eli, back to present day. i want to play for you an exchange that took place in the briefing room. josh dossey of the washington post, former colleague of yours with sarah huckabee sanders today. we ll talk about it on the other side. do you think your statement accurate or inaccurate? again, i know you want to get me into a back and forth with you on this conversation. it s not back and forth. you said something. we just want to know if it was accurate or not. i know your goal is to engage me in a conversation about matters dealing with the outside counsel, and i m not going to do that today. you said something from the podium. was it accurate or not? that s all we want to know. again, i work day in, day out, and i believe frankly with the majority of you here in the , i think you all know i m an honest person who works extremely hard to provide you with accurate information at all times. i m going to continue to do that, but i m not going to engage on matters that deal
i will say on this issue, this is the second day that josh dossey put that question to sarah sanders and others in the briefing room have as well. i think people who watch those briefings can step back and objectively take away that she cannot answer a simple question about whether a statement that she made months ago that has since been contradicted by the president s outside attorneys is accurate, whether or not this taxpayer funded spokesperson who speaks for the president at the white house is telling the truth. that s an essential question about her credibility. and yet because we re living through this era in which the president is engaged in a war on the press and a war many say on truth, the truth has become so tribalized that a lot of people see her response, and they watch for that. they like her hitting back at josh dossey, and april ryan. and this is all increasingly subjective, the takeaways from that briefing. but i do think at the end of the day when you go into that bri
was it accurate or not? that s all we want to know. again, i work day in, day out, and i believe frankly with the majority of you here in the room, i think you all know i m an honest person who works extremely hard to provide you with accurate information at all times. i m going to continue to do that, but i m not going to engage on matters that deal with the outside counse dversus sanders. i have to say jim acosta on cnn tonight said this. quote, it seems like we re coming to the end of her days at this white house. that surprised me to hear from jim. do you concur with his opinion, and what about general credibility these days from the podium? i don t have any reporting to suggest that the president himself is upset with the job that sarah sanders is doing at the podium or that a change is imminent. my impression from being around the president, talking to people in the west wing is that he s fairly happy or happier with the staff overall compared to maybe how he felt a few mon
i m sure they re not going to. there s not their thing. they re not going to explain much else, but they re going to get a lot of questions so this is going to continue on. just a reminder to our viewers. this is primary night after all. we haven t done this for a while, but we have a projected winner. dianne feinstein, the victor of the california senate ary, st in to us. we wanted to pass that along before our next update with steve kornacki. eli, back to present day. i want to play for you an exchange that took place in the briefing room. josh dossey of the washin former colleague of yours with sarah huckabee sanders today. we ll talk about it on the other side. do you think your statement accurate or inaccurate? again, i know you wantet menta back and forth wh you on this conversation. it s not back and forth. you said something. we just want to know if it was accurate or not. i know your goal is to engage me in a conversation about matters dealing with the outside couns
dossey put that question to sarah sanders and others in the briefing room have as well. i think people who watch those briefings can step back and objectiv ca awer a simple question abt her a statement that she made months ago that has since been contradicted by the presidentside atrneys is accurate, whether or not this xpayer funded spokesperson who speaks for the president at the white house is telling the truth. that s an essential question about her credibility. and yet because we re living through this era in which the president is engaged in a war on the press and a war many say on truth, the truth has become so tribalized that a lot of people see her response, and they watch for that. they like her hitting back at josh dossey, and april ryan. and this is all increasingly subjective, the takeaways from that briefing. but i do think at the end of the day when you go into that briefing room and you see the briefings getting shorter and shorter, you can take away from that that this