LIVE STREAM:Press Briefing with Press Secretary Sean Spicer from the white house 2-7-17

LIVE STREAM:Press Briefing with Press Secretary Sean Spicer from the white house 2-7-17
Sean Spicer, Donald Trump‘s press secretary, called a press conference at the White House to make a statement on January 21 about media reports on the size of the crowd that turned out for the inauguration. Spicer sounded combative and angry towards the assembled reporters, and only spoke for a few minutes before leaving. Kellyanne Conway later defended Spicer’s comments as “alternative facts.”

The statement was supposed to start at 4:30 p.m., but it began closer to 6 p.m. ET. This was Spicer’s first press conference from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.

Photos of the inauguration were behind his lectern before he spoke, indicating that Spicer planned on talking about the “deliberately false reporting” about the size of the crowd. Spicer’s statement lasted just a few minutes and he did not take any questions from the media. He also called it “reckless” for a journalist to report that Trump removed a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office when that wasn’t the case.