step up and say something about that. we heard from senator orrin hatch last night a top republican who said i want to know more exactly what president trump said, but we are learning more from those senators and representatives in that meeting about what president trump said. we have confirmation, this according to jake tapper, he spoke with senator flake and flake says look this is essentially something that senators up here were talking about after the meeting, before the washington post broke that story, confirming according to one republican senator in the room that yes, those statements were, indeed, made. senator durbin, also in that meeting, confirming president trump s statements coming out with strong words this morning calling those words hate-filled, vile and racist, on the part of president trump and durbin says that he spoke up in that meeting and he told president trump look, do you know how painful this is to so many people, those words that you are using and he said