White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will answer questions from reporters Friday afternoon as tensions between the administration and a Democratic lawmaker have heated up.
Earlier Friday, newly resurfaced video appears to show that White House chief of staff John Kelly was incorrect when he accused Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) of taking credit for the funding of an FBI building in Miami in 2015.
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Kelly was speaking to reporters during a rare press briefing appearance on Thursday to address the growing controversy surrounding President Trump’s remarks to the widow of a U.S. soldier killed in an ambush in Niger.
“A congresswoman stood up, and in a long tradition of empty barrels making the most noise, stood up there in all of that and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building, and how she took care of her constituents because she got the money, and she just called up President Obama, and on that phone call, he gave the money, the $20 million, to build the building, and she sat down,” Kelly told reporters.
Video of the lawmaker’s full speech released by the Sun Sentinel appears to support Wilson’s version of the story.
But the White House backed Kelly with a statement put out by Sanders Friday.
The briefing is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.
Watch live in the video above.