joining us now is a man who knows the
president well sean spicer the former
white house press secretary newsmax host
and author of the new book leading
america
sean welcome and let me start by saying
i'm very happy the president's condition
is improving uh
but the media been absolutely pounding
him as you know for saying don't be
afraid of the virus don't let it
dominate your life it's disappearing
he said yesterday given the fact that we
have lost 214 000 americans
well they've been pounding him since day
one so this is nothing new i think it's
just
the topic has changed he has been under
assault from the media since the day he
stepped into the white house and i don't
think it's going to end
until the day he leaves the white house
and probably not till then after but
this is nothing so this is nothing new i
think it's just the topic changes
we're obviously close to the election
and accounts but the president's going
to be back out there
making his case to the american people
and hopefully focusing on that those
lines that he said at the debate 47
months of accomplishments
versus 47 years of doing nothing in joe
biden's case
right well he's got three rallies
scheduled in the next three days so he
really wants to get out there if you
were still the press secretary
and you were asked when was the last
time the president tested
negative for is what journalists try to
assess was he or is he
still a danger to others uh could you
get away with saying sorry
uh that's private medical information
if i was still the press secretary i
would have lost all my hair by now and i
think i'd
look a lot older um but
but uh look i think that the more the
transparent they can be the better
obviously
there is a sort of a balance you
discussed this earlier in the show with
trying to be transparent
and understanding that he does have some
degree of privacy as a as a citizen
under hipaa so the more they can give
the better and if they could just say
here's when he was tested it was
negative
it would sort of take the talking point
away because here's what's happening
howie
when you're not talking about the issues
in the economy
what he's been able to do for the
military and veterans then they'll just
talk about covet and testing and things
like that so the more you can take those
things off the table
it allows the focus to get back on his
policies and his accomplishments
the president as you know has attacked
uh steve scully of c-span who was to be
the moderator of the second debate
calling him never trumper this morning
on fox he called him a fraud
this after there was a message posted
that scully had supposedly sent to
anthony scaramucci a fierce critic
asking for his advice
you looked into this uh tell us briefly
what you found
i talked to steve he says that he didn't
do it he doesn't the only times he's
ever talked to
anthony scaramucci were on two separate
c-span interviews
i've known steve a long time he's a good
upstanding man he's a pro and frankly
the way he conducts himself on c-span if
you're looking for someone who's going
to be a straight
good moderator that focuses on the
candidates not themselves i think steve
would be a great person to do that
yeah fbi is looking into scully's
explanation that his account was hacked
uh i know he was once a student intern
for joe biden
but you know he has a solid record of
fairness over
decades now at c-span uh look i
mentioned this earlier that the
president is
telling maria barto-roma in an earlier
interview that unless attorney general
bilbar indicts these people he mentioned
obama
and biden by name he will go down in
history as a very sad situation those
are the president's words
he also wants mike pompeo to release
hillary clinton's emails
that's become come back that should give
you a deja vu from 2016.
the journalist's reaction is if this was
the other way remember when bill clinton
met with attorney general loretta lynch
the pres your side went nuts and rightly
so
why how do you justify him openly
calling for indictments
of his predecessors i'll go back to what
i said a moment ago howie look this
president i think has a strong record of
accomplishments his policies are moving
the country forward
i've written an entire book on that i
think he should stick to his policies
he's got a lot to be proud of what he's
done this this justice that he's
appointed amy coney barrett would be his
third supreme court justice as a
conservative
these are things that we've yearned for
for decades the president should focus
on the accomplishments that he's made
the policies that have gotten us here
and what he'll do in a second term
i get he may want to do that i don't
know the legality of it i don't know the
evidence
or what exists but at the end of the day
no one out there in america is gonna
that isn't already voting for him is
gonna vote for him because additional
emails come out
or not right what they will vote for him
on is whether or not his policies will
grow the economy
eradicate the coronavirus build up our
military take care of our veterans
that's what he should focus on stay
focused on the policy stay focused on
the accomplishment
in contrast to those 47 years that
biden's been in washington
but no one additionally is going to vote
for you over
emails so just briefly showing me you
work for him uh
obviously a more disciplined approach uh
would
make sense to talk about what he has
done what he'll do in his secretary so
why does he keep going back to
obama biden hillary why does he do it
i think to some degree there's a level
of unfairness there he looks at some of
the activities that they engaged in and
that they got away with
and i think he goes well wait a second
i've been had a mueller report i've been
impeached
and these people are not held
accountable for what they've done i
think there is a level of unfairness
especially when it comes to how the
media looks into this or not
when you're watching joe biden get away
with not being able to answer basic
questions
and there is a level in fairness i
understand that it's not fair
that but at the end of the day like i
said people aren't going to vote for you
because of that
they're going to vote for you because of
what you've accomplished and done for
the country
okay i mentioned by novice in the
context of the last administration so
about a half a minute here you write in
leading america that
the legacy media has a view that guests
who come on fox
are compromising their credibility but
you say sitting alongside
alongside the likes of extreme leftists
like msnbc's rachel maddow
chris hayes or joy reid is just fine
explain
that's what i'm saying i think that
somehow they look at the the things that
joy reid or
chris hayes or rachel maddow or numerous
other than
say and yet there's no accountability if
a journalist goes on there that makes
total sense if they go on
fox or come on my show on newsmax
somehow they're tainted
this is ridiculous like it just shows
you that they are in the pocket of the
left
there's a whole chapter in the book
about journalism school and how they're
not
learning to report on the facts they're
learning to make the world a better
place
when you start realizing how these
journalists are born and bred
and the process by which they get their
jobs and they're rewarded and what's
wrong how that it totally starts to make
sense and this is the problem that we
have right now
is journalists are viewed as good if
they go do certain things in bad if they
do others
and that's i mean exposing is part of
the reason that i wrote the book
sean good luck with the book good to see
you thanks very much for joining us this
sunday