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Some african nations. >> did you see what various senators in the raofpl said about my comments? they werent made >> reporter: lawmakers offering different accounts about whether mr. trump referred to these countries as shitholes. >> he said these hate-filled things, and he said them repeat repeatedly. >> reporter: the lone democrat, dick durbin, said he the president did use the vulgar characteration while two republicans said they did not recall the phrase before insisting sunday that it did n...

Thursday, sunday night the president asked reporters did you see what senators said about that meeting? the interesting thing about that is that there are very many different answers even just from republicans about what the president he had. christine and dave? >> thank you. the partisan wrangling over what the president said becoming increasingly bitter. listen to two republican senators in the homeland surety secretary. >> are you saying the president did not use the word that is being so w...

The president. first, lets go down to florida, caitlin collins in west palm beach covering the president for us, who we understand is at the golf course, if not golfing. whats the latest? >> reporter: president trump is at his golf course here in west palm beach, on martin luther king day. extraordinary day overnight with the president denying hes a racist and denying he made disparaging remarks about countries in africa and during that meeting, in the oval office. and all of this comes as those...

This is the sentiment that the president expressed. it is important not to let it get lost, the overall criticalness of the discussion the president was having with lawmakers at the white house when he said this, when he expressed what he really thinks about these ongoing negotiations. this is overshadowing days before the government is going to run out of money. it shows that the president has this penchant for speaking out, speaking his mind, something the office applauds him for often. we see...

Could try to pro tract the president and say this did not go on. but he said this is a gross misrepresentation. senator cotton said he didnt hear any derogatory comments about individuals or persons. that is not the case. it is absolutely stag issering that it has gone on. this is the kind of thing senators accuse house members of doing, of treating each other this way. and the fact they would do this when senator graham told senator scott and senator flake. there are so many others that corrobo...

That i can tell you. >> reporter: getting back to the question of whether the president said those controversy remarks at a meeting with lawmakers on thursday, sunday night the president asked reporters, did you see what senators said about that meeting? the interesting thing about that is that there are very many different answers even just from republicans about what the president said. christine and dave? >> thank you. the partisan wrangling over exactly what the president said in that immi...

Gross misrepresentation. that does not seem to apply if this is the internal debate between these two words. its taking a point of nuance between two bad things, maybe choosing lesser of two evils but using it to hang your hat on. because its not precisely right clearly everything about it is wrong but that does not appear to be what happened based on joshs reporting and hes a very good reporting with many sources in the white house as well. the paper is standing by his reporting and i trust his...

That meeting. the interesting thing about that is that there are very many different answers even just from republicans about what the president said. christine and dave? >> thanks. the partisan wrangling over what account the president said becoming increasingly bitter. listen to two republican senators and the homeland security. >> are you saying the word did not use the word thats been so widely reported? >> im telling you he did not use that word and its a gross misrepresentation. how many...

Laid out the words that the president reportedly said. and lindsey graham basically agreed. however, two other senators tom cotton and david perdue seemed to alter their story, going from we cant remember if he said that to a more emphatic denial that he actually said that. >> 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. im telling you its a gross misrepresentation. i dont know how many times you want me t...

Overnight he is denying using a vulgar word you have heard more than enough to describe black and brown people of these people coming to the country as immigrants. now some are changing their story dramatically. chris kuhns of delaware joins us. senator, thank you for being here on this martin luther king day, a very important day in history. both said in a skwroeuplt statement when asked if the president used that word, we do not recall. heres what they said yesterday. >> im telling you i dhe d...