quoting president trump using language that could be considered offensive. >> calling the nations they come from shitholes. the exact word used by the president. not more, not just once, but repeatedly. >> it was an impassioned conversation. i don't recall that specific phrase being used. >> i'm telling you he did not use that word, george, and i'm telling you, it's a gross misrepresentation. >> i didn't hear it and i was sitting no further away from donald trump than dick durbin was. >> nbc's garrett haake is live on capitol hill. members of the senate, as long as i can remember, always consider themselves the more professional, the more refined house, you know, they would look down on the members of the house. it is extraordinary. you have these senators now basically calling each other liars. >> yes, chris, it's just not usually how business is done here in the senate. even senators who don't like each other put forth the effort to fake it most of the time. to have essentially two republicans calling a democrat on the opposite end of the