President Trump also claimed the U.S. does not prosecute terror suspects quickly enough, calling the U.S. justice system “a laughingstock” during a televised White House Cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump: “We need quick justice, and we need strong justice, much quicker and much stronger than we have right now, because what we have right now is a joke and it’s a laughingstock.”

But only hours later, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders flat-out denied that Trump had made these comments, even though they had been broadcast on television. This is Sanders being questioned by CNN’s Jim Acosta.

Jim Acosta: “Why did the president call the U.S. justice system a joke and a laughingstock during his comments in the”—

Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “That’s not what he said.”

Jim Acosta: “He said that the system of justice in this country”—

Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “He said that process. He said the process has people calling us a joke and calling us a laughingstock.”