they control two branches of government. to stand up and say no to this president. even if his own administration. we all watched the press conference yesterday with sarah sanders standing by and blaming democrats and reporters pushing back on her, you know, you re a mother, don t you have any empathy for these kids? it shouldn t have to be about morals or values. she s up there, straight-up lying, saying it was democrats. whether or not i have a heart, you can put to the side. but she s saying, well, this is the democrats. it s not. that s just a lie. you don t need to be a mother to tell you you re a liar. even to step back and look at that policy, the one thing they re blaming is a 1997 federal court decision. it wasn t a policy at all. it was a court decision that said you cannot hold children longer than 21 days. since we usually thought you should hold parents with children, we decided we would release mothers with their children at the same time. the obama administration wou
tournament is over. go inside. the thing that s critical he needs to stop doing it. why he does it nobody i want to clear this up. so misrepresented today. i m going to be so misrepresented. i have never said i did not say off the top we should not cover temperament things, it s all i ve been doing for the past five days. all i m saying is let s be careful that we don t spend all of our time on that, because really big news is happening all around. what s critical about covering it is not that he s doing it, the motivation behind are we going to have a president who is going to be so driven by his own narcissism that it s going to start to affect and destroy certain policy. that s what s critical, is he making decisions based on his own self worth or making decisions on the worth of the
around this table, that we while we focus on the temperament, we also look at all the policy that s going instead of absolutely. i guarantee you there will be people throughout the day on cable news that will lead with the illegals story and talk about it for 30 minutes. they can talk about it for 30 minutes if they want to or talk about things that will actually change. as new york times said, bring about an end of an era on trade. we can t control what others do. no, i certainly wouldn t recommend doing that, because there s a lot of stuff going on. you ve got to look at these policies, though. what impact does a federal hiring freeze always have, for example. one of the things it does, you know, it means you have perhaps fewer employees in the long run but more contractors. right. you know, that policy is
and wait. i think we understand that he has probably the most difficult job in washington right now. the press secretary job is always hard. it s particularly hard when you re press secretary to donald trump, someone who has very strong opinions about what he wants to see at that podium. we re going to give sean the benefit of the doubt on the policy, on filling out some of these did he taste because the administration is new. at the same time, some of the things that happened on saturday, coming out and sort of ranting at us and not giving us an opportunity to ask questions, that s not going to sit well with the press for a long time. there were factual inaccuracies in what he said on saturday. he tried to clean some of those up yesterday, not all of them. more broadly, the idea that was white house is going to lecture the press on what we should be covering, which was another piece of what he said on saturday. we expect the white house will disagree with what we said or what we cover
generally not all it s cracked up to be but it s a big symbolic thing, especially for voters who, you know, size of government. well, size of government keeps expanding. in fairness new york times and washington post both have trade as above the fold start. so i think the point is that the country wants donald trump not to focus on the size of his crowd and whether or not the election was legitimate, which he s obsessed with and to focus on these things and yesterday he started to do that. our job in the media is to focus on policy. that s the tale of the tape. every day, policy. but the side stories, why doesn t he realize he s president. yesterday was meet the president for trump and meet the press for his press secretary. sean spicer sought to reset relations with the media after his controversial statement on crowd size.