all right. let's get you now to the white house to the briefing we can't see but we can hear. this is the q&a portion with sean spicer just wrapped moments ago so here is that audio. >> now, and with that, let's get into some questions. john. >> the president this morning in an interview with "fox & friends" seemed to indicate that he thinks the special counsel may have some conflict of interest, one being his friendship with comey, another being the fact that a lot of the people that he's hiring, bringing on, special counsel's office, were either hillary clinton supporters and the president said some of them had even worked for hillary clinton. does he -- is he still ruling out firing this special counsel? >> nothing's changed on that. in terms of his position on --