Today brought even more bombshells related to the special counsel’s Russia probe as the Wall Street Journal reported that Robert Mueller has impaneled a grand jury in the investigation. Additionally, CNN reported that the Mueller probe is looking into financial ties between Trump and Russia while Reuters published a story on subpoenas being issued related to Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer.

In the WSJ story about the grand jury, Trump outside counsel Ty Cobb gave the paper a statement about how grand juries are supposed to be secret and that the administration is committed to working with Mueller.

Shortly after the piece went up, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders released the following statement:

And, right away, CNN’s Kaitlan Collins noticed that the White House had just copied and pasted what was in the WSJ and sent it out as their own statement.

The White House issued a statement that is word for word what is written in the Wall Street Journal piece. pic.twitter.com/6oWvkEIApm — Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) August 3, 2017

However, it should be noted, that the very last sentence in the White House statement wasn’t in the WSJ report. So it appears that someone wanted to make sure a certain message was sent.

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