White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer jumps to President Trump’s defence — again — Transcript

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1. 0:00White House press secretary Sean Spicer
2. 0:02jumps to president Trump's defense again
3. 0:04Sean Spicer has stolen some of president
4. 0:07Trump's spotlight becoming the man of
5. 0:09the moment when he launched an
6. 0:11unprecedented attack on the media in his
7. 0:16first appearances White House press
8. 0:18secretary in Washington DC saturday Sean
9. 0:21Spicer said that pictures circulated on
10. 0:23Twitter suggesting that crowds in u.s.
11. 0:25President Donald Trump s inauguration
12. 0:27didn t match those in President Obama s
13. 0:29were shameful and wrong while he didn t
14. 0:32take questions from the media Spicer
15. 0:34focused pinpointing irresponsible and
16. 0:36reckless coverage of the inauguration
17. 0:38ceremony photographs of inaugural
18. 0:40proceedings were intentionally framed in
19. 0:42a way in one particular tweet to
20. 0:44minimize the enormous support that it
21. 0:47gathered on the National Mall he said
22. 0:49this was the largest audience to ever
23. 0:51witness an inauguration period both in
24. 0:54person and around the globe the press
25. 0:56secretary added Spencer as well blamed
26. 0:59floor coverings on the grass of the
27. 1:00national mall on distorting the view and
28. 1:03making it seem as though less people
29. 1:04were present
30. 1:06Sean Spicer has stolen some of president
31. 1:09Trump's spotlight becoming the man of
32. 1:11the moment when he launched an
33. 1:12unprecedented attack on the media
34. 1:15during his first post inauguration press
35. 1:18conference the White House press
36. 1:19secretary slammed media for trying to
37. 1:22lessen the enthusiasm during president
38. 1:24Trump's inauguration through false
39. 1:25reporting reporting on crowd estimates
40. 1:29there's been a lot of talk in the media
41. 1:31about holding Donald Trump accountable
42. 1:33and I'm here to tell you that it goes
43. 1:35two ways we're going to hold the press
44. 1:37accountable as well Spicer said in his
45. 1:40first on-camera appearance
46. 1:42more Trump's medium and blasts false
47. 1:45reporting
48. 1:47mr. Spicer's first impression as press
49. 1:50secretary made international headlines
50. 1:51and is unlikely to be forgotten anytime
51. 1:54soon however it's not the first time he
52. 1:56acted as a forceful defender of Trump in
53. 1:58the media
54. 2:00three weeks ago mr. Spicer went on
55. 2:03national television to say the American
56. 2:05people to stop mocking mr. Trump
57. 2:08everything he does right now he gets he
58. 2:11speaks for the head of sprint gets 5,000
59. 2:13jobs moved from abroad and everyone
60. 2:16starts to mock him he said on ABC's this
61. 2:18week with George Stephanopoulos
62. 2:21and instead of trying to mock him or
63. 2:24undermined him it's time that people
64. 2:25started to give him credit for actually
65. 2:27getting things done
66. 2:29mr. Spicer has also defended the lack of
67. 2:32diversity among the president's cabinet
68. 2:34the independent reported
69. 2:37he claimed that the transition team
70. 2:39focused on recruiting the best and
71. 2:41brightest to serve in their roles in the
72. 2:43new executive branch saying the cabinet
73. 2:45would be among the most diverse in
74. 2:46American history
75. 2:48the former chief strategist and comms
76. 2:51director of GOP describes himself as a
77. 2:53horrible sick speller wicked red sox and
78. 2:57patriots fan over twitter according to
79. 3:00GOP spicer has served as RNC
80. 3:03communications director since 2011 and
81. 3:05in February 2015 was given the duties of
82. 3:08chief strategist
83. 3:10he previously served as assistant US
84. 3:13Trade Representative for media and
85. 3:14public affairs in the George W Bush
86. 3:16administration
87. 3:30you