[jennychase]

Subject: In-town pool report #4: Rest of POTUS gaggle transcript (”I appreciate the special counsel coming out with a statement last night.”)

First, note updated guidance: POTUS remarks on border and shutdown now at 4:00 pm.

Rest of gaggle transcript:

Q. [inaudible]

I think we’re making a lot of progress. You know, we’re building wall as we speak. Nobody covers that. And I understand that. But we’re building wall as we speak, we’re going to continue. This country cannot be secure. You have human traffickers, you have criminals of all kinds, you have drug pushers and drug dealers, like at a level that people haven’t seen … Over the last 5 or 6 years, it’s gotten to a point, nobody’s seen anything like it. The border patrol has done an incredible job. But we need the help and the backup on a wall. OK.

Q. [inaudible]

Yes, I thought that the Buzzfeed piece and maybe equally as bad, the coverage of the Buzzfeed phony story. It was a total phony story, and I appreciate the special counsel coming out with a statement last night. I think it was very appropriate that they did so, I very much appreciate that. I think that the Buzzfeed piece was a disgrace to our country. It was a disgrace to journalism, and I think also that the coverage by the mainstream media was disgraceful, and i think it’s going to take a long time for the mainstream media to recover its credibility. It’s lost tremendous credibility. And believe me, that hurts me when i see that. I’m the president of this country, media could pull this country together.

It hurts me to say it. But mainstream media has truly lost its credibility, and i can say, as far as I’m concerned, from before the election, during the campaign i said wow, this is really crooked stuff, this is really dishonest reporting. When the New York Times apologized after the election for their bad coverage and their faulty coverage, and then they were wonderful for two weeks, and then they went back to being worse than ever before. And so many others. I’m not just blaming the Times. But the mainstream media has lost its credibility, and that’s a very bad thing for our country. Thank you very much.

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Sinyal minyal yok 🇹🇷 ‏

Is this it?

Bosphorus Naval News ‏

Yes there is USS Donald Cook.

Hakan KILIÇ ‏

@Saturn5_ bir şeyi merak ettim. 60'dan fazla A.Burke varken neden sık sık USS D.Cook Karadeniz'e geliyor. Son 3-5 yılda en çok gelen o. Uzmanlaştı, bölgeyi tanıdı vs. diye mi? Yoksa görevlendirme,burası ona mı ait? Yada Su-24 üstünde geçti diye kaptan olayı kişiselleştirdi mi:)

Translated from Turkish.........

Contact Hakan directly

@ Saturn5_ I wondered something. Why is there often more than 60 A.Burke USS D.Cook comes to the Black Sea. He's the one who's been in the last 3-5 years. Specialized, recognized the region etc. so that? Or is it the assignment, is it her?

Or the Su-24 on the top he has personalized the event :)

Bosphorus Naval News

This ship is one of the 4 ships on the BMD station stationed at Rota's naval base. So in recent years it often comes to the Black Sea.

Bosphorus Naval News ‏

Bu gemi Rota deniz üssünde konuşlanmış BMD görevli 4 gemiden biri. Bu yüzden son yıllarda sık sık Karadeniz'e geliyor.

Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 ‏ (Canada) Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 Retweeted Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 You never know if you don't ask...

You never know if you don't ask...https://t.co/RibW4JGI5V— Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 (@steffanwatkins) January 19, 2019

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Now back to US Gov vessel.

Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 ‏

..which just makes it worse; now we see the right callsign :)

..which just makes it worse; now we see the right callsign :)https://t.co/HceINwfCpu— Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 (@steffanwatkins) January 19, 2019

Capt(N)........RETIRED OFFICER OF THE NAVY.... ‏ Have a good hunting!📸

Bosphorus Naval News........TurkishNAVY......... ‏

No. I am protesting the fact that USN warships are preferring to pass after sunset and I am not going to take photos.

Capt(N) ‏

It's a pity!☹️

Capt(N) ‏

In an hour, she will be in the Strait.

Serhat Güvenç ‏

Wohaa. 26 knots?

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I saw it from Republic Of Serbia ?:

Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 ‏

I had to double-check my geography knowledge for that one :)

Gökhan ALATAŞ ‏

Any updates?

Capt(N)

NIKK....this is how the world has opened up. Twitter is here and now linking ALL countries together in communication/information.