Sean Spicer defends claim about inauguration viewership — Transcript

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1. 0:00is it your intention to always tell the
2. 0:02truth from that Podium and will you
3. 0:05pledge never to knowingly say something
4. 0:07that is not factual it is it's an honor
5. 0:10to do this and uh yes I believe that we
6. 0:14have to be honest with the American
7. 0:15people I think sometimes we can disagree
8. 0:17with the facts there are certain things
9. 0:19that um we may miss we may not fully
10. 0:22understand when we come out but our
11. 0:23intentions never to lie to you Jonathan
12. 0:25we're going to do our best every time we
13. 0:27can I'm going to come out here and tell
14. 0:28you the facts as I know and if we make a
15. 0:30mistake I'll do our best to correct it
16. 0:32do you have any corrections that you
17. 0:33would like to make or clarifications of
18. 0:34what you said Saturday we'll ask away
19. 0:36Jonathan well you know I mean just for
20. 0:38instance I don't want to get and
21. 0:39relitigate the whole issue but like just
22. 0:40take one like the issue of Metro
23. 0:42ridership you made a statement about and
24. 0:44at the time uh the information that was
25. 0:46provided by the inaug committee came
26. 0:48from an outside agency that we reported
27. 0:50on and I think knowing what we know now
28. 0:53we can tell that rada's numbers are
29. 0:54different um but we were trying to
30. 0:56provide numbers that we had been
31. 0:58provided uh that wasn't like we made
32. 1:00them up out of thin air and do you stand
33. 1:01by your statement that that was the most
34. 1:03watched inaugural addressing sure it was
35. 1:06the most watched inaugural when you look
36. 1:07at look you look at just the one network
37. 1:11alone got 16.9 million people online
38. 1:14another couple of the networks there
39. 1:15were tens of million people that watch
40. 1:16that online never mind the the the
41. 1:19audience that was here 31 million people
42. 1:21watched it on television combine that
43. 1:23with the tens of millions of people that
44. 1:25watched it online on a device there's
45. 1:27it's unquestionable I don't I don't and
46. 1:30I don't see any numbers that that
47. 1:32dispute that when you add up attendance
48. 1:34viewership or total audience in terms of
49. 1:36tablets phones uh on television I'd love
50. 1:40to see any information that proves me
51. 1:42proves that otherwise and and
52. 1:44then do you dispute that well I I don't
53. 1:48want to get into to numbers I I I do I
54. 1:50mean okay I'm just saying if you're
55. 1:52asking me a question about my Integrity
56. 1:54I have a right to say if you add up the
57. 1:56the network streaming numbers Facebook
58. 1:58YouTube all of the various live
59. 2:00streamings that that we have information
60. 2:02on so far I don't think there's any
61. 2:04question it was that that it was the
62. 2:06largest watched inauguration ever more
63. 2:09than Ronald Reagan's in 1981 I'm pretty
64. 2:11sure that Reagan didn't have YouTube
65. 2:14Facebook or the internet yeah I think 41
66. 2:17million people watched his 41 million
67. 2:20watched his okay so let's just take the
68. 2:22neelon ratings which are 31 million and
69. 2:24add it to CNN 16.9
70. 2:27million that's a little higher