Spicer's new conference starting at 1:30 est-watch with me?

[bettyellen]

Let's ID the press and see if they're the obviously scripted questions I am expecting.
Will go hunt down some tweets now...

To watch online:

[avebury]

1. Where can you watch it online? nt

[pkdu]

3. https://www.c-span.org/video/?422474-1/sean-spicer-holds-first-daily-briefing

on in 15min

[bettyellen]

10. Thanks! Will add to the OP now.

[pkdu]

2. I'll be watching on C-Span..on in 15 mins

https://www.c-span.org/video/?422474-1/sean-spicer-holds-first-daily-briefing

[Disruption]

5. Thank you!

[pkdu]

8. Ur welcome - cameras are on now nt

[Else You Are Mad]

6. Thank you for the link!!

[pkdu]

7. Ur welcome - cameras are on now nt

[UTUSN]

12. Thanks, has it happened already or is this a live link waiting?

[UTUSN]

13. MSRNC is "Breaking News: Soon ... first briefing"

[pkdu]

15. Press play...they are all standing around waiting nt

[Else You Are Mad]

4. I bet he will spend the first 15 minutes

Scolding the press for reporting negative news about Trump, take a few questions from a Breitbart reporter, maybe take a Fox question, then walk out.

[Disruption]

9. Will Alternate Facts

become a topic? That could be fun.

[GusBob]

11. cant watch so

keep us posted

[TrekLuver]

14. They are going to blame the bald guy....they are going to blame somebody. I'm sure they've

cooked up a "plausible explanation"

[bettyellen]

16. I think I see Katy Tur

[bettyellen]

17. Starting in a jocular mood- jokes about inaugural and predecessors popularity... onto tornados-names

CEO s who are doing (not clear what) instead of tornados?
Oh no he went right to a breakfast he had with Corp CEOs after wait DT was monitoring tornados

[bettyellen]

18. Exec action about TPP "want free and fair trade" and also cutting funding the NGOd

Hay perform abortions. Some bullshjt about coerced abortions?!?

[bettyellen]

19. He's talking really really fast - sentences are running into each other.

[spanone]

20. does this asshole ever breathe?

[bettyellen]

21. Lots of lists of names of people he is meeting with- very long lists.....

Just like DT he had to do the shout outs.

Blah blah about meeting union workers.

[bettyellen]

22. Meeting w bipartisan group at five- accuses Dems or playing political games ...

[bettyellen]

23. Union a construction related:

Those union leaders Spicer mentioned meeting with Trump are mostly/all building/construction types: steel, pipeworkers, laborers

[True Dough]

24. Listing every individual that Drumpf is meeting with

is unnecessary and a lame attempt to make it sound like Drumpf is doing something exceptional. I bet every previous president met with oodles of people too. It's part of the damn job. And it's what comes of the meetings that matter, not identifying every CEO who comes through the door.

[bettyellen]

25. 1st Q ny post about the border wall? A: it's a priority

[bettyellen]

26. Jennifer wishen? Anti-abortion an American value ? Who is she?

[bettyellen]

28. Christina Broadcasting Network - these are pre planned- now Fox

[suffragette]

38. It looks like he is looking down at notes for who to call on next.

[UTUSN]

27. Looks like it's a canned affair: "Are YOU GUYS going to enforce the mandate" - *you guys*?!1 n/t

[Skittles]

57. WHAT fucking mandate?

only man-date going on here is between TRUMP AND PUTIN

[True Dough]

29. They're going to create some "virtual seats" for reporters around the country

So they can stack the White House pool with reporters more sympathetic to Fuhrer Trump's mandate.

[UTUSN]

31. & now an all-MURDOCH event - NY Post, Faux - all asking pal-sy "questions"

[bettyellen]

32. Via Skype- using tech to obsecure how they are stacking the decks...

[spanone]

40. re: breitbart 'news'

[bettyellen]

30. Q: fox not cutting taxes enough? Not eliminating enough "entitlements"? UGH.

[Eliot Rosewater]

78. I heard that too. They wont be happy until they kill us.

The most divisive human being alive is causing health issues for millions of us right now.


Knowing that they WANT to harm us, is what is amazing.

[bettyellen]

33. Trump spent an extra hour with biz leaders asking what regulations he could cut to help them....

[annabanana]

34. (Scanning the crowd for Guckert/Gannon)

I'm sure he's in there somewhere...

[Eliot Rosewater]

35. 2nd person called on, woman, was an anti woman questioner wanting

to know when will Trump harm planned parenthood, who was that vile person?
Did i hear her right?

[bettyellen]

91. Some Christian news network ... totally scripted it seemed

[TrekLuver]

36. Is not ONE of them going to ask him about his lying?

[greatauntoftriplets]

39. Don't know that it'd be worth it.

He's just lie about it.

[TrekLuver]

51. They know he is STILL lying....the Press is not stupid.

[greatauntoftriplets]

95. Of course they know.

They'll sic the fact checkers on this to reveal the truth.

[avebury]

37. He needs to slow down. He talks so fast that

you wonder about his competency.

[bettyellen]

43. Now he's going on that no one should accuse anyone of lies....

[LeftInTX]

44. I noticed that too.

[bettyellen]

41. Asked if he's pledged to tell the truth... backpedaling

As if his thing Saturday was a sort of mistake.

[avebury]

42. Will you promise not to lie?

Yes.


Right! I think that his nose grew.

[bettyellen]

45. He's again claiming it was the "most watched inaugural" that it's unquestionable

He's counting people watching on phones and tablets.

[herding cats]

47. Pants on fire.

Obama had the internet, too.

[LeftInTX]

48. Keep talking......

[spanone]

46. spicer is still lying about the inauguration. telling lies you can't dispute

[bettyellen]

49. Saturday he said "no one had numbers" now today he's touting numbers...

Estimates of people watching on phones etc that are pretty much guesses.

[randome]

50. Oh, shit. He's still dissing on the press. What a fucking loser.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Everything is a satellite to some other thing.[/center][/font][hr]

[LeftInTX]

52. Talking about MLK/Churchill bust

Saying John Lewis didn't attend GW Bush inauguration

[bettyellen]

56. Thx! He's talking so fast and so scripted I can't keep up.

[jeanmarc]

53. Now citing the standing ovation at the CIA with his own clappers

This is insane.

[spanone]

58. no one asked that question, did they?

[jeanmarc]

63. That's it for me, turning it off

So many lies.

[bettyellen]

54. Now he's touting the CIA cheering at the press conference !?!? A thousand people?

Oh now it's 400. ?

[avebury]

59. A co-worker was telling me that someone she knows who

works at the Pentagon told her that only about 400 people showed at to see Trump at the CIA. That is why there were no shots of the crowd.

[jmg257]

70. That matches what he said - 1000 applications, they allowed 400. nt

[suffragette]

74. It doesn't match what CIA said and CBS reported.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources-say-theres-a-sense-of-unease-in-intel-community-after-trump-cia-visit/

There were about 400 members of the workforce who RSVP’d for the event out of thousands who received an invitation in their email late last week. Officials dismiss White House claims that there were people waiting to get into the event.

[jmg257]

75. Ah gotcha - thanks! - JUST asked about the 40 people who "were brought in"!

[suffragette]

77. You're welcome. They basically flipped a fact upside down to drive their propaganda.

And they added their own cheerleaders to create the optics they desired.

[HipChick]

55. Now CIA lies..

[LeftInTX]

60. Question about American embassy in Israel

Vague answer. Said it is in early phase of planning.

[avebury]

61. I thought that Trump signed an Executive Order or something. nt

[LeftInTX]

62. Something about meeting with Theresa May

[suffragette]

64. Keystone and DAPL - basically yes to any drilling, pipeline building etc, because - jobs

Of course that ignores jobs destroyed due to lack of clean water and environment such as the jobs that already exist in these areas that rely on natural resources there.

[avebury]

66. I really wish that someone would ask him

So Trump wants to roll over the Native Americans by raping and pillaging their land?

[suffragette]

71. Yes. They could ask about sovereignty, basic rights to clean air and water, and protection

Of resources necessary to have jobs currently there.

It's a simple question really, but they have to be willing to redirect the discussion and not allow it to be subverted by a lying response.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

65. Oh, no; not the unemployment rate.

I'd have a drink, but I'm at work.

[UTUSN]

67. Oh yea if there's *anything* about DRUMPF it's that he's a LISTENER, just LISTENS & LISTENS!1

[suffragette]

68. Circling back to govt job freeze, except security positions. I am so damned sick and tired

of the narrow definition of security that leaves out the fundamental issues of security of:
Civil rights
Food security
Job security
Housing security
Health security

These are the most basic issues of security there are and these are areas where they plan to cut the people who work in government to ensure they will be upheld.

[Bettie]

69. Is there a new rule or something that

they all have to use the same orange cheeto dust make up as their Dear Leader?

[avebury]

72. OMG! Did he just state that we will go to war with China over Taiwan? nt

[etherealtruth]

84. Did he really say or imply that .. I am at work and all of this sickens me

[avebury]

88. I am not sure. I am also at work

and was not hear everything. I did hear him say something about if an island is threatened we would help them. That sure sounded like if China tried to take Taiwan that we would assist Taiwan which I think would put us at war with China.

[etherealtruth]

89. ughhh .... thanks for taking the time to respond :-(

[avebury]

92. I heard just enough to make be sit up and think WTF!

I really think that he is desperate to find a way to get us into war with someone. He seems to be lobbing a lot of verbal grenades and waiting to see which one explodes.

[etherealtruth]

94. I am terrified of that very thing

I am beyond horrified.

I have been checking DU for updates but I can't watch or listen to these fools at work because I get way too upset (and agitated) to function well.

[LeftInTX]

73. Exec orders are probably done for the day - LOL

[jeanmarc]

76. Hope someone is tracking the amount of lies.

I couldn't take it anymore.

[Sophiegirl]

79. WaPo will probably factcheck

Like they did with his temper tantrum on Saturday.

[LeftInTX]

80. Discussing fake clappers at CIA meeting - LOL

[bettyellen]

85. Saying none in front three rows were Trump people...

[avebury]

81. Everybody is so mean to us!!! Whine. Whine. Whine.

Spicer just does not get it. He is not listening.

[UTUSN]

82. OK I've had enough. Looks like NIXON's dream press corps has become a reality. n/t

[bettyellen]

87. Lots of foreign press fawning because they were honored to be called....

If they think they'll get over on the BBC they have another thing coming.

[spanone]

83. so spicer is saying they don't want any negative reporting.

good luck with that spicer

[spiderpig]

86. Thanks-buhbye? I thought he said at the outset

he'd outlast the press this time.

[BainsBane]

90. I can't stomach that crap

Let alone eat while watching it.

[Disruption]

93. I don't envy Spicer