shootings. i m going to deal with the issue of addressing your colleague s question. it s a real question, will you take it to the president and come back to us, please. stooeceven, go ahead. always happy to yield to a colleague. let me ask about scott pruitt. chuck grassley says that pruitt has betrayed the president. joni ernst says that pruitt is as swampy as you can get. josh and his colleagues report in the washington post today new elements of just how swampy that is. let me ask you, how is it, in the face of all that we ve learned, how is it that president trump continues to have confidence in the epa administrator, assuming that he still does? once again, i haven t had a chance toak with the president directly about the washington post new report. we continue to have concerns and look into those and will address them. thanks, guys. well, that was a an interesting white house press briefing. i think what sarah sanders just said right there, in terms of the cak
value in being able to ask the white use questions and someju getting them on the record, even if what they are saying is not accurate, is quite valuable. then you are able to go back and poinnccies and compare those shifting versions of the truth then finally to some semblance of reality. it was interesting yesterday she repeatedly to josh s question and anothe reporter who pressed her on that, her statement previously that turned out to be wrong, she referred the media to the o hand t s outside counsel sense when you re dealing with legal issues but she is the white house press secretary and should be able to speak to at least herself and her own statement in what she said previously and why she said that and why she believes that has now changed. it s hard to say suddenly i can t comment when she s commented in the past. mitch mcconnell has just announced that he s canceling the august recess. not first week, last three weeks. he says the senate needs to get on withng appropriatio
does he think it s inappropriate to encourage the inspector general to release based on his time line rather than his own. the president wants full transparency in the process but wants it toob expedited and completed quickly on all fronts. andr andrew? to follow-up on josh s and sar sarah s question, for the larger sense, the president, whether it s on twitter account or otherwise, keeps saying things not born out by the facts, about the national anthem, or we got $6 million for opioids and discouraged taking over our country and numbers are way down. so the president saying things that aren t true and this thing with the detain what s the question? sorry. if you can get there.
but frankly, a reaffirmation of what a great country we live in and to stand for the national anthem is something that the president has been very clear on. sarah? on thursday, what will be on his agenda, trade issues and the other day japan and china and south korea can provide economic assistance to north korea and does the president plan to revisit this issue. we certainly anticipate the summit with north korea that will be next week to come up as well trade issues and other matters and we ll be happy to provide a readout and the president will speak to that tomorrow. i m going to keep going. josh? scott pruitt, helped his wife get a aaa franchise.