sure. i agree, and as i said on cnn, as a woman from utah, i agree with congresswoman nia love who is the sole african-american female in the republican caucus. and she said haitian american. haitian american. and she said if the comments are true, they are deeply offensive and the president should apologize. i agree. we have yet to see agreement on what was said. i think the president should clarify and say he absolutely does not feel this way about these countries and he has come out and said that he doesn t feel that way about these countries. let me get keith in here. on that notion of who said what, keith, we have senator cotton and perdue saying the president never said these vulgar words. initially said they couldn t recall. where does this lead us? it leads us to the conclusion that the republican party is complicit with all of the racist that donald trump has engaged in as president. irrespective of the racism and the engagement before he was president, the housing
what was said. some republicans first said they couldn t recall. now they say they do recall and the president never said that. please, don t be distracted. no one denies the comparison he made, the preference he stated. and that is the problem. the president creating his own trouble, jeopardizing any daca deal. the president saying the democrats are holding up the deal on the d.r.e.a.m.ers as a threat for a government shutdown looms for this friday. some democrats will vote against keeping it open if it doesn t include protection for d.r.e.a.m.ers. also this morning, the white house in a war of words disputing a quote from the paper s long interview with the president. audio of that and it s all over a contraction.
hague on capitol hill. jeff, we talked a couple of hours ago. no big developments out of the white house. but a lot of stuff brewing on capitol hill and with respect to the president. any comment, any word out of the white house so far? no word out of the white house just yet. the president and the white house appear to be taking political refuge in the revised recollection of tom cotton and david purdue, both republican senators were in the room on thursday, along with lindsey graham and dirk durbin. they said they couldn t recall the president making that that vile racist remark about african nations and yesterday appearing on the political shows they changed their stories and said the president never made the comments. not clear if that is a convenient or a concerted effort on the behalf of the trump white house and these two senators to try to move beyond what the president did or didn t say. but i can tell you last night was the the president was having dinner and was asked
when in fact the media is constantly, as you mention, using fact-checking, sourcing, talk about all the great stories from 2017, they re responsible for a lot of truth. disproving falsehoods. but what is scary, that s working. americans are asking how do we know if russia meddled in the election, or how big the crowds were. that strategy has worked. and comments from sean spicer preceded comments from jeff sessions, couldn t recall discussions with russians and what trump is said on phone call to wife of soldier. no one apologizes. it s working and failing. more than most administrations seen departures in the health and human services and drug czar and other people.
this meeting and the details of it. now he is testifying before the house and he sort of remembers it a bit more but he remembers talking to the communications director hope hicks and not directly to the president to the president so it s it s a false assertion of privilege. i think intended to delay. all right. i just have a short time left ken because i cut you off. i just want to let s talk about yesterday. don junior was asked about the follow-up e-mails during the hearing on capitol hill yesterday and he he said he wasn t aware of them, couldn t recall. one lawmaker said he suffered from amnesia. what is the recourse if they determine that he is lying? well, i mean he wasn t talking to the fbi. he was talking to the house. but you saw that flynn part of flynn s admission of guilt with the fbi was his assertion that he did not remember. he admitted that that was a false statement. that was part of what the one charge that he pled to was was based upon. so you know an