What did Sarah Huckabee Sanders claim about law on 10 May 2017?
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Principal Deputy White House Press Secretary ·
Look, we've heard from countless members of the FBI that say very different things.
Sarah Sanders later told the Special Counsel this was a slip of the tongue, and the Special Counsel found the evidence did not show FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey.
Sanders told the Special Counsel's Office that her reference to hearing from "countless members of the FBI" was a "slip of the tongue", and the Special Counsel found that the evidence did not support the claim that FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey (Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, Vol. II, pp. 72 and 76).
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- White House press briefing the day after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
The record
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