trying to protect him. i think consumers should be glad that there s someone who wants to fight for consumers and not fight for their own political ambitions, which we have seen in the previous leadership, and which will be a different change under director mulvaney. at this point, senator al franken has said there may be more women coming forward. he does not know if there are, there might be more women coming. i won t point is the president condemned them? how many women does it take or accusations as a take before the president says, al franken should resign, and is he holding back from some accusations against himself? secretary sanders: the president is not going to wait and on every single matter. every single day, with people from the media, hollywood, members of congress that have allegations brought against them, and we think that this should go through a due process and that is something that al franken should be the first to
senator warren have known more about her heritage and shared accurate information? of course. but that is a debate from years ago and now we re talking about bringing up a slur that offends an entire population of the public. one other thing, and i don t know if this was in veep or house of cards, but there was a scene mocking an insensitive president. i think it was house of cards, in which he invited a bunch of native americans into a room and a portrait of andrew jackson who is reviled by native americans for the horrible things he perpetrated on their people. this today took we have to break away right now. mick mulvaney, the acting director of the consumer financial protection bureau is speaking. let s take that live. rumors i m going to set the place on fire or blow it up or lock the doors are completely false. i m a member of the executive branch of government. we tend to execute the laws of the united states, including the provisions of dodd/frank that govern the
chairman of the fed. whose idea was this or did the president decide to give the dual mogzs to director mulvaney? look, the president felt he was the right person to lead this agency and he made the decision. i don t think there s more to it than that. fred? thank you, sarah. as far as reforms to the agency, the house has the act and no action on that senate. does the administration see this as an opportunity to push congressional reform to the agency? look, this is director mulvaney s first day. we re going to let him get settled in before we start announcing new policy, but when we do, we ll certainly keep you guys posted. anita. sorry. i ll try to jump around to save time. the other day the d.r.e.a.m.ers, the issue of the d.r.e.a.m.ers would not be in the spending bill and we re reaching the end of the year now and i m wondering that the president said he would take this back up if congress couldn t act and negotiations
secretary sanders: she is still the director and has a legal part, but not as a director. reporter: does the white house agree with mick mulvaney when he called this agency a joke? secretary sanders: we think a lot of the past practices under the previous director and under the previous administration were used more to advance political ambitions and not about protecting american consumers, which is what that supposed to be, and our goal is to make sure we get back to that. matthew. does the president still accept the authenticity of the axis highwood tape? secretary sanders: at the present address this. this was litigated and answered during the election. by the overwhelming support for the president, the fact that he is sitting here in the oval office today. he has made his position on that clear at that time as had the american people.
his authenticity has changed to make secretary sanders: the president has not changed his position. i think if anything, the president questions, is the media s reporting on that accuracy. reporter: two questions on the cfpb. it has to do with whether or not you want us to clear up any confusion as to who is in control of the cfpb? the lawsuit has been filed. we want that case to be a ruling decided very quickly. secretary sanders: we are aware that a lawsuit has been filed, we also aware that the law is clear and director mulvaney is the acting director here as that has been outlined by the counsel s office, department of justice, and as i said before, cfpb s own counsel appointed by richard cordray. i think everybody is in full agreement that he is the director of this office.