Today, you have one spokesperson, in fact, denying that he said it. The president himself seems to be denying it, too. So for more on that, well go to jeff bennett who is at the white house. Geoff, the president had a serious of tweets duick durbin referred to. How is that changing what you are hearing from the white house spokespeople . Reporter Last Night The White House released a Statement Seeking to clarify the president s comments. They didnt deny the remarks or the context in which the president is said to have made them. Fastforward what, 12, 16 hours, the president tweeting this, the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made, a big setback for daca. The president then followed that up an hour later, hallie, with this. Never said anything derogatory about haitians, other than haiti is a very poor and troubled country. Never said take them out. I have a wonderful relationship
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reuters, jeff mason, and liz goodman from the boston globe. out this morning on fox, they said the president didn t, in fact, say these comments. she admits she was not in the room. dick durbin was and dick durbin said this happened. he was on the record, on camera saying this happened. you have the fallout from allies like botswana seriously inquiring to the u.s. ambassador if botswana is in the s-hole category also. asking that question. there s obviously real-world fallout and impact to this, michael. there is. particularly for most of the countries on the continent of africa who have had over the years a very good relationship with the united states. certainly going back to the b h bush bubush era where all this work is now called into question.