priorities when he was asked about this. of course, we ve seen the president-elect bring a number of billionaires into his cabinet, into his administration, so that s raised some questions, is he dedicated to draining the swamp. the pushback from the trump team is, hey, look, we re bringing in washington outsider. they happen to be successful people but this is a part of the process of draining the swamp. today newt gingrich apologized in this video he tweeted out. take a look. i want to report that i made a big boo boo. i talked this morning with president-elect donald trump and he reminded me he likes draining the swamp. i mischaracterized it the other day. he intends to drain the swamp. and that apology came after the president-elect himself tweeted that some people had been mischaracterizing his position that he is still very much dedicated to draining the swa swamp. we can t underscore that enough. that was a key campaign promise. this is an issue he s going to continue to get
than 700 incidents of hateful harassment, intimidation, you know, since the election. and they continue to come in. the issue here is not whether donald trump will stand up and say stop it. it s whether he ll address the very groups that are propagating the rhetoric leading to this violence. which, as you pointed out, he s refused to do or hasn t done yet. i d like to make one more point. so yesterday donald trump released his 100-day plan on youtube. he announced some very thorough, some specific things he was doing by executive action. he referenced a phrase. he said he s going to drain the swa swamp. drain the swam was a meme, a twitter hash tag that grew, exploded, really, after donald trump came forward with plans, with allegations it was a rigged election. and it was spread specifically or among the people spreading the drain the swamp hash tag were avowed racists. white supremists who exist on
familiar attacks on the obama administration taking little responsibility for any of his own crises and chaos in the west wing his first 100 days but he was speaking in harrisburg, pennsylvania, to loyal supporters at the same time the annual white house correspondents dinner was going on back in washington. he made that clear from the very beginning of his speech. they are gathered together for the white house correspondents dinner without the president. and i could not possibly be more thrilled than to be more than 100 miles away from washington swa swamp, spending my evening with all of you and with a much, much larger crowd and much better