White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders did some tightrope walking Monday morning, calling special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe “shameful” while touting Attorney General William Barr’s summary of it.
“We want to make sure we protect innocent people throughout this process, that we protect the sources and methods that the intelligence community uses,” Sanders told CNN’s John Berman, talking about publicly releasing the report. “Those are things that matter not just for this President but they matter for every President.”
“We want to make sure that a shameful process like this that has gone on for the last 22 months never happens to another American President,” she concluded.
“You keep saying ‘shameful process,’ again, while welcoming the findings of the Mueller report,” Berman interjected before moving into his next question
Neither Sanders nor anyone else in the administration has yet seen the full report, and all are reacting based off the summary Barr wrote.
Sanders calls Mueller probe “shameful process” while touting Barr’s summary of it pic.twitter.com/ON3BaheY8T
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) March 25, 2019
