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Mind -- is that whatever he said, the meaning of what he meant was that this was a measure that he didnt want and he wants merit-based immigration. you know, et cetera, et cetera. >> lets listen. im going to let you finish. lets listen to this. ill let you finish after this. this is senators tom cotton and david purdue saying the president didnt say it or it was a misrepresentation after initially saying they didnt recall. heres what some are hearing, what theyre saying. >> are you saying the pr...

These comments specifically. however, they now seem to remember enough to challenge senator bush dins account. lets watch. >> are you saying the president did not use the word that has been so widely reported? >> im telling you he did not use that word, george. and im telling you its a gross misrepresentation. >> i didnt hear that word either. i certainly didnt hear what senator durbin has said repeatedly. senator durbin has a history of misrepresenting what happens in white house meetings, thou...

Kept dreamers as long -- including 60,000 displaced haitians inside of america. the presidents reported comments calling these african nations s-hole countries, and saying, quote, why do we need more haitian, and advocating instead for what he wanted, more european immigrants specifically from norway. these comments continue to draw condemnation, not only here but around the globe. after the white house didnt initially deny them at all, there is a new strategy. two republican senators, both hard...

Durbin on the democratic side. he gave a full account of the presidents comments last week. >> youre saying flat-out, definitively, the president did not say those words? >> im saying that this is a gross misrepresentation. its not the first time senator durbin has done it. it is not productive to solving the problem. >> so what did the president say? >> most people in america, george, want us to solve the daca situation. >> john, i didnt hear that word either. i certainly didnt hear what senato...

Seven lawmakers in that meeting. hes a republican. hes not backing down at all. >> i think this debate about what word exactly did he use, it misses the point entirely. for senator perdue to say its a gross misrepresentation what dick durbin presented, it just belies the facts. lindsey graham was in the room and corroborates it. he tells tim scott what word was used. tim scott said it supports the public accounts that are out there. whether he used that word in the room or not seems to miss the ...

Other issues. were well regarded and this incident i think is going to have some consequences for us at least in the short-term. >> how bad is this that the president is now enlisting republicans like perdue and cotton to back up something that doesnt deserve any support? >> well, i cant speak for those two senators. i wasnt in the meeting. i dont know what they heard. >> would you do that, charlie? lets say -- right after the meet gs, youre going to remember a president using a word like this o...

He denied hes a racist and he denied he made those disparaging remarks about african countries. these lawmakers have gone from saying that they do not recall the president making this remark to on the sunday show saying that they -- the president -- insisting he did not make these remarks. >> are you saying the president did not use the word that has been so widely reported? >> im telling you did not use that word, george, im telling you its a gross misrepresentation. how many times you want me ...

Getting into this situation with president trump. >> we have every reason to believe that the president did say those words according to the sources talking to cnn, according to the fact that the white house didnt deny them over that night and according to the fact that those senators took a long time to reach their stories. josh dossy "the washington post" reporter who broke this story now writes this. white house official told me tonight there is a debate internally on whether trump said shit ...

Over his disparaging comments about immigrants from haiti and other african nations. >> did you see what the senators in the room said about my comments? they werent made >> reporter: some differing accounts about whether he referred to these countries as shitholes. >> he said them, and he said them repeated. >> reporter: senator dick durbin saying he did use the vulgar characteration while two republican allies said they did not recall the phrase before insisting sunday that it did not happen. ...

Senators by doing that have made a choice now and i think a lot of people who cover politics watch that and are just really struck by them doing that and, you know, you have to be careful what you say in politics and i speak for a lot of my colleagues when we say we were very, very struck by that choice. >> to go from a joint statement on friday margaret to jonathans point of quote, we do not recall, right, the president making those remarks using the s-hole comment to then going on separate sun...