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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neil: he just didn t trust him. bret: yeah, and fdr, i think looking back, he was looking through a prism bible we need to win the war. he thought he could corral and contain stalin. he died after yalta i never realized it. neil: the me ask a little bit about talking to people, even some of your top aides, military types, you mentioned briefly, donald trump makes brief mentions. you do go over kim jong un on the north korean leader, the summits, you covered them. a third one that could be in the works, and the criticism about meeting with him. it happens again and again. it s an issue that makes him uncomfortable. bret: it does. foreign policy experts debate whether it s worth doing it if you don t know the end game of what you re going to get out of it. ronald reagan believes that too.
with your parents on fox business. bret: 100%. neil: let me ask you, the president getting a heap of scorn on even meeting with erdogan. what do you make of it? bret: he has decided, the president has, that his foreign policy will be to meet with even bad guys. the turkish leader does not have a great track record about how he s dealing with us in the u.s. we saw with the interaction with the kurds in the action across the board in syria. however, there are things that they ve talked about that the u.s. and turkey could deal on. remember they are a nato ally. despite all the bad things that have happened and they are numerous, president trump believes it s worth sitting down with him. it does track with previous leaders. you referenced fdr and churchill and stalin. churchill and fdr believed it was imperative that they sit down with stalin at the end of world war ii. there was a chance that we as a
country might not win the war. they said we are going to deal with it. neil: things were looking dicey. bret: at the brink because hitler was on the move in europe. we were iffy in the pacific against japan. they determined that yes, we know this devil. he s horrible but we need to sit down with him and get them on our side. neil: fascinating about the way you re-created those events in the day in the meeting at even churchill was concerned that they were getting too cozy. you in researching this, i had been struck by friendly how fdr was towards stalin, dictator unknown killer. he was almost obsequious. winston churchill was affronted by fdr s charm offensive. you weren t alone and that thought. bret: churchill really raised some red flags because they believe stalin had this ambition for communism which eventually was realized. fdr dies and churchill s removal from office.
that nuclear button. and nobody in the world has as much power as a president of the united states. and the same holds true for a vice president because if the president is immobilized or disabled, present to take over. i am of the opinion that presidential candidates, vice presidential candidates should give us a full recording of what their health is like. quickly, guys. we ll see dr. jackson come to the white house briefing room on tuesday, we re told. the person who is examining president trump today. what is the top question you would have for him on tuesday? i think one of the questions a lot of people have been asking is about their mental fitness. i m not sure the white house would want to talk about that. i think we ll have to ask. i agree. the mental fitness is the big kind of elephant in the room. bob, very quickly before i let you go. just strikes me how much has changed since the 1940s when photographers were told told show fdr and