Spicer Grilled on Deadline to Provide Evidence of Trump’s Wiretap Claims
During today’s White House press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was pressed on the deadline presented by Congress to the Department of Justice to provide evidence of President Donald Trump’s claim that his predecessor wiretapped him before the election.
After being pushed a bit on this subject at the beginning of the briefing, Spicer was grilled by ABC’s Cecilia Vega, who wanted the press sec to give a straight answer to the issue. “I want you to clarify you answer to Major [Garrett’s] question,” she stated. “So will the DOJ and/or the administration comply with the deadline?”
When pressed again on whether the president knows what the DOJ has or not, Spicer responded that “you can’t because it’s interesting in the past when we have had these conversations, the accusation is we are interfering.” He added, “You can’t have it both ways. You can’t say we are interfering with someone when we talk with them. When we don’t talk to them, surely we must know.”
Garrett tried to jump in to get clarification, but Spicer stopped him, saying he “saw the tick tock” and understand it. “But this is a tweet from the president,” Vega pushed on. “Doesn’t the president have an obligation?”
“We have made it very clear we expect the house and the senate intelligence committees to do their job,” Spicer shot back. “I think there’s a preponderance of reports that come out about surveillance and actions that occurred during the 2016 election.”
At that point, he moved on to OANN’s Trey Yingst.
Watch the clip above, via CNN.
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