Olivia Nuzzi: ‘We Get Lied to a Lot’ at the W.H. Press Briefings

STELTER: "On Friday when he first tweeted this I thought he was just trolling the press. Olivia, what was your reaction?" 
NUZZI: "I thought it was very frightening. We are lied to a lot at the press briefings as acknowledged this week they say inaccurate things. We don’t have that many opportunities to press this administration on the record. That’s very important. It is frankly a story if the administration cannot get their story straight or if they are lying. We need to see it every day. We don’t want to be relying on them to respond to e-mails for comment. We want to do it in person, on camera where they are held accountable. They are public servants with a public service to carry out and this is part of it." 
STELTER: "I have heard a lot of talk on television about a crisis of credibility with this white House. Olivia, what’s the state of the White House’s credibility?" 
NUZZI: "Not great. The state of the union isn’t great in that respect. They have a lot of problems and I think part of the problem is because they say so many inaccurate things on the record to us at briefings, it’s much more easy for us to believe the leaks coming out on background. The White House doesn’t really have a leg to stand on when they deny leaks on the record."