With focus on Comey's firing, White House aides mostly avoid Sunday news shows

By Jenna Johnson May 14 at 12:03 PM

“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace opened his show this week by highlighting who was not on his guest list.

As President Trump's decision to abruptly fire FBI Director James B. Comey continues to dominate the news, Wallace said he wanted to feature a White House official “to explain the president's reasoning and to discuss the fallout.” Wallace said that on Saturday morning, the White House announced it would not make anyone available to discuss that topic — but did offer to book senior officials to talk about the president's upcoming foreign trip.

“When we said we were going to focus on Comey for at least the first half-hour of this program, they put those officials on other shows,” Wallace said.

He then introduced his two guests for the morning: Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which is investigating possible links between the Trump 2016 campaign and Russia, and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a member of the Judiciary Committee who has long been critical of Trump.

more
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/14/mia-white-house-officials-willing-to-publicly-defend-and-explain-comeys-firing