Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) & Christina Wilkie (1.24.17)

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🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Bill Press welcomes Christina Wilkie, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), & Eliza Collins to discuss Sean Spicer's second act, the lack of evidence in the assertion that Trump has resigned from his businesses, the #SwampCabinet opposition, & a lesser-known aspect of the ACA that affects Native Americans - all the big highlights from this Tuesday edition of the Bill Press Show! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is Bill Press and Friends on the district productive network.
0:11.9	I've got to say up front, the briefing, I tweeted this out.
0:16.8	Maybe those of you follow us on Twitter or saw it yesterday.
0:19.7	We expect that after Sean Spicer's first appearance in the press room on Saturday, we expected fireworks yesterday, that it was going to be as contentious as hell.
0:31.3	And it was not.
0:32.9	I think they realized they had gone way overboard on Saturday, basically calling the media liars for saying
0:39.5	that there were not as many people at Donald Trump's inauguration as there had been at President
0:45.0	Obama's first inauguration in 2009. Yesterday, Sean Spar, the room was packed. There was as many people
0:50.7	in the briefing room yesterday as there were for President Obama's last news conference.
0:55.6	It's crazy.
0:56.6	Crazy.
0:57.5	Just the curiosity about what it was going to be like with Sean Spicer.
1:03.4	And he came in, came in with a smile on his face, a little nervous, but a totally different tone.
1:11.3	And in some ways, he made some changes that a lot of us in the press room have talked
1:18.5	about for a long time.
1:20.3	He didn't start off by calling on the big feet in the front row.
1:24.7	He didn't call on AP first and then go to CBS and then Fox and then CNN and then,
1:30.8	you know, all the networks. And I don't know. He actually started, which was a message in
1:34.8	itself by going to the back of the room, calling on the New York Post. Of course, the New York Post
1:38.6	is a Trump-friendly paper, but it was somebody in the back of the room. Then he went to the
1:42.9	Christian Broadcasting Network or whatever it is.
1:46.2	But he made this point that, okay, everybody's equal in this room, basically.
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