Look out, White House. Olivia Pope is coming for you.

When we last saw this Gladiator, she had taken on Jeannine Locke as a client, following Mellie and Cyrus putting out a video of the Vice President's top aide gushing about how "hot" the President is.

But Olivia isn't about to let Jeannine go down as the President's mistress, defending her to reporters in the following clip from Thursday's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and introducing her to the world as a "loyal friend, sister and daughter" who "absolutely, positively did not have sex with the President of the United States."

She then accuses the White House of slander. Your move, Cyrus...

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