{"id":218675,"date":"2017-01-23T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=218675"},"modified":"2017-01-24T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T21:42:23","slug":"the-spicer-briefing-jip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/01\/23\/the-spicer-briefing-jip\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Spicer Takes on the Press Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Sean Spicer at the press briefing. The fireworks haven\u2019t begun yet. He\u2019s still doing the opening statement. I hope he gets to some questions here before we have to break again, but here we go, Sean Spicer, White House.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: &#8212; Frank Spencer, United Brotherhood Carpenters, Doug McCarron, general president, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, Mark Coles of Ironworkers Local 5, Joseph Sellers junior, the general president of the Sheet Metal Workers union, slash, smart union. (unintelligible) Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers Local 24, Mark Rokowsky, United Association Local 5, Steven Dodd, the Sheet Metal Workers union, slash, smart union, Gary Messino, the Sheet Metal Workers union, smart union. The president has been honored to receive tremendous support from union working men and women on Election Day and he\u2019s dedicated to growing &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Take this down. Let me explain what\u2019s going on here, folks. This briefing\u2019s been underway here for about five or ten minutes and what Spicer\u2019s doing is basically establishing all the support that Trump has had, the things that have happened, that the president has signed and preparing to sign and all that. I think the purpose of this right now is for Spicer to lay out a foundation of just how much support there is for the president already and how it has manifested itself, and it\u2019s setting up the questions which are to come. I don\u2019t know how long the briefing period\u2019s gonna go on here before it gets to questions, but here\u2019s some more of it.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: &#8212; the White House chief of staff, our chief strategist, chief of staff to the vice president, and chiefs of staff from those respective offices. The purpose of the meeting is to get the president\u2019s agenda moving through Congress. The American people are frustrated with the lack of &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Remember, these people have a whole different view now of what the press briefing\u2019s all about, and I think we\u2019re seeing this here. It\u2019s gonna have an entirely different format, purpose. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: &#8212; during this meeting. It\u2019s important to know that at this point in 2009 President Obama had seven of his nominees confirmed on day one and five more in the first week. As it stands today, we have two. Democrats even held up the confirmation of CIA director Mike Pompeo, needlessly leaving one of our most important national security agencies without its top leader on day one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I6gMfIsUB-s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time for Senate Democrats to stop playing political games with the core functions of government and to allow President Trump\u2019s unquestionably qualified and talented group of cabinet nominees to get to work on behalf of the American people. Rounding out today\u2019s schedule after the reception that I mentioned he will have dinner with &#8212; or have a meeting with the House speaker, Paul Ryan. They will discuss the Republican legislative agenda and strategy going forward.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the day the president nominated former New Mexico congresswoman Heather Wilson as the next secretary of the Air Force. She grew up in Keene, New Hampshire and made history as part of the 3rd U.S. Air Force Academy class that included women. She earned her master\u2019s degree and doctoral degrees as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in England and then served as an Air Force officer in Europe during the Cold War and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. We\u2019re gonna have to bump out of this maximum one minute from now anyway. As I was saying, what Spicer, he talked about Trump\u2019s phone call with el-Sisi in Egypt who Obama hated and ignored as much as he could, talked about Trump\u2019s schedule today, which includes meeting with union heads later this afternoon, got a meeting with Paul Ryan coming up.<\/p>\n<p>Talked about the lack of support from the Democrats on confirming cabinet appointees, pointing out that on the first day Obama had seven, the Republicans confirmed seven. Of course, he was the first African-American president and there weren\u2019t gonna be any traditional political delays. But Spicer pointed out that the Democrats have only allowed two votes so far and have reneged on a deal to confirm Pompeo at the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>So the press is sitting there listening to all this outraged. This doesn\u2019t mean anything to them. Trump\u2019s schedule, who Trump\u2019s meeting with, who Trump did meet with. This is supposed to be where the press gets to tear into Spicer and Trump. And Spicer is not letting them. We\u2019re gonna take a break and we\u2019re gonna miss some of the questioning but our machines are rolling and we will capture whatever highlights there are and be able to share them with you as the program unfolds.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The press briefing\u2019s going on. Julie Pace of the AP just asked a question. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s happened so far in a moment, but let\u2019s listen to a little bit of this together to get a flavor of it.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: &#8212; something that either protects America or is in our economic interests. John Roberts?<\/p>\n<p>ROBERTS: Couple things, if I could. Later this week in his executive actions, uh, does the president plan to take action to green light the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines? And on TPP &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Yeah?<\/p>\n<p>ROBERTS: &#8212; John McCain says it was a serious mistake to do what the president did for America\u2019s economy and for our strategic position in the Asian-Pacific. Why was TPP the right thing to do? (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s John Roberts of Fox News asking this question.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Why was it the right thing to do?<\/p>\n<p>ROBERTS: Why was it the right thing to do?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: To what?<\/p>\n<p>ROBERTS: To repeal TPP.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Oh! I think I said it, because I think the multinational&#8230; When you enter into these multinational agreement you\u2019re allowing any country no matter the size &#8212; any one of those 12 including us &#8212; to basically have the same stature as the United States in the agreement. So we\u2019re basically on par with some very small companies who are getting access to an amazing market, the United States. And in return, we\u2019re negotiating at the lowest common denominator. And you think when you look at big multinational agreements, multilateral agreements, they\u2019re not always in the best interests of the United States. The beautiful thing about a bilateral agreement is any one of the two parties in the agreement decides that at any time they want to get out of the agreement or they\u2019re not being treated fairly, they can renegotiate it much easier. In a multinational agreement, that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>RUSH: All right. Take this down for a minute. Let me explain so far what has happened. Spicer has called on the evangelical Christian Broadcast Network News for a question. Can you imagine the exploding heads over that? The question was about abortion. He\u2019s called on a Fox Business News reporter. He\u2019s announced the White House is adding four Skype seats to the briefing room for news outlets that are 50 miles or more away. He\u2019s got a preselected list of reporters to call on. Obama regularly did that at his press conferences. His press secretaries never did. So this is new, the press secretary with a list. They\u2019re probably going to whine about that. Okay, let\u2019s JIP it here a little bit more.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: &#8212; maximize our use of natural resources for America\u2019s benefit. It\u2019s good for economic growth, good for jobs, and good for American energy. Jonathan Karl.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: ABC News here.<\/p>\n<p>KARL: Thanks for being here, your first week. (unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>KARL: Uh, before I get to a policy question, just a question about the nature of your job.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Yeah?<\/p>\n<p>KARL: Is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium and &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (busts out laughing) Ha! Ha!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>KARL: &#8212; do you pledge never to knowingly say something that is not true?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Did we tune in at the right time or what? (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: It\u2019s an honor to do this, and yes, I believe that we have to be honest with the American people. I think sometimes we can disagree with the facts. There are certain things that we may mis&#8230; we may not fully understand when we come out but our intention is never to lie to you, Jonathan. Our job is to make sure that sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: You\u2019re in the same boat. There are times when you guys tweet something out or write a story, and you publish a correction. That doesn\u2019t mean that you were intentionally trying to deceive readers and the American people.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes, it does!<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: I think we should be afforded the same opportunity. There are times when we believe something to be true or we get something from an agency or we act in haste because the information available wasn\u2019t complete, when our desire to communicate with the American people and make sure &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I wouldn\u2019t give \u2019em an inch on this. I wouldn\u2019t go &#8212; I &#8212; (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: &#8212; but again I think when you look net-net, we\u2019re gonna do our best every time we can. I\u2019m gonna come out here and tell you the facts as I know \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Damn straight, we\u2019re not gonna lie to you, you clown!<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: But I don\u2019t &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218716 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer-2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer-2-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>RUSH: What the hell kind of question is that?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: It is a two-way street. There are many mistakes the media makes all the time.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right on!<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: They misreport something. They don\u2019t report something. They get their facts wrong.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right on.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: I don\u2019t think that\u2019s always, you know, to turn around and say, &#8220;Okay, you were intentionally lying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes, it is.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: I think we all go, try to do our best jobs and do it with a degree of integrity &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, they don\u2019t!<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: &#8212; in our respective industries.<\/p>\n<p>KARL: Do you have any corrections that you would like to make or clarifications on what &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Sure. I mean, ask away, Jonathan.<\/p>\n<p>KARL: You know, I\u2019m just&#8230; I don\u2019t want to get &#8212; re-litigate the whole issue but just take one like the issue of Metro ridership. You made a statement about Metro ridership &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: We did. And at the time the information that was provided by the inaugural committee came from an outside agency that we reported on. And I think knowing what we know now we can tell that Ramada\u2019s numbers were different. But we were trying to provide numbers that we had been provided. That wasn\u2019t like me made them up out of thin air.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8216;Kin\u2019A!<\/p>\n<p>KARL: And you stand by your statement that that was the most watched inaugural address in history?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Sure! It was the most watched inaugural. You look at&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: See?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: You look at just one network alone got 16.9 million people online. Another network&#8230; Tens of millions of people that watched that on line. Never mind the audience that was here, 31 million people watched it on television. Combine that with the tens of millions of people that watched it online on a device.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8216;Kin\u2019A!<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: It\u2019s not questionable.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8216;Kin\u2019A!<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: And I don\u2019t see any numbers that dispute that. When you add up attendance, viewership, total audience in terms of tablets, phones, on television, I\u2019d love to see any information that proves that otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Obama was on his BlackBerry watching it.<\/p>\n<p>KARL: (unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer-BW.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-218717 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer-BW.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer-BW.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Spicer-BW-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>RUSH: What the heck?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Do you dispute that?<\/p>\n<p>KARL: (long pause) Well, I &#8212; I &#8212; I don\u2019t want to &#8212; to get into numbers.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Well, I do!<\/p>\n<p>KARL: (sputtering) I &#8212; I &#8212; I &#8212; I &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You brought it up! What do you mean, you don\u2019t want to get into numbers?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: I\u2019m just saying, if you ask me a question about my integrity &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>KARK: You brought it up!<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: &#8212; I have a right to say, &#8220;If you add up the network streaming numbers, Facebook, YouTube, all of the various live streams &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;I don\u2019t want to get into the numbers&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: &#8212; I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any question that it was the largest watched inauguration ever.<\/p>\n<p>KARL: (pause) More than Ronald Reagan\u2019s in 1981&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: I\u2019m pretty sure that Reagan &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Take it down a minute. What\u2019s gonna happen from now on, the rest of the day into tomorrow the subject\u2019s gonna be, &#8220;Did Spicer lie? Did Trump lie?&#8221; They\u2019re gonna focus on &#8220;the most watched inaugural.&#8221; That\u2019s what\u2019s been set up here. Okay, bring it back up.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: That\u2019s a little higher. So I\u2019m just saying, I\u2019m not&#8230; You\u2019re asking me for numbers. There\u2019s just two entities together.<\/p>\n<p>KARL: (stammering) And &#8212; and &#8212; and &#8212; the &#8212; the &#8212; the &#8212; the approach that you took on Saturday, any second thoughts on that&#8230;? (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Look, I think we\u2019re gonna&#8230; Jonathan, look, I want this to &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>KARL: Taking no questions, y\u2019know?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Huh? I came up to read a statement and I did it. We\u2019re here today. I\u2019m gonna stay here as long as you want. So I want to make sure that &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>PRESS: (laughter)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Did these clowns ever ask Josh Earnest if he was lying to them?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: (crosstalk) Look, I want to make sure &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Did they ever ask that Jay Carney guy if he was telling them the truth?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: (crosstalk) And I\u2019m not trying to rehash history, but you\u2019re asking the question so I\u2019m gonna answer it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s right; that\u2019s right. They are.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: We had a tweet go out about Martin Luther King. Think about how racially charged that is, and someone rushes out and says to the entire press corps that the president of the United States has removed the bust from his office. Do you&#8230;? I mean, think about what this signals&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/632507076.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-218719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/632507076-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/632507076-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/632507076.jpg 514w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>KARL: (interrupting)<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Hold on.<\/p>\n<p>KARL: He did correct himself and apologize.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: No, no. He actually apologized to, quote, &#8220;my colleagues.&#8221; That\u2019s the exact quote. Okay? That quote, that report got tweeted out around. And to report&#8230; Where was the apology to the president of the United States? Where was it?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There hasn\u2019t been one.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Where was the apology to millions of people who read that and thought how racially insensitive that was.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That hasn\u2019t been one.<\/p>\n<p>KARL: (unintelligible)<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Okay, I\u2019m asking: Where was that apology?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: There hasn\u2019t been one.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: I\u2019m just saying: When things like that happen, when John Lewis says that he\u2019s never approached &#8212; never missed an inauguration &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: &#8212; and we find out, actually, he did. He skipped George W. Bush\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: There are points at which we have a right to make sure that we correct the record.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Damn right.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: I mean, you\u2019re talking about integrity and you\u2019re talking about telling the truth and facts. I don\u2019t know that it was malicious at all. I\u2019m not saying. But there\u2019s a point at which we have a right to go out there and correct the record. And I think that &#8212; (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: No, you don\u2019t. That\u2019s the key! You don\u2019t have that right. You\u2019re supposed to sit there and eat whatever lie they tell.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: There\u2019s this attempt to go after this president and say, &#8220;Well, that can\u2019t be true and that\u2019s not true and the numbers weren\u2019t there,&#8221; and there\u2019s a rush to judgment every time. And it\u2019s a two-way street. We want to have a healthy and open dialogue with the press corps and with the American people about what he\u2019s doing to help this country, to unite it. But at a time when he\u2019s trying to unite us, and he keeps talking about uniting this nation, bringing us together, and then a tweet goes out to a pool of a few thousand people saying he removed the bust of Martin Luther King, how do you think that goes over?<\/p>\n<p>KARL: Sean, did &#8212; did &#8212; did the media invent the feud between the president and the intelligence community?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Look, I\u2019m not&#8230; I think that you saw from the response the other day. He walked into the CIA. People were hooting and hollering. They gave him a five-minute standing ovation. That doesn\u2019t look like a relationship that\u2019s&#8230;. I mean, that\u2019s&#8230; I mean, they were excited to meet him!<\/p>\n<p>KARL: (crosstalk)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: This is exactly right. I was talking about this earlier.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: &#8212; the difference is &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The misreporting at the CIA today.<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: (crosstalk) &#8212; having differences with intelligence leaders when the leaders of that community who had strong differences with, and the people &#8212; and the men and women &#8212; who toil every single day in our intelligence community, and it was reflected at the CIA.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8216;Kin\u2019A!<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: I mean, they came there. They were so excited. There were a thousand people that applied for 300-plus seats and we ended up taking in 400 people. That doesn\u2019t sound like a huge feud. They were excited, they were clapping, they were cheering when he walked in. And to see reports that made it sound like there was some fence mending that needed to happen? It sure didn\u2019t look that way when he walked in. I\u2019m gonna move on.<\/p>\n<p>REPORTER: Sean, can I ask what is the U.S. strategic interest in moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and also, in the chat to President el-Sisi today was the status of the Muslim Brotherhood discussed?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Well, I think the readout&#8230; I just gave you the readout on the call with President el-Sisi and I think that speaks for itself what was discussed, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: That\u2019s enough. We got a good flavor for this. The first question, by the way, or the first media organization that Spicer called on was the New York Post. Not the New York Times. The New York Post! And he called on the Christian Broadcast Network and some other conventional media but nowhere near the top of the list. But you heard the exchange.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Trump-CIA.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Trump-CIA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Trump-CIA.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/650-012317-Trump-CIA-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a>It starts, did Jonathan Karl of ABC ever say to Josh Earnest, &#8220;Josh, are you going to commit to telling us the truth on this podium every day? Are you going to lie to us?&#8221; Ever ask Jay Carney that question? And Spicer just shoveled it right back at \u2019em, and the story on the Martin Luther King bust being removed, that was TIME magazine that did that.<\/p>\n<p>And this CIA business, I talked to you about this earlier today, that Trump visit to the CIA was not the disaster they\u2019re portraying it to be. He was well received over there. And he went over there to show his support for the organization. You\u2019ve got people in there, like I say, you have at the defense department, you\u2019ve got a lot of people opposed to Trump and all of these cabinet agencies, they\u2019re career Democrats, career leftists, and you\u2019ve got some people that support him. And the people that don\u2019t are the ones that leak to the media, that report to the media. The media eats it up and can\u2019t wait to report the negative stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, Trump doesn\u2019t have anybody backing him up here. Spicer is out there all by himself, everybody in that room, the Drive-By Media, there may be some media exceptions in there, but he doesn\u2019t have support in the media like Obama had. He doesn\u2019t have support in the Washington establishment like Obama did. Not that he should, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m just saying it\u2019s really, really, really going to be crucial for Trump supporters to maintain that support and to show it, to demonstrate it as this war continues to rage and unfold.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s an exchange between a reporter and Spicer on global warming, folks.<\/p>\n<p>REPORTER: 2016 was it is highest one year in record, and the last three years have been the hottest three years on record. Scientists are saying that we\u2019re getting dangerously to the point where human civilization is being threatened. How does President Trump plan to address this?<\/p>\n<p>SPICER: Well, I think he\u2019s gonna meet with his team, figure out what policies are best for the environment. One of the things that he talked about during the campaign is there\u2019s a balance, and he\u2019s trying to make sure that we use our resources appropriately, that we maximize things to make sure that we don\u2019t do so at the detriment of economic growth and job creation. So there\u2019s a balance and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s an either\/or situation. We can ensure that we are doing things that are smart for the environment and smart for our longevity as well as making sure that we\u2019re doing things that create economic growth and job creation.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You heard the question. The questions a programmed lie: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/2017\/01\/18\/mit-climate-scientist-on-hottest-year-the-hysteria-over-this-issue-is-truly-bizarre-warns-of-return-back-to-the-dark-ages\/\">&#8220;The last three years the hottest on record?&#8221;<\/a> BS, folks. It\u2019s flat-out BS. 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