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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daca. jason, with all due respect, that may be what you re here to talk about. but the president said something that a lot of people reacted to. so is let s talk about what he said. he was supposed to have a meeting yesterday where lawmakers come in and talk about merit-based immigration reform. they came to him with something with carveouts. he doesn t want carveouts from folks in specific countries. whether it be uk, norway, japan, haiti, el salvador. he doesn t want carveouts by country. he wants a merit-based immigration system, plain and simple. and the fact that the folks came to him with a plan that isn t acceptable, obviously he is fired out. there was salty language back and forth on either side. so he referred to some of the places in the world might be s-holes. there are a lot of on s-hole countries. he only mentioned ones with black and brown people. his point was why did you bring me something with
move forward. straighten that program out. make it clear, but don t be grabbing people and shipping them out. you re scaring their children, you re dividing families, that s not what america is. we are the the republicans are a pro-family, build strong families, wherever they are, whoever they are, live up to that. governor, i have limited time before i have to let you go and have two quick questions for you. number one, given the conversation we re having on immigration and given the conversation about the president s comment on s-hole countries i have no idea what i m doing in the future, hallie. i m sorry. i didn t ask about 2020. but you were leaning towards. no, i was going to ask you about something else, the comments dick durbin said today with the comments being racist. michael steele was on the show, someone you know from the rnc, he definitively believes that the president is racist. do you call donald trump is racist? i don t call names. i thought the preside