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President trump on the attack again just a day after denouncing racist rally chants. the president is doubling down on his original attack on four democratic congresswomen and he is refusing to apologize for his tweet, which prompted all of it. >> do you ta ik that tweet back? >> you know what i'm unhappy with? i'm unhappy with the fact a congresswoman can hate our country. >> reporter: one day after distancing himself from his supporters' send her back chant, president trump now refusing to take back the words he wro et that prompted it. >> i'm unhappy with the fact that a congresswoman can s...

>> lock her up! >> well, today the president of the united states showing his true colors. after yesterday's failed attempt to convince you he didn't like that send her back chant. >> if i may, when your supporters were chanting send her back, why didn't you stop them? or ask them to stop saying that. >> i think i did. i started speaking very quickly. it really was a -- i disagree with it. it was quite a chant. and i felt a little bit badly about it. i will say this, i did and i started speaking very quickly. it started up rather fast.

He's not letting his supporters who want to chant a send her back chant that they wouldn't do it again. nothing he has done since then shows you that he firmly wants to tell his followers this is wrong. this is not so. no one gets sent back, and the criticism that you just showed in those clips that he is allowed to be critical and no one is to send him back to scotland where his mother is from is just something they hope that the next person who interviews him asks, you were critical of the united states, mr. president. should you have gone to scotland? >> well, he was asked about his double ...

From and all four are american citizens and three were born in the united states. and abby phillips is at the white house. and you asked the president why it was okay to criticize america, which he did repeatedly as a presidential candidate and not for the four democratic women. >> reporter: that is right, jake. and the president dodged that question and many others today. he pivoted only to continuing his attacks on the squad. but when it comes to the first amendment rights the squad has to speak their mind about america, the president said his supporters have a right to say and feel what the...

Rally today he had hid his mind defending the crowd behind the chan and tripling down and the attacks on four american congresswoman. >> the things they said about our country are terrible. it's a disgrace what they've said. they can't call our country and people garbage. you just can't talk about our country that way. and when people are angry at them i fully understand it. >>reporter: so he now seems to sympathize with those behind the send her back chant, a chant incidentally that echos the words from his racist tweet over the weekend where he implied the women aren't americans and can go b...