Sanders said, “Look, we’ve heard from countless members of the FBI that say very different things.”1763 Following the press conference, Sanders spoke to the President, who told her she did a good job and did not point out any inaccuracies in her comments.1764 Sanders told this Office that her reference to hearing from “countless members of the FBI” was a “slip of the tongue.”1765 She also recalled that her statement in a separate press interview that rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey was a comment she made “in the heat of the moment” that was not founded on anything.1766
