Sean Spicer Spars With Reporters During Contentious Press Briefing

Melissa McCarthy should have fun with this.

The White House just held its daily press briefing, and it was more contentious than usual. Spicer was asked about the Senate Intelligence Committee concluding that there was no evidence of wiretapping of Trump Tower.

“…based on the information available to us, we see no indications that Trump Tower was the subject of surveillance by any element of the United States government either before or after Election Day 2016,” Senate Intelligence Committee chair Richard Burr and ranking member Mark Warner said in a statement.

Two key points: This conclusion is based on the information available to them at this time. And the conclusion is confined to surveillance by the United States government. Not, say, a foreign intelligence agency.

Spicer said the Intelligence Committee’s conclusion was not final and pushed it right back on the media, slamming their selective reporting. After all, when House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes came out and said they found no evidence of Trump connections to Russia, they ignored it. THAT wasn’t worth reporting.

WH press secretary Sean Spicer comments on the bipartisan rebuke of President Trump’s wiretap allegations https://t.co/frf6DZTOH1

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 16, 2017

Spicer went back and forth with CNN’s Jim Acosta too.

Press secretary Sean Spicer: When the President had wiretapping in quotes, “he was referring to broad surveillance” https://t.co/CZ6AEGaTcj

— CNN (@CNN) March 16, 2017

I sure as heck hope Trump can ultimately back up the surveillance claims. Otherwise, this just looks bad.