37around the globe even the New York Times
70. 2:39printed avatar of a photograph showing
71. 2:42that a misrepresentation of the crowd
72. 2:45and the original tweet in their paper
73. 2:47which showed the full extent of the
74. 2:49support depth in crowds and intensity
75. 2:51that existed these attempts to lessen
76. 2:53the enthusiasm of the inauguration are
77. 2:55shameful and wrong the president was
78. 2:59also at the center as you know the
79. 3:00president was at the Central
80. 3:01Intelligence Agency today and greeted by
81. 3:03a raucous overflow crowd of some 400
82. 3:06plus CIA employees there were over a
83. 3:09thousand requests to attend prompting
84. 3:11the President to note that we'll have to
85. 3:12come back to greet the rest the
86. 3:15employees were ecstatic that he's new
87. 3:16commander-in-chief and he delivered them
88. 3:18in a powerful an important message he
89. 3:22told them he has their back and they
90. 3:25were grateful for that they gave him a
91. 3:27five minute standing ovation at the end
92. 3:29in a display of their patriotism and
93. 3:31their enthusiasm for his presidency I'd
94. 3:34also note that it's a shame that the CIA
95. 3:36didn't have a CIA director to be with
96. 3:39him today when he visited because the
97. 3:41Democrats have chosen Senate Democrats
98. 3:43are stalling denomination of Mike Pompeo
99. 3:45and playing politics with national
100. 3:48security that's what you guys should be
101. 3:50writing and covering that this instead
102. 3:52of sowing division about tweets and and
103. 3:56false narratives the president is
104. 3:58committed to unifying our country and
105. 4:00that was the focus of his inaugural
106. 4:01address this kind of dishonesty in the
107. 4:04media the challenging that bringing
108. 4:06about our nation together is making it
109. 4:07more difficult there's been a lot of
110. 4:09talk in the media about the
111. 4:10responsibility to hold Donald Trump
112. 4:11accountable and I'm here to tell you
113. 4:13that it goes two ways we're going to
114. 4:15hold the press accountable as well the
115. 4:17American people deserve and his law
116. 4:19deserve better and as long as he serves
117. 4:22as the messenger for this incredible
118. 4:23movement
119. 4:24he will take his message directly to the
120. 4:26American people where his focus will
121. 4:28always be and with that a few other
122. 4:31updates from the day the president had a
123. 4:33constructive conversation with Prime
124. 4:34Minister Trudeau of Canada about
125. 4:36strengthening the relationship between
126. 4:38our two nations they also discussed
127. 4:40setting up additional meetings in the
128. 4:42days to come which we will follow up on
129. 4:45he also spoke to Prime Minister
130. 4:47Netanyahu of Mexico and talked about a
131. 4:51visit on trade immigration and security
132. 4:54that will occur on the 31st the
133. 4:57president has will welcome his first
134. 4:59foreign leader this Thursday when the
135. 5:01united kingdom's Theresa May will come
136. 5:04to Washington on Friday on tomorrow the
137. 5:09president will oversee his assistance to
138. 5:12the president being sworn in he will
139. 5:14then the staff will then have an ethics
140. 5:16briefing and be I briefing on the proper
141. 5:19use and handling of classified
142. 5:20information further updates as far as
143. 5:23what he will be 0 and then in the
144. 5:25evening he will have a reception for law
145. 5:27enforcement and first responders that
146. 5:29helped support the inauguration thank
147. 5:32you guys for being here tonight I will
148. 5:34see on monday John women part of you had
149. 5:40not heard a knock on the murder was the
150. 5:42largest audience ever