Presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway suggested yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may decide to exempt vape shops from its pending ban on flavored e-cigarettes. There is a certain logic to that, since those shops, unlike other retailers, do not admit minors, and curbing underage vaping is the rationale for the ban. But it's not clear that approach would be legal. Furthermore, Conway's assertion that the FDA "do[es] not have jurisdiction over vaping and vape shops" is puzzling, given how the agency understands its regulatory authority.

“If I threaten someone, you’ll know it,” White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told reporters Friday morning in a bizarre hours-long effort to discredit an audio recording that seemingly showed her threatening to use West Wing resources to investigate the personal life of a reporter a day earlier.

“I never threatened anyone,” Conway told a gaggle of journalists at the White House. “Don’t use those words. I didn’t threaten. It’s not a threat. I never threatened her.”

A tense phone conversation between a reporter for the Washington Examiner and White House senior counselor Kellyanne Conway was published by the newspaper on Thursday.

In the conversation, Conway objected that a story written by the reporter, Caitlin Yilek, mentioned that her husband George Conway is a fierce critic of President Trump on Twitter.

Yilek was writing a story on Conway possibly becoming President Trump's next White House chief of staff if Trump decides to move on from the official now in the position, Mick Mulvaney.

Kellyanne Conway defended her phone call with a Washington Examiner reporter during an appearance on Fox News.

Fox News host Sandra Smith described the phone call Friday between reporter Caitlin Yilek and the counselor to the president as a "heated clash" during which things got "very personal."

Conway claimed, "Everything I said in that phone call, I’ve said publicly before. Every single thing. I said it again."

Smith asked Conway if there was anything she regretted about how she handled her phone call, which she denied.

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway defended President Trump’s Jeffrey Epstein-related tweets on Sunday, saying he wants “everything to be investigated.”

The president faced criticism for retweeting posts on social media that linked Epstein’s apparent suicide to the Clintons, a viral conspiracy that trended over the weekend.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday responded to questions about President Donald Trump's attacks on four congresswomen of color by asking a reporter about his heritage.

Andrew Feinberg, a White House reporter for Breakfast Media, a website about politics and technology, asked Conway, "If the president was not telling these four congresswomen to return to their supposed countries of origin, to which countries was he referring?"

Kellyanne Conway called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a liar for saying that migrants were drinking water out of toilets in border camps.

"Chuck Schumer wants to talk about photo-ops, I saw one yesterday," the counselor to the president said Tuesday. "It's called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going down to one of these facilities and making this outrageous claim that a woman's drinking from a toilet that everybody who has control over that facility has said that's not true. They've not heard of this."

The House Oversight Committee voted on Wednesday to subpoena testimony from White House counselor Kellyanne Conway after a federal agency recommended that she should be fired for repeatedly violating a law that limits the political activities of federal employees.

Chairman Elijah Cummings, Democrat of Maryland, has warned that his panel would vote to hold Conway in contempt if she ignores the subpoena. Conway did not appear on Wednesday on the advice of White House counsel for the committee's scheduled hearing.

President Donald Trump defended senior aide Kellyanne Conway on Friday from a watchdog report that found she violated a federal law that prohibits political speech in her official capacity, calling her words an expression of “free speech.”

Trump dismissed the recommendation from the Office of Special Counsel that Conway be removed from her job for "egregious, notorious and ongoing" violations of the Hatch Act.

Trump said he was briefed on the report, but would not fire Conway.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would not fire White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, even though a government watchdog found she had violated U.S. law by making political statements in her official role and called for her ouster.

Trump, in an interview with Fox News, defended Conway, saying it was a free speech issue.

“She’s got to have the right of responding to questions. It really sounds to me like a free speech thing. It doesn’t sound fair,” the Republican president said.