it's been proven false by the president himself, again. and this i'm sure will be made fun of this weekend by "saturday night live," but it's a consequence beyond just comedy, you know. and brian stelter, sean spicer after his two-day hiatus, not on the podium, is going back today. what do we know? >> there's been talk that sarah huckabee sanders would be filling in for the week as spicer was at the pentagon doing navy reserve duty. now, that's changed. he will be at the podium this afternoon, 1:30 eastern time, live here on cnn. it's going to be notable to see how spicer answers questions versus sarah huckabee sanders yesterday. this was described by sources as a tryout for sarah. it could be maybe spicer had been benched, that trump was paying close attention to how sanders was doing. yesterday was a tough, tough job for anybody at that podium. today is also. there is no way to escape the reality of what's going on at this white house right now. >> and again, and sometimes it is hard to see where politics, white house, and comedy, you know where one ends and the other begins. and another example of that has to do in this back-and-forth