Sanders talks G20, Mueller probe, migrant caravan
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(27 Nov 2018) President Donald Trump will hold meetings with a long list of world leaders during his trip to Argentina for the G-20 later this week, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and China's Xi Jinping. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called the trip an opportunity for the president to cement relations with other world leaders and advance a global economic system based on "free, fair and reciprocal trade." Sanders made the comments at a White House press briefing Tuesday, the first since October. Sanders also said she is unaware of any conversations about a potential pardon for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Prosecutors with special counsel Robert Mueller's office accused Manafort on Monday of lying to them and said he had violated a plea agreement struck in September. Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has previously suggested Manafort and others could be eligible for pardons at the end of Mueller's Russia investigation. Regarding the use of tear gas against Central American migrants in Mexico over the weekend, Sanders defended the action of U.S. border agents, saying the White House "would never want children to be in harm's way in any capacity whatsoever." But she added, that's why the administration continues to "encourage people to follow the law and go to ports of entry." Sanders said law enforcement used "appropriate non-lethal force to protect themselves." The press secretary also defended President Donald Trump's comments that he doesn't believe a key finding of a climate change report issued by his own administration, insisting the report "is based on the most extreme model scenario which contradicts long established trends." Sanders went on to say that modeling the climate "is an extremely complicated science that is never exact." She said Trump and the US are continuing to lead the world "on what matters most in this process and that's on having clean air, clean water." Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d595e6414ff4cad6c09b94e594a247d3
