Sarah Huckabee Sanders Swears She Has Credibility During Trainwreck Interview

During a face-to-face interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo this week, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was called out repeatedly for lying about the President’s role in dictating a letter on behalf of Trump Junior, to which she never actually provided an answer for why she lied to the public. After several minutes of pressure, Huckabee Sanders snapped and insisted that she didn’t have a problem with her own credibility, and maybe CNN is just fixated on it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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On Wednesday CNN's Chris Cuomo invited Sarah Huckabee Sanders on the program. He went to DC, they sat down face to face and Cuomo allowed Huckabee Sanders the opportunity to tell her side of the story about her lie that Donald Trump did not dictate or otherwise was not involved in that Donald Trump Jr. letter about the response to his Trump Tower meeting last summer.

It took roughly 30 seconds for this interview to kind of go off the rails. Take a look.

Sarah, it is good to see you.

Good to see you.

I respect you taking the opportunity.

Thank you. Thanks for being in DC.

Well I came for you. What do you think about this as a positive pivot? Let's take a look at this situation and see if we can get to a place, mutual respect, both sides think credibility counts and we move forward. What do you say?

All right, we'll give it a shot.

All right. I get it. I get that that's the answer. But you also get that's it's unsatisfying, right? That's why we're frozen.

I don't understand having to answer the same question over and over and over again.

Well because you haven't answered it.

And expecting a different ...

In all due respect it's because you didn't answer it.

No that's not true. I've answered it, you just didn't like the answer and there's a big difference between me not answering it and you not liking the answer.

There can be, fair point. There can be a difference however, I don't know that there is here because this is about something you said. I could've said this then. When people asked you, "Hey, what Sekulow says, is it right?" Why didn't you say then, it's a matter for counsel?

Again, I'm not get into a back and forth with you. I've addressed it. The outside counsel has addressed it. They've answered this question over the last couple of days and I would refer you back to those comments.

Let's look at it a different way. You seem to be in a position where you feel that you are constrained to not be able to answer.

We are purposefully walling ourselves off and allowing the outside counsel to do their job and we're doing ours.

But you did initially answer it, right?

I did. And again, I referred you.

Do you regret that?

No, I don't. But I'm starting to regret sitting here because I'm answering the same question I've answered a million times.

I wanted to give you a lot of chances at it because I think it matters. I think it hurts your credibility. I think it hurts the dynamic. But I gave you the opportunities, you made of them what you wanted. All right? It's not the only reason I brought you here.

I'm very comfortable with my credibility and the fact that I think by sitting here right now and taking questions now from you shows the type of person I am. Shows my effort to provide information and frankly to be in an environment that's not exactly friendly. That's not exactly one that I think a lot of people in my position would come and sit in and I think that speaks a lot to my credibility and if you want to focus on my credibility, I think that's something that you should certainly look at.

See here's the thing Sarah though. You do have a credibility problem. You do. You lied about this and as Chris Cuomo tried to tell you several times in that interview even though you didn't want to listen to it, you never had to lie in the first place. If you didn't know the answer you didn't have to give an answer. You could've said, "I don't know, maybe I'll look into it." Or, you could've given the response that you're trying to give now like, "Oh that's a question for legal, go ask them."