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"A heated exchange ensued after the deputy White House press secretary accused the media of reporting \"fake news\" and branded the Russia investigation as a \"hoax\" Tuesday during the daily press briefing. Sean Spicer was not present at the meeting and Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standing in for him when she called on a Breitbart reporter who brought up a recently retracted CNN story. “Recently, Breitbart News challenged the accuracy of a CNN story and afterwards it was retracted, deleted and the editors responsible were fired. As well as the network apologized for the story. One of the targets of the story accepted the apology and the president went on Twitter this morning and tweeted that CNN was ‘fake news.’ Why isn’t their response good enough for the president?”Then Huckabee-Sanders answered, “I don’t know that it’s that the response isn’t good enough for the president. I think it’s the constant barrage of fake news directed at this president, probably, that has garnered a lot of his frustration. You point to that report, there are multiple other instances where that outlet that you referenced has been repeatedly wrong and had to point that out or be corrected.”She then referenced a video that is “circulating.” “Whether it’s accurate or not, I don’t know. But I would encourage everybody in this room and, frankly, everybody across the country to take a look at it. I think if it is accurate, I think it’s a disgrace to all of media, to all of journalism. I think that we have gone to a place where if the media can’t be trusted to report the news, then that’s a dangerous place for America. I think if that is the place where certain outlets are going, particularly for the purpose of spiking ratings and if that’s coming directly from the top, I think that’s even more scary.  Certainly more disgraceful. I hope that is not the direction we are headed.” She went on to slam reports that she said used “unnamed sources” or “no sources at all.” Then she referenced the Russia investigation calling it a “hoax.” A reporter then asked if the president expected the media to just not cover situations such as a foreign country trying to influence the presidential election. Sanders-Huckabee responded with “I don’t think that it’s not that you’re expected to not report on actual news if there is something there. “She continued by saying that things such as job growth and tax reform should be covered more. “I think we should take really good look at what we are focused on, what we are covering and making sure that it’s actually accurate and it’s honest. If we make the slightest mistake, the slightest word is off. It is just an absolute tirade from a lot of people in this room. But news outlets get to go on day after day and cite unnamed sources, use stories with &hellip; .”Her statement was interrupted by a Brian Karem with the Sentinel newspaper. He jumped in with, “Oh, come on. You’re inflaming everybody right now, right here with those words. This administration has done that as well. Why in the name of heavens? Any one of us is replaceable, right? Any one of us if we don’t get it right the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel or not read us. You have been elected to serve for four years, at least. There is no option other than that. We’re here to ask you questions. You’re here to provide the answers and what you just did is inflammatory to people all over the country who look at it and see, once again, that 'the president is right and everybody else out here is fake media.' Everybody in this room is only trying to do their job.” Sanders-Huckabee then interjected, “I disagree completely, first of all. I think if anything has been inflamed it’s the dishonesty that often takes place by the news media. I think it is outrageous for you to accuse me of inflaming a story when I was simply trying to respond to his question.”   "
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