CNN's Jake Tapper: Trump Trying To 'Discredit Legitimate' News Stories About His Administration
CNN's Jake Tapper immediately fired back at Sean Spicer and the Trump administration for linking them to "fake news" after Trump wrapped up his first press conference as the president-elect.
Sean Spicer opened up the press conference and said, "The fact that Buzzfeed and CNN made the decision to run with this unsubstantiated claim is a sad and pathetic attempt to get clicks."
Tapper took great umbrage with his remarks and said, "At the beginning of the press conference Sean Spicer, who is going to be the White House press secretary, suggested that both Buzzfeed and CNN published this dossier full of uncorroborated rumors. That's not true. That's false. CNN never did that. We never provided even one detail from that dossier except this morning when I said that there was reason to believe that one detail that had been out there because of Buzzfeed was false involving trump's attorney Michael Cohen."
Tapper continued, "That conflation whether it's because Sean Spicer misunderstood or some other reason, that's not true. CNN did not do that. What we did was say in our reporting yesterday that broke the story that the intelligence chiefs of the United States, when they briefed president Obama Thursday and president-elect Trump on Friday, provided in their briefing to these two leaders about Russian hacking into the U.S. 2016 election.