There's a rat in the White House.
Well, it's actually a mouse, and it's causing more pandemonium in the press briefing room than President Trump's whistleblower. The whiskered creature fell right into the lap of NBC News' Peter Alexander on Tuesday and promptly caused an uproar that hasn't been seen since the days of Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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