Trump Press Secretary Sean (Angry White) Spicer Whines about the Press — 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. 0:09president'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. 0:21power and as the president said the
12. 0:24transition and the balance of power from
13. 0:25Washington's to the citizens of the
14. 0:27United States remember some members of
15. 0:29the media were engaged in deliberately
16. 0:31false reporting for all the talk about
17. 0:34the proper use of Twitter two instances
18. 0:36yesterday stand out one was a
19. 0:39particularly 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 must agent must have just
27. 0:57been standing 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. 1:12the National Mall this was the first
34. 1:14time in our nation's history that floor
35. 1:17coverings have been used to protect the
36. 1:18grass in the mall that had the 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 was
40. 1:27also the first time that fencing and
41. 1:30magnetometers when his far back on the
42. 1:32wall preventing hundreds of thousands of
43. 1:33people from being able to access them
44. 1:36all as quickly as they had in
45. 1:37inaugurations passed in accurate numbers
46. 1:40involving 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. 1:59that 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 is about
58. 2:07another 220,000 and from the media tent
59. 2:10to the Washington Monument another
60. 2:12another 250
61. 2:13thousand people all of this space was
62. 2:16full when the president took the oath of
63. 2:18office we know that 420,000 people use
64. 2:21the DC metro public transit yesterday
65. 2:24which is actually compares to 317,000
66. 2:27that used it for President Obama's last
67. 2:30inaugural this was the largest audience
68. 2:32to ever witness an inauguration period
69. 2:35both in person and around the globe even
70. 2:38the New York Times printed a frittata
71. 2:40graph showing the that a
72. 2:43misrepresentation of the crowd and the
73. 2:45original tweet in their paper which
74. 2:47showed the full extent of the support
75. 2:49depth and crowd and intensity that
76. 2:51existed these attempts to lessen the
77. 2:53enthusiasm of the inauguration are
78. 2:55shameful and wrong the president was
79. 2:58also at the center of you know the
80. 3:00president was at the Central
81. 3:01Intelligence Agency today and greeted by
82. 3:03a raucous overflow crowd of some 400
83. 3:06plus CIA employees there were over a
84. 3:08thousand requests to attend prompting
85. 3:11the President to note that we'll have to
86. 3:12come back to greet the rest the
87. 3:14employees were ecstatic that he's the
88. 3:16new commander-in-chief and he delivered
89. 3:18them in a powerful an important message
90. 3:20he told them he has their back and they
91. 3:24were grateful for that they gave him a
92. 3:26five minute standing ovation at the end
93. 3:28in a display of their patriotism and
94. 3:31their enthusiasm for his presidency I'd
95. 3:34also note that it's a shame that the CIA
96. 3:36didn't have a CIA director to be with
97. 3:38him today when he visited because the
98. 3:41Democrats have chosen Senate Democrats
99. 3:43are stalling the nomination of Mike
100. 3:45Pompeo and playing politics with
101. 3:47national security that's what you guys
102. 3:49should be writing and covering that this
103. 3:51instead of sowing division about tweets
104. 3:54and and false narratives the president
105. 3:57is committed to unifying our country and
106. 3:59that was the focus of his inaugural
107. 4:01address this kind of dishonesty in the
108. 4:03media the challenging that bringing
109. 4:05about our nation together is making it
110. 4:07more difficult there's been a lot of
111. 4:08talk in the media about the
112. 4:09responsibility to hold Donald Trump
113. 4:11accountable and I'm here to tell you
114. 4:13that it goes two ways we're going to
115. 4:15hold the press accountable as well the
116. 4:17American people deserve and his law
117. 4:19deserve better and as long as he serves
118. 4:21as the messenger for this incredible
119. 4:23movement he will take his message
120. 4:25directly to the American people where
121. 4:27focus will always be and with that a few
122. 4:30other updates from the day the president
123. 4:32had a constructive conversation with
124. 4:34Prime Minister 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. 4:44he 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. 5:03to Washington on Friday on tomorrow the
137. 5:08president will oversee his assistance to
138. 5:11the president being sworn in he will
139. 5:13then the staff will then have an ethics
140. 5:15briefing and be I briefing on the proper
141. 5:18use and handling of classified
142. 5:19information further updates as far as
143. 5:23what he will do and then in the evening
144. 5:25he will have a reception for law
145. 5:26enforcement and first responders that
146. 5:29helped support the inauguration thank
147. 5:31you guys for being here tonight I will
148. 5:33see on monday extent of the support
149. 5:36depth and crowd and intensity that
150. 5:38existed these attempts to lessen the
151. 5:41enthusiasm of the inauguration are
152. 5:42shameful and wrong the president was
153. 5:46also at the center of as you know the
154. 5:47president was at the Central
155. 5:48Intelligence Agency today and greeted by
156. 5:50a raucous overflow crowd of some 400
157. 5:53plus CIA employees there were over a
158. 5:56thousand requests to attend prompting
159. 5:58the President to note that we'll have to
160. 5:59come back to greet the rest the
161. 6:02employees were ecstatic that he's the
162. 6:03new commander in chief and he delivered
163. 6:05them in a powerful and important message
164. 6:08he told them he has their back and they
165. 6:12were grateful for that they gave him a
166. 6:13five minute standing ovation at the end
167. 6:15in a display of their patriotism and
168. 6:18their enthusiasm for his presidency I'd
169. 6:21also note that it's a shame that the CIA
170. 6:23didn't have a CIA director to be with
171. 6:26him today when he visited because the
172. 6:28Democrats have chosen Senate Democrats
173. 6:30are stalls applies to any attempts to
174. 6:32try to count the number of protesters
175. 6:33today in the same fashion we do know a
176. 6:36few things so let's go through the facts
177. 6:38we know that from the platform where the
178. 6:40president was
179. 6:41morning to fourth Street holds about
180. 6:43250,000 people from fourth Street to the
181. 6:45media tent is about another 220,000 and
182. 6:48from the media tent to the Washington
183. 6:50Monument another another 250,000 people
184. 6:54all of this space was full when the
185. 6:56president took the oath of office we
186. 6:58know that 420,000 people use the DC
187. 7:01metro public transit yesterday which is
188. 7:04actually compares to 317,000 that used
189. 7:07it for President Obama's last inaugural
190. 7:10this was the largest audience to ever
191. 7:12witness an inauguration period both in
192. 7:15person and around the globe even the New
193. 7:18York Times printed a frittata graph
194. 7:20showing the that a misrepresentation of
195. 7:23the crowd and the original tweet in
196. 7:25their paper which showed the full good
197. 7:30evening thank you guys for coming i know
198. 7:32our fish first official press briefing
199. 7:34is going to be on monday but i wanted to
200. 7:36give you a few updates on the
201. 7:37president's activities but before i get
202. 7:39to the news of the day i think i'd like
203. 7:41to discuss a little bit of the coverage
204. 7:42of the past 24 hours yesterday at a time
205. 7:46when our nation in the world was
206. 7:47watching the peaceful transition of
207. 7:49power and as the president said the
208. 7:51transition and the balance of power from
209. 7:53Washington's to the citizens of the
210. 7:54United States remember some members of
211. 7:57the media were engaged in deliberately
212. 7:58false reporting for all the talk about
213. 8:01the proper use of Twitter two instances
214. 8:03yesterday stand out one was a
215. 8:07particularly egregious example in which
216. 8:08a reporter falsely tweeted out that the
217. 8:11bust of Martin Luther King jr. had been
218. 8:14removed from the oval office after was
219. 8:17pointed out that this was just plain
220. 8:18wrong the reporter casually reported and
221. 8:21tweeted out and tried to claiming the
222. 8:23nomination of Mike Pompeo and playing
223. 8:25politics with national security that's
224. 8:28what you guys should be writing and
225. 8:29covering that this instead of sowing
226. 8:32division about tweets and and false
227. 8:35narratives the president is committed to
228. 8:37unifying our country and that was the
229. 8:39focus of his inaugural address this kind
230. 8:42of dishonesty in the media the
231. 8:43challenging that bringing about our
232. 8:45nation together is making it more
233. 8:46difficult there's been a lot of talk in
234. 8:48the media about the responsibility to
235. 8:50hold Donald Trump accountable and I'm
236. 8:52here to tell you that it goes two ways
237. 8:53we're going to hold the press
238. 8:55accountable as well the American people
239. 8:57deserve and his law deserve better and
240. 8:59as long as he serves as the messenger
241. 9:01for this incredible movement he will
242. 9:03take his message directly to the
243. 9:05American people where his focus will
244. 9:07always be and with that a few other
245. 9:10updates from the day the President had a
246. 9:12constructive conversation with Prime
247. 9:13Minister Trudeau of Canada about
248. 9:15strengthening the relationship between
249. 9:17our two nations they altered a secret
250. 9:19service must agent must have just been
251. 9:21standing in front of it this was
252. 9:23irresponsible and reckless secondly
253. 9:27photographs of the inaugural proceedings
254. 9:29were intentionally framed in a way in
255. 9:31one particular tweet to minimize the
256. 9:34enormous support that had gathered on
257. 9:36the National Mall this was the first
258. 9:38time in our nation's history that floor
259. 9:40coverings have been used to protect the
260. 9:42grass in the mall that had the effect of
261. 9:44highlighting any areas where people were
262. 9:46not standing while in years past the
263. 9:48grass eliminated this visual this is
264. 9:51also the first time that fencing and
265. 9:53magnetometers when his far back on the
266. 9:55wall preventing hundreds of thousands of
267. 9:57people from being able to access them
268. 9:59all as quickly as they had in
269. 10:01inaugurations past in accurate numbers
270. 10:04involving crowd size were also tweeted
271. 10:05no one had numbers because the National
272. 10:09Park Service which controls the National
273. 10:11Mall does not put any out by the way the