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The Briefing

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by Sean Spicer


  Foxboro Stadium, 201

  Francis, Pope, 227–28, 230. See also Holy Father

  Franken, Al, 188

  Fusion GPS, 149

  G

  Gamache, Barry, Father, 120

  Garland, Merrick, 157–58

  General Services Administration, 123

  Geneva, Switzerland, 48–49

  George Washington University, 30, 47

  Georgia, 64, 218

  Geraghty, Jim, 225

  Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, 110

  Germany, 26, 232

  Gibbs, Robert, 130

  Gillespie, Ed, 53

  Gingrich, Newt, 35, 55, 57, 214

  Giuliani, Rudy, 88, 97, 126, 201

  Gizzi, John, 165, 173

  Glassman, James K., 22

  Goldberg, Jeffrey, 172–73

  Goldman Sachs, 3, 217

  Good Morning America, 177

  Google, 77

  Gore, Al, 15, 41, 113

  Gorsuch, Neil, 157–59, 195

  Graham, David A., 101

  Grand Rapids, MI, 15, 110

  Grand River, 110

  Greenberger, Jonathan, 203

  Gridiron Club, 66

  Griffin, Kathy, 178

  Griffin, Kyle, 142

  Griswold, David, 35

  Gronkowski, Rob, 201–2

  Growth and Opportunity Project, 60–61, 64, 66, 105

  Guardian, The, 102

  H

  Haberman, Maggie, 170, 173, 214, 225

  Hagerty, Bill, 123

  Hagin, Joe, 194, 227

  Haley, Nikki, 186

  Halper, Daniel, 138

  Hamby, Peter, 242

  Handel, Karen, 218

  Hardiman, Thomas, 158

  Harsanyi, David, 174

  Harvard Law School, 3

  Harvard University, 10

  Harwood, John, 79

  Hayes, Chris, 154

  Hayes, Rutherford B., 7

  Heritage Foundation, The, 158

  Hewitt, Hugh, 69

  Hicks, Hope, 7, 74, 92, 97, 113, 125, 169, 227

  Hill, The, 177, 244

  Hishta, John, 42

  Hitler, Adolf, 195–200

  HMS Resolute, 7

  HNA Group, 8

  Hobbins, J. Clifford, 20–23

  Hofstra University, 97

  Holland, Steve, 173

  Hollywood, 178–79, 248–49

  Holocaust, the, 195, 198, 200, 226–27

  Holt, Lester, 213

  Holy Father, 165, 227–28, 230

  Holy Land, 228

  Houston, TX, 161, 201

  Huckabee Sanders, Sarah, 2, 164, 176, 199, 205, 220, 232

  Hudson River, 93

  I

  Ida Lewis Yacht Club, 17

  Indiana, 39, 43, 80, 114

  Ioffe, Julia, 172–73, 178

  Iowa, 42, 62, 68, 109

  Iran, 151, 172, 190, 197

  Iraq, 49, 52, 151

  Iraq War, 65, 75

  Ireland, 49, 166, 230

  ISIS, 172, 178, 186

  Israel, 226–27

  J

  Jackson, Andrew, 128

  Jackson, Hallie, 218

  Jacobs, Jennifer, 173

  James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, 1, 131, 144

  Japan, Japanese, 23, 26, 49, 123, 188

  Jefferson, Thomas, 39

  Jennings, Peter, 38

  Jerusalem, 226, 228

  Jesus Christ, 19, 165, 226

  Jinping, Xi, 193

  Johnson, Jenna, 210–11

  Johnson, Lyndon B., 104

  Jones, Brian, 112, 181

  Jones, Paula, 101

  K

  Kalunian, Kim, 146

  Karem, Brian, 176, 221

  Kasich, John, 139

  Kelly, John, 137, 147–48, 238

  Kennedy, John, 215–16

  Kentucky, 114

  Khan, Sheikhoun, 194

  Kimmel, Jimmy, 247–48

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 128, 130, 133, 140

  Kislyak, Sergey, 146, 153

  Knesset, 226

  Korean Peninsula, 26

  Korean War, 26

  Kraft, Jonathan, 202

  Kratovil, Ted, 32, 34

  Kroft, Steve, 100

  Kushner, Jared, 93, 97, 108, 113, 125, 178, 194

  L

  LaCivita, Chris, 78

  Lack, Andrew, 79

  Lady Gaga, 104

  LaGuardia Airport, 60

  Lake Pontchartrain, 31

  Larson, Jeff, 53, 87

  Larson, Lars, 146

  Las Vegas, NV, 102

  Lauer, Matt, 93–95

  Lenin, Vladimir, 51

  Lewandowski, Corey, 60, 63, 74, 80

  LexisNexis, 174

  Libya, 98, 151

  Lincoln, Abraham, 23, 61

  Lizza, Ryan, 235–37

  Lloyd, Matt, 43

  LoBiondo, Frank, 37

  London, England, 170

  Los Angeles, CA, 247–48

  Lowe, Rob, 248

  Luntz, Frank, 62

  Lynch, Loretta, 82, 206

  M

  MacArthur, Douglas, 26

  Machtley, Ronald, 25

  Maddow, Rachel, 93, 217

  Magary, Drew, 13

  Maine, 21, 113

  Manafort, Paul, 81, 84–86, 88, 90

  Mandelson, Peter, 50

  Manigault, Omarosa, 217

  Mar-a-Lago, 194

  Marchi, Ben, 120

  Mason, Jeff, 144, 178–79, 225

  Mass, 19, 122, 135, 191–92, 223, 230

  Massachusetts, 56–57, 120

  Massie, Thomas, 177

  Matthews, Chris, 93, 178

  Mattis, James, 122, 126, 137, 160, 194, 196, 198

  McCabe, Andrew, 186

  McCain, John, 60, 62–63, 84

  McCarthy, Melissa, 23, 43, 135, 204

  McCaskill, Claire, 190

  McCurry, Mike, 130, 222

  McEntee, John, 227

  McGahn, Don, 7

  McMaster, H. R., 187–88, 194

  McMurdo Station, 26

  Medal of Honor, 17

  Media Research Center, 142

  Meet the Press, 54

  Mercer, Rebekah, 152

  Metropolitan Police Department, 131

  Mexico, 49, 62, 155–56

  Miami, FL, 39

  Michigan, 15, 104, 107–8, 110–11, 115, 117

  Middleburg, VA, 44

  Middleton, RI, 153

  Miller, Dennis, 135

  Miller, Jason, 86, 93, 97, 115, 122, 158

  Miller Spicer, Rebecca, 1, 6, 8, 45–46, 48, 79, 91, 114, 119–20, 127, 129, 135, 165, 200, 212, 223–25, 228–29, 239, 241, 245–48

  Miller, Stephen, 2, 97, 151, 168, 194, 205

  Miller, Zeke, 128, 140

  Minneapolis Star Tribune, 170

  Minnesota, 109

  Missouri, 99, 109

  Mitchell, George, 21

  Mnuchin, Steve, 126, 194

  Montesi, Janet, 210

  Morning Joe, 75, 248

  Morrone, Vanessa, 112, 128

  Morrongiello, Gabby, 173

  Moscow, Russia, 149

  MSNBC, 75, 93, 112, 142, 154, 172, 181, 217

  Mueller, Robert, 154, 190, 231

  Murdoch, Rupert, 112

  Murphy, Eddie, 135

  Murray, Bill, 135

  Muslim, 141, 143, 147

  N

  Nahigian, Keith, 123

  Nahigian, Ken, 123

  Narragansett Bay, 16, 20

  Nation, The, 102

  National Mall, 131–34

  National Park Service, 131

  National Review, 173, 223, 225

  NBC, 38, 79, 93–94, 99–100, 133, 137, 143, 148, 170, 213, 218

  Nevada, 68, 117

  New England Patriots, 47, 161, 201

  New Hampshire, 68, 71, 117

  New Jersey, 37–38, 97, 123, 126, 191

  New Labour, 50

  New O
rleans, LA, 31

  New York Post, 138, 169, 171

  New York Times, 13, 21, 78, 90, 116, 137, 147–48, 170–71, 173, 185–87, 191, 205, 214, 225, 240, 244

  New York Yacht Club, 17, 31

  New Yorker, 235–36

  Newport, RI, 17–18

  Newport Yacht Club, 17

  Newsmax, 165, 173

  Newsweek, 13

  NFL, 81, 136

  Nixon, Richard, 104, 214

  North American Free Trade Agreement, 51

  North Carolina, 15, 21, 104, 114, 122

  NRA, 105

  Nussle, Jim, 42

  O

  Obama, Barack, 29, 51, 54, 57, 65, 68–70, 76, 81–82, 105–6, 116, 125, 129–30, 132, 139, 147, 156–57, 168, 170–71, 174–77, 180, 250

  Obama, Michelle, 149

  Obamacare, 180

  Ohio, 43, 61, 77, 81, 83, 107, 109, 114, 117, 168

  Oregon, 146

  Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 3, 33

  Ossoff, Jon, 218

  Owens, Carryn, 159, 170

  Owens, William Ryan, 159, 192

  P

  Pace, Julie, 115, 137–38, 243

  Pacific Rim, 136

  Pappas, Mike, 37

  Paris Agreement, 168

  Paris, France, 3, 168

  Parker, Ashley, 181

  Parliament, 218

  Parscale, Brad, 93, 108–9

  Passover, 142, 199

  Paul, Rand, 76

  Paul, Ron, 57

  PBS, 38

  Pearl Harbor, 26

  Pelosi, Nancy, 200

  Peña Nieto, Enrique, 155

  Pence, Mike, 43, 88, 108–9, 113, 115, 124, 146, 153, 160–61, 174, 191, 203, 229

  Pennsylvania, 14–15, 36–37, 107–8, 114–15, 158

  Pensacola, FL, 52

  Pentagon, The, 52, 160, 210–13

  People’s Republic of China, 193

  Perino, Dana, 130

  Periscope, 132, 223

  Perot, Ross, 72

  Philadelphia, 88–89

  Pierson, Katrina, 73

  Planned Parenthood, 105

  Playboy, 176, 221

  Plouffe, David, 81

  Podesta, John, 98

  Poland, 232

  Politico, 30, 63, 112, 142, 145–46, 172, 185, 204, 217, 228, 240, 243

  Pompeo, Mike, 150, 160, 186

  Porter, Rob, 10

  Porter, Roger, 10

  Portman, Rob, 47

  Portsmouth Abbey School, 19, 248, 256

  Post, Marjorie Merriweather, 193

  Powell, Dina, 169, 194

  Prague, Czech Republic, 150

  Preate, Alexandra, 183

  Presbyterian, 191

  Presidential Records Act, 185

  Preston, Mark, 240

  Price, Tom, 180

  Priebus, Reince, 5, 15, 53, 67, 91, 113, 144, 159–60, 191, 236–39

  Providence, RI, 120, 146

  Pruitt, Scott, 244

  Psaki, Jen, 125

  Putin, Vladimir, 90, 186, 196

  Puzder, Andrew, 124

  Q

  Question Time, 218

  R

  Raleigh, NC, 15, 104

  Ramadan, 141

  Rasmussen Reports, 151

  Rather, Dan, 38, 56

  RawStory, 217

  Reagan, Ronald, 20, 23, 34, 48, 50, 61, 99, 166, 200

  Red Army Choir, 153

  Reid, Harry, 157

  Reuters, 137, 144, 173, 178, 224–25

  Rhodes Scholar, 10

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 48

  Rivera, Geraldo, 217

  Roberts, John, 173, 240

  Rogin, Josh, 147–48

  Roman Catholics, 16, 19, 43, 46, 119, 191, 227, 229

  Rome, Italy, 228–29

  Romney, Mitt, 14, 29, 56–58, 67, 69, 75, 84, 88, 105, 113, 126, 181

  Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, 77

  Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, 59

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 64, 122, 168

  Rosenstein, Rod, 190, 205–6, 210, 213–14, 231

  Ross, Brian, 154

  Rove, Karl, 102, 182

  Rubio, Marco, 30, 68, 72, 76, 90, 214

  Rucker, Philip, 181

  Russia, 3, 50, 86, 145–46, 149–50, 153–54, 172, 177, 185–91, 196–97, 213–14, 219, 222–23, 231

  Ryan, April, 176, 218

  Ryan, Paul, 53

  S

  Sabato, Larry, 14

  Salem Radio, 71

  Salman, King, 226

  San Francisco, CA, 167–68

  Sanders, Bernie, 89

  Sankovich, John, 45, 48, 224

  Santorum, Rick, 56–57

  Sass, Joan, 246

  Saturday Night Live, 23, 135, 249

  Saudi Arabia, 226

  Scalia, Antonin, 157, 195

  Scaramucci, Anthony, 2–8, 11, 233–39

  Scarborough, Joe, 75, 112, 172, 181

  Scavino, Dan, 113, 156, 227–28

  Schiller, Keith, 2, 60, 206, 227

  Schreckinger, Ben, 145–46

  Schwab, Susan, 47, 49

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 75

  Scott, Rick, 61

  Scranton, PA, 15

  Secret Service, 49, 128, 131, 163, 209, 241, 247

  Seekonk, MA, 120

  Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, 194

  Sessions, Jeff, 125, 151, 188, 190–91, 205–6, 231

  Shah, Raj, 163, 199

  Shaw, Clay, 15, 39, 41–42

  Shayrat Airbase, 194

  Shine, Bill, 112

  Short, Marc, 107, 245

  Silver, Nate, 13, 116

  Simi Valley, CA, 77

  Sinners, Robert, 86–87

  Skelly, Bill, 106–8, 110

  SkyBridge Capital, 8

  Skype, 138, 145–46

  Smith, Ben, 142

  Snow, Kate, 112

  Somalia, 151

  South Carolina, 68, 86, 114, 229

  Spanish-American War, 17

  Special Forces, 159–60

  Spicer, Kathryn, 6, 18

  Spicer, Mike, 17, 31

  Spicer, William, 17, 26

  St. Francis, 183

  St. George’s School, 18

  St. Louis, MO, 98–100

  St. Michael, 165

  St. Patrick’s Day, 44, 166

  St. Petersburg, Russia, 50

  Stallmann, Anna, 123

  Stamford, CT, 31

  Starr, Barbara, 160

  State Hermitage Museum, 50

  Steele, Michael, 149

  Steinle, Kathryn, 167

  Stephanopoulos, George, 25, 56, 69, 114

  Stepien, Bill, 113–14

  Strom, Natalie, 136, 165, 199

  Sudan, 151

  Sullivan, Louis, Dr., 23–24

  Super Bowl, 47, 161, 201–2

  Super Soaker, 136

  Supreme Court of the United States, 109, 157–59, 195

  Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, 24

  Suzanne, Scott, 112

  Swan, Jonathan, 173

  Sweden, 26

  Swonger, Chris, 32–34

  Syria, 142, 151, 171, 186, 192, 194–97

  T

  Taoiseach, 166–67

  Tapper, Jake, 149

  Tea Party Leadership Fund, 73

  Tennessee, 114

  Texas, 87, 114, 161, 201

  Thames River, 24

  Thrush, Glenn, 214, 240

  Tillerson, Rex, 127, 148

  TMZ, 99

  Today, 93

  Toledo Blade, 170

  Trans-Pacific Partnership, 75–76, 136

  Treasury Building, 127

  Trudeau, Justin, 146

  Trump, Donald, Jr., 93, 108

  Trump, Eric, 93–94, 108

  Trump, Ivanka, 113, 173

  Trump, Melania, 14, 115

  Trump Organization, 150

  Trump Tower, 58, 72, 74, 91, 94, 113, 115, 125–26, 132, 149�
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  Tur, Katy, 170

  Turness, Deborah, 93–94

  Twitter, 78, 98, 132–33, 135, 142–43, 163, 168, 180–81, 190, 204, 212, 223, 225, 242–43, 249

  U

  Ukraine, 81

  United Nations, 186

  United States Central Command, 160

  United States Marine Corps, 26, 122

  United States Navy, 15, 26, 51–52, 152, 154, 159, 165, 187, 192, 210, 212–13, 229, 246

  United States Navy Reserve, 26

  United States Treasury, 5, 22, 126–27, 146, 194, 237, 245

  University of Colorado, 77

  University of the South, 46

  University of Virginia, 14

  USA Today, 145

  USS Intrepid, 93–94

  V

  Vatican, 50, 227–28, 230

  Vatican City, 226–27

  Vega, Cecilia, 197

  Victoria, Queen, 7

  Virginia Gold Cup, 44

  W

  Wailing Wall, 226

  Walker, Scott, 3, 53, 61, 72

  Wall Street, 7, 21, 23, 76

  Wall Street Journal, 69, 71, 186, 204

  Walsh, Katie, 63, 80, 92, 99, 103, 107, 110, 125

  Walters, Lindsay, 202

  Washington County, PA, 36

  Washington Examiner, 173

  Washington Monument, 127, 132

  Washington Post, 22, 29, 62, 99, 114, 137, 147–48, 153, 155, 174, 181, 186, 210–11, 240

  Washington University in St. Louis, 98

  Watergate, 68, 214

  Weiner, Anthony, 103–4, 214–16

  Weiser, Ron, 54

  West Virginia, 114, 168

  Westerhout, Madeleine, 1, 8, 126

  Westwood, Sarah, 173

  White House Correspondents’ Association, 29, 138, 143–44, 178–79, 203, 225, 240

  Willey, Kathleen, 101

  Wilson, Scott, 211

  Wisconsin, 3, 14, 53, 61, 107–9, 114–15

  Woodstock, 179

  Woodward, Calvin, 175

  World Trade Organization, 48, 50

  World War II, 26, 196, 242

  WPRI, 146

  Y

  Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center, 226–27

  Yale University, 26

  Yates, Sally, 157, 218

  Yemen, 151, 159

  Z

  Zarate, Garcia, 167

  Zedong, Mao, 193

  Zillow, 224

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