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Right? >> reporter: that's right. as we talked about all weekend long, sean spicer came out. he went after the news media for its coverage of those inauguration numbers. he did accurately point out that there was some misreported that happened friday night when it was reported by a white house pool reporter that mlk bust had been moved out of the oval office. that was a mistake made by the reporter who was in the room at that time. that was corrected and sean spicer accepted that apology when that reporter apologized on twitter. that much was accurate. some of the other things that sean spicer...

What he is trying to explain, these were people after we got done with these meetings it was very clear that they wanted to do their job. they are ready to go but something is holding them back. >> what you think of john brennan calling it a despicable display. >> i think john brennan has a lot of things to answer for in regard to these leaked documents. i find the whole thing despicable. i think it's unprofessional. i think perhaps he is bitter. he was replaced the day before. he was not held over like clapper was. >> i do know the president wanted to make clear to the folks in this room, and...

Ramifications given the history of the press on this subject matter. turns out, there was was completely false. i walked back into the oval office, saw the mlk bust there and what did the media say? they said our bad, somebody was standing in front of the bust. we didn't see it. can you imagine tweeting that president trump removed the mlk bust. that's the first day, not even day one like our three. then the next day they put a picture, there was a big story before the speech actually began showing all of this whitespace. it wasn't true. the new york times didn't put a picture in the middle se...

This constant theme to undercut the enormous support that he has. up it's unbelievably frustrating when you are continually told it is not big enough, not good enough, you can't win -- hold on. up it's important. he has gone out there and defied the odds over and over and over again. and he keeps getting told what he can't do by this narrative that's out there and he exceeds it every single time. and i think there is an overall frustration when you turn on the television over and over again and get told that there is this narrative that you didn't win, you weren't going to run, you can't pick ...

With this "alternative facts" thing, what? >> it's a side show, it was bound to happen. the white house press corps loves nothing more than catching white house suppopokespeople ha to eat their words, and the white house loves to catch the press corps putting out information that is absolutely inaccurate. >> let's go back to the mlk bust. it was corrected by the media. as far as this dossier, you know, that the intelligence officials put together, we at cnn tried to do that very responsibly, and we did, and explained our reasons for it. >> understood, all of that. >> but when you have the pres...