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Tweet was seen as racist? lindsey graham encourage you to aim higher. as a trouble you -- >> president trump: he didnt say that, i disagree with lindsay. he is a congressman. what am i supposed to do, just wait for senators? know. so i disagree with lindsay on that. that was the only thing. he said, "aim higher, shoot higher." when am i going to? wait until we set somebody else in the higher office? these are people that hate our country. john, they hate our country. >> reporter: but "are >> pre...

Couple days ago. >> yep. thats really interesting, too, to look at that side. and lets talk about the republican side of things. because when it comes to the presidents fellow republicans, condemnations are slow to trickle in, and theyre at various levels -- >> understatement. >> these -- the comments coming in from republicans, not from anyone -- this is senator lindsey graham today, and then i want you to hear meghan mccain responding to the words of a man who used to be very close to her fath...

The aid of the quote-unquote squad, now under more pressure to push through or allow more ideas to go through and perhaps even exacerbating the fractured relationship. >> i dont think so. i think the president with what he did, we mentioned earlier, actually give the democrats something to rally around, pushing back on his racially charged remarks. the democrats, youre right, theres been some infighting in different factions. this is something everybody was able to come together and say collecti...

The racist line, the xenophobia line. theyre not an accident and the president doesnt intend to apologize. he is trying to shift the focus to safer ground. if democrats want to unite around the squad, the president tweets, it will be interesting to see how it plays out. so many people are angry at their and their horrible and disgusting actions. it is fair game to debate the liberal ideas promoted by these new democratic members and one has made repeated anti-semitic remarks but those are not th...

Morning and had this advice for the president. >> aim higher. theyre american citizens. they won an election. take on their policies. mr. president, youre right about their policies, about where theyll take the country. just aim higher. dont get personal. dont take the bait. this is not about a person. it is about a country. >> apparently so far hes not listening to lindsey grahams advice. by the way, lindsey graham is the only republican who is even commenting with his one tweet but where is th...

Naturalized citizens or not in this country. he relies on racism, division, and anti-immigrant sentiment to consolidate power because he does not have a positive vision for the future of america. >> there has been near total silence from republican congressional leadership. only a handful of the rank and file have critiqued the presidents language, and one ally, senator lindsay grey grah took his own turn attacking the women, and saying the president should aim higher. >> aoc, they hate israel, ...

President trumps tweets from this week and were racist and he should apologize. we should work to rise above hate and not enable it to." we are seeing some remarks from the more rank and file republicans but still nothing from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell nor the house minor leader kevin mccarthy. one more thing, charles, we are expecting a big press conference in about an hour before likely targets of the presidents, including congresswoman ocasio cortez are going to be holding a pres...

Remarks about them. the president, boy, did he want to talk and boy did he want to talk about this specifically? he has been getting a lot of intense coverage over the last 24 hours for that tweet given the concerns that it is racist and seen as a racist trove. his officials are denying that and defending the president as are some of our republican allies. lindsey graham does say the president should aim higher, he did agree some criticisms with the president as it relates to the policies of the...

With the president and gave the message, aim higher. >> dont get personal. dont take the bait. this is not about a person. it is about a country. it is about a set of ideas. theyre on the wrong side of the teacher. >>st so heres the 2020 democrats are responding to this. >> it is absolutely racist and unamerican. >> the president is a sick man. . >> right now we have a racist president who is demeaning female members of the house of representatives based on the color of your skin and their cultu...

Racist, others provided tepid responses while going after the democratic women. >> these members of congress have views that are not consistent with my experience and not consistent with building a strong america. the president failed badly this weekend and continues to do so today. >> do you think that his tweets were racist towards those congresswomen? >> what was tweeted was destructive, was demeaning, was disunifying, and, frankly, it was very wrong. >> we all know that aoc and this crowd ar...