Senior counselor Kellyanne Conway on Friday was asked point blank if she is responsible for the many leaks afflicting President Donald Trump's White House.
"No, I'm not," Conway told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" co-host Bill Hemmer. "That's a ridiculous notion."
Hemmer first hit Conway with assertions being made by White House staffers that "accuse you of being the chief leaker," Hemmer said.
"I haven't heard that. But that's pretty funny," Conway responded. "If I were a great leaker, I guess I'd get much better press.
"There are some people here who, frankly, the senior level, the junior level, they've been leaking," Conway said.
Reports surfaced Thursday that there is a reckoning coming to the West Wing, especially in the press and communications offices, after the most recent leak about a staffer's quip about Sen. John McCain.
"This whole idea that leaks come from press and comms, only or at all, is pretty naïve, given the fact this is a pretty large complex of hundreds of hundreds of hundreds who have access to different information or sitting in meetings or their assistants certainly do," Conway said.
"I know there are plenty of people who don't like each other, it turns out. They have to settle those disagreements on their own, frankly," Conway said.
But the public-facing advisers, like Conway, reveal very little about what they actually know, Conway said.
"Most of what we know, we never talk about. And I've been somebody who's had a top-secret clearance all along. I'm somebody who is in many meetings, where the content is never divulged," Conway said. "That's not part of the public's right to know."
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