Warpath: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer Lays Into Media For False Reporting — Transcript

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1. 0:00White House Press Secretary Shan Spicer
2. 0:02strongly defended the crowd size of
3. 0:04President Donald Trump's inauguration on
4. 0:07Saturday using his first official
5. 0:09briefing as the administration's
6. 0:11spokesman to blast the media for what he
7. 0:13called deliberately false reporting in
8. 0:16his maiden voyage as the Trump
9. 0:18administration's Chief Presley Aon spyer
10. 0:21her ranked the Press Corps for at least
11. 0:23four of the 5 minutes he stood before
12. 0:25them primarily he took them to task on
13. 0:28the reporting of the number of
14. 0:30Spectators present at inauguration day
15. 0:32using assertions that could be easily
16. 0:34refuted by publicly available figures
17. 0:37yesterday at a time when our nation and
18. 0:39the world watched the peaceful
19. 0:41transition of power some members of the
20. 0:44media were engaged in deliberately false
21. 0:46reporting he said Spicer took issue with
22. 0:50a tweet from the reporter whom he did
23. 0:52not name who posted about a bust of
24. 0:54Martin Luther King Jr being removed from
25. 0:57the Oval Office something spyer flat
26. 1:00denied he saved most of his invective
27. 1:03for reporting of the inauguration crowd
28. 1:05size relative to the throngs that
29. 1:07greeted Trump's predecessor Barack Obama
30. 1:10at his 2009 inauguration Spicer echoed
31. 1:14the sentiments expressed by his boss who
32. 1:17had an appearance at the nation's top
33. 1:19intelligence Hub also blasted the media
34. 1:22photographs of the inaugural proceedings
35. 1:24were intentionally framed in a way dot
36. 1:26dot dot to minimize the enormous support
37. 1:29that had gathered on the National Mall
38. 1:31Spicer
39. 1:34said