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  • HOWIE: JOINING US NOW FROM LOS

  • ANGELES IS SEAN SPICER, THE

  • FORMER WHITE HOUSE PRESS

  • SECRETARY AND NOW SENIOR ADVISER

  • TO THE AMERICAN FIRST PAC, SEAN

  • I'M TRYING TO REMIND YOU AT

  • WHITE HOUSE PODIUM ASKING WHY

  • MANY MEDIA CONSERVATIVES

  • INCLUDING FOX AND ELSEWHERE ARE

  • NOW CASTIGATING THE PRESIDENT ON

  • DECISION ON SYRIA AND KURDS AND

  • MILITARY ASSAULT, THIS ISN'T ONE

  • THAT CAN BE BLAMED ON LIBERAL

  • MEDIA, IS IT?

  • >> NO, BUT I THINK THAT THERE'S

  • TWO DIFFERENT ISSUES, POLITICS

  • OF IT AND THE POLICY OF IT.

  • WHEN IT COMES TO THE POLITICS ON

  • IT THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN CLEAR

  • THAT HE MADE A COMMITMENT DURING

  • CAMPAIGN TRAIL THAT HE WOULD GET

  • OUT OF ENDLESS WARS AND YOU HAVE

  • SEEN HIM NOT JUST IN SYRIA BUT

  • THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE,

  • AFGHANISTAN AND ELSE CAN WHERE,

  • TALK ABOUT PULLING BACK U.S.

  • TROOPS AND BRINGING THEM HOME

  • AFTER YEARS OF FIGHTING WARS

  • THAT HE DIDN'T THINK WERE JUST

  • OR APPROPRIATELY STARTED.

  • YOU HAVE SEEN HIM TAKE THAT CASE

  • TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HE DID

  • IT YESTERDAY AT SPEECH WITH

  • EVANGELICAL LEADERS WHERE HE

  • TALKED ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE IS

  • BRINGING TROOPS HOMES AND

  • KEEPING COMMITMENT, THAT'S

  • SEPARATE THAN THE POLICY OF IT

  • AND YOU SEE REPUBLICAN LEADERS

  • AND FRANKLY LEADERS ON FOREIGN

  • POLICY ELSEWHERE, THEY ARE

  • FIGHTING HIM ON THE POLICY, THE

  • INTERESTING THING I SEE IN

  • POLITICAL STANDPOINT, MORE

  • CREDIT FOR KEEPING HIS WORD THAN

  • ANYTHING ELSE BECAUSE MOST

  • PEOPLE DON'T GET INTO WHY WE ARE

  • IN SYRIA, WHO THE KURDS ARE AND

  • WHO THE TURKS ARE AND THEY

  • UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE BEEN

  • FIGHTING IN INTERVENTIONS IN

  • COUNTRIES FOR YEARS ON END AND

  • LOST FOCUS ON WHY WE ARE THERE

  • AND THE PRESIDENT'S COMMITMENT

  • TO BRING THEM HOME RESINATES

  • MORE THAN POLICY DOES.

  • HOWIE: ON IMPEACHMENT MANY

  • JOURNALISTS AND PUNDITS

  • RATCHETED UP RHETORIC SINCE THE

  • PRESIDENT A FEW DAYS SAID HE'S

  • NOT COOPERATING WITH THE WHITE

  • HOUSE INVESTIGATION THAT HE

  • VIEWS ILLEGITIMATE.

  • I KNOW HE THINK HE SAYS THAT

  • THEY ARE BEING UNFAIR, PRIME

  • OPPORTUNITY TO ACCUSE THE WHITE

  • HOUSE OF STONEWALLING?

  • >> IT DOES GIVE THEM AN OPENING,

  • I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S FAIR, IF

  • YOU LOOK BOTH AT NIXON AND

  • CLINTON IMPEACHMENT, THE HOUSE

  • DID VOTE AND CERTAIN FORMALITIES

  • THAT ARE AFFORD TODAY THAT, TO

  • THE PRESIDENT THEN IN TERMS OF

  • BEING ABLE TO CALL WITNESSES

  • HAVING DUE PROCESS, PHILOSOPHY

  • AND DEMOCRATS WANT TO HAVE IT

  • BOTH WAYS AND TALK ABOUT

  • IMPEACHMENT AND THEY DON'T WANT

  • TO PUT 31 DEMOCRATS IN TRUMP

  • SEATS ON THE RECORD AS FAR AS

  • WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO VOTE AND

  • EASY TO SAY STUFF AND TO GO

  • THROUGH THE MOTIONS WITHOUT

  • ACTUALLY HAVING TO CALL A SPADE

  • A SPADE AND THAT'S WHERE I THINK

  • THAT THEY ARE PLAYING AND PELOSI

  • WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHERE THEY

  • DON'T WANT TO PUT RECORDS, AND

  • YOU CAN MOVE FORWARD AND IT'S A

  • DIFFERENT GAME.

  • PUT YOUR REMEMBERS ON THE

  • RECORD, SHE KNOWS THAT SHE'S

  • BEEN SWAGING FAR LEFT RIGHT NOW

  • BUT SHE'S TRYING TO HAVE IT BOTH

  • WAYS AND WALK THE TIGHT ROPE AND

  • NOT PUT DEMOCRATS AT RISK AND

  • HER MAJORITY.

  • HOWIE: SPEAKING OF THE

  • DEMOCRATS, THE PRESIDENT SAYS

  • AGAIN AND AGAIN THAT THE PREZ

  • WHICH HE NOW CALLS THE CORRUPT

  • MEDIA IS PARTNERS WITH THE

  • DEMOCRATS IN THIS WHOLE

  • IMPEACHMENT INVESTIGATION AND DO

  • YOU BUY THAT, DO YOU THINK IT'S

  • TRUE OF ALL JOURNALISTS?

  • >> WELL, I'VE NEVER -- I'VE

  • ALWAYS SAID THAT YOU DON'T THROW

  • THE BABY WITH BATH WATER,

  • THERE'S A LOT OF JOURNALISTS

  • THAT DON'T DO A GOOD JOB, A LOT

  • OF JOURNALISTS TAKE THINGS TO

  • EXTREME, I DON'T THINK IT'S

  • SMART TO CAST ALL OF THE

  • JOURNALISTS WITH THE SAME BROAD

  • BRUSH BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HOLD UP

  • THE ONES THAT DO DO A GOOD JOB

  • AND THERE ARE SEVERAL, IF YOU

  • LOOK BACK TO MOLLIE'S POINT A

  • MOMENT AGO WITH RESPECT TO

  • SYRIA, YOU HAVE A LOT OF

  • JOURNALISTS EVEN WITH RESPECT TO

  • SYRIA POLICY DECISION WHO ARE

  • COMING OUT AND GIVING THEIR OWN

  • OPINION, RICHARD ANGLE EXAMPLE

  • WAS SPOT ON, HE'S TALKING ABOUT

  • IT BEING A STAIN, THAT'S NOT

  • REPORTING, THAT'S COMMENTARY,

  • YOU'RE SEEING THE SAME THING

  • WITH IMPEACHMENT, THEY ARE

  • SHIELDING HUNTER BIDEN AND JOE

  • BIDEN FROM THEIR PAST WHILE

  • GOING AFTER THE PRESIDENT AND

  • THERE'S A FAIR QUESTION TO ASK

  • WHY DID HUNTER BIDEN GET $50,000

  • A MONTH FROM UKRAINIAN ENERGY

  • COMPANY WHEN HE HAD NO

  • EXPERIENCE IN THE ENERGY FIELD

  • WHATSOEVER, THE ONLY EXPERIENCE

  • HE HAD WAS BEING SON OF SITTING

  • VLADIMIR PUTIN THAT WAS LEADING

  • IN UKRAINIAN ISSUES.

  • HOWIE: ABSOLUTELY FAIR QUESTION

  • TO ASK.

  • ABSOLUTELY, I AGREE WITH YOU.

  • >> HOWIE, HERE IS THE

  • DIFFERENCE, NOT JUST ASKING THE

  • QUESTION BUT I READ COMMENTARY

  • OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN SOME OF

  • THE NEWS STORIES WHERE IT'LL SAY

  • BIDEN DID NOTHING WRONG, WELL,

  • THAT'S NOT THEIR JOB, WE DON'T

  • KNOW IF BIDEN DID OR DIDN'T DO

  • ANYTHING, WE DON'T KNOW WHY

  • HUNTER BIDEN GOT THAT JOB, FOR

  • JOURNALISTS TO MAKE ASSERTION,

  • BASICALLY THEM COMING TO DEFENSE

  • OF DEMOCRATS AND BIDEN WITHOUT

  • KNOWING THE FACTS, IT'S AMAZING

  • HOW THEY RUSH TO DEFEND BIDEN

  • AND IMMEDIATELY CRUCIFY THE

  • PRESIDENT.

  • HOWIE: DISTINCTION BETWEEN

  • APPEARANCE OF GETTING ALL THE

  • MONEY WITH NO EXPERIENCE WHICH

  • STINKS AND CRIMINAL WRONGDOING,

  • YOU'RE STILL IN DANCING WITH THE

  • STARS, YOU DROPPED CURSE WORDS

  • AND HAD TO BE BLEEPED, WHAT WERE

  • YOU THINKING?

  • >> NO, THAT'S NOT ACCURATE.

  • IF YOU GO --

  • >> FAKE NEWS?

  • FAKE NEWS?

  • >> WELL, I DID NOT, NO, I WAS

  • EXCITED BUT I DIDN'T -- HOWIE:

  • OKAY.

  • >> I'M -- I AM DEFINITELY

  • EXCITED TO GO OUT EVERY WEEK BUT

HOWIE: JOINING US NOW FROM LOS

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