Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie | Eastern North Carolina Now

    I don't know how they would be in the driver's seat in any capacity, form, or fashion.

    Q Well, is the White House setting a standard for "We won't meet with you unless you do X, Y, and Z"?

    SANDERS: Look, the North Koreans have already made concessions. They've already - three Americans are home now that weren't. The President has had some success in this process, and certainly we've given up nothing. And we are going to continue moving forward, and we're moving into this with our eyes wide open. We're not naïve in this process, but the President is fully prepared to have the meeting. But if not, that's okay too. And we'll see what happens beyond that.

    Shannon.

    Q I know we've asked this a few times, but -

    SANDERS: That's okay. That's kind of what we do here, ask the same question over and over and over again.

    Q Can you say yet when Michael Cohen stopped being the President's personal lawyer?

    SANDERS: I'm not going to get into anything on that matter. You'd have to reach out to the President's outside counsel.

    Q Yeah, but you still haven't been able to answer that.

    SANDERS: Jill, go ahead.

    Q Thank you, Sarah. Why didn't the President disclose the reimbursement to Michael Cohen in last year's financial disclosure report? And just to follow up on other peoples' questions on North Korea, has any consideration been given at this point to potentially canceling those joint military exercises with South Korea?

    SANDERS: On the first question, that was addressed in the financial disclosure and that's something that would be determined by White House Counsel - how things would be categorized in the filings.

    And on the second part, those are ongoing exercises that are routine and they're aware of, they're annual. And at this point, we have no intention of changing it.

    Steven.

    Q I just want to ask you, because so many people around the country have been talking about it in the last 24 hours, what did the President mean when he said some immigrants are not people, they're "animals"?

    SANDERS: The President was very clearly referring to MS-13 gang members who enter the country illegally and whose deportations are hamstrung by our laws. This is one of the most vicious and deadly gangs that operates by the motto of rape, control, and kill. If the media and liberals want to defend MS-13, they're more than welcome to.


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    Frankly, I don't think the term that the President used was strong enough. MS-13 has done heinous acts. It took an animal to stab a man a hundred times and decapitate him and rip his heart out. It took an animal to beat a woman - they were sex trafficking - with a bat 28 times, indenting part of her body. And it took an animal to kidnap, drug, and rape a 14-year-old Houston girl. Frankly, I think that the term "animal" doesn't go far enough. And I think that the President should continue to use his platform and everything he can do under the law to stop these types of horrible, horrible, disgusting people.

    I'm going to take one more question. Peter.

    Q Thank you, Sarah. Are the chances of a summit now less likely than they were a week ago before these statements came out from Kim Jong-un?

    SANDERS: I'm not going to get into a percentage game. I can tell you that we're ready and prepared. And if they happen, they happen; and if they don't, we'll see what happens.

    Thanks so much, guys. We'll see you here in a few minutes with the President.

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