Washington (CNN) On Tuesday, after an extended break from the "daily" press briefing, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders took questions from the media. And as you might expect, lots of those questions centered on the allegations made by Omarosa -- who, if we're being honest, doesn't need her full name for everyone to know who she is -- that she is aware of an audio tape of Donald Trump using a racial slur.

Sanders repeatedly sought to fend off the questions by pointing to Trump's tweet from Monday in which he insisted, "I don't have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. She made it up." (The word, in case you have been living on another planet for the last 48 hours, is the n-word.)

Then NBC's Kristen Welker asked Sanders whether she could guarantee the American public that Trump has never used that particular racial epithet on tape. "I can't guarantee anything, but I can tell you that the President addressed this question directly," Sanders replied.

That's the White House press secretary hedging -- big-time -- on whether or not the President of the United States has used the worst of all racial slurs.

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