heard sla heard sean spicer saying he had a confeversation with the president the president said you can quote me directly that perhaps maybe those numbers were phony then but now it s real. the president has referred to particular job reports as phony or totally fiction does the president believe this was accurate. yeah, i talked to the president an said to quote him clearly, it may have been phony in the past but clearly reel now. you heard the lafter. and it got lafter from the room. i m not sure that americans will laugh at it. it is an admission of play tents
television i believe twice yesterday saying he had no knowledge of that letter before you accuse the vice president of certain things, what he said he was not aware of the filing, just so we re clear and he wasn t. in terms of the larger question, forget about filling out forms and legalism, what does this say about the transition team s judgment about still appointing him as national security adviser when you had knowledge of this information? you re asking me about forget about the legalism. that s wa we ask people to do is follow the law, you can t forget about the legalisms. what i m saying is that s what we did. david, how do you see this? is this a judgment issue? it certainly is a judgment issue. and one sean spicer clearly didn t want to deal with. glen was asking the right question to broaden the judgment issue. the white house is in a position here where they re trying to defend somebody that they fired so they re not looking to
but for spicer to be using that language, brooke, burrowing into the government over the last how many years i thought was really telling that has become the language of this administration that is being adopted by the press secretary and something we should pay attention to. a whole article in the washington post about the political lexicon that president trump is using. dylan, bob says it s an alt-right thing, it s a deep state it actually used to be sort of a left wing idea or left wing suspicion but it shows one thing that the trump administration shares whether it s alt-right or far left is sort of this conspiracy use of the term deep state. these people are in power now, they should know how the government functions and how it
claim an why the president hasn t asked the fbi chief about this. i think we spoke very directly the about this. they have the appropriate forum and process and staff to report and look into this matter and report back. sean, can you see that the president was informed at all about this arrangement. no, no. to a foreign agent. just so we re clear, you wouldn t general flynn filed with the department of justice two days ago. how would anyone know that s sort of like asking what about the need to file. that s up to his personal lawyer. again, each person that goes through the process in government seeks counsel in the activities they own and conducted as to what they have to do and not do, but this is like asking someone needed a file whether they had a kleclie
on this friday afternoon from the white house there, press secretary sean spicer flipping old glory right side up on his lapel at one point saying don t make me move this podium in reference to melissa mccarthy playing him on saturday night live. essentially the headlines lots of questions on general michael flynn as far as his status filing as a foreign agent. when did the white house know? does that speak to the judgment of the administration when it came to nominating him as a national security adviser, talking about the economy, the numbers out today and the lafter at some of the hypocrisy when sean spicer acknowledged then in the past donald trump talked about job numbers as phony and a hoax and quoted him they have been phony in the past but very real now, asked about the deep state exists undermining the