martin luther king jr. today. he denied the comments from last week but they are shielding young immigrants from deportation. we re ready, willing and able to make a deal on daca but i don t think the democrats want to make a deal and the folks from daca should know, the democrats are the ones that aren t going to make a deal. reporter: but it is the president s own words that have complicated finding a deal for daca. young immigrants known as d.r.e.a.m.ers. with the government shutdown looming in just four days, democrats were looking to protect d.r.e.a.m.ers as part of the plan but that is overshadowed with the fight over the president s language. two senators and a cabinet sheekt attended the meeting said the president didn t refer he to african countries with the specific vulgarity that dick durbin said he did. i m telling you he did not use that word. i didn t hear it and i was
that fire. the president tweeting senator dicky durbin represented what was said at the daca meeting. d durbin blew daca. pamela brown is at the white house for us. reporter: you pointed out several examples there. more recently, in the last fie months in the wake of the response of the charlottesville protest. today it is martin luther king jr. day. now of course there is dispute as you pointed out about what the president actually said in the oval office, whether it was s-house, s-hole, it is a distinction without a difference. because the sentiment is the same. i spoke to one white house
actually heard the president say shit house instead of shit hole. house instead of hole. that s why senators tom cotton and david per due went on to say, house instead of hole. does that really change the meaning? i would rather have folks better than saying i would rather have folks from norway and asia rather than shit hole african nations. is that how the president explains he is the least racist person ever? because racist people always say hole when denigrating entire comments. nonracist comments say house. what is in a name is that which we call a hole by any other name would smell like blank. moments ago president trump denied making the comments again. this time on twitter. this is what he wrote. senator dicky durbin totally misrepresented what was said in