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_Published 2017-01-23. Sean Spicer arrived at his first full press briefing as the Trump Administration’s top spokesman_


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## Transcript

I know that Josh Earnest voted the most popular Press Secretary by the press corps. So, after checking my Twitter feed, I shot Josh an email last night letting him know that he can rest easy that his title is secure for at least the next few days. I think that if there's a way that we can combat ISIS with any country whether it's Russia or anyone else And we had shared national interest in that, sure we'll take it. 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 not fully understand when we come out.

But our intention is never to lie to you. There are times when we believe something to be true, or we get something from an agency. Are we acting in haste because the information available wasn't complete, but our desire to communicate with the American people and make sure that you have the most complete story at the time. And so we do it. I think that it's, as I mentioned the other day, it is a two way street. There are many mistakes that the media makes all the time. They misreport something, they don't report something, they get a fact wrong. I don't think that's always [ INAUDIBLE ], you know?

To turn around and say, okay. You were intentionally lying. I think we all go try to do our best job. And do it with a degree of integrity in our respective industries. And do you stand by your statement that that was the most watched inaugural address in [ UNKNOWN ]? Sure, it was the most watched inaugural. When you look at. Look. You look at just the one network alone at 16. 9 million people online. Another couple of the networks there was tens of millions of people that watched that online. Nevermind 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.

It's unquestionable. And I don't see any numbers that dispute that.

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