Kellyanne Conway Dismisses 'Number One Leaker' Claim

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway is denying claims from a new book she is the "number one leaker" from the White House and she has had negative things to say about other White House staff members, including President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka and her husband, Trump adviser Jared Kushner.

"One day, I will have my say," Conway told Fox News "Fox & Friends" correspondent Abby Huntsman during an interview at the White House egg roll Tuesday morning. "I keep my counsel while I'm here, because I work in the White House, and I'm a government employee and blessed and privileged to be here."

The New York Times bestselling author Ronald Kessler, the author of "The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game," told CNN's Jake Tapper Sunday that Conway not only was the "number one leaker," but she often lashed into others during interviews.

Kessler, however, was complimentary about Trump, Huntsman pointed out.

"Let me make clear . . . if somebody puts a Kellyanne interview on a Chiron, in a headline, you get clicks and kicks," Conway said. "We're not really discussing that here at all today. We don't need a book to tell us Mr. Trump is going to be a great president."

There is a "lot of jealousy and backbiting," she added, about people like herself who have daily access to the president, but she has survived many other staffers and remains there.

"I want to say one thing," she told Huntsman. "Leakers get great press. I got a lot of texts and emails yesterday, wow, I feel so left out. You never tell me anything. Leakers get great press."

People ought to think twice about that we learned a long time around here, opposition party, fake news, bias media, they can talk to the media all day long because nobody would suspect them.

Also  on Monday, Conway commented about the upcoming visit from Japanese President Shinzo Abe to Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

Trump and Abe have a great relationship, and have been committed to issues that affect both the economy and peace and stability, while everyone has North Korea in their minds.

The media "freaked out" over Trump's comments last summer that North Korea's actions could lead to "fire and fury," said Conway, but that "freak out" continued when he announced he would be meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

"He is going to continue what he is doing what he does best, trying to find a way to tackle the big issues of the day," Conway said.

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