Sarah Sanders Caught in Lie by Mueller Report

The White House press secretary then defended her lies by saying she's not "a robot like the Democrat party.”

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00:00We've heard from countless members of the FBI that say very different things.

00:10In regard to the termination of the former FBI Director Comey, the president over the last

00:16several months lost confidence in Director Comey. The DOJ lost confidence in Director Comey.

00:22Bipartisan members of Congress made it clear that they had lost confidence in Director Comey.

00:29And most importantly, the rank and file of the FBI had lost confidence in their director.

00:36Accordingly, the president accepted the recommendation of his deputy attorney general

00:40to remove James Comey from his position. There's a special agent who's inside who wrote us who said

00:46the vast majority of the bureau is in favor of Director Comey. This is a total shock. This is

00:51not supposed to happen. The real losers here are 20,000 frontline people in the organization

00:56because they lost the only guy working here in the past 15 years who actually cared about them.

01:02So what's your response to these rank and file FBI agents who disagree with your contention that

01:07they lost faith in Director Comey? Look, we've heard from countless members of the FBI that

01:13say very different things.

01:32Sarah, you said from the podium yesterday that Director Comey had lost the confidence

01:36of the rank and file of the FBI. On Capitol Hill today, the acting director of the FBI,

01:41Andrew McCabe, directly contradicted that. What led you in the White House to believe that

01:47he had lost the confidence of the rank and file of the FBI when the acting director says it's

01:52exactly the opposite? Well, I can speak to my own personal experience. I've heard from countless

01:57members of the FBI that are grateful and thankful for the president's decision.

02:01And I think that we may have to agree to disagree. I'm sure that there are some people

02:05that are disappointed, but I've certainly heard from a large number of individuals,

02:10and that's just myself, and I don't even know that many people in the FBI.

02:13And one last question, just to follow up on the FBI thing. And I'm not trying to be overly

02:19combative here, but you said now today, and I think you said again yesterday,

02:23that you personally have talked to countless FBI officials, employees, since this happened.

02:31Correct. I mean, really?

02:36Between email, text messages, absolutely.

02:39Yes.

02:3960, 70?

02:41Look, we're not going to get into a numbers game. I mean, I have heard from a large number

02:46of individuals that work at the FBI that said that they're very happy with the president's decision.

02:52I mean, I don't know what else I can say.

03:00I said the slip of the tongue was in using the word countless.

03:03I'm sorry that I wasn't a robot like the Democrat Party.