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Falsehoods, sean spicer went to the briefing room and addressed the weekend's controversy over the facts around crowd sizes and the president's comments that maybe we will have another chance to keep iraq's oil. >> i believe we have to be honest with the american people. sometimes we can disagree with the facts. there are certain things we may not fully understand when we come out, but our intention is not to lie, jonathan. we will do our best. i will tell you the facts as i know them. if make a mistake, i will do the best to correct it. >> can you state this administration will not send more ...

Suspicions. and, presumably, those local forces would feel very strongly about us not stealing the oil. think about what that means for u.s. forces serving in those countries abroad right now. >> a statement that the president made on saturday, can you -- i want to clarify here. can you unequivocally state this administration will not send more troops into iraq to, as the president has put it, take the oil? >> i'm not going to talk about what we may or may not do. i think the president has been very clear he doesn't telegraph forward what taking options off the table. that's not a good negotia...

Think about what that means for u.s. troops who are on the ground right now. working with local forces in all of these countries, where we haven't stolen the oil, where we never said before that we were going to steal the oil, where there were lots of local suspicions that we might and we had to defeat those local suspicions. and, presumably, those local forces would feel very strongly about us not stealing the oil. think about what that means for u.s. forces serving in those countries abroad right now. >> a statement that the president made on saturday, can you -- i want to clarify here. can ...

Was to say -- they did follow up, i'm sorry, two days ago, about how to facilitate that call once again. so there have been a total of two calls with the ambassador and general flynn. and the second call came i think it's now three days ago that was to say once he gets into office, can we set up that call? it, to my knowledge hasn't occurred yet. >> any other conversations between general flynn and russian else in of the government? >> not that i know. during the transition i asked general flynn whether or not there were any conversations beyond the ambassador. and he said no. >> in a statemen...

Successful at negotiating. because he does it in a way that doesn't telegraph to people what he is going to take on or off the table. >> what does the president in terms of did -- >> you get two. >> narrowing down his nominees for the supreme court? okay. >> at the end of the obama administration the number of prisoners in guantanamo bay was reduced to 40. what are the president's plans for that prison? >> on the first, i think in the next week or so we should have an update on a nominee for the supreme court. i think we will have a nomination within the next couple of weeks. he continues to m...