so many media controversy swirling around the president we're joined now by
Hogan Ginley deputy press secretary at the White House welcome great to be here
this lengthy New York Times story says the FBI had at least one informant in
the Trump campaign Giuliani has been touting this he's been around a bit as
you may have noticed so the White House is perfectly willing to cite the failing
New York Times when it has some information that benefits the
administration look the New York Times obviously is a failing publication as we
all know but it's for reasons just like this I mean they can't get out of their
own way the coverage on this president has been completely negative we're
entering now into the second year of this investigation we have given over
millions of pieces of paper countless hours from our own folks in the
administration from the campaign for conversations with the investigation
we have no collusion no corruption no obstruction none of those things exist
and yet it still leads a lot of newscasts on that point the president
just the other day called the Muller probe illegal and disgusting he's had a
lot to say about it journalists say it's news do you believe
the media in general not just the New York Times are overly fixated on these
investigations without question think about last week what we've had in last
couple of weeks actually we had our Secretary of State go to a foreign
country and take three people our citizens who are being detained bring
them back to this country we got out of an Iran deal that we now know did not
prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon but actually pave the way for
them to get one well they were covered but not nearly the way in which these
salacious things are covered if given the choice
the media has policy or palace intrigue they take palace intrigue nine times out
of ten yeah I did note that the day of the freeing of the prisoners in North
Korea MSNBC and CNN primetime was heavily the Russian investigation again
in the time it takes to say the word returnees back to American soil they
were back on Russia does the President does the White House have a position on
whether the name of this FBI informant which the New York Times and washcloths
we're holding whether she others have not should be made public look I can't
get into any of this investigation stuff obviously I refer you to outside counsel
for those types of things but I just can't say again
this has been two years now and we've got nothing to show for it we've wasted
taxpayer dollars we've wasted time and in the face of all this
the president has still had record-setting accomplishments and
record-setting time it's incredible what he's been able to do well he often puts
these things out on Twitter that we then talk about and let's put one up right
now the so-called leaks coming out of the White House or a massive
over-exaggeration put out by the fake news media in order to make us look as
bad as possible with that being said the president adds leakers are traitors and
cowards and we will find out who they are so he has every right to be upset
about leaks that damage him and the administration but he's often said in
the past the media make up some of these anonymous sources does he now accept
that some of these leakers are real well what the president is trying to
articulate here and he did so beautifully in fact is that these people
are selfish they are cowardly when they do leak information he knows their leaks
absolutely but so much of these leaks are made up I get calls all the time
from reporters who try to double source things that are completely false that
I'm in the meeting and I said it didn't happen that way and they said we're
gonna run this story anyway and I say but I'm on the record I'll tell you on
the record they said but we have sources that say that are close to me not even
in the meeting close to the meeting with knowledge of Konnor and they still run
the story it's egregious what they're doing but think about how many things
haven't leaked in the past couple of days to the first lady's surgery well
the president was mocked and derided because we couldn't find our Secretary
of State when in actuality he was in North Korea we knew where he was New
York Times said we didn't know where he was we knew exactly where he was they
mocked a sport he was bringing people that are citizens of this country back
to this country but is it difficult for you too and by the way I try to check
everything and sometimes I've been told something happens in meeting and someone
who is there says no and I don't run with it but isn't it difficult for you
to go to work knowing that there are among you of people who for whatever
reason will whisper stuff to reporters that hurts the White House maybe about
you look that kind of stuff happens in in various businesses and work work
environments all over the country I've been the media now for about 20 years
that's part of the job but predominantly we have an amazing team that works in
tandem to get things accomplished for this president to tout all the
accomplishments he's been able to do in such a short amount of time but
inevitably you'll have some people who are selfish who want to
be self-aggrandizing and we'll go out to the press and try and make a name for
themselves and that's a shame and he says traitors and cowards obvious I'm
gonna ask you about it last question I spoke earlier on the program about how
some news organizations and some commentators said the president was
referring to all illegal immigrants in that meeting on sanctuary cities when he
talked about animals he was referring to spine to a question - or 13 gang members
do you believe that was sloppiness or intentional on part of these
organizations well you know they they never mess up in favor of the president
if you notice every every misreported fact is always bad to the president it's
never it never helps us out this is a gang whose motto is rape control and
kill and for whatever reason Democrats have decided to come to the defense of
this gang and they're all too quick to publish stories in the media as well
that somehow this president was talking about all immigrants was differently
defending ms-13 that identity that Democrats have multiple occasions Chuck
Schumer just did but I do think that the president's words were very clear in
comment very clear very and that was unfortunate gives you another reason to
beat up on the press Hogan Gately great to see you thanks for coming for the
time
you
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