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🗓️ 29 June 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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0:00.0 | Any moment now, the White House will hold its first press briefing on camera in exactly a week. |
0:06.8 | And it's happening as Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell just announced he is delaying the vote on the Senate's version of the plan to replace Obamacare. |
0:14.5 | This week, the Republican health care bill collapsed in the Senate. |
0:18.8 | The president was caught displaying fake Time magazine covers |
0:22.2 | featuring himself. The New York Times published a certified list of Trump's 100 presidential |
0:28.7 | lies so far. And Trump's ex-campaign chief confessed to taking $17 million from Kremlin cronies |
0:37.4 | without reporting it. |
0:39.4 | So, business as usual, the White House castigated left and right for failures of its own making, |
0:45.5 | and business as usual, the White House shifting the blame onto the press. |
0:50.8 | If the media can't be trusted to report the news, then that's a dangerous place for America. |
0:56.1 | And I think if that is the place that certain outlets are going, particularly for the purpose of |
1:01.1 | spiking ratings, and if that's coming directly from the top, I think that's even more scary |
1:05.7 | and certainly more disgraceful. That was Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, lashing out at the |
1:12.4 | media for the sin of reporting what is happening instead of accepting the official pronouncements |
1:18.6 | from the alternate reality of Trump Galaxy. Our bill, which is a tenth of the size, does repeal and |
1:25.8 | replace in what their bill just did in massive government |
1:28.9 | bureaucracy. I mean, I have heard from a large number of individuals that work at the FBI |
1:35.1 | that said that they're very happy with the president's decision. I think when you look at the |
1:39.1 | totality of what we've accomplished on job creation, on immigration, on trade. |
1:45.6 | It's been a hugely successful first hundred days. |
1:49.1 | Some of those clips are golden oldies because in the past two weeks of press room briefings, |
1:54.6 | news organizations have mainly been forbidden to record. |
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