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. 0:05Sean Spicer has stolen some of President
4. 0:08Trump spotlight becoming the man of the
5. 0:10moment when he launched an unprecedented
6. 0:13attack on the media in his first
7. 0:18appearance as White House press
8. 0:20secretary in Washington DC saturday Sean
9. 0:23Spicer said that picture circulated on
10. 0:26Twitter suggesting that crowds in u.s.
11. 0:28President Donald Trump s inauguration
12. 0:31didn't he matched those in President
13. 0:33Obama s were shameful and wrong while he
14. 0:35didn't he take questions from the media
15. 0:37Spicer focused pinpointing irresponsible
16. 0:40and reckless coverage of the
17. 0:42inauguration ceremony photographs of
18. 0:45inaugural proceedings were intentionally
19. 0:47framed in a way in one particular tweet
20. 0:49to minimize the enormous support that it
21. 0:52gathered on the National Mall he said
22. 0:54this was the largest audience to ever
23. 0:57witness an inauguration period both in
24. 1:00person and around the globe the press
25. 1:02secretary added Spencer is well blamed
26. 1:05floor coverings on the grass of the
27. 1:07national mall on distorting the view and
28. 1:10making it seem as though less people
29. 1:12were present
30. 1:13Sean Spicer has stolen some of President
31. 1:17Trump spotlight becoming the man of the
32. 1:19moment when he launched an unprecedented
33. 1:21attack on the media
34. 1:24during his first post inauguration press
35. 1:27conference the White House press
36. 1:29secretary slammed media for trying to
37. 1:31lessen the enthusiasm during president
38. 1:33Trump's inauguration through false
39. 1:35reporting reporting on crowd estimates
40. 1:39there has been a lot of talk in the
41. 1:41media about holding Donald Trump
42. 1:43accountable and in here to tell you that
43. 1:45it goes two ways we're going to hold the
44. 1:48press accountable as well Spicer said in
45. 1:51his first on-camera appearance
46. 1:54more Trump's media man blasts false
47. 1:57reporting mr. Spicer's first impression
48. 2:01is press secretary made international
49. 2:03headlines and is unlikely to be
50. 2:06forgotten anytime soon however it's not
51. 2:08the first time he acted as a forceful
52. 2:11defender of Trump in the media
53. 2:13three weeks ago mr. Spicer went on
54. 2:16national television to say the American
55. 2:19people to stop mocking mr. Trump
56. 2:22everything he does right now he gets he
57. 2:25speaks for the head of sprint gets 5,000
58. 2:28jobs moved from abroad and everyone
59. 2:31starts to mock him he said on ABC's this
60. 2:34week with George Stephanopoulos and
61. 2:37instead of trying to mock him or
62. 2:40undermine him it's time that people
63. 2:42started to give him credit for actually
64. 2:45getting things done
65. 2:47mr. Spicer has also defended the lack of
66. 2:50diversity among the president's cabinet
67. 2:52the independent reported he claimed that
68. 2:56the transition team focused on
69. 2:58recruiting the best and brightest to
70. 3:00serve in their roles in the new
71. 3:01executive branch saying the cabinet
72. 3:04would be among the most diverse in
73. 3:06American history
74. 3:08the former chief strategist on comms
75. 3:10director of GOP describes himself as a
76. 3:13horrible sick speller wicked red sox and
77. 3:17patriots fan over twitter
78. 3:20according to GOP spicer has served as
79. 3:23RNC communications director since 2011
80. 3:26and in February 2015 was given the
81. 3:29duties of chief strategist
82. 3:32he previously served as assistant US
83. 3:35Trade Representative for media and
84. 3:37public affairs in the George W Bush
85. 3:39administration
86. 3:42[Music]