“This has absolutely nothing to do with race and everything to do with the president calling out someone’s lack of integrity. The idea that you would only point a few of the things that the president has said negative about people that are minorities. The fact is the president’s an equal opportunity person that calls things like he sees it. He always fights fire with fire and he certainly doesn’t hold back on doing that across the board.” “Can you stand at the podium and guarantee the American people will never hear Donald Trump utter the N-word on a recording in any context?” “I can’t guarantee anything, but I can tell you that the president addressed this question directly. I can tell you that I’ve never heard it. I can also tell you that if myself or the people that are in this building serving this country every single day, doing our very best to help people all across this country and make it better — if at any point, we felt that the president was who some of his critics claim him to be, we certainly wouldn’t be here.”