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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 04:30 PM Jul 2017

"I will refer you to the outside counsel. I will refer you to the outside counsel. I will refer..."



“I will refer everything on this matter to Donald Trump Jr.’s outside counsel,” Sanders said shortly after reading the president’s statement about his son.

When asked later by a reporter about whether Trump Jr.’s emails showed evidence of collusion with the Russian government, she said simply that, “I don’t want to sound like a broken record, but on all questions related to this matter I would refer you to Don Jr.’s counsel.”

When asked whether Trump was being truthful when he insisted repeatedly that no one in his campaign had contact with Russian government officials, Sanders said, “To repeat myself, I will refer you to the outside counsel, and I do not have anything else to add.”

When asked to define what would constitute collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, Sanders said, “I said all we are going to say on that, anything else, you have to reach out to outside counsel.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/listen-huckabee-sanders-stonewalls-reporters-on-trump-jr-email-inquiries-in-bizarre-briefing/
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"I will refer you to the outside counsel. I will refer you to the outside counsel. I will refer..." (Original Post) Miles Archer Jul 2017 OP
just the talking halibut again. NRaleighLiberal Jul 2017 #1
She has pretty teeth. Quanta Jul 2017 #2
All she needs to do now is to replace that phrase with: Girard442 Jul 2017 #3
I'll bet the outside counsel "fahts farr with faar" underpants Jul 2017 #4
I'm always on the edge of my seat, waiting for her daily "fahts" reference. Miles Archer Jul 2017 #8
In a sense, it is the right answer zipplewrath Jul 2017 #5
In a sense, yes gratuitous Jul 2017 #11
I know it is wrong to judge based on an accent... DefenseLawyer Jul 2017 #6
Lmao! HipChick Jul 2017 #7
I look at it the same way I looked at Bush's Connecticut Cowboy Texas accent Miles Archer Jul 2017 #9
Per a friend: "Do you think she took tap dancing lessons as a child nolabear Jul 2017 #10

Quanta

(195 posts)
2. She has pretty teeth.
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 04:32 PM
Jul 2017

My grandmother taught me to only say good things about people. And, that's all I got.

Girard442

(6,075 posts)
3. All she needs to do now is to replace that phrase with:
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 04:34 PM
Jul 2017

"I refuse to answer that question by invoking my Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination."

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
8. I'm always on the edge of my seat, waiting for her daily "fahts" reference.
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 04:39 PM
Jul 2017

It's the new "Hi, Bob" drinking game.



zipplewrath

(16,646 posts)
5. In a sense, it is the right answer
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 04:36 PM
Jul 2017

The president should not be commenting on a developing investigation about the legality of actions, or the really anything else. The courts can see it as spoiling a jury. It is kind of funny that the White House has just finally figured this out. It will be even more interesting to see if the President himself has learned this or if we're going to get a tweet storm that will undermine this effort.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
11. In a sense, yes
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 05:15 PM
Jul 2017

But how far off track has our country gone to be using the canned responses of the accused as official White House statements for legitimate questions that the American people should, by all rights, be getting answers to?

 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
6. I know it is wrong to judge based on an accent...
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 04:37 PM
Jul 2017

But every time I hear that woman speak, I think the next thing out of her mouth is going to be "Now, I'm fixin' tagoda Wal-Mart and y'all can kiss my ass!"

Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
9. I look at it the same way I looked at Bush's Connecticut Cowboy Texas accent
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 04:45 PM
Jul 2017

Hell, I LIVE in the South now...the DEEP South. I have become the guy most likely to be ridiculed. I grew up in Massachusetts (but never had the "pahked mah cah in havad yahd" accent for a second). I don't think I have any identifiable accent at all, other than "clearly not from the South." But when I came here I did my best to be polite, but it is the nature of where I'm at (a very small town) for people to ask "Where are you from?"

Sometimes I answer it without reacting to it, other times it seems accusatory and makes me a little uncomfortable.

With Sarah, it's not a desire to ridicule her. It's a bit of weariness and disgust with one more person who has joined the ranks of Conway and Spicer, drawing a paycheck for fulfilling a job description that is basically one word: "LIE."

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