Sarah Sanders holds first White House briefing in six weeks – live

Sanders defended Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency over claims of a crisis at the US-Mexico borderSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 6.55pm GMT In attacking Democrats for not forthrightly condemning Ilhan Omar’s most recent anti-Semitic comments, Sanders drew parallels to Trump’s willingness to condemn neo-Nazis in Charlottesville who marched carrying torches and proclaimed “Jews will not replace us.”
Sanders said: “The pres