President Donald Trump's spokeswoman Sarah Sanders is pushing back on allegations that special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report exposed a culture of lying at the White House.
Sanders also disputed allegations that she misled the media when she said that "countless" members of the FBI had lost confidence in FBI Director James Comey, which led to his firing.
Sanders had told reporters after Comey's 2017 dismissal that she had heard from "countless" members of the FBI who welcomed the president's decision.
She told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Friday that her word "countless" was a "slip of the tongue" made in the "heat of the moment."
Democratic House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, also speaking on ABC, said the Mueller report clearly outlines "a culture of lying" inside the White House.
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