simply gives prosecutors the tools to take on large scale distributors and enforce federal law the president's position hasn't changed but he does strongly believe that we have to enforce federal law without going to the president meeting this afternoon with the orange you chairwoman do you imagine going to be discussing a potential run by mitt romney in utah is this something the president would like to know mitt romney. like you said i'm not going to get ahead just listening to the white house legs wide house press secretary sarah how could the senator's take you know now rising questions about the course had been speaking a widely about some of the allegations that steve allen has made in a new book due to come out shortly let's speak they are less the book she joins us live now from washington d.c. diana i know you were also listening very interesting to hear sarah huckabee sound there is basically called this book sad pathetic full of tabloid gossip.

right and i think it's interesting yesterday when excerpts of the book were first released she really deflected questions of the book and to day you heard her she's very combative said the book was sad and pathetic she said that it was a disgrace and laughable to imagine that this president was unfit for office and would be sitting in the white house that why would people why would the american public elected if they thought that he was mentally unfit she also said that it was laughable to think that one of the contentions in this book was that trump president trump and his family and those around him didn't think that he had a chance of winning the presidential election and she countered by saying that that was laughable as well why would he run for office if he didn't think that he was going to win why would he spend all that time campaigning and spend that money if you didn't actually think that he had a chance of winning so interesting today she's coming out swinging where yesterday

deflected a lot of questions about this book which i think sort of indicates how serious they think some of this is for the white house it's certainly at the very at the very least it's a distraction but certainly has a lot of people talking about the contents of this book and questioning the president's mental fitness to be in office. just shortly if you can day and i mean do you think that this story will keep on rumbling now certainly until the book actually officially comes out. it's hard to say i mean i think that at the moment it certainly has legs and it depends on what what the president's able to get out if he's able to go out in front of it with other policy but at the moment it really here in the u.s. is dominating headlines and doesn't look like it's going to go away within the next few days. and estabrook with the latest from washington on that news conference they and for the moment thank you and remember you can get more on all the details on that story and everything else we have been covering on our website there it is

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