really bad. and he has paved the way for this regime of lying by discrediting economic indicators in the past. >> discrediting economic indicators by exaggerating. >> republicans passed the biggest tax cut and reform in history with massive tax cuts for the middle class. >> misrepresenting. >> we have no inflation. that's a very big thing. >> and lying about economic data. president trump does this all the time. >> i talked to the president prior to this, and he said to kboet him very clearly. they may have been phony in the past, but it's very real now. >> then press secretary sean spicer may have sounded like he was joking, but he was talking about a serious issue, the president's willingness to discredit official government numbers but only when it suits him. >> he would say that he doesn't believe what the unemployment rate was announced to be during