nation's oldest and most respected newspapers accused the president of lying. the new york city was the on major newspaper we could find calling the claim a lie on their front page this morning. and a second times piece appeared online this morning again calling this a lie. something to get used to. and the president today was not getting much air cover from fellow republicans including the speaker of the house. >> i've already commented on that. i've seen no evidence to that effect and i've made that very, very clear. >> going forward, do you worry it's going to be hard to work with a president who believes certain things -- >> i'm a policy guy. i'm going to focus on policy. i'm not going to get into the puts and takes of these things. >> i have no doubt that voter fraud exists. i can't really help you very much on what the president says he believes. i don't have any evidence of that. but i think this is a huge distraction from a what we ought to be focusing on, which is getting the president his