White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders launched a stinging attack on high-profile CNN analyst April Ryan Monday, accusing her of wanting her 'decapitated' for demanding she be fired.
Sanders spoke in the wake of the Mueller report, which revealed how she admitted to the special counsel's investigators that what she had said at a press briefing about James Comey was untrue.
Trump's press secretary changed her story - that 'countless' FBI agents had wanted Comey fired - when she was faced with the prospect of up to five years in prison for lying to federal investigators.
The revelation of the about-face prompted Ryan, with whom Sanders has repeatedly publicly clashed, to demand that the press secretary be fired because of her lack of credibility.
Sanders hit back Monday on Fox & Friends, saying: 'Look, I've had reporters say a lot of things about me. They've said I should be choked, they said I deserve a lifetime of harassment.
'But certainly never had someone say I should be decapitated. This takes us to a new low, even for the liberal media. I think this once again proves why this journalist isn't taken seriously.'
Back feuding: Sarah Sanders, who was revealed to have told Mueller's investigators that claims she made on the press podium were untrue, now says CNN's April Ryan wants her 'decapitated'
Ryan said that the White House needed to 'start lopping the heads off' administration officials who had lost the public's trust
Ryan, a White House analyst for CNN and D.C. bureau chief for American Urban Radio, had said that the American people couldn't trust Sanders.
'The American people can't trust her. They can't trust what's said from the president's mouthpiece, spokesperson from the people's house. Therefore, she should be let go, she should be fired,' Ryan said on CNN Friday, the day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's redacted version of the Russia report was made public.
'When there is a lack of credibility there, you have to start and start lopping the heads off,' Ryan continued.
Sanders has not had a press briefing since March 11, which was itself the first in six weeks.
Sanders, interviewed by Ainsley Earhardt Monday on Fox & Friends, gave no indication that she would be back in front of the podium in the wake of Mueller's findings.
