After a day of confusing statements by Donald Trump and the White House, Fox News’ Shep Smith unequivocally declared that his reporting on the current administration is “without fear or favor.”

“We want to report without fear or favor and hold truth to power,” the host said following the president’s outlandish claim that he can pardon himself in case of indictment. “No matter who it is that’s in power.”

He proceeded to read from the U.S. Constitution’s clause about presidential pardons.

“He shall have the power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States,” Article II, section 2 reads. “Except in cases of impeachment.”

Nevertheless, Trump’s lawyers insist that he can self-pardon. Paired with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ unwillingness to agree with the president’s legal team about the Trump Tower meeting, Smith outlined the difficulties of reporting on Trump’s version of the truth.

“When you get a competing set of facts, one of them completely untrue, and no way to get through it, from the highest elected authority in the land, from those who work for us — it’s very frustrating for journalists. It’s not partisan, this is about facts — and knowing that someone is telling the opposite of that.”

Watch below, via CNN:

President Donald Trump Monday morning launched one of his most dictatorial tweets ever: “I have the absolute right to PARDON myself,” he claimed. Adding to the confusion, over the weekend Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani suggested that it would be unthinkable and an impeachable offense if the president tried to pardon himself.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders during a rare “daily” press briefing Monday at least four times rattled off a prepared remark, and repeated it word-for-word to reporters when pressed: “The President hasn’t done anything wrong and wouldn’t have any need for a pardon,” Huckabee Sanders continuously claimed.

She refused to actually answer if President Trump would pardon himself.

In this clip she repeats that sentence twice, without answering the reporter’s questions:

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders: “The President hasn’t done anything wrong and wouldn’t have any need for a pardon” https://t.co/PKrh9ivZ9l pic.twitter.com/pDycd0vpH1

— CNN (@CNN) June 4, 2018

NBC’s Peter Alexander asked if President Trump believes he is above the law. Huckabee Sanders finally answered that “certainly no one is above the law,” while again repeating the claim that “The President hasn’t done anything wrong and wouldn’t have any need for a pardon.”

WATCH: @PeterAlexander challenges the White House on whether President Trump believes he is above the law. pic.twitter.com/0i2SfMOJJ6

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 4, 2018

Notice how Sanders refused to allow Alexander a follow-up question. No reason, just no.

Huckabee Sanders increasingly refuses to hold White House “daily” press briefings. In the month of May, there were just nine.

Sunday night Rudy Giuliani said President Trump could shoot former FBI Director Jim Comey and still not be prosecuted.

President Donald Trump, who for over a year certainly has been acting like a man who is guilty and has plenty to hide, just announced he believes he has “the ABSOLUTE right” to pardon himself. He cites unnamed legal scholars, and adds he doesn’t need to invoke that supposed right – which many legal scholars dispute – because he hasn’t done anything wrong.

As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong? In the meantime, the never ending Witch Hunt, led by 13 very Angry and Conflicted Democrats (& others) continues into the mid-terms!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 4, 2018

This is, perhaps, one of the more egregious actions Trump has taken in relation to the Mueller probe.

It comes barely more than 12 hours after the president’s personal attorney made a thinly-veiled threat against a former Director of the FBI. Sunday night, to great shock across the nation, Rudy Giuliani said President Trump could shoot former FBI Director Jim Comey and still not be prosecuted.

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