much like a prayerry dog in the grass lands sean spicer popped up again today. have you ever lied to the american people? i don t think so. you don t think so? nope. i don t cheat on my taxes. unequivocally you can say no? look, again, if you want i have not knowingly done anything to do that, no. all right. you can take the man from the podium, bt you can t take the podium from the man. he was asked have you ever lied to the american people. that, my friends is kind of a yes-or-no question. his answer, his third answer, by the way after i don t think so and i don t cheat on my taxes was i have not done anything knowingly to do that. that answer is to washington, d.c. it should have its own reflecting pool just a nice calm place where you can sit down with your word salad and think about what you ve done. did sean spicer lie to the american people? yeah, he did. he lied about the trump tower meeting being about adoption. remember the president s claim about 3 to 5 milli
occasions, the director informed him that he was not under investigation. would it have been wrong for the director to inform him he was not under investigation? yes or no? sir, i m not going to comment on any conversations that the director may have had i didn t ask that. would it have been wrong for the director to inform him he was not under investigation? that s not about conversations. that s a yes-or-no answer. as you know, senator, we typically do not answer that question. i will not comment on whether or not the director and the president of the united states had that conversation. will you refrain from these kinds of alleged updates to the president or anyone else in the white house on the status of the investigation? i will. thank you. director pompeo, one of the few key unanswered questions is why the president didn t fire michael flynn after acting attorney general yates warned the white house that he could be
2011 title 9 guidance as it relates to sexual assault on campus? senator, i know that there s a lot of conflicting ideas and opinions around that guidance and if confirmed, i would look forward to working with you and your colleagues and understand the range of opinions and understand the issues from the higher ed institutions that are charged with resolving these and addressing them and i would look forward to working together to find some resolutions. i agree with the guidance, so i m just asking for a yes or no. i guess you re not going to give me a yes-or-no answer on committing to upholding that guidance. it would be premature for me to do that today. this problem is, to say it s an epidemic i think is also an understatement. the centers for disease control told us back in 2009 that one in five women are the victims of sexual assault on campus and yet
a say. that s very different. i think that change of communication style is going to make a big difference. maria, do you buy that? do you feel like he s a better communicator and that he was very clear on what he is laying out especially in that interview with dana bash? i actually don t think he was very clear at all. he didn t give her a yes-or-no answer on the very direct question that she asked him about, whether he would put in jeopardy shutting down the government in order to defund planned parenthood, which we know is what his very extremely conservative raucous caucus wants him to do. but, yes, i do think that he is a much better communicator. i think he is a policy wonk. but i also think he understands and frankly wants to get stuff done and he understands that part of what that means is not listening to his extreme right-wing caucus in terms of doing things that are not going to work for the american people. and planned parenthood is a great example of that.
democrats vying for the 2008 democratic nomination for president and they had a debate in the great state of nevada. this is one of those debates where the moderator ran part of the debate like he was taking attendance. he went down the line asking every candidate the same yes-or-no question. no explanations, just yes or no. do you support driver s licenses for illegal immigrants? if we don t have in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, doesn t look like it s going to happen any time soon, do you support driver s licenses for illegal immigrants? no. senator obama? yes. senator clinton? no. senator obama? yes. senator clinton, no. the day before that debate, senator clinton issued a statement on that issue. she said, coat, as president, i will not support driver s licenses for undocumented people. that was eight years ago. now times have changed. former secretary of state