White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany joins Sean Hannity with insight on 'Hannity.'
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And we have to be ready for that
that,
okay,
you can imagine White House
Press secretary,
Kayleigh Mcenany has to deal
with this on a daily basis.
Jonathan Karl ABC News tried to
ask a gotcha question about the
situation in Portland.
Kayleigh Mcenany was prepared.
Lets take a look
where in the constitution,
does the President derive the
authority to send federal
law enforcement officers to the
streets of american cities
against the will of elected
officials in those cities?
What youre referring to is
Portland and forty? U dot S code, one thousand three hundred and fifteen
gives DHS the ability to
deputize officers in any
department or agency, like as
custom and border patrol, and
secret service secret service,
and officers and agents can be
deputized for the duty in
connection with the protection
of property owned or occupied by
the federal government and
persons on that property, and
when a federal courthouse is
being lit on fire commercial
fireworks get being shot at it.
I think that falls pretty well
within the limits of that code.
By the way we have
an update on what has just
happened breaking literally
ten minutes ago now eleven people
confirm shot tonight,
Chicago Tribune and the city
of Chicago
seventy shot. This weekend, ten died
and one child was ten and
another was eleven.
We will have more on Portman,
Chicago New York City and all
the other liberal run cities for
decades in a moment, but first
we have two more clips from
todays briefing
at one point sounded like a
reporter calling the press
secretary, allying B, word,
others heard the reporter say
she didnt want to engage
okay.
I literally did my own poll of
my staff.
They say its fifty slash. Fifty
but learned earlier might be a
history of using that word, but
we give the benefit of the
doubt. We will let you decide.
Is there a question about
mass mail out voting, and I know
you dont want to hear them,
which is why you talk over me,
but I encourage you to read the
op ed
on the China Vaccine Research,
research.
Okay, you dont want to
engage
my staff, formal
poll, fifty slash. Fifty
I give the benefit of the doubt
remember this show was the show
that doesnt rush to judgment.
We stand strongly against
boycotts, silent voices that we
disagree with and never call for
anybodys firing. We let people
decide and while its not
totally clear what was uttered
under the breath, its obvious.
These briefings are incredibly
tense, always combative and at
the very end of the presser one
reporter even screaming at the
press, Secretary
Kayleigh Mcenany to wear a
mask.
Take a look,
wear a mask.
Okay
in case you dont know this.
Anyone that surround the
president is tested every single
day.
Anyone that is around Joe Biden
is tested every single day,
which I believe is the right
thing to do.
The shaming game is total b dot s
just another day of the press
secretary dealing with the
glowingly hostile media, a lot
of money to get paid for hating,
President Trump, every second,
every minute, every hour of
every day,
joining us now press secretary,
Kayleigh Mcenany,
I dont think you can pay me
enough money to do that. Job,
youre doing a great job. Sarah
Sanders, as others have before
you
lets start with the environment.
There.
Do you have any thoughts on you
now have listen to the tape and
heard what I think I heard the
members of my staff disagree
with me on.
I told my staff and my staff
was fifty slash fifty, but, unlike with the
media, does to me does to this
president, does to anyone in the
Trump administration which is
not to give us the benefit of
the doubt, but actively take this
out of context chop up our
words in a way, thats
politically convenient to them
and distorts the entirety of the
message.
Unlike the dishonest brokers,
ive seen in the media, I wont
do that to a reporter who showed
animosity, who was cruel and
rude and wasnt taking answers
for the american people
ill, give her the benefit of the
doubt if she says she didnt say
that something they have never
given this president actively
taken out of context,
and then this mask
shaming thing that is happening.
You are around the President or
Joe Biden and Joe Biden has
admitted this. Everybody gets
Covid tested.
That would mean you are tested,
probably every day. My guess.
I know that the people in the
room are tested every day.
That means they are very safe.
President pulled out his mess
today encourage social
distancing mask wearing, but
then CNN wont even run him
explaining all the updates on
this, but they only get to the
part where they can play gotcha
with the president and to me
its a dereliction of duty,
its their bias, their cult of
hatred, their psychosis about
anything, Donald Trump,
thats exactly right.
On March 31st, this president
was asked about masks.
He said if you want to wear a
face in covering where one
does no harm
by all means where one,
then, the CDC came out with
guidelines and a set of opposing
face coverings and mask said
its recommended, but not
required.
The president was ahead of the
game because he was behind the
game.
The White House press corps
a full month later. When I did my
first briefing, I looked around
the room. No one was wearing
masks
so its very interesting to see
the politically convenient
White House press Corps when that was never the case. Always
that was never the case always
has been open to it.
This is just breaking as we
come on the air,
including a 10 year old and
11 year old.
We are seeing them die in
Brooklyn 8 year old in Atlanta
7 year old in Chicago, and saw
the autonomous summer of love
zone, murders that took place in
injuries of others,
calling it a war zone
eleven people shot as of now just
tonight in Chicago.
You got a lot of questions. What
is the presidents authority to
have the authority to protect
these cities that are war zones?
I would argue when I think the
attorney general has had. I think
many other attorneys. The
insurrection act is clear. I
would warn the president against
doing it unless its absolutely
necessary, but these governors
and mayors seem to hate the
president and they want to yell
at him rather than protect the
roman citizens. At this point- and
I dont understand that
thats exactly right,
mayor, Lori, Lightfoot of Chicago,
has lost control of her city
bill De Blasio of
New York City has lost control
of his city.
These democratic governors have
lost control of their streets
and there is a human cost.
We need to know. Their names
lost her life in Atlanta. You
have who lost his life out in
Kansas City and, at least in
misery. You had a governor who
came to the president and said I
want federal help whatever I
can do to make sure what
happened never happens again,
thats what a responsible
governor does, but instead you
have derelict mayors and
children dying and its
unacceptable, and this president
will always stand up for those
children and thats. What I love.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-01.