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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reportedly said in that cabinet meeting about s-hole countries. how does this give us a better or clearer picture of the president? not at all. this is all something we have heard before. none of this is a revelation. a lot of people read this and said of course he said these things. we ve seen what he said about nfl protesters, about the rapists and criminals. goes back to your hot take from the beginning. everything. everything hay has said. and even after the s-hole comment which was reportedly initially denied but afterwards sarah huckabee sanders said, well, the president speaks plainly, sort of a walk back of the deny theal. we already know this is the language that he uses. he calls it, you know, the antidote to political correctness, but i think it s given us a clear picture on of exact le what he feels. i think he does use it politically, but just because he
wanted. i think my dear friend alex is probably wrong about one thing. you can say what you want about ms. pelosi s comments. it was donald trump a few weeks ago in his right wing toned down rhetoric that i think put a farther divide in the immigration discussion when he used the s hole comment. now he is coming around on the whole keeping the dreamers here. the big sticking point here is $25 billion for a campaign promised wall. what we really need is comprehensive immigration reform needs to be done in a bipartisan way. we had a bill last week, graham and durbin brought to the white house and said he would sign anything that was brought. melissa: i ll let you respond, alex. the president s comments were unhelpful. dick durbin and others.
have the negotiations this weekend. the big question mark for me is what does the president say, what does he tweet? a few days ago he sort of unravelled the negotiations without any sort of warning. with a comment he made in the private meeting a at the white house. which was leaked. as they were saying i think it was mitch mcconnell. what happened between how did we get to this point? . the consensus from the room. my panel here and maybe you, the s hole comment happened. that actually what happened. and threw everything into chaos. they can look that far if they want blame. right. does that happen again? it could happen again. something like that could happen again. and so then does that extend the shut down for a few more days? for five more days. another week. the one thing with president
speech. he wanted four little children to be judged by the content of their character but not the color of their skin. now, when it comes to issue of racist, is president trump racist? you know, that s a lot to unpack. this whole year a the lo of things have happened, things have been said. we have dealt with issues of confederacy of charlottesville and pocahontas. and nigeria and haitians and s hole comment and a lot of other things that have happened. even, just a lot of things have happened. there is a whole i mean, everyone to include cnn has done a great job of giving the list visually and the audio. but here s the thing, of course you are going to have republicans stand by this president. but in 2018, when you are still