Press briefing game tape with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins

I spoke to the police chief of Portland last week. He said that the president's claims just don't match up with what's happening on the ground. I would encourage you as a reporter to go on the ground and to take a look at it for yourself because there's been many members of the press, not press in this room, but independent journalists, some of whom we'll be inviting to the White House very soon to share their stories because they have been in the middle of these riots and they have

witnessed the anarchy that is taking place night after night. It's on video. You should play it on your show. You have a great opportunity in primetime on CNN to show your audience. Yeah, but you're probably talking to partisan Democrat officials who are opposed to everything this president does.

Now, coming out of this, here's what I just saw. You present her with a verifiable fact. She then dismisses it. She then asserts something false and then implies you're a partisan hack. I see the content play there.

What's the journalism value play there? But more importantly, what's the value for the American public? How should the American public take this and consume this and because I think in their life?

That's a good question. And I think that anyone watching that exchange Whether you are someone who believes the National Guard should be sent into every Democratic City Or you're someone who thinks this is a huge overreach of power and is worried about Putting our military members on the streets of American cities to do things that they're not trained to do, which was part of what happened in Portland.

They sent the National Guard, or they tried to, but they weren't even actually deployed. And so I think the value of that is whoever you are in that moment, watching that exchange, I think it's an unimpeachable question. Who told you that that's needed there?

Like justify your reasoning for wanting to send in the National Guard as an administration. And I think when they can't, and they can't point to anyone who has said, we need the National Guard to come in, I think that's really telling. And I think that's an important moment because I think, And I think that's an important moment because I think,

regardless of where you fall on that, it says a lot.