Pressed this morning to acknowledge she misled the public with her 'countless' FBI agents comment, Press Sec. Sanders repeats that her inaccurate description, which she defended multiple times at the time, was just a 'slip of the tongue.'
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders departs after speaking to reporters at the White House on April 2, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday repeated her claim that it was"a slip of the tongue" when she told reporters that"countless" FBI agents had told the White House that they had lost confidence in James Comey.
"I said that the word I used 'countless', and also if you look in what's in quotations from me it's that and it was in the heat of moment, meaning that it wasn't a scripted talking point," she said. She added that she was"sorry that I wasn't a robot like the Democratic party that went out for two and a half years and stated time and time again that there was definitely Russian collusion between the president and his campaign."
Mueller's report referred to a May 10, 2017 situation where Sanders, then the White House deputy press secretary, told reporters that"countless" FBI agents had told the White House that they had lost confidence in Comey, who had beenMueller’s report found that Sanders, since promoted to press secretary, told investigators she had no evidence to make that claim. Sanders, who was
as part of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, said the claim was a"slip of the tongue."
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