Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary, was speaking with reporters when they raised the matter of the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress which appear to show Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of fetal organs for profit, a violation of federal law. He claimed the videos were released in a "fraudulent way" with "not a lot of evidence" behind them.
"There is ample reason to think that this is merely the tried and true tactic that we've seen from extremists on the right to edit this video and selectively release this edited version of the video that grossly distorts the position of the person that's actually speaking," Earnest said. (RELATED: Planned Parenthood President: Our Critics Are Extremists)
But Earnest indicated that the reason he thought the videos were fraudulent was because, well, Planned Parenthood had told him as much.