Sean Spicer on Crowd Size for Trump Inaugural — Transcript

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1. 0:01yeah is it your intention to always tell
2. 0:03the truth from that Podium and will you
3. 0:06pledge never to knowingly say something
4. 0:09that is not factual it is it's an honor
5. 0:11to do this and uh yes I believe that we
6. 0:15have to be honest with the American
7. 0:16people I think sometimes we can disagree
8. 0:18with the facts there are certain things
9. 0:20that um we may miss we may not fully
10. 0:23understand when we come out but Our
11. 0:24intention is never to lie to you
12. 0:26Jonathan um our job is to make sure that
13. 0:28sometimes and you're in the same boat I
14. 0:30mean there are times when you guys tweet
15. 0:33something out or write a story and you
16. 0:35publish a correction that doesn't mean
17. 0:37that you were intentionally trying to
18. 0:38deceive readers of the American people
19. 0:40does it and I think we should be
20. 0:42afforded the same opportunity there are
21. 0:44times when we believe something to be
22. 0:46true or we get something from an agency
23. 0:48uh or we act in haste because the
24. 0:50information available wasn't complete
25. 0:52but our desire to communicate with the
26. 0:54American people and make sure that you
27. 0:55have the most complete story at the time
28. 0:57and so we do it but again I I think it
29. 1:00when you look net net um we we're going
30. 1:04to do our best every time we can I'm
31. 1:05going to come out here and tell you the
32. 1:06facts as I know and if we make a mistake
33. 1:09I'll do our best to correct it do you
34. 1:10stand by your statement that that was
35. 1:12the most watched inaugural address sure
36. 1:14it was the most watched in augural when
37. 1:16you look at look you look at just the
38. 1:19one network alone got 16.9 million
39. 1:22people online another couple of the
40. 1:24metworks there were tens of million
41. 1:25people that watched that online never
42. 1:27mind the the the audience that was here
43. 1:293 1 million people watched it on
44. 1:31television combine that with the tens of
45. 1:33millions of people that watched it
46. 1:35online on a device there's it's
47. 1:37unquestionable I don't I don't and I
48. 1:39don't see any numbers that that dispute
49. 1:41that when you add up attendance
50. 1:43viewership or total audience includ of
51. 1:46tablets phones uh on television I'd love
52. 1:49to see any information that proves
53. 1:51proves that otherwise and and and the
54. 1:54the approach that you took on Saturday
55. 1:55any second thoughts on that I think
56. 1:58Jonathan look I I I want this to huh I
57. 2:02came out to read a statement and I did
58. 2:03it we're here today I'm going to stay
59. 2:05here as long as you want so uh I want to
60. 2:08make sure
61. 2:12that I think you guys might want to
62. 2:14leave before I do um but look I I want
63. 2:17to make sure that we have a healthy
64. 2:18relationship so are you retracting your
65. 2:20claim on Saturday that it was the
66. 2:22largest crowd in person that's notation
67. 2:25well you said that this was the largest
68. 2:27audience to ever witness an an
69. 2:28inauguration period both in person and
70. 2:31around the globe right to witness and
71. 2:35around the globe yes the total total
72. 2:37audience it was total audience but not
73. 2:40simply in person but that right but
74. 2:42again I didn't say in person both in
75. 2:45person and around the globe to witness
76. 2:47it you're you're saying those together
77. 2:49that no that's actually what I said it's
78. 2:52not what I I don't know how you can
79. 2:54interpret it differently that's
80. 2:55literally what I said to witness it in
81. 2:58person and around the globe
82. 3:00total audience
83. 3:04yes