President Donald Trump s administration has spent its first days in office aggressively attacking the media for what it calls attempts to delegitimize the countrys new leader. On Sunday, the hosts of the network public affairs shows hit right back and essentially called out the administration for lying .

Both Trump and Press Secretary Sean Spicer insisted on Saturday that the crowd that watched the inauguration this year was the biggest ever. Trump claimed that TV networks showed a picture of an empty field and that from where he stood, it looked like a million, a million and a half people had attended. He also falsely stated that the crowds went all the way back to the Washington Monument.

This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period both in person and around the globe, Spicer said at his first press briefing.

None of those statements are true . But on Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Kellyanne Conway , a counselor to the president, continued to attack the media for being dishonest and focusing on crowd size an issue Trump loved to talk about during his campaign. The Sunday show hosts, however, aggressively went after the Trump administration for its lies.

Why did the president send out his press secretary who is not just the spokesperson for Trump, he is also the spokesperson for all of America at times, he speaks for all of the country at times why put him out there for the very first time in front of that podium to utter a provable falsehood? Chuck Todd, host of NBCs Meet the Press, asked Conway.

The administration may rethink [its] relationship with the press if the media continues to criticize Spicer, Conway threatened. She also told Todd not to be so dramatic when he said such falsehoods undermine Trumps press office on its very first day.

Sean Spicer gave alternative facts to that, Conway said, regarding crowd size.

Alternative facts are not facts, theyre falsehoods, Todd replied, as Conway quickly changed the topic to the Affordable Care Act.

On ABCs This Week, host George Stephanopoulos also pressed Conway on why Spicer repeated things that just arent true in his press briefing.

We are going to watch what the president does, were going to watch the president says, Stephanopoulos told her.

Chris Wallace similarly challenged Priebus on Fox News Sunday. Wallace said Trump had made statements that were flat wrong and that there needed to be discussion about the presidents honesty. Wallace showed photos of the crowd at Barack Obama s first inauguration and compared the number of attendees to the crowd gathered at Trumps. Theres no question that fewer people attended this year.