The entire press conference is below. I've only watched excerpts myself. Clearly, Trump is at war with the mainstream press and a good portion of the leadership within the intelligence agencies which is driving the media. Alexander Mercouris has a short analysis of the press conference here (Link).
Summary of the Mercouris article:
Key points:
1. Trump has delayed attempts at "detente with Russia" until he gets his domestic house in order. Trump in essence stated the Russians have no reasons to believe Trump could deliver on any promises unless he shows his own government is behind him. Here's an excerpt from Trump's press conference.
If we could get along with Russia, that’s a positive thing. We have a very talented man, Rex Tillerson, who’s going to be meeting with them shortly and I told him. I said “I know politically it’s probably not good for me.” The greatest thing I could do is shoot that ship that’s 30 miles off shore right out of the water.
Everyone in this country’s going to say “oh, it’s so great.” That’s not great. That’s not great. I would love to be able to get along with Russia. Now, you’ve had a lot of presidents that haven’t taken that tack. Look where we are now. Look where we are now. So, if I can – now, I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But – but it’s possible I won’t be able to get along with Putin.
Maybe it is. But I want to just tell you, the false reporting by the media, by you people, the false, horrible, fake reporting makes it much harder to make a deal with Russia. And probably Putin said “you know.” He’s sitting behind his desk and he’s saying “you know, I see what’s going on in the United States, I follow it closely. It’s going to be impossible for President Trump to ever get along with Russia because of all the pressure he’s got with this fake story.” OK?
And that’s a shame because if we could get along with Russia – and by the way, China and Japan and everyone. If we could get along, it would be a positive thing, not a negative thing……
All of those things that you mentioned are very recent, because probably Putin assumes that he’s not going to be able to make a deal with me because it’s politically not popular for me to make a deal. So Hillary Clinton tries a re-set. It failed. They all tried. But I’m different than those people.
2. Trump will call on the Justice Department to look into the CRIMINAL LEAKS put out by the intelligence agencies. Now that Sessions is heading the DOJ Trump should have the backing needed if he is going to take on and root out the other agencies opposing him. Another excerpt:
Yes, we’re looking at them very — very, very serious. I’ve gone to all of the folks in charge of the various agencies and we’re — I’ve actually called the Justice Department to look into the leaks. Those are criminal leaks. They’re put out by people either in agencies — I think you’ll see it stopping because now we have our people in. You know, again, we don’t have our people in because we can’t get them approved by the Senate.