screen, were on the streets of cities across this country, and for that matter, around the world. let talk about this. the media ramifications. our nbc news capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell was on duty today at the white house there in the briefing room. eli stokels, white house correspondent for politico. our old friend jim warren, long-time washington bureau chief for the chicago tribune, chief media writer for the pointer institute and vanity fair. welcome to you all. kelly, i have to hear your first-person perspective. you were there in the front row. this was really the first sit-down formal appearance by the new press secretary in the briefing room, and this happened. reporter: brian, the official first briefing is supposed to be monday, so your assessment that this impromptu event happened at what we perceive to be the direct request of the president certainly lines up with how things are usually done. and sean spicer is a veteran of
bureau chief for the chicago tribune. these days for the pointer institute and for vanity fair. welcome to you all. kelly, i have to hear your firstperson perspective. you were there in the front row. this was really the first sit-down, formal appearance by the new press secretary in the briefing room, and this happened. brian, the official first briefing is supposed to be monday so your assessment that this impromptu event happened at what we perceive to be the direct request of the president certainly lines up with how things are usually done. and sean spicer is a veteran of gop communication and it felt like he was sent out there. this was delayed about an hour from the time that the advisories, the official, this is going to happen memo that went out to those of us working here at the white house today. that additional hour made us wonder, well, what are they working on? are they doing more research? i almost felt perhaps the president would walk into the briefing room himsel
as donald trump had pledged, it would be the biggest crowd ever. that was spoken while hundreds of thousands of people, as you see on the other side of the screen, were on the streets of cities across this country, and for that matter, around the world. let talk about this. the media ramifications. our nbc news capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell was on duty today at the white house there in the briefing room. eli stokels, white house correspondent for politico. our old friend jim warren, long-time washington bureau chief for the chicago tribune, chief media writer for the pointer institute and vanity fair. welcome to you all. kelly, i have to hear your first-person perspective. you were there in the front row. this was really the first sit-down formal appearance by the new press secretary in the briefing room, and this happened. reporter: brian, the official
quite amazing and the multiplicity and sophistication of subjects that it takes on. so it is remarkable. and what you should also know that about an hour or so ago, i wrote a piece for the pointer institute on pointer.org and very quickly, folks tweeting upset with me because i did not use the word lied. i did not use the word falsehoods in describing what trump and spicer did today. so to the extent that the old gray lady, the new york times, is altering its rhetorical methodology, it s also reflecting a sense out there among a growing percentage of americans that we should perhaps, you know, so to speak, call a spade a spade sometimes. and eli, i noted today donald trump took a stab at denying the rain yesterday in this attempt to relitigate crowd estimates. he s defending the event and
was on duty today at the white house there in the briefing room. eli stokels, white house correspondent for politico. our old friend jim warren, long-time washington bureau chief for the chicago tribune, chief media writer for the pointer institute and vanity fair. welcome to you all. kelly, i have to hear your first-person perspective. you were there in the front row. this was really the first sit-down formal appearance by the new press secretary in the briefing room, and this happened. reporter: brian, the official first briefing is supposed to be monday, so your assessment that this impromptu event happened at what we perceive to be the direct request of the president certainly lines up with how things are usually done. and sean spicer is a veteran of gop communication and it felt like he was sent out there. in fact, this was delayed about an hour from the time that the advisory, sort of the official this is going to happen memo that went out to those of us