SARAH WESTWOOD – White House reporter for the Washington Examiner

TOPICS: White House: “Absolutely no distance” between Trump and Mike Pence /latest WH reaction to Donald Trump, Jr. news

• White House deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders denied Tuesday that Vice President Pence was trying to distance himself from President Trump after new details about Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian national became public. “There’s absolutely no distance between the president and the vice president,” Sanders said. Pence’s office released a statement highlighting the fact that he wasn’t on the Republican ticket when Trump Jr.’s meeting about Hillary Clinton with the Russian lawyer took place.