In this task, you will be presented with a passage and have to answer a question based on your understanding of the events inferred from the passage. Try to find the best answer that is most likely to fill in "_". Note that the URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
Q: (CNN) President Donald Trump said Thursday that he feared his firing of FBI Director James Comey could confuse Americans, but went ahead with the plan anyway. "When I did this now I said, I probably, maybe will confuse people," Trump told NBC News. But he said he did it anyway "to do the right thing for the American people." Trump said he wanted the FBI's investigation into Russia's election meddling to be "absolutely done properly." He said Comey's firing might "lengthen out the investigation." Earlier Thursday, White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the Comey firing may hasten the agency's investigation into Russian meddling.Trump fired Comey TuesdayThe FBI is investigating possible Trump campaign connections to Russia's election hacking 
 Question:Earlier in her briefing Thursday, _ claimed that Comey's firing had not altered the Russia investigation at all.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders