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Personal. >> can't the white house say i'm sorry? why hasn't the white house come out and said i'm sorry? >> well, the white house said that the family is in their prayers. i disagree with the fact that this is something that rolls downhill from the president himself. this was someone that made an off the cuff comment in a meeting. this is not something that she was harkening back to 2015 and saying, okay, it's okay to say these kinds of things. >> i don't think president trump has ever apologized for those initial statements. >> no, he didn't. and, again, when -- in the political realm to get...

She says, i guess it's time for the secret society to meet. it could be off the cuff. it could mean a million things. the problem is if i don't know what it really means, i should not impugn the reputation of the fbi. we need our democratic institutions intact. they're taking a beating. why add to that? >> you're right. no, no, no. the way that we solve the problem with our democratic institutions, degrading before our very eyes, is to pass better legislation for more oversight, more transparency, more report sog that this never happens again. we shouldn't have a circumstance where you get an ...

Sight, more transparency. we shouldn't have a circumstance where you get an hq special and depart from the normal investigation procedures. but like the notion that a secret society is just off the cuff comment is laughable. i can't believe you make that with a straight face. a secret society gets together in secret. >> existence of something as nefarious. >> they said it. >> you don't know the context. have you picked up the phone and asked? >> ron johnson statements -- >> he backed off. >> there's an informant. >> we have an informer who talked about private meetings off site. we don't know ...

>> right or to generalize by referring to a country or an entire continent in the terms of the president did, which is also an overgeneralization. >> i would not pick those terms. i would say the conditions in haiti are disgusting. everywhere you look income haiti, it's sheet metal and garbage when i was there. >> i think you should think maybe, i would suggest why people would find that kind of characterization of the place where people live and have pride and love of the place they're from as derogatory. >> look -- >> wasn't that true of ireland? wasn't that true of ireland in the 1830s? >> ...

Ask you, wasn't that true of ireland? wasn't that true of ireland in the 1830s? >> i wasn't there, chris. but i mean -- >> but you've read some history books, congressman. >> sure. i would say look, there are a number of circumstances where people have come from disadvantaged places and made a contribution to the united states. that will continue to happen. but i don't think that one off the cuff comment by the president should derail the work of the congress in finding a broader immigration solution. democrats have used this as an example to distract from the important policy work. >> wait, b...