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| White House press secretary Sean Spicer is holding his first regularly scheduled press briefing, two days after he entered the room, read an angry statement disputing media reports about crowds size at the inauguration, and left without taking questions. | White House press secretary Sean Spicer is holding his first regularly scheduled press briefing, two days after he entered the room, read an angry statement disputing media reports about crowds size at the inauguration, and left without taking questions. |
| Spicer has been asked a wide range of questions ranging from the administration's plans regarding Obamacare to fighting ISIS to getting out of TPP. | Spicer has been asked a wide range of questions ranging from the administration's plans regarding Obamacare to fighting ISIS to getting out of TPP. |
| When asked if Trump's administration is ready to work with Russia in the fight against ISIS, Spicer replied that they are ready "to work with any country that helps us defeat ISIS" including Russia. When asked if he's ready to work with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, he said "Let's not get ahead of ourselves." | |
| The Trump administration’s relationship with the media got off to a rocky start on Saturday, President Donald Trump’s first full day in office. First, Trump spoke at CIA headquarters in front of the memorial to fallen agents, where he told agency employees that the “dishonest media” was to blame for his supposed “feud with the intelligence community.” He also claimed that the press skewed attendance figures for his inauguration, saying that there were “a million, a million and a half people” at the ceremony, while media said there were between 250,000 and 500,000 attendees. | The Trump administration’s relationship with the media got off to a rocky start on Saturday, President Donald Trump’s first full day in office. First, Trump spoke at CIA headquarters in front of the memorial to fallen agents, where he told agency employees that the “dishonest media” was to blame for his supposed “feud with the intelligence community.” He also claimed that the press skewed attendance figures for his inauguration, saying that there were “a million, a million and a half people” at the ceremony, while media said there were between 250,000 and 500,000 attendees. |
| Hours later, Spicer headed into the White House Brady Briefing Room, where he berated the media for for "deliberately false reporting" on the crowd’s size during a five-minute statement. | Hours later, Spicer headed into the White House Brady Briefing Room, where he berated the media for for "deliberately false reporting" on the crowd’s size during a five-minute statement. |
| "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe," Spicer said. "These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong." | "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe," Spicer said. "These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration are shameful and wrong." |
| On Sunday, Kellyanne Conway, a Trump surrogate, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where she told host Chuck Todd that Spicer used “alternative facts” in his statement about attendance. | On Sunday, Kellyanne Conway, a Trump surrogate, appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” where she told host Chuck Todd that Spicer used “alternative facts” in his statement about attendance. |
| "You're saying it's a falsehood and Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," she told NBC's Chuck Todd. | "You're saying it's a falsehood and Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that," she told NBC's Chuck Todd. |
| "Alternative facts aren't facts, they are falsehoods," Todd responded. | "Alternative facts aren't facts, they are falsehoods," Todd responded. |