president's announcement, a white house official statement saying, i look forward to serving the american people with integrity as the leader. later in the day when pressed in an off-camera gaggle about when administration officials were made aware the president was going to announce his fbi pick, sarah huckabee sanders said, quoe, we were made aware in appropriate time. >> listen, and this is the important part to remember about donald trump is he made an extraordinary decision and went about it in a very, very good way. took his time, met with a lot of people, consulted with a lot of people. and came to a gold standard choice. i mean, no matter what you hear,