mr. spicer: no. i think china, and we noted he very helpfuls been and we hope to see a change in behavior. it is a positive sign with the level of engagement china has. >> is the trump administration calling for the release of this u.s. citizen currently being detained? want to make sure all of our citizens are protected and return home. concern among of republicans about the deficit. raising revenue as well as tax cuts so conservatives can be confident? mr. spicer: we will have further details. i will not get ahead of the resident's rollout. we will have to see. jennifer. >> [inaudible] mr. spicer: i will not get into the specifics of the president's is conversation. we will continue to work with the state department on that. >> can you explain why president trump did not use the word genocide? mr. spicer: the statement he put out is consistent with statements put out for at least several past administrations. looking back to the language of president obama and president bush, the language the presi

mr. spicer: if needed. the president will do everything he can to maintain majorities and further the party. is there too much political capital on a race the republicans should be winning easily? mr. spicer: i thought some of intriguing. was the democrats went all in on this race, they spent over a $.3 million, they said on the record their goal was to win this race. they run this -- they lost. they lost. they spent a .3 million dollars and through everything including the kitchen sink at it and lost. not in terms of what their stated goal was. goal was to win with over 80 -- 50%. they ran to win last night and they lost. anything short of describing that as a loss is sort of inconceivable in the sense that that is literally what they said their goal was to do. they said we want to win tuesday night with over 50%, they come -- came up short. they had all their money and firepower in there and they came up short. it is a loss. >> i am not thinking specifically about this case but there seems to be a little

mr. spicer: i will have to get back to you on that. eporter: really? mr. spicer: he may. i will have to get back to you on that. he is still under audit in the statement still stands. >> on north korea, you say china is playing an act of role, a historic role right now in pressuring the north koreans. what are they doing? mr. spicer: when you look at coal in particular, that is their number one export. i think they have taken some helpful economic actions and exhibited positive signs on the diplomatic front as well. but this is an ongoing conversation based on the relationship that president has with president xi. it is encouraging, the signed china is showing. reporter: did the president suggest there was a quid pro quo in not declaring china a currency manipulator because they were going to help with north korea? so if china does not adequately put pressure on north korea, is he going to go back and declare them a currency minute later? mr. spicer: a couple of things on that. they have not been manipulating their currency since he has been in office. the president said

mr. spicer: i think i just touched on privacy. the obama administration have that exception to their log. they said what it was but you don't know who got left off and who did not. they chose to not put people out for whatever reason they gave an excuse and no one questioned it. is wek the bottom line will have the same policy every president has had through time and comply with the law. remember, it is interesting that we're following basically the same thing members of congress followed. you go with congress and there is an option for people to express their opinion and if people want to make it public whose meeting with them, a lot do, we bring in you guys do, we bring in you to share their view. remember this is the same policy of every administration have followed. >> he entered the office saying he would train the swamp appeared under the existing policy, a lobbyist the tries on the campaign trail, washington impact -- insider, can walk into the white house and there is no resource for the public to hold the president to acc

mr. spicer: yeah. i think the president made clear that he intends to work with anyone who wants to help him get to the number of votes. he obviously had a very productive discussion this weekend with senator paul. i know the vice president has been actively engaged as well as other members of the staff with members of the house in particular. and they're going to try to find a way forward. there are some -- i am not going to expose some of the members. some wanted to back channel this to offer solutions, constructive ways forward. but those conversations are happening at several levels within the white house to see if we can find a way forward to get the number of requisite votes. you know, the president continues to work hard. he's having these conversations. members have reached out to him to make their suggestions known. and so that's -- but we continue to feel optimistic in the sense that there's a lot of constructive ideas that are coming to the table to get us to a way forward on health care. i

mr. spicer: i don't know. he had -- he was he head of the department of -- the defense intelligence agency he had an existing clearance. >> could you talk a little bit more about the overall efforts that the administration is make, we know the united nations meeting yesterday, an up and coming meeting with congress are you as an administration trying to get a coalition together to build a stronger diplomatic case korea? ctions against mr. spicer: you saw that they engaged in a robust discussion as regards north korea as a group and with the president. the more we continue to solve this diplomatically and continue to apply pressure on china and other countries to use the political and economic tools they have to achieve a goal in stabilization in the region but also to tamp down the threat that north korea faces, i think that's something we all share. >> how would you characterize the administration's overall strategy on the dprk? mr. spicer: i think it's ongoing. we've seen pstive signs with respect to a natio

mr. spicer: i don't know. all of that occurred prior to his service -- reporter: does this white house consider a payment from russia to be a payment from a foreign government? mr. spicer: i understand. everything he did was prior to coming to this white house. reporter: wondering whether you consider that to be a payment from a foreign government. mr. spicer: if they were in employee of the white house, absolutely. but i don't know the exact circumstances. everything that is being discussed occurred prior to his employment at the white house, as a consultant, so whatever he did, as long as he did it in compliance with the law, every one of us as a citizen has the right to. reporter: why wasn't he more closely vetted during the transition period? mr. spicer: again, you fill out forms. reporter: i feel like the white house and the trunk transition team should have known about this. mr. spicer: you fill out the forms, you do an investigation, you do a background check. they have a security clearance and they fil

mr. spicer: no. we are saying the president has made it clear we have two priorities in the continuing resolution. number one, increasing funding for military and the homeland security border wall. i will not start to get into, we are having a negotiation and to prejudge where it ends up at this point would not be prudent. >> on economic sanctions, how will they determine how effective they are? mr. spicer: a lot of ways but first and foremost is to send a clear signal to make sure they understand we do not take action slightly and we want to do everything we can in the region. there will be a lot of ways to know whether they are working. as the -- trying to achieve an outcome of that negotiation. -- we have a lot of tools to bring the outcome of stability to that region. >> now that a citizen has been detained does this make it more , difficult for the president to negotiate through china to try denuc nuclear us -- ularize north korea? spicer: no. i think china has been helpful. china has been very

mr. spicer: right. and when you look at the number of the pieces of legislation and executive orders, business confidence, there is a lot of a -- a lot of accomplishments that have occurred and lethal good -- we feel good about what we have done. you will continue to see a lot of action and a lot of results all the way through. >> in a hundred days, there is no funding of the wall and no health care reform or appeal of obamacare, would the president consider that a conspicuous failure based on the promises? mr. spicer: when you look at the totality of what we have accomplished on immigration and trade, it is unbelievable what he has been able to do. you can cherry pick any couple of things and say what about this or that, but when you look at it overall in terms of the drop in border crossings and look at consumer confidence and relationships around the globe and protecting the country and bring back jobs, those have been unbelievably significant. to minimize that, we will push for health care reform. t

mr. spicer: good afternoon. i'm sure you all know that i was up here earlier this morning off camera with some of your kids. it was a pleasure to be able to share a little bit of the white house experience with them and i hope they enjoyed it. i think some of you have trained them very well. i hope they enjoyed their visit and i'm glad they got an opportunity to visit with the president and the vice president today. we have a bunch to talk about. today about what the president's been doing and he's got an executive order coming up. going to try to get through it all. this morning the president welcomed the president and mrs. macri of argentina for an official visit. the president and the first lady of argentina just left. so we will have a read-out for you very shortly on that. we've got a 2:00 p.m., the president will be signing a memorandum on aluminum imports and threats to national security. we'll try to keep this briefing on time. i know secretary ross spoke about the memo that the president signed yesterda

mr. spicer: i do not have a number. in many cases, and i think i went over with his early on in the process, but we installed beach head teams during the transition process. we put 400 plus individuals into these important -- these departments. we have been able to be up and running in almost every one of these in a very early process when you look at the totality of how we handle the transition of government. david? reporter: staying on taxes, the president said he is going to present this plan tomorrow. can you give us a sense that what we are going to see? mr. spicer: no. we will have plenty of time to talk about that tomorrow. . reporter: the president on friday when he announced it was going to happen on wednesday, the secretary of the treasury seemed surprised. inside thel us who white house and the treasury the president told he was going to announce this on wednesday? mr. spicer: i think tomorrow we will have a great plan for you to see. reporter: the goal of tax reform is for a growth of 3% or more. already, pe

mr. spicer: i am sure he has. watches ahink anybody video and is not disturbed another human being is treated that way. one thing people have to understand is, when there is a potential law enforcement matter , for the president to weigh in pro or con can prejudice a potential outcome. clearly, watching another human being being dragged down an aisle, watching blood come out of their face after hitting an armrest, there is not a circumstance you can sit back of beenthis could not handled better, when you're talking about another human being. again, i do not think it is my place to get in the middle of judging how a company deals with it. there will clearly be enough review both on the corporate side and the law enforcement side, on how this was handled. from a human to human standpoint to see a human being getting dragged down an aisle with their head banging off of armrests and do not think it could've been handled better, i would assume we can agree on that. syria,oreign policy and this administration continuing

by the way mr spicer is lucky because most american jews the by the way mr spicer is lucky because most americanjews the know about this year because they are still celebrating passover. it is ha rd to still celebrating passover. it is hard to come to terms with this. it's ignorance. it's hard to fathom it. there is this dichotomy because israelis are generally quite happy with mr trump's policy, or at least they were happy with him bombing syria. this is quite dismaying and mrtrump has syria. this is quite dismaying and mr trump has tried to diminish the charges of anti—semitism against him. thank you very much. the headlines on bbc newsroom live: talks take place in moscow between the united states and russia — following last weeks suspected chemical attack in syria. prosecutors investigating the attack on the borussia dortmund football team say they're looking into a possible islamist terror motive. melania trumps the mail — the newspaper apologises to the president's wife and pays out damages over allegations about her work as a model. now some sport. uefa have said that secur

mr. spicer: ok. i know it's already been a full first day back. but i want to run down a couple of quick things that happened over the weekend. we're fortunate to be championing many great causes during the month of april that are near and dear to the white house. we released several proclamations on friday that are all available at whitehouse.gov. this morning specifically the president proclaimed april 2 through 8 is national crime victims rights week. on saturday the president declared a major disaster in the state of california as a result of severe winter storm flooding and mudslides in february. federal assistance will be supplementing recovery efforts in the area moving forward. also on saturday, the vice president traveled to columbus, ohio, to discuss american jobs and comet. he spoke with business leaders at an american-owned and operated electronic manufacturing services company. the vice president told the crowd that the actions the president has already taken to create jobs in this country make it easier to do business from taking a s

in a statement the anne frank centre accused mr ‘s ice bridge on ago mr spicer engaging in fa ke bridge on ago mr spicer engaging in fake news by denying hitler gassed millions of dues to death. calls mounting for his dismissal, the spokesman went back in front of the cameras to offer this apology.|j made a mistake, there is no other way, no other way to say it. i got into a topic i shouldn't have and i screwed up. it really is painful to myself to know that i did something like that. because that obviously was not my intention. and to know when you screw up that you possibly offended a lot of people, ijust, you know... so i would ask obviously folks forgiveness to understand i should not have tried to make a comparison. there is no comparing atrocities. on monday mr spicer suggested the use of barrel bombs by the syrian regime could merit renewed military action on the part of the united states only for the white house to deny its policy had changed. now the trump administration is facing further unflattering headlines amid suggestions that this man's days at the lectern could now be n

mr. spicer: we didn't have chemical weapons in world war ii. you have someone as despicable as hitler who do not even think to use chemical weapons. jon: but that statement drew an incredulous response from journalists attending the briefing. >> i will give you an opportunity to clarify something that seems to be gaining some traction -- "hitler did not sink to the level of using chemical weapons." what did you mean by that? mr. spicer: when it comes to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. jon: millions of jews were gassed during the second world war in the network of concentration camps built in what was called the final solution. the director of the anne frank center condemned the remarks. "sean spicer has engaged in holocaust denial, the most offensive form of fake news imaginable." "spicer's slur is the most evil against a group of people we have heard from a white house press secretary." criticism from senators and parmesan, men and women, republican and democrat. last night president trum

mr. spicer: we do not use chemical weapons in world war ii. you had a -- someone as despicable as hitler who do not think to use chemical weapons. you have to, if you are russia, ask yourself if this is a country you want to align yourself with. you have. signed withusly the agreement. could not stand up to your own

mr. spicer: when you come to gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. there was clearly -- thank you. i appreciate that. he brought them into the holocaust center, and understand that. the way assad use them, drop them on innocent people. the use of that, that was not the intent.

asked to clarify those remarks, mr spicer dug himself in even deeper. in the, in the, he brought them into, um... to the holocaust center, i understand that. what i'm saying, in the way that assad used them where he went into towns, dropped them down to innocent... into the middle of towns, it was brought. so the use of it, i appreciate the clarification. that was not the intent. ina in a statement, the anne frank centre for mutual respect accused him of engaging in... calls mounting for his dismissal, the spokesman went back into the cameras to offer this apology. bello i was obviously tried to make a point about the heinous acts, using chemical weapons and gas. --i was obviously trying to. i used an inappropriate comparison and for that, i apologise. on monday, mr spicer suggested the use of barrel bombs by the syrian regime could merit renewed military action on the part of the united states. only for the white house to deny its policy had changed. now the trump administration is facing further unflattering headlines and need suggestions that this ma

mr spicer made the remarks during a press briefing about the recent sarin gas attack in idlib. russia is hardening its support for the assad regime — even with the us secretary of state in moscow for crisis talks. president putin has accused syrian rebels of setting up fake attacks to justify more american missile strikes. over 48 hours after the incident — the boss of united airlines has issued a full apology to the man who was dragged off a flight in chicago. his remarks follow a storm of media criticism and a drop in the compa ny‘s trading share—price. now for the latest financial news with aaron heslehurst and world business report. what does junk status do to you? south africas battered economy tries to recover from a double downgrade, but it won't be easy — especially trying to borrow money from its internationalfriends. and — all on board. yep, how a group of enterprising berliners, fed up with paying ever more for their daily train tickets clubbed together to crowd—fund their own train line. we're going to take a ride with them. welcome to world business r

mr spicer was talking about syria again. he had this to say about syria and its government's allies. the only countries that aren't supporting the us's position aren't supporting the us's position are syria, north korea, iran and russia. this is not exactly a happy time, cocktail party of people you wa nt to time, cocktail party of people you want to be associated with. they are failed states with the exception of russia. so there we have sean spicer describing iran as a failed state and by any normal definition a failed state iran certainly doesn't qualify for that description. now let's turn to a story that has been developing in the last few hours in germany, because a team bus carrying borussia dortmund to a champions league quarter final carrying borussia dortmund to a champions league quarterfinal has been damaged by multiple explosions. this is the bus in question. the tea m this is the bus in question. the team was scheduled to play monaco, but the game's been pushed back 2a hours, because of what's happened. we have

. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: mr. spicer. mr. spicer. mr. spicer. yes, thank you. seth meyers, "late night with seth meyers." mr. spicer, we're now 60 days into the president's term. how long does it feel like you've been doing this? >> for, you know, over a decade. [ light laughter ] >> seth: how hard is it to get president trump's hair ready in the morning? >> it's like building a puzzle. [ light laughter ] >> seth: mr. spicer, you've been quoted as saying "the house drools." do you have anything to add to that? >> the senate rules. [ light laughter ] >> seth: okay. is it true that president trump still thinks elvis is alive? >> i think the president had a call earlier with the king, a couple of weeks back. [ laughter ] >> seth: bernie sanders continues to be a voice of opposition to the trump presidency. when do you think bernie will retire? >> seth: on his 250th birthday. [ cheers ] [ laughter ] >> seth: what sentence have you had to say the most since taking this job? >> the president will travel to mar-a-lago for the weekend. [ laughter and applause ] >> seth

mr. spicer: we said it was heading there, and it was, it is heading there. reporter: [indiscernible] mr. spicer: if that is the impression, there should have been clarification from people seeking it. a release was put out talking about its ultimate destination, and that is where it ended up. tim: i spoke earlier to barbara plett usher at the state department. sean spicer says no confusion but it has been a pretty confused affair. barbara: i think it is very confusing. here's the announcement from pacific command about the deployment of the call vincent to korean waters, although it did not give a timeline, and then you have the secretary of defense downplaying the move, saying it was not to escalate tensions with north korea, or implied it wasn't, and then the president said it was, and then by the end of the week you have the white house saying it was a significant deterrence signal ahead of a possible nuclear test by the north koreans. and then we saw that the carl vinson was thousands of miles away because it had to do these joint exercises with the aust

asked to clarify those remarks, mr spicer dug himself in even deeper. he brought them into, um... to the holocaust centre, i understand that. what i'm saying, in the way that assad used them where he went into towns, dropped them down to innocent... ..into the middle of towns, it was brought. so the use of it, i appreciate the clarification. that was not the intent. in a statement, the anne frank centre on mutual respect accused mr spicer of engaging in what it called: calls mounting for his dismissal, the spokesman went back into the cameras to offer this apology. i was obviously trying to make a point about the heinous acts that assad had made against his own people last week, using chemical weapons and gas. and frankly, i mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive reference to the holocaust for which, frankly, there is no comparison and for that, i apologise. on monday, mr spicer suggested the use of barrel bombs by the syrian regime could merit renewed military action on the part of the united states, only for the white house to deny its policy had changed. now the trump

mr. president, has view changed of president putin? >> thank you. >> and late today new comments from president trump on syria. >> should have been done by the obama administration a long time before i did it. and you would have had a much better -- i think syria would be a lot better off right now than it has been. >> with me, house intel committee member will hurd and ambassador from syria. nice to see both of you. >> pleasure. >> first to you, congressman. do you think russia was involved before it happened? >> well, russia is -- their close relationship with syria, especially in that conflict zone, to think that the syrians would do something as serious as utilize chemical weapons and not tell one of their closest partners is -- it's hard for me to imagine that. but we have to get this right. we have to do a proper review of the intelligence known before and after in order to make a case, if indeed the russians were involved. if the russians were involved, i think this helps us build

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asked to clarify those remarks, mr spicer dug himself in even deeper. he brought them into, um... to the holocaust centre, i understand that. but what i'm saying, in the way that assad used them where he went into towns, dropped them down to innocent... ..into the middle of towns, it was brought. so the use of it, i appreciate the clarification. that was not the intent. in a statement, the anne frank centre on mutual respect accused mr spicer of engaging in what it called: "the most offensive form of fake news imaginable, by denying hitler gassed millions ofjews to death." calls mounting for his dismissal, the spokesman went back in front of the cameras to offer this apology. i made a mistake. there is no other way to say it. i got into a topic that i shouldn't have and i screwed up. it really is painful to myself to know that i did something like that because obviously it was not my intention and to know that when you screw up intention and to know that when you screw up you possibly offended a lot of people,... i would ask for forgiveness to understand that i should not have tri

from mr trump who called mr assad and animal and mr spicer who compared assad with hitler with the caveat that hitler never used chemical weapons. how do these uttera nces chemical weapons. how do these utterances facilitate diplomacy and how and when will the rhetoric change? i think the perspective from the united states supported by the facts that we have are conclusive that the recent chemical weapons attack carried out in syria was planned and it was directed and executed by syrian regime forces and we're quite confident of that. this isjust the latest in we're quite confident of that. this is just the latest in a we're quite confident of that. this isjust the latest in a series of use of chemical weapons by the assad regime. notwithstanding their use on more than 50 occasions of chlorine bombs, cluster bombs and other types of weapons that are intended to maim and kill in the most horrific ways. so, ithink and kill in the most horrific ways. so, i think the characterisation is one that president assad has brought upon himself. translation: i have two at a couple of words. it is obvi

mr spicer made the comments while discussing russia‘s support for the syrian regime. when asked to clarify the remarks, he said hitler did not use gas on his own people in the same way as president assad. here‘s our north america editorjon sopel. the president‘s spokesman sean spicer came to the daily briefing determined to talk about the seriousness of last leg‘s sarin attack in syria, which the administration holds bashar al—assad responsible. —— last week‘s. but then he drew on history to make this point. we did not use chemical weapons in world war ii. you know, you had someone as despicable as hitler, who did not even sync to using chemical weapons. —— sink. but that statement drew an incredulous response from journalists attending the briefing. i want to give you an opportunity to clarify using chemical weapons." what did you mean by that? when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people, the same way that assad is doing. millions of germanjews were gassed in the second world war, in the network of concentration camps, bui

spicer you can tell him i said that today. >> and again, we expect to see mr. spicer any moment now. meanwhile, we have two nbc reporters, kristen welker and kasie hunt for analysis and politico's jake sherman, financial times jillian tett, michael steele and the former fbi double agent and he is also author of the memoir "how to catch a russian spy." kristen, let me start with you in the white house briefing room, again we are expecting sean spicer will get a handful of questions about this today, we learned about this new investigation into michael flynn just a few hours ago, we also learned that flynn was warned about all of this well in advance of accepting the money. what's he being accused of again and why are democrats accusing this white house of covering up for him? >> so just to recap, michael flynn is accused of failing to seek permission to receive money from officials related to connections with foreign entities, foreign

it came just hours after mr. spicer said that hitler never used chemical weapons. reporters in the briefing room were quick to challenge his claim, pointing to the use of gas obviously in concentration camps. when asked to clarify his remarks, here's what spicer said. >> hitler didn't even sink to the level of using chemical weapons. what did you mean by that? >> i think when you come to sarin gas, there was no -- he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. i mean there was clearly -- i understand your point. thank you. i appreciate that. there was not -- he brought them into the holocaust center. i understand that. but i'm saying the way that assad used them where he went into towns, dropped them down into the middle of towns. so the use of it, and i appreciate the clarification there. that was not the intent. >> just be clear again, they were death camps, not holocaust centers where millions of jews as well as gypsies, gay men and others were murdered in gas chambers. that was followed by a further clarification and then an apolog

>> mr. spicer is a spokesman for the president and for our country. and to those who listen to what we have to say, his comments were deeply disappointing, i was certainly saddened this moment when we celebrate passover one of the most significant events in the jewish calendar, acknowledging the escape of egypt and slavery, to have him use what a false equivalency which is the death of people in syria by president al-assad chemical weapons is somehow equivalent to the holocaust, more than that he didn't even know that hitler used gas to kill all those millions of people, it is just, it is crazy that we would have this circumstance. >> he did not acknowledge the use of that at all or anything related to the holocaust. he has since apologized to anyone he might have offended. nancy pelosi has called for him to resign. do you think he should still work for the white house? >> we have to look is it a single incident or is it a pattern? unfortunately from the president down there has been a pattern of insensitivity. there needs to be some accountability. h

mr. spicer: obviously today we're here to talk about the president's effort to provide tax relief to both our corporations that will help grow jobs and to middle americans two people here to explain it, the director of our national economic council, gary cohen, is going to walk through why we're doing what we're doing. and then the personal side of the tax. then secretary of the treasury, steven mnuchin, will walk through the business side and the corporate side of what the president is doing to bring jobs back to this country, to make our businesses more competitive, and help our economy grow. at the end, be glad to take questions on this. you are being provided a one-pager right now that provides the top level aspects of the plan. and then both the director and the secretary will go into further detail and take your questions. without any further ado, director gary cohen. mr. cohen: thank you, sean. good afternoon to everyone. thank you for being here. this is quite an historic day for

>> mr. spicer had a sporty outing today, more on that later. appearing today making his 35th on-camera briefing of the still young administration and he is still having to answer questions of course about warring factions just behind him there in the trump white house west wing. while the white house has continually downplayed this narrative, the white house reports that the president himself called a message to his staff, work this out, according to the report. shane, eli, kaitlin remain with us. shane, a great quote stuck out, causing much movement here, in this piece, quote, anyone who thinks that steve bannon has lost his influence they don't know what the f they're talking about. family broadcast, we'll set our imagination wild and figure out what he or she was saying. what is the chance this has been overblown? we're all so wary and on the lookout constantly for shiny objects of any size, shape and form. >> you know, i do think there is one element overblown, which i do not get a sense that jared kushner and steve bannon who worked very c

spicer as he spoke at today's press briefing. his words and attempts at clarification touching off an emotional response. now just a short time ago came an apology. white house correspondent kristen welker has details. >> reporter: tonight, a messaging misstep rocking the white house after press secretary sean spicer compared syria's president, bashir al assad, to adolf hitler. >> we didn't use chemical weapons in world war ii. you had somebody as despicable as hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons. >> reporter: those comments sparking an immediate backlash. hitler gassed millions of jews in concentration camps during the holocaust, that forcing spicer to clarify before the briefing was over. >> i think when you come to sarin gas, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that assad is doing. there was not -- he brought them into the holocaust center, i understand that. what i'm saying the way assad used them where he went into towns and dropped them down onto innocents in the middle of town. >> repo

, everyone. >> good afternoon, mr. spicer! >> i'm about to take your questions. >> me, me, me! >> one at a time. cecilia. >> can i feed the fish today? >> no, it's my turn. >> major, major, that doesn't mean you get to jump in. >> i'm actually asking a serious question. if you could be polite, not to interrupt. >> me, me, me! >> julie. >> when are we going to learn about russia? >> i heard russia-- >> can you-- can you stop interrupting other people? >> you never want to talk about russia. >> hey, jonathan, somebody is asking a question. it's not your press briefing. julie is asking a question. please calm down. julie. >> when are we going to hear about russia! >> that doesn't mean you get to jump in. >> can i go to the bathroom? >> you don't get to just yell out questions. we're going to raise our hands like big boys and girls. >> why? >> i can't find my building blocks. >> april, hold on. >> it's my turn! >> no, no, no. >> yes, yes, yes, yes. >> at some point, april, you're going to have to take "no" for an answer. y

as a reservist as mr. spicer is as well, these are well-known things. general flynn is someone who has done this for 30 years. my concern is when did the white house know that there was potentially derogatory information and did they wait on that to act? >> kristen, we also heard what appeared to be another explanation as to why the white house will not produce the documents that the house intelligence committee has asked for. >> craig, there were a lot of follow-up questions. i think that the reporters in this briefing room wanted to ask as it relates to that. you effectively heard sean spicer say, we got the request for documents. we relayed the request to all of the different appropriate agencies that house those documents, and we believe we've turned over all the documents that exist. but left unanswered, craig, did they turn over all of the documents that exist here within this white house? he was in this white house for 23 days, and as spicer has said himself, had a range of discussions on a daily basis with foreign officials where the documents r

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amy: i want to go back to mr. dershowitz' column. he said those kind of criticisms and attacks on mr. spicer, they serve to diminish the importance of the holocaust and hitler and none of us should be going in that direction. howie: the white house announced it will not make public the visitor logs so people will know who goes in and out of the white house. isn't that something that mostly affects journalists? because that's one way we can get stories? marie: it affects journalists and the american public. they have a right to know who their government is meeting with. we get sent to washington as elected official or public servants to act on behalf of the american people. this is the latest in a long stream of trump administration decisions to keep information from the public. i'm not sure what they are trying to hide. but it seems like an unforced error. in the grand scheme of things, bombing syria and afghanistan. this is not the top story. erin: i would say the context is another flip-flop because trump and his team said they wou

mr spicer has since put out a clarification saying, "in no way was i trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the holocaust." but perhaps the lesson is, don't make comparisons with hitler. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. also making use of this sour, german police say that a serious explosives caused three bar —— blasts attacking a bus carrying players from borussia dortmund. pakistan has dismissed indian criticism of a death sentence giving to a man in accused of being an indian spy. the defence minister told the senate that the country had followed legal processes during the three—month trial. india has rejected that he was a spy. if he is hanged, it will amount to premeditated murder, says india. these pandas have been preparing for their journey from the these pandas have been preparing for theirjourney from the netherlands to china. they are in healthy conditions. just found out they have arrived safely. they will be living there for the next 15 years. a man who says he worked as a hitman for philippine president rodrigo duterte has fled the country. he made the allegati

mr spicer asserted that hitler did not use chemical weapons during world war two, while talking about the recent suspected gas attack in syria. he has apologised to anyone who was offended. tensions between russia and the us over syria, are mounting — even with us secretary of state, rex tillerson, in moscow for crisis talks. president putin is disputing the syrian government's responsibility for this month's sarin gas attack on a rebel—held area in idlib. now it's time for hardtalk.

mr spicer has since put out a clarification saying, "in no way was i trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the holocaust." but perhaps the lesson is, don't make comparisons with hitler. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. pakistan has criticised a death sentence given to a man they accuse of being an indian spy. the defence minister told the pakistani senate that the country had followed due legal process during the three—month trial. india denies mr yadav, a retired naval officer, is a spy, and if he is hanged it will amount to premeditated murder. a 6.3 magnitude earthquake has hit the philippines. it struck after 5am local time. an earthquake of this magnitude is considered relatively strong and capable of causing severe damage. the man suspected of carrying out last week's stockholm truck attack told the court he has committed a terrorist crime. he appeared in court for the first time on tuesday and confessed to driving the lorry that killed four and injured 15 others. these pandas have been preparing for theirjourney from china to the netherlands. they are in healthy conditio