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Pam, i want to begin with this back and forth over russia. >> reporter: brianna, clearly the white house is on the defensive, with president trump going after the fbi for leaks in his tweets and calling on sources to be named. but just today his own white house staff held a background briefing asking for their names not to be used. two senior administration officials today strongly argued that white house officials acted appropriately in asking the fbi to publicly knock down media reports about ...

Criticisms of the media, the stories that have been written about him, unnamed sources being used in publications, which you point out just this morning there were white house officials giving an unnamed background briefing to many reporters about some of the issues weve been talking about today as relates to the fbi and the white house. but otherwise, yes, beyond his media contra media criticism, a sprawling speech that touched on a number of priorities for this group at cpac. he has spoken her...

Pointed at the back saying hey theres the opposition party and donald trump picked up on that theme today complaining about the nature of the coverage, talking about unnamed sources in news, of course his aides were giving an unnamed background briefing at the white house just this morning, and trump himself has talked on twitter about credible sources without using names before. so that was a key part, but there was also quite a bit about the republican agenda, very important for the audience h...

Not be about bogus russian spy stories, it should be that this president has accomplished more in the first 30 days of this presidency, than people can remember in a very long time. >> lets set that claim aside just for a moment. the bigger picture here, i think this is concerning. first of all reince priebus, were imagined unnamed sources stories in the past. >> never. >> looking forward to that first white house background briefing or second or third where they ask not to be named. >> absolute...

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That. do we believe at this point, do the facts tell us that this begins and ends with michael flynn? >> it doesnt seem that way and anyone who has covered this is going to keep asking the question. >> the white house wont answer it. >> the background briefing call this morning and youll see reporters are going to come out and say, we asked questions, can no, they were told by the white house. >> this may in the short term make the tensions between the press and the president even worse. we got ...

Theyre not waging a proxy war, the background briefing by a senior administration official made it quite clear and if youre the iranians youre hearing this, but the trump administration is it trying to make the distinction outside of the four corners of the nuclear agreement and that its not interested in opening up the agreement or walk away from it is going to further create ambiguitity of further strength and resolve. >> amy you just left the national security council. the president should no...

These missile tests since the nuclear deal was signed. its in violation of apparently in violation of u.n. security resolution 22331. what mike flynn said today was that as of today, quote, we are officially putting iran on notice. he then criticized the obama administration saying it failed to respond to tehrans maligned action. unusual, very strong statement from the national security adviser from the white house today. well have more details toepblt. >> sandra: after that 4 p.m. meeting the n...

And stability throughout the middle east and which places american lives at risk, president trump has criticized the various agreements reached between the obama administration and the united states as being weak and ineffective. as of today we are officially putting iran on notice. thank you. >> thanks, general. we are going to have a background briefing with nsa staff -- nsc staff rather at 4:00 in the briefing room. further details will be provided on that subject. thank you general with that...

Throughout and beyond the middle east and place american lives at risk. president trump has severely criticized the various agreements reached between iran, the obama administration as well as the united nations as being weak and ineffective. instead of being thankful to the united states and these agreements, iran is now feeling emboldened. as of today, we are officially putting iran on notice. thank you. >> press secretary spicer: thank you, general. we are going to have a background briefing ...