the president has addressed these accusations directly and denied all of these allegations and this took place long before he was elected to be President and the people of this country had a decisive election supported president Trump and we feel like these allegations have been answered through that process as I'm sure you know said when asked did the election mean that's a settled issue which you've been arguing from the podium here she said I know he was elected but women should always feel comfortable coming forward we should all be willing to listen to them specifically referring
to the accusers of the president the president look that's the president said himself he thinks it's a good thing that women are coming forward but he also feels strongly that a mere allegation shouldn't determine the course and in this case the president has denied any of these allegations as have eyewitnesses and several reports have shown those eyewitnesses also back up the president's claim in this process and again the American people knew this and voted for the president and we feel like we're ready to move forward in that process a number of outlets have had to
retract and change and rewrite and make editors notes to a number of different stories some of them with major impacts including moving markets this is a big problem and we think it's something that should be taken seriously Jim reporters mistakes and disinformation campaign by a foreign government does he see a distinction there I haven't spoken with him about that but certainly we would take any misinformation like that very seriously but it's not something we're comparing the two on I would just say sir that the journalists make honest mistakes and that doesn't make them fake news
but the question of those journalists make honest mistakes they should own up to them sometimes and a lot of times you don't I'm sorry I'm not finished there's a very big difference between making honest mistakes and purposefully misleading the American people something that happens regularly you can't say I'm not done you cannot say can you say that it's an honest mistake when you're purposely putting out information that you know to be or when you're taking information that hasn't been validated that hasn't been offered any credibility and that has been continually denied by a number of
people including people with direct knowledge of an instance this is something that I'm speaking about the number of reports that have taken place over the last couple of weeks I'm simply stating that there should be a certain level of responsibility in that process hold on Jim this is not the line of questioning that I was going down but can you cite a specific story that you say is intentionally false that was intentionally put out there to mislead the American people sure the ABC report by Brian Ross I think that was pretty misleading to the American
people and I think that it's very telling that that individual had to be suspended because of that reporting I think that shows that the network took it seriously and recognized that it was a problem Jim I'm going to say once and for all that I'm moving on to Jim Stinson and I'm not taking another question from you at this point of misconduct against the president you said that he's denied then can they say whether or not they are false I'm not asking
