Washington journal. Joining us later is Margaret Brennan from cbs news and Jonathan Karl, the chief White House Correspondent for abc news. Tell me about how it played. Guest there are basically two sean spicers. The one who gave the statement on saturday was defiant and angry, basically yelling at the press and using falsehoods, telling things that were not true. Today, he was much more notable, taking questions and stated there for more than an hour, talked fluently about a range of policy matters. When he was asked about the mistruths he had stated about the inauguration crowd size, he effectively apologized. He said i always try to come here with truthful information and im going to endeavor to do this in the future and talked about how to donald trump is chafing at what he sees as an unfair media narrative out to undermine his presidency. I saw it the same way. Weve all dealt with the Good Cop Bad Cop situation as reporters, but it is rare to have it from the same person within th
Washington journal. Joining us later is Margaret Brennan from cbs news and Jonathan Karl, the chief White House Correspondent for abc news. Tell me about how it played. Guest there are basically two sean spicers. The one who gave the statement on saturday was defiant and angry, basically yelling at the press and using falsehoods, telling things that were not true. Today, he was much more notable, taking questions and stated there for more than an hour, talked fluently about a range of policy matters. When he was asked about the mistruths he had stated about the inauguration crowd size, he effectively apologized. He said i always try to come here with truthful information and im going to endeavor to do this in the future and talked about how to donald trump is chafing at what he sees as an unfair media narrative out to undermine his presidency. I saw it the same way. Weve all dealt with the Good Cop Bad Cop situation as reporters, but it is rare to have it from the same person within th