sanders. i went off of the information that i had when i answered your question. reporter: sanders said she hadn t had a chance to ask the president directly, despite having numerous conversations with him. sanders also claimed the white house story had been consistent despite the clear incon sti inconsistencies. the president tweeting, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at the podium with perfect ache kra s perfect accuracy. i m curious why it took so long, 41 days, for this to be laid to rest and whether the president is recording any oval office. you guys asked for an answer. reporter: the 34-year-old sanders is the daughter of former arkansas governor and presidential candidate mike huckabee. she went to the christian college and married in 2010 and is mother of three children. most recently, she worked on her father s failed 2016 presidential bid.
some late reporting on the russia hacking story comes from the wall street journal. the headline the gop operative sought clinton e-mails and implied connection to flynn , flynn being the former campaign manager michael flynn. shane is with us. the story talks about a guy named peter smith who believed that hillary clinton s missing e-mails have been stolen by someone and someone who he believed was a russian hacker. who is this guy? well, peter smith is a chicago businessman who has a long history in gop politics and particularly in opposition research. e s probably most well-known as the guy who brought the arkansas trooper scandal, so-called troopergate, helped to bring that to light in the 1990s. so he did harbor a lot of political grievances against hillary clinton and when he set
and be able to focus on the agenda and policy items have to find themselves constantly responding and reacting and justifying this. and so let me tell you, i used to be able to say good things about paul ryan and people would give him a pass. today you say anything good about paul ryan and you might as well have complimented satan. he s not only ruining donald trump s brand i think paul ryan did the right thing today. he said he did not agree with that. weyou cannot control donald trump. we have to live with this. point it out. call it out. but don t let it take over your complete self. please. it already has. a closer look at the presidential spokesperson who has emerged as the president s defender in chief on this and later, hacked e-mails and national security adviser michael flynn. we ll speak with the wall street journal correspondent who got the story.
normally. the group thinking. that s one of the problems. that s the same thing as saying i have a billion dollars so everything i do is right. you know, it s if you won the election, yes, you won the election in november. the challenge is now to be the president. jeffrey, every president has bad characteristics. i don t think anyone anticipated, even his strongest supporters, that when he became president he would sort of lean into the worst parts of his personality. in fact, i think he actually promised in a famous quote that he could be so presidential, you will be so bored of him. and so far, he has not lived up to the boring version he promised. in case you re just joining us, quickly, i want to bring everyone up to speed on the story we and everyone else has been talking about, the today hit-and-run twitter attack. details now from our jim acosta. reporter: just as president trump is touting his administration s energy policy,
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