Mark Halperin Unloads on Legacy Media for Framing Iran Story Like Trump Was ‘Lying’

HALPERIN: “The president continues to overstate the case. The people around him, like the Secretary of State and his spokesperson and the Secretary of Defense, pretend attitudinally and stylistically and tonally that they’re agreeing with the president, but they’re not actually going as far as the president in most cases in qualifying the damage done to the Iranian nuclear program. And then, the media is just, it’s insane because Pete Hegseth is correct. They put out a fragment of a preliminary report and they framed it as if the president was lying. It’s insane what they did.”

SPICER: “Can I —“

HALPERIN: “Hold on, hold on. I’m not quite done, sorry. The fragment of a preliminary report by one part of the intelligence community should not have been cast, as CNN and The New York Times did, as some definitive judgment on whether it worked or not or how effective it was. It’s insane, and it gives — it opens the door to the Secretary of Defense and the president have the debate about fake news.”