White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer faces a live stadium of questions during Thursday’s press briefing, of which include concerns about his widely-criticized reference to an Atlanta terror attack which never happened, the legal status of an undocumented Arizona resident and mother of two U.S. citizens arrested on Wednesday, prompting a late-night protest outside a federal facility in Phoenix, and a statement by President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on Trump’s “disheartening” criticism of federal judges.
And as if this were not enough, Spicer may also be required to defend White House counsel Kellyanne Conway after she may have broken a federal ethics rule by asking Americans during a televised appearance on Fox & Friends to “buy” Ivanka Trump’s commerical products, the Washington Post reported.
Watch the press briefing, scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. EST:
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Spicer may also be asked to clarify a Reuters report that the president “denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States,” according to a story published shortly prior to the briefing.
Earlier on Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions was sworn into office (video). Social media chatter erupted overnight after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was “silenced” during floor debate over his nomination, accused of having “impugned the motives and conduct of our colleague from Alabama.”
Within the first month in his role, Spicer’s role as press secretary has launched a thousand reactive memes, follow-up questions, and a widely discussed Saturday Night Live performance paying homage to Spicer’s press relations by Melissa McCarthy.
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