NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas: “Ok, I just — but you didn't answer —”
Kristi Noem: “Mmhmm.”
Vargas: “— my question. When you record — you posted pictures and video of yourself —”
Noem: “Mmhmm.”
Vargas: “— recording the audiobook. When you recorded your own audiobook, you didn't notice it?”
Noem: “I’m not going to discuss about my meetings with world leaders.”
Vargas: “I'm not asking you to. I'm asking about recording the audiobook.”
Noem: “Did you want to talk about something else today?”
Vargas: “No, I just wanted to know.”
Noem: “No.”
Vargas: “And — I just — we're just trying to get a straight answer from it”
Noem: “Yeah, yeah.”
Vargas: “This has been —”
Noem: “Well, you did. I mean — and I took responsibility for it. I'm — the buck stops with me.”
Vargas: Ahh —
Noem: “— this anecdote. I should not have put in the book and I asked have it taken out and — and it does.”
Vargas: “— ooookay.”