TONIGHT KEEPING THEM HONEST WITH
YET ANOTHER INSTANCE OF THE
PRESIDENT MAKING A CLAIM THAT
TURNS OUT NOT TO BE TRUE THEN
THE WHITE HOUSE NOT ACKNO
ACKNOWLEDGING THE FALSE CLAIM,
BUT BASICALLY PRETENDING IT
NEVER HAPPENED.
ACTUALLY, THERE ARE TO CLAIMS
THE PRESIDENT RECENTLY MADE, WHO
PHONE CALLS THAT THE PRESIDENT
SAID HE TOOK FROM PEOPLE WHO
WANTED TO PRAISE HIM, PHONE
CALLS IT TURNS OUT THAT NEVER
ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
LET'S START WITH THE PHONE CALL
THE PRESIDENT TALKED ABOUT
MONDAY.
>> EVEN THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO
CALLED ME, THEY SAID THEIR
SOUTHERN BORDER, VERY FEW PEOPLE
ARE COMING BECAUSE THEY KNOW
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET THAW
O
THEY AREN'T GOING TO GET THROUGH
OUR BORDER WHICH IS THE ULTIMATE
COMPLIMENT.
>> THAT SAME DAY THE OFFICE OF
THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO ISSUED
THIS STATEMENT SAYING,
"PRESIDENT ENRIQUE PENA NIETO
HAS NOT BEEN IN RECENT DM
COMMUNICATION VIA TELEPHONE WITH
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP."
TODAY, SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS
SAID THIS.
>> ON MEXICO, HE WAS REFERENCING
THE CONVERSATION THEY HAD AT THE
G20 SUMMIT WHERE THEY
SPECIFICALLY TALKED ABOUT THE
IR
ISSUES HE REFERENCED.
>> YOU REMEMBER THE PRESIDENT
SPOKE AT THE BOY SCOUTS
JAMBOREE, HE GAVE A SPEECH THAT
THE BOY SCOUTS LATER APOLOGIZED
FOR IN CASE ANYONE WAS OFFENDED
BY HOW POLITICAL AND PARTISAN
THE SPEECH GOT.
THE PRESIDENT GAVE AN SBINTERVI
TO THE "WALL STREET JOURNAL."
AT WHICH POINT THE PRESIDENT
SAID THERE WAS A STANDING
OVATION FROM THE TIME HE WALKED
OUT UNTIL FIVE MINUTES AFTER
HE'D ALREADY GONE THAT HE WOULD
BE THE FIRST TO ADMIT FIX MIXED
AND THERE WAS NO MIX.
HE SAID, I QUOTE "I GOT A CALL
FROM THE HEAD OF THE BOY SCOUTS
SAYING IT WAS THE GREATEST
SPEECH THAT WAS EVER MADE TO
THEM AND THEY WERE VERY
THANKFUL."
TODAY AN OFFICIAL WITH THE BOY
SCOUTS SAID THEY WERE NOT AWARE
OF PHONE CALLS BETWEEN THE
GROUP'S LEADERSHIP AND THE
PRESIDENT.
THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY
WAS ASKED ABOUT THAT AS WELL
TODAY AND ADMITTED THE BOY SCOUT
CALL, THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN,
EITHER.
>> MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF THE BOY
SCOUT LOEADERSHIP FOLLOWING HIS
SPEECH THERE THAT DAY
CONGRATULATED HIM, PARRAISED HI
AND OFFERED -- I'M LOOKING FOR
THE WORD, QUITE POWERFUL
COMPLIMENTS FOLLOWING HIS
SPEECH, WHAT THOSE REFERENCES
WERE ABOUT.
>> WHEN SHE WAS PRESSED ON THIS,
SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS INSISTED
IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF
SEMANTICS.
>> THEY WERE ACTUALLY -- THEY
WERE DIRECT CONVERSATIONS, NOT
ACTUALLY PHONE CALLS.
>> SO HE LIED, HE DIDN'T
RECEIVE --
>> I WOULDN'T SAY IT'S A LIE,
IT'S A PRETTY BOLD ACCUSATION.
THE CONVERSATIONS TOOK PLACE,
THEY JUST SIMPLY DIDN'T TAKE
PLACE OVER A PHONE CALL, HE HAD
THEM IN PERSON.
>> WHETHER IT WAS A LIE,
EMBELLISHMENT, SIMPLE MISTAKE,
WOULDN'T IT BE REFRESHING IN THE
WHITE HOUSE ACKNOWLEDGED THE
PRESIDENT WAS WRONG, SAYING,
YEAH, THE PRESIDENT IS MISTAMIS,
HE'S HUMAN, WE ALL MAKE
MISTAKES?
EVERYONE WORKING FOR THIS
PRESIDENT NOWS NEVER, EVER ADMIT
THE BOSS IS WRONG.
M
MIGHT SAY THESE ARE MINOR
THINGS.
AND YOU WOULD BE RIGHT, THESE
ARE MINOR THINGS BUT THAT'S SORT
OF THE POINT.
IF THE PRESIDENT CASUALLY SAYS
THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE ABOUT
MINOR PHONE CALLS, IF HE MAKES
UP STUFF SO EASILY, STUFF
INVOLVING THE PRESIDENT OF
ANOTHER COUNTRY, WHY SHOULD
ANYONE BELIEVE HIM ON THE BIG
STUFF, THE THINGS THAT REALLY DO
MATTER?
THESE CALLS ARE THE LATEST
EXAMPLE.
REMEMBER THE EXTREMELY CREDIBLE
SOURCES WHO TOLD HIM PRESIDENT
OBAMA WASN'T BORN IN THE UNITED
STATES.
REMEMBER THE INVESTIGATORS HE
SUPPOSEDLY SENT IS TO HAWAII
WHO, QUOTE, COULDN'T BELIEVE
WHAT THEY WERE FINDING.
REMEMBER THE BRAGGING ABOUT THE
SIZE OF HIS INAUGURAL CROWD,
REMEMBER THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
WHO SUPPOSEDLY VOTED ILLEGALLY.
REN HIS FRIEND, JIM, WHO WON'T
GO TO PARIS BECAUSE IT'S NOT
PARIS ANYMORE?
THERE'S NO EF ZENVIDENCE THAT A
THAT IS ACTUALLY REAL.
NONE.
THERE IS EVIDENCE DONALD TRUMP
LIKES TO MAKE THINGS UP.
HE HAS IN THE PAST ADMITTED TO
USING A PSEUDONYM TO POSE AS HIS
OWN PUBLICIST.
A LITTLE OVER A YEAR AGO THE
"WASHINGTON POST" REPORTED TRUMP
ROUTINELY CALLED REPORTERS IN
THE 1970s, 1980s, INTO THE 1990s
UNDER THE NAME OF JOHN MILLER OR
JOHN BARON.
TALKING TO A "PEOPLE" MAGAZINE
REPORTER TO TRUMP IN THE EARLY
'90s AROUND THE TIME HE'S
GETTING HIS FIRST DIVORCE.
>> HE'S COMING OUT OF A MARRIAGE
AND STARTING TO DO TREMENDOUSLY
WELL FINANCIALLY.
HE'S PROBABLY DOING AS WELL AS
ANYBODY THERE IS.
BUT HE TREATED HIS WIFE WELL AND
HE TREATED -- HE WILL TREAT
MARIA WELL.
HE'S SOMEBODY WHO HAS A LOT OF
OPTIONS AND, FRANKLY, HE GETS
CALLED BY EVERYBODY.
HE GETS CALLED BY EVERYBODY IN
THE BOOK.
IN TERMS OF WOMEN.
>> HE GOES ON TO BRAG ABOUT
MADONNA WANTED TO GO OUT WITH
HIM, EXCUSE ME, WANTED TO GO OUT
WITH DONALD TRUMP.
LAST MAY WHEN CONFRONTED WITH
THE RECORDINGS, MR. TRUMP TOLD
THE "TODAY" SHOW HE DIDN'T THINK
IT SOUNDED LIKE THAT WAS HIM.
IT SOUNDED LIKE THAT WAS HIM.
MAYBE HIS BASE DOESN'T BELIEVE
HE MAKES UP THINGS ALL THE TIME.
MAYBE THEY TO AND JUST DON'T
CARE.
AT SOME POINT, THERE'S GOING TO
BE A REAL CRISIS INVOLVIING THI
COUNTRY AS A LOT OF PEOPLE
POINTED OUT AND THE PRESIDENT
WILL HAVE TO LOOK INTO THE
CAMERA AND S