things. i ve been in these private rooms with members of congress and people throw elbows rhetorically and say things. you don t walk out and go like a song bird and say he said something. if you re worried about dreamers and the budget that you would say, we got to get beyond this because this is now become the story. senator graham, if you re following the reports of the meeting, senator graham, a republican who has been friendly with the president of late did stand up, we re told to the president in the meeting and said his piece in that meeting. senator graham wadss, i don t kw if he was shaken up by it. he said he wish he hadn t heard
post courier, i know what i said. the president of the united states is now using such explicit language. the discourse right now is pretty low. we re producing some pretty good policy but those of us in my business need to up their game is pretty embarrassing when you have to take your children out of room just to report the news. outfront now, national affairs correspondent joan walsh and jack kingston. joan, i have to say the reporting tonight from a senior republican source familiar with the meeting is that these republican senators are basing their denials of this discussion on the fact and i m going to say it this time because it s important, they say the president said shit house and not shit hole and that changes everything.
out there than you would think. i think they can come up with a solution. is this how sausage gets made? i don t think so. i think this is a different brand of sausage with this president. there really were democrats ready to compromise. dick durbin went in there with lindsey graham because the two of them thought they had a potential deal and then there were other people in the meeting that they didn t expect. it got tense. now there s no deal. i think this president felt like he walked out ftoo far and he hd to walk back and through a gross word into the mix to do so. are you clear with either description the president used
it s definitely disturbing and disappointing that the other two republican senators in the room would suggest there s a difference between hole and house. if that s what they are basing their claims on, are they lying about the substance in the meeting? i think they are trying to use a technicality as an excuse. they believe in the american dream and trying their best to make america their home, whether you say hole or house it is insulting, it s degrading, it s divisive and the president owes them an apology. if they re going to use that as an excuse that he did not disparage those nations, they
as having key knowledge about contacts between trump campaign associates and people suspected of being russian operatives. hope hicks is the big one. she s been with donald trump since the beginning of the campaign. we know she played a role in helping the president craft a misleading statement that was issued in the name of donald trump junior when the public learned about that infamous june 2016 trump tower meeting. steve bannon made those comments in that newly published michael wolf book calling the meeting tremendous s treasonous. corey lewandowski lewandowski ran t ran the campaign for some time.