Sean Spicer returns to White House briefing room as a reporter — Transcript

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1. 0:00Sean Spicer returns to White House
2. 0:02briefing room as a reporter former White
3. 0:06House press secretary Sean Spicer made a
4. 0:08surprise appearance on Friday in the
5. 0:10briefing room he once oversaw but this
6. 0:12time on the other side of the lectern
7. 0:14Spicer who hosts a show on Newsmax
8. 0:17appeared to become the first former
9. 0:19White House press secretary to question
10. 0:21the president that they won served from
11. 0:23the briefing room yet a please in the
12. 0:25back President Donald Trump said during
13. 0:28Friday's carniverous briefing pointing
14. 0:30to Spicer sitting in the last row of the
15. 0:32briefing room with a press pass but not
16. 0:34addressing him by name Spicer asked
17. 0:37about small businesses with Trump
18. 0:39responding that the government would be
19. 0:40helping them a lot and about accusations
20. 0:42that members of Congress used briefing
21. 0:45information to inform stock trading of
22. 0:47which Trump said he was not aware before
23. 0:49calling the Senators in question very
24. 0:51honorable people prior to the briefing
25. 0:54Spicer passed through the room waving a
26. 0:56marked shift from his antagonizing
27. 0:58attitude toward reporters when he dealt
28. 1:00with the White House press before his
29. 1:02resignation in July 2017 Spicer was
30. 1:06repeatedly thrust into a combative role
31. 1:07and served on the front line of the
32. 1:09administration's frequent Crusades
33. 1:11against the media during his time as
34. 1:13press secretary Spicer famously weighed
35. 1:16in on crowd size at Trump's inauguration
36. 1:18Spicer was ordered by the President to
37. 1:20take to the briefing room on his first
38. 1:22full day in office to lambast the media
39. 1:24for coverage of the size of the crowd
40. 1:26that attended Trump's inauguration a
41. 1:28moment that quickly defines Spicer's
42. 1:30public facing relationship with the
43. 1:32press this was the largest audience to
44. 1:34ever witness an inauguration period
45. 1:36Spicer said contradicting all available
46. 1:39data
47. 1:39he also baselessly alleged that some
48. 1:41photos were intentionally framed to
49. 1:43downplay Trump's crowd Spicer
50. 1:45since resigning as press secretary has
51. 1:48said he absolutely regrets the incident
52. 1:50and has been actively working to
53. 1:51rehabilitate himself in the public eye
54. 1:53Friday's briefing appearance was hardly
55. 1:56Spicer's first brush with post White
56. 1:58House publicity in August he joined a
57. 2:01cast of Dancing with the Stars prompting
58. 2:03the show's host Tom Bergeron to joke
59. 2:05that the nice thing is Shawn will be in
60. 2:06charge of assessing audience eyes Spicer
61. 2:09famously danced a salsa in a frilly neon
62. 2:11lime green shirt before being
63. 2:13jaded from the show in November CNN's
64. 2:16Khalil Abdullah Jeremy Diamond Caitlin
65. 2:19Collins Jeff Zeleny Dana Bash brian
66. 2:22Stelter Allie Malloy and Saba Hamady
67. 2:24contributed to this report click
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