shortly after trump officially became president and before the department of justice went to the white house to warn them of the discrepancy what actually happened. and we re told through our sources, my colleague evan perez, have been told that michael flynn during that interview with the fbi was cooperative and did not intend to mislead them. thank you very much, pamela. out front, democratic senator jeff markley who sits on the foreign relations committee. thanks for your time. we know the president was briefed on general flynn s discussions with the russians on january 26th. the time line we now know. yet he didn t is ask for flynn s resignation until yesterday, february 13th, when he no longer had the trust, his words, in his adviser. why did it take so long? it s very disturbing it took so long because essentially the briefing said your national security adviser is exposed to the potential for russian blackmail, he has lied to your press secretary, he has lied to
spent a lot of time with the president of the united states this afternoon and that he supports me 100%. all i can say to america s women is, at some point in your life, you ought to have a boss who treated me the way the president of the united states treated me today. reporter: a subsequent tweet didn t save conway by being lampooned by late night. from now on the only network kellyanne conway should be on is qvc. go buy it today everybody, you can find it online. sean spicer our press secretary gave alternative facts to that. but the point remains alternative facts? look, alternative facts are not facts, they re falsehoods. reporter: later presenting a falsehood herself referring to a made up massacre. the obama administration
focus on rebuilding the infrastructure of the country. he needs to focus on making the affordable care act better. these are things that people need assistance now, and these are things that he can focus in on, i think he needs to stop worrying about the poll numbers, stop tweeting at 3:00 a.m. in the morning about personal petty things and keep his eyes on the prize. i want to play this, this is sean spicer an kellyanne conway, pushing back on the facts the administration disagrees with, listen to this. you re saying it s a falsehood and they re giving sean spicer our press secretary gave alternative facts to that. i think we can disagree with the facts. i m going to ask you, is that what you should do, only present the facts that go along with your narrative? absolutely not. president john adams said facts are very stubborn things, they
impressive, i think that president trump an inninger national celebrity, a corporate leader. he knows how to give a good party, i m sure that the people that were attending enjoyed themselves. i even liked the first dance he did, frank sinatra my way. there were some things that went on over the weekend that were problematic. the focus on the numbers, president obama clearly had higher numbers in if attendance for his inauguration, it s not a big deal. but the problem is, when you have a press secretary that has inaccurate numbers or exaggerates the numbers, it becomes problematic. you have a spokesperson that says alternative facts, then it becomes problematic, in addition, the inaugural speech, five days before he gives his speech, he talks to martin luther king iii. he says he wants to bring people together. but if you look at the inaugural
here s what he said about how important it is to have credibility as press secretary. the one thing that, whether you re republican, democrat, independent, you have your integrity. i might tell a reporter i can t comment on something or i m not able to discuss that but i ve never lied. and i don t intend. i would argue that anybody who is an aspiring communicator adhere to that. because if you lose the respect and trust of the press corps, you got nothing. talking about the trust of the press corps. that s what s on the line now. a lot of white house correspondents will pour into the briefing room tomorrow for his first on-camera briefing. will they be able to trust the new press secretary is the question? trust is a big thing because you hear president trump who is already saying on the campaign trail now from the cia that you can t trust the media. and now with this message coming from sean spicer right. and kellyanne conway