

Friday On ABC News, “Good Morning America,”

White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders defended her statement from 2017 that it was “a slip of the tongue” and that she was in the heat of the moment when she said in a press conference that “countless” FBI agents had told the White House that they no longer had confidence in former FBI Director James Comey.

She told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “I said a slip of the tongue was in using the word ‘countless,’ but there were a number of FBI, both former and current, that agreed with the president’s decision and they’ve continued to speak out and say that.”

Stephanopoulos pressured Sanders on her remarks, accusing her of being unable to accept that what she said then was not true.

“I said that the word I used ‘countless,’ and I also said if you look in what’s in quotations from me it’s that and it was in the heat of the moment. meaning that it wasn’t a scripted talking point. I’m sorry that I wasn’t a robot like the Democratic Party,”

Sanders replied.

On @GMA, White House press sec. Sarah Sanders sought to double down on past statements she made that special counsel Robert Mueller's team said were "not founded on anything."



Watch the full interview: https://t.co/7mRpysmjN1 pic.twitter.com/wrHqaXgyp7 — ABC News (@ABC) April 19, 2019

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