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Spicer went to the president and told him. sean spicer then in may denied knowing about the story after it was published. in fact, he did know about it because he was told about it in april. but the presidents involvement, still unclear. >> and glen flush, that was just real wick quickly what you were trying to get for the bottom of yesterday in the briefing, right? >> thats right. so sarah -- yeah. it was a two-part question. did the president know about it and did the president influence the s...

A directional change. peter, good to see you, buddy. thank you. all right. the first on-camera briefing from the white house sibs the end of june comes the same day that sean spicer credits. the new director pafrp erred with questions about spicers resignation. resigned after he was made the new communications director. he said he was going to stay on until august but he wasnt there today and sarah huckabee sanders seems to have been named the do you h new white house press secretary. congressma...

Times" -- far more fair than his predecessors. >> one of the things that i think is he doing better than barack obama are these press conferences. and his outreach to individual reporters. even for organizations like my own that he criticizes. trumps free ranging press conferences, i think are a lot more democratic than the way that obama conducted them. pete: thats not precedence. i believe its predecessor. abby: i kind of like it that way though. pete: we will keep it that way. here to weigh i...

Sean spicers reaction to this, glen flush at the time was trying to get past the issue, and say lets not talk about the legal lets talk about the ethical and i find that to be a bit hypocritical in saying no, lets just talk about the legal issues and thats something that the republicans were upset with hillary clinton about being too legalistic. >> he seemed to keep trying to deflect and not the issue which he kept bringing up. >> does the white house believe theres such a thing as the deep stat...

Meant that some of the institutional barriers for success for a lot of groups still exist. you know, african-american poverty in this country is still significantly higher than other groups. same is true for latinos. same is true for native americans. >> clarence page is a columnist, a pulitzer prize winning columnist for the chicago tribune. and glen flush is senior white house reporter for politico, whose piece today is headlined "obama, race, and class." glen, give us a sense of what you can ...