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President Donald Trump declared fresh war on ISIS - and the news media - while trying to forge a new alliance with the intelligence community.

Speaking Saturday in front of the wall memorializing fallen officers at CIA headquarters, Trump promised to give the intelligence community his full backing, and hinted at loosening rules on torture put in place under President Barack Obama in the fight against ISIS. "We haven't used the abilities we've got. We've been restrained," Trump said.

He drew laughs from the crowd when he described reporters as "the most dishonest human beings" and claimed he'd drawn as many as 1.5 million people to his inauguration despite official estimates closer to 200,000 and repeated images of empty standing spaces.

He also mentioned an erroneous report from a White House pool member about a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr., being removed from the Oval Office, which was quickly corrected Friday night.

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