If the press were not fake and if it was honest, the press would have said what i said was very nice. Wait a minute. Im not finished. Im not finished, fake news. The press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control. The public doesnt believe you people anymore. Now, maybe i had something to do with that, i dont know. As you know i have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. The media. In other words, the fake news. Any media that dislikes what hes done. Today, the president received a Double Rebuke from members of his own party. In a column for the Washington Post senator john mccain said President Trump is sending a dangerous message to the world. He wrote the while Administration Officials often condemn violence against reporters abroad trump continues his attacks on the Integrity Of American Journalists and news outlets providing cover for repressive regimes to follow suit. On the senate floor this
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That warned Ballistic Missile threat inbound to hawaii. This is not a drill. Parents hiding their children in manholes. Families huddled in closets. And what weve now learned tonight. And Olympic Gymnast simone biles. Her brave words. What she has just revealed. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on this Martin Luther king jr. Holiday. And we have a lot of news to get to. We begin tonight with that new winter storm moving across the country at this hour. The Alberta Clipper bringing snow and ice and Freezing Rain, and there is real concern tonight about the commute tomorrow morning. Already tonight, Dangerous Driving from the plains to the midwest. A driver losing control, slamming into a police cruiser, right there in park hills, kentucky. As we come on the air tonight, two dozen states now under Winter Storm Warnings and watches right now. That system pushing all the way from texas to minnesota and moving east. D. C. , philly, new york, boston all get hit tomorrow.
West palm beach airport, following the president s First Physical exam as president. According to his doctor at walter reed, the exam went, quote, exceptionally well and further details on tuesday. Before leaving washington for this Martin Luther king holiday weekend, trump signed a proclamation expanding site, with questions from the president about remarks about haiti, el salvador the day before. And throughout the day, republican lawmakers in florida, including senator marco rubio and congressman carlos ro bechlt. Llo strongly distanced themselves from the remarks, all in a state, florida, a home to many immigrants and their families, including 300,000 haitianamericans, most in south florida, some of whom protested the president s comments. And republican governor rick scott also reacted to trumps
for so long. Do you get the sense that hes sort of distracting from his own Policy Agenda with the comments he made this week about other countries, whether true or not, with tweets he put
Wall. Mexico will pay for the wall. I think theyll end up being happy to do so. The wall just got 10 feet higher. We love it. We are going to build the wall. It will be a real wall. A real wall. Who is going to pay for the wall . Mexico. Who . Mexico. The back and forth between boss and top kick on the president S Immigration position has not help Congressional Republicans get any closer to a deal that would solve the daca problem and keep the government opened. If no deal is reached there will be a shutdown of the government tomorrow at midnight. Casey hunt on capitol hill gives us the update. I did talk about baby food because this Chief Of Staff talks about the president as this Cartoon Character that has to be made into a person by
language about haiti and africa. So what you have now is a Democratic Party thats bg been given a rational for this potential shutdown, the brew ha over the last week has energized their base and made it easier for democrats to say we cant work with this
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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