During Thursday’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt answered questions about President Trump's meeting with the South African President.
00:03The President showed a video that he said showed more than a thousand burial sites of white South Africans that he said were murdered.
00:11We know that that was not true and that the video wasn't showing that.
00:13So I wonder, why did the President choose to show that it's not true that the video was showing a burial site?
00:19It is unsubstantiated that that's the case.
00:21No, it is true that that video showed the crosses that represent...
00:25It was not true that the President claimed.
00:27The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of the color of their skin.
00:40And those crosses are representing their lives.
00:43Those crosses are representing their lives and the fact that they are now dead and their government did nothing about it.
00:49Are you disputing that there is no...
00:51I'm disputing the fact that the video showed what the President claimed it showed because it did not show that.
00:55But even more, what I'm asking you is who at the White House...
00:57No, it did show that.
00:57It showed white crosses representing people who have perished because of racial persecution.
01:02The White House verifies the video that the President shows and what protocols are in place when there's unsubstantiated information being put out for the world and world leaders to show.
01:09Yamiche, what's unsubstantiated about the video?
01:12The video shows crosses that represent the dead bodies of people who were racially persecuted by their government.
01:18In fact, the Associated Press, of all places, has a picture of that very monument.
01:24And the caption from the Associated Press is,
01:26Each cross marks a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder.
01:30So it is substantiated, not just by that video and the physical evidence that everybody saw on display in the Oval Office,
01:36but also by another outlet in this room, the Associated Press.
01:39So you should take it up with them if you believe the claim is unsubstantiated.
