i mean, he had zeke miller of "time" magazine on a cobble. what zeke miller reported is a serious mistake. and one -- >> that was problem. just so our viewers know, the bust had been moved out of the oval office. in fact, it had not, it was blocked by someone. a fact checked before reported. >> and one -- is a real problem. especially given trump's -- the way he ran. >> exactly. >> i feel that that's a real problem. >> sean spicer you're saying should have really focussed on that and not these issues that -- >> in the advent of twitter, and this has happened every since twitter became an issue on campaigns. reporters will see something such as the bust or make a comment on something -- >> quickly. >> reporter: tweet it out. and it's retweeted and makes news and then they issue an apology, but it's title, you can't put that toothpaste back in the tube. that's the frustration. >> before i let you go, i will say, look at this polling, these numbers show us that the americans trust in the media is not very high. it's at 32% right now. so does thi

. >> wait a minute, alternative facts -- alternative facts, the one thing he got right was zeke miller, four of the five facts he uttered were not true. alternative facts are not facts. they're falsehoods. >> reporter: tomorrow president trump's choice to be cia director mike pompeo is expected to be confirmed by the senate. today happens to be the wedding anniversary of donald and melania trump, 12 years. after spending the weekend together in the white house, mrs. trump and son, are headed back to new york where he goes to school tomorrow. >> what a way to mark an anniversary. kelly o'donnell, thanks. >>> in a phone call with israel's prime minister, netanyahu today, trump said peace with the palestinians can only be negotiated between the two parties. the white house will work closely with israel on that goal and a more immediate issue, president trump's promise to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. something his administration is now discussing in which the palestinians are warning against. matt bradley reports from israel. >> reporter: it's a holy city. a focal poin

zeke miller, the journalist with "time" magazine who published that took it back. white house aide confirms the mlk bust is still there. i looked for it in the oval office and didn't see it. my apologies to my colleagues. said, zeke miller, who have been observing in the oval office for colleagues in the news media. sean spicer as you see here earlier posted apology accepted. but has doubled down on that today. now, the second area that sean spicer had vehement opinions on was the coverage of the crowd size of the inauguration yesterday. he specifically noted something we took pains to note and that was the white plastic flooring. you see there at the bottom of the screen. it was meant to protect the national mall because we're in the kind of wet, soggy and muddy season. it gives people a more substantial place to stand. and cuts down the effect of the foot traffic. this is one of the still photos taken from the top of the washington monument. sean spicer was disagreeing with the photos that were out yesterday both on network television, on cable television, print

"time" magazine reporter zeke miller posted on twitter that the martin luther king bust was taken out of the oval office and he was wrong. sean spicer said there was an obsession with the media to delegitimize this president. kellyanne conway got into it with chuck todd on "meet the press." >> i want to get back to a question you continue to deflect. why was it necessary for the press secretary to utter unprovable falsehoods? it will for many americans. >> you want them to hear that. you want them to hear that i'm not answering your questions, which i'm doing. you wanted them to believe they can't respect our press secretary. your job is not to call things ridiculous that are said by our president and the press secretary. that's not your job. >> the media took it lying down for 10 years when the obama administration and hillary clinton said false things about benghazi. lied about the irs targeting of conservatives. barack obama said if you like your healthcare plan you can keep it while millions of people lost their healthcare plans. a media that doesn't push back against that and the

the one thing he got right was zeke miller. alternative facts are not facts, their falsehoods. >> is it a fact or not that millions of people lost their plans, health insurance, doctors under president obama. is it a fact that everything we heard from the women yesterday happened on the watch of barack obama. he was president for eight years, trump has been here eight hours. is it a fact that millions of women, 16.1 million women, as i stand here along today are in poverty with their kids. millions don't have health care. that we spent billions on education in the last eight years to have millions of kids still stuck in schools that fail them every single day. these are the facts that i want the press corp to cover. >> i understand this, what i don't understand is that that is not what yesterday was about. you did not answer the question. >> that is what his presidency will be about. >> you sent the press secretary to go out and utter a falsehood on the smallest pettiest thing. >> i don't think you can prove those numbers one w

asked in the following order, patricia, olivia, francine, tara, ,ichelle, michael, karen, tracy zeke miller of "time" magazine, michael, and john sitting right next to you. that should get us through a chunk of the morning anyway. let me ask you just one thing. as you know, your committee held a closed door, classified meeting yesterday about the suspected russian hacks with officials from state, treasury, and homeland security. "wall street journal" quotes you as saying afterwards that every senator in the room from both parties was, quote, very negative on russia and quote, very concerned about where that might go. at the senate armed services whether , they asked what russia did was an act of war. do you think it's an act of war? senator corker: i think we're all waiting to see this report. we're anxious to see this report next week. i think all of us understand that hacking is a tool that is used by sophisticated countries around the world to gain information. i think we just need to pause and take that in. so the issue then becomes, what was the intent? typically, gathering information

zeke miller political reporter at time. senior writer at the federalist and cnn political [ inaudible ]. thanks for joining me. in a lot of ways this was the first week of the trump presidency even though he's not president. his cabinet nominees were on the hill. there was a big dust up with the intelligence community, first press conference before the election. how did it go? >> there is a lot of sound and fury. i think one thing i'm learning is that trump is going to have his disagreements publicly whether it's -- whether mitt romney will be the secretary of state or with the press or with the intel community. he's just going to have it out in public. so, we're going to see that happening, continue to see it happen. then you see these things where some of these nomination fights will be very bizarre where rubio gets -- is very contentious with rex tillerson for secretary of state. others you'll get an easy win like mattis where you get the waiver and he moves on. it's going to be hot and cold through here. >> what do you

alternative facts, four of the five facts he uttered, the one thing he got right was zeke miller. four of the five facts he ulterred were not true. alternative facts are not facts. they're falsehood. >> whether or not the white house accepts an objective reality we all agree on, a reality in which facts are facts has massive implications. consider the unemployment rate, it is undeniably an imprecise measure and an extremely bed rock, a way to gauge how americans are doing overall, how the economy is doing. touring the campaign trump dismiss the unemployment rate as totally fiction and claimed it was actually 42%. >> i have seen numbers of 24%. i actually saw a number of 42% unemployment. 42%! and it could be zbll for the record, unemployment, the most commonly used measure, there are several measure willed by the government, stands at 4.7%. skld in light ofhose comnts this question, what is the national unemployment rate, spicer today refused to state the w pridens position. >> he's not focused on statistics as much as he is on whether or not the american people are doing better a

the zeke miller thing about the mlk statue and general michael flynn and reince priebus, the size ofhe crowd yesterday. he did eventually circle back and again say i'm 1000% behind you. all you needed to hear is i'm here because of the great sacrifice you made and standing here because of the representation of the sacrifice and behind you and appreciate the work. about a thousand other things in there and i'll just speak from this point. as a journalist who's covered the intelligence community for a long time, i'm just amazed at that kind of commentary from the president in that spot at this time but let me just tell you, not my place. let me tell you what folks inside the community i imagine. because there were 200 folks there from the cia who volunteered to come today. weren't required to. it's a day off. but volunteered. what did they want to hear but certainly, support, that they're not seen as a political body as the president in his own public comments accused him of being, heard pcomments and wasn't what they were, i imagine, expecting or hoping to hear from him. >> it was a c

zeke miller is a friend of me from times magazine. he made a mistake. made a mistake yesterday. i believe in grace for both of them. it is not good to begin your presidency at war with the media. so i'm hoping that we don't relitigate it. the most important thing over the weekend was that we didn't have brussels, nice, or san bernardino. general mattis yesterday saluted the guardians and centinels. and the most important thing said we will eradicate radical islam from the world. and that was lost in this. >> i understand that, but it's about choices, chris, and he chose to do this and undermine the credibility of sean spicer immediately. why they chose to do that? >> you break your pick the first day as press secretary. you have to say to the press i'm here to get the news out. we'll disagree occasionally, but that's what this is about. i think the mistake -- you were addressing with kellyanne observable, checkable facts and everybody that covers this will say you tried to press her on the observable checkable fact and she made other points, which were

>> when they do, as zeke miller did, he corrected it almost immediately but, two, they have every right of course they do. that's sean spicer's job. what they cannot do is urging owners of newspapers to tell journalists how to do their jobs. and -- >> the owners tell them to pound sand which they have done, and donald trump is not the first politician in the history of the world to want good coverage. politicians -- >> there's a difference. i think what he wants is coverage that suborns bad behavior on a -- howard: and on that point, we'll pick it up. ahead, the late mary tyler moore only played a t producer, but, boy, did she have an impact on reporters. >>> but first, president trump gets into a dust-up with mexico, and the coverage has been pretty harsh. ♪ ♪ pretty harsh. boost it's about moving forward not back. it's looking up not down. it's feeling up thinking up living up. it's being in motion... in body in spirit in the now. boost. it's not just nutrition. it's intelligent nutrition. with 26 vitamins and minerals and 10 grams of protein. all in 3 delicious flavors. it's choosing

zeke miller. >> reporter: in terms of the campaign against isil or isis, the ongoing strikes, the u.s. troops on the ground, in training or other capacities, will all of those continue? is the president-elect providing any new orders on that front at 12:01 tomorrow on that front? >> with respect to isis, he's talked about very clearly that he wants a plan from the joint chiefs very quickly to combat isis, how we look at a whole of government approach to that. he's continuing to meet with his national security team about what's in place and what he needs to do. i'm not going to get in front of what decisions he'll make tomorrow. what we've ensured is that we have a team in place to advise him and make sure the country remains safe and priorities are carried out. shane. >> reporter: last week trump's lawyer talked a lot about separating from business interests. last night and today he scheduled a visit to his hotel to promote the dining room there. how do you square those two things? >> that he's going to his own hotel? i think that's pretty smart. again, i think the idea that he's goin

the part about the mlk bust they said was removed, why didn't zeke miller, a good reporter from "timeask a white house official to confirm it before he tweeted it. reporters are too fast to hit twitter and too slow to ask questions. >> he took it back. >> he did. it's a good point to ask before tweeting or reporting. good reminder to do that. let me ask secretary, it is different from a campaign secretary, right? you have been white house press secretary. what's the onus, the job? as of your first day in the white house you are paid by the taxpayers. do you also represent the american people in some regard? >> you have three phases. on the campaign you are talking to the primary voters, then the american voters, then the world. >> in the white house? >> you're talking to the world. that's a sober responsibility. by the same token you are speaking for the president. your job is to faithfully and reflect the president for better or worse. >> here is what you wrote in november. i don't know what changes president-elect trump will make but if he decides to go around the press, abolish the

the one thing he got right was zeke miller. four of the five facts were not true.ve facts are not facts, they're falsehoods. >> your thoughts, michael moore. alternative facts. >> george orwell. oh, my god. he could -- you know what, orwell actually wouldn't have a job because he's supposed to make this stuff up as a fiction writer if he lived today. that's just the most incredible thing i have heard. well, okay, i know a lot of people now are going, well, there's a lot of americans who will buy that. that's true. but not the majority. and that's what we saw i think yesterday too, is that the majority of this country didn't vote for donald j. trump. i don't just mean the 3 million difference but also the seven million who voted green or libertarian, so that's over 10 million people who voted not to have trump. so at least take some solace this morning in knowing that, yes, there are people that will nod their head and go, yes, alternative facts, but the majority i know aren't buying it and won't buy it. >> yeah. and you very brilliantly went out to trump country fo

zeke miller. >> thanks, sean.rms of the campaign against isil or isis, the ongoing strikes, u.s. troops on the ground in training over the past weeks, will those all contin continue -- provide any new orders along that front at 12:01 tomorrow to change the current isis -- >> with respect to isis, i mean, i think he's talked about very clearly that he wants a plan from the joint chiefs very quickly to combat isis. how we look at a whole government approach to that. he continues to meet with his national security team about what's in place and what he needs to do, but i'm not going to get in front of what decisions he'll make tomorrow. we'll announce all that, but again, i think what we've ensured is that for the time being we've got a team in place that will continue to advise him and make sure that the country remains safe and priorities are carried out. shane. >> sean, last week trump's lawyer talked a lot about separating from his business interests both last night and today he's scheduled to visit -- promote th

the one thing he got right was zeke miller. four of the five facts he uttered were not true.good. >> that was not good. >> is that lift straight from -- i'm just curious. because it sound like it's from 1984. >> it's double think. >> that is what it was? so confusing. >> they pushed poor sean spicer out there who should have had no to lie and nervously awkwardly, in a wooden kind of i'm going to get fired if i don't this way, do that pathetic press briefing after millions of women around the world marched. i mean, just the context is sad. then kellyanne goes out there and -- >> wow. alternative facts. can i just ask a question? i'm just curious. who would actually have somebody on their show and interview them -- i'm talking about from this point forward. if they are going to come on and talk about, quote, alternative facts. >> why would you go on? >> and knowingly and willingly lie, why would you have kellyanne conway on your show? >> that is where my interview with her would have ended. no reason to talk to her. >> when somebody lies to you to your face and talks about alte