Kellyanne Conway on Whether the White House is Under Siege

KELLYANNE CONWAY: I truly feel for your generation and your elevation of journalists because the media at large now does not include a lot of Christiane Amanpours. It includes a lot of people who call themselves reporters because they sit on Twitter all day seeing who wrote what and then they repeat it even though they don’t independently research it themselves.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: The President accuses people from established high level media organizations including the “New York Times,” CNN – it’s not just the …

CONWAY: But they say things that aren’t true. Christiane, I assure you, I work here. And I work here because I want to be one small molecule for change in a country I love so deeply that has given me and my family so much.

CONWAY: Including freedom and the ability for my three daughters to go to school where girls – in some places in the world, can’t. I can drive. I can go to college and law school – the first person in my family. A lot of women can’t around the globe. You know that more than anybody.

And for me, who’s doing that kind of reporting? We see things every single day on TV and in print that I promise you, I swear to God, are patently false. And nobody calls or they don’t believe when we tell them what the truth is. And my main grievance has always been simple. I said it during the campaign, I said it during the transition when I also said, “Look, the President and the media are going to share joint custody of the country for the next four or eight years.” I will say eight years now. We have to figure out a way to responsibly co-parent as they say in modern language.

And that goes both ways. But what I have always said, I will continue to say, it’s not just biased coverage. That’s easy to detect. If you want to find biased coverage in this or I want to find biased coverage on that, you will find it. It’s incomplete coverage. It’s that the administration and the media have two independent but consequential platforms by which to inform the American people, if not the world, to your point, of what’s actually happening here.

The economic numbers are the story – the greatest story never told. What the President is making good on his promise with respect to trade and manufacturing, construction. If you are a coal miner, if you’re in construction, if you’re in manufacturing, if you want to be in a vocational trade, this is your President. That story is not getting out there because it’s not as riveting.

And you know what? A lot of policy is tough to figure out.

AMANPOUR: Almost – a lot of policies are tough to figure out …

CONWAY: There are some journalist who are liberal, there are some who are just lazy…