look up at real donald trump. all right his tweets give us in the media a lot to talk about. this just in, the tweeter in chief has fired off a new one. reporter: it s a real time sense of what the president cares about, what he s doing and what he s watching. he sort of live tweets the morning shows. reporter: or what he wants all of us to focus on. he is in in a twitter storm again! reporter: are his tweets distractions? maybe sometimes. but his words carry power and shape policy. his use of social media is taking the presidency to a new more divisive place. trump reacts to perceived slights in real time, targeting other world leaders like british prime minister theresa may and his on own cabinet members like rex tillerson and jeff sessions. including the mayor of san juan, nicknames abound. on the left, there is dicky durbin, sneaky dianne feinstein,
and the white house denied. that if one believes senator graham and durbin what does that mean to senators purdue and cotton are doing? are they lying? did they mishear? i can t speak for those two senators. there are others in the meeting who have not respondd. i don t know if they heard something different. i accept senator graham s and senator durbin s comments immediately after the meeting that this is what the president said. i think senator s graham and durbin deserve a lot of credit for coming up with a good bill that could pass the senate and the house right now. how is it going to affect that
actually address this issue at all? and right now when you talk to republican leaders they say we need to and understand this is something we have to take care of. you have the question of what s your solution to that? what s the answer going to be? they don t have one at this point. all right. phil, thank you very much. as we mentioned, the president went golfing today. we ll take a look at how his predecessor spent the day. also how lawmakers are reacting to the president s claim that he s the least racist person and senator durbin, and the comments that started this in the first place. on america s most awarded network. verizon? uh, woah, woah, woah vince. it was ranked highest in network quality performance nationwide by j.d. power and rated number 1 in the nation by rootmetrics 8 times running. it s totally verizon. vince! we can see the sign. the v s sticking out. anyway, the most awarded network is. verizon! vince! you didn t know what it was. you did? okay. when we win, you w
dicky durbin misrepresented what was said at the daca meeting. deals can t get made when there s no trust. durbin blew daca and is hurting our military. pamela brown is at the white house tonight. this is not the first time the president has claimed he is the least racist person. reporter: certainly not the first time. you pointed out several examples where he was forced to defend himself against racist accusations. in the wake against the charlottesville protests, and it s noteworthy today because it is a day when the country celebrates the civil rights acon, martin luther king junior. there s dispute about what the president said in the oval office, whether it was house or hole, but it s a distinction without a difference because the sentiment is the same. i spoke to one white house official tonight who said the president wasn t talking about the people.
been over the top. i mean, from my understanding the meeting wasn t saying vile racist things repeatedly the way dick durbin alleges. he was reacting to a proposal on the visa lottery program which sprinkles visas across the world with little connection here, and the proposal was to continue that program in part in a different form and sprinkle visas around the to the various countries. the president s position, the position of immigration restrictionists is we should move away from a focus on countries of origin instead to go to a merit-based system. it doesn t matter if you re have an advanced country or s-hole country. what matters is your skills and ability to come here. the examples the president used, first, talking about africa as if it s one country when it s dozens of countries with various levels of economic