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was being protected. in this bipartisan nature. that's what he used the vile and vulgar comments, calling the nations they come from shitholes. the exact word used by the president. not just once, but repeatedly. >> senator dick durbin who was in the room when according to several sources, president trump spoke disparagingly and asked why they wanted to let in people from shithole countries. the president said he used tough language, but he is suggest not the term shithole. excuse me again. this one is easy. there were several republican senators in the room. come forward, gentlemen. senator durbin put his credibility on the line. if the president didn't say that don't you think they would be

all over calling it fake news? the political fallout is huge here at home and around the world. african nations are aghast. the united nations office calls him a racist. a republican congresswoman demands a presidential apology. we will get to all that was because it's important as is the impact on the policy debate. at first what this episode is first of all. another disturbing snapshot of how they view the world and how he views people. why do we want people from haiti here? he responded to several people in the room when briefed on a new immigration. they turned to african nations and the president asked why would america want all these people from shithole countries? instead he suggested more norwegians should be invited in. here to share their insights,

olivier knox. the speaker of the house paul ryan is doing a live interview in wisconsin. we expect him to be asked about the controversy. forgive me if i interrupt. help me here. i am influenced by my own upon bringing in boston where people used the term shithole a lot. we knew what they meant by it. we can have a conversation about quotas. that's all fair in a democracy, but when you disparage nations and call african nations shitholes, again, excuse me, and then say we need more norwegians. is there any secret to what he is doing it. >> the norway yes, haitian no tells you a lot. about everything he said, he said chain migration. does he mean policy or i want more latinos in the country. it is hard to look at the comments. we had that since 2o 11.

this is now new that he makes racist comments. we had a long history and we are in the white house and we are talking about an important policy debate and can't hide the comments and tell them a lot about it. >> i think the issue was certainly something that was appalling to a lot of people and the president did it when he was a candidate and he was race baiting and appealing to his base to get the numbers he needed and said he would be president for all people when he was elected and won the presidency and he is in the white house and making policy that impacts all americans and a lot of people coming from other nations and we are used to the leaders viewing the united states as a country that is made of immigrants and where your possibility is not going to be determined by a place like that. we welcome you here to give you that opportunity. not to say there shouldn't be different ways to look at the immigration system, but the way this president puts it in those

very staunchly racial terms. you can't fault people for call it racist comments because we have seen the president talk like this before as a candidate and since he has been at the white house. >> i want to bring you this as it happens. susan collins, moderate republican. these comments are highly inappropriate and out of bounds and could hurt bipartisan immigration. the president should not denigrate other countries. >> what i think is he's the president of the united states. a lot of american take queues from leadership. what about when you tell a kid or the kid hears from the president of the united states that it's okay to disparage haitians and i'm not going to say the word again, but then say white people from norway can come in. >> you get the real problem which is less than disparaging

comments and the idea that the white house and the president does not want people like these. when the irish came, they were not leaving the land of milk and honey. when italians came, the parts of italy were under enormous duress. people from eastern countries and all these other countries, when the president said by virtue of where you were born, you shouldn't be allowed here, that's the you should lying problem. it has diplomatic consequences and social ones, too. let's not lose track. he was disparaging people, not just countries. >> people based on what they look like. where they are from and the color of their skin. is there any other way to see it? >> just to go back quickly what susan collins just said, he called the country shitholes, but he might have stepped on capitol hill with the remarks.

we have seen people blast the comments from both sides. democrats and one of the top democrats in the room negotiating the daca deal said these were point blank racist and we saw the black caucus leader say it's clear that president trump's make america great again make america white again. susan collins we talked about my love. we mentioned she is a republican from utah whose parents came from haiti. republicans i think on the hill know that this hurts them in the white house. there has been skin put out that this is not a big deal. people in the republican party accept this. on the hill, i think republicans see this under cuts immigration negotiations and puts their moderate swing state districts in a terrible position of having to respond to this and blast the president and distracts from everything they have to do next

which is a totally different issue. >> right. it destroys their brand or impacts their brand. it hurts their brand. the president is hurting the brand of the party of lincoln. the party of abraham lincoln. the president said this is not true or at least he suggests it's not true. the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. a reference to the shithole comment. he wants to change the subject here. i never said anything derogatory about haitians other than it's a poor and troubled country. i have a wonderful relationship with haitians. why didn't the white house try to set the record straight last night? why didn't they say the president didn't say this. the leaks are false. here's what was said. why aren't the senators say that. you know how to reach us. pick up the phone. we have 51 minutes left here and the rest of the day.

say i was in the room and that's not what the president said. crickets. >> that's exactly right. not lindsey graham or tom cotton. they are supportive of him all the time. in this moment, they are not defending him. we are almost 24 hours since this comment. trump's tweet was kind of carefully written and took 12 hour to deny this. he was on camera for this and said if he wanted to deny it, he would have taken theiment ti ti. we can't ignore what he has done that it's a likely thing he said. it's not like any of us were shocked. it was more of the detail that was horrible. it wasn't that surprising. >> the white house statement did not deny the vulgarity. the president is focused on people and having immigrants who can contribute something to this country. which is again the underlying

problem and a policy about people and they reinforced the perception that he is willing to borrow people. >> i think they touched on the point that this is a specific example and the language is offensive and repulsive and published in december and talked about the president getting angry about immigration. haiti sent 15,000 people. they all have aids, he crumbled. another person who was briefed about it was there. 40,000 come from nigeria. once they have been in the united states they would never go back to their huts in africa, recalled two official who is asked for anonymity. they call that a pattern. >> we are talking about one of the original birthers and someone who helped elevate his fame by questioning whether barack obama was born in the united states long after anyone else was still talking about this publicly. someone who as a presidential

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he should walk it back. >> he's not going to. >> that from a place where the big debate most mornings where the president is excellent or awesome. that tells you something. the fallout from the president's rants yesterday on immigration including this on the issue of accepting new immigrants from africa. more time i'm going to say this. why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here, those the words of the president. a familiar divide. is the president as some say a reckless race baiter? >> the president interrupted him several times with questions and in the course of his comments said things that were hate-filled, vile, and racist. >> you think he has a pattern of racism? >> i don't think there is any question about it. i don't take joy of saying it. it's sad that he is president of the united states. >> this remark by the president

of the united states smacks of blatant racism. masquerading poorly as immigration policy. >> as the president likes to see himself, the voice of blue collar america. >> today as you heard during immigration talk, president trump said something that every person in america agrees with. >> this is how trump relates to people. is it a little offensive? of course it is. you know what, this doesn't move the needle at all. this is who trump is. he doesn't care. >> it is striking in the middle of this, there are people paid with your taxpayer dollars who work for this president of the united states who are saying that maybe he could have chose his words better and we don't like that this got out, but this will help with the base. >> again they are focusing on the about the countries and not the underlying policy problem which is turning away people because of where they were born.

it's notable in all of those comments. don't we all agree that haiti is a troubled country as opposed to no one from haiti should be allowed in the united states. >> trump won 46% of the vote. he is down to 35% approval rating. this idea is based on pure and staying with him. he loses a point a month. he is going closer to 20 than 50. that's a big problem. i think throaters we voters wer about immigration. they were not asking for the president who made racist comments and not something i heard on the campaign trail. i do think that even the base is not looking when fox and friends is criticizing donald trump, you know he went far. as you know, it's a show of cheerleading. >> there is basic math at play even if you think it helps with

your base. a base of 30%. you can't govern with all these trump people saying he is going to win next time. the math to me gets pretty interesting. >> and how many republicans on the hill are praising him with all the comments so far. except one. steve king of iowa, hard line immigration hawk earlier this week he was criticizing the president saying that the open negotiation he held with democrats at the white house showed him moving from a hard line on immigration to illegals. now he is saying president trump hang in there amid criticism. there was one republican on the hill, but most of them, no. >> you mentioned mia love, a rising star, haitian american from utah spoke at donald trump's convention. she said this. the president's comments are unkind, divicive, elitist and fly in the face of the american values.

the president must apologize to both the american people and the nations he so wand only maligned. i think she is going to wait a long time for a presidential apology. >> i don't think we will get an apology. i would be personally stunned having covered him to get an apology and i think he will privately be tickled with the fact that we are spending all day every minute talking about his comments. >> if the president of the united states is tickled by the fact that there are people talking about is he a racist or race bait. if he is tickled by that, then we have even a bigger problem than i thought. so again, you talk about the political fallout. in a minute i want you to talk about does this give the president more urgency or this is quick sand followed by quick sand, but we are in an election year. the conservative member of congress who just acrossed the river here in northern virginia is flying in a tough competitive

district. this hurrs her chances of winning reelection. she said i can't defend what the president reportedly said. we are all made in the image and likeness of god. let's keep president reagan's shining city on a hill before us. >> she pushed back on the president. between his poll numbers and controversial things he says like this, the members of swing states, they call them majority makers in the house. if they lose them, they lose control of washington. they got push back. >> a republican is involved in the 2018 campaign process who said we need him at 53 or 10. everything in between is difficult. i can tell you where i think comments tend to drive the numbers. they need the base voters for

sure. they can't do it with just the base. it is everything you said. it gives them a chance to push back against the president. i don't see this as an opportunity so much as a nightmare. >> fair enough. >> that's not wrong. they can go behind the agenda and now get to say well, tax cuts, yes. but race baiting comments, no. >> this all happened at a meeting where he was being shown a proposal and briefed in a gang of six. i will call them a more moderate group. what they gave the president was not terribly out of line with what the president said he was willing to except in the rare event earlier. we talked about this as an act of love. the president said go away. has he been listening to the backlash from the base? >> absolutely. president trump is hearing from two camps. the hard line immigration hawks and republican establishment types who want to fix daca and find a solution to this. i think the comments under cut

his negotiating hand big time. with that open negotiation session, we saw this week, they thought it was a good display for him. he got to argue why he wanted the wall and changes to chain migrations and the republican thought they elevated their negotiating hand. that's totally gone now. the other piece is that this makes a deal a million times harder because democrats are not going to want to negotiate with a country who calls these places shitholes. >> even if they thought it was a policy perspective even though he is repugnant, we have to negotiate. we are still waiting to hear from speaker ryan on this issue. he is doing a live event at home in wisconsin. we are talking about immigration, but that's just one part. one week away from the government running out of money that could force a shut down.

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>> welcome back. you might say president trump plans to steal his own thunder. despite the comments about immigration, he gave a candid news making and at times a bizarre interview to the "wall street journal." one thing he learned he said he probably has a good relationship with north korea's leader, kim jong un. the president would not answer directly when they asked if he had spoken to kim. one of the reporters who interviewed the president and joins our panel for the conversation. i probably have a good relationship with kim jong un who i called rocket man and short and fat and all those other things. have you spoken to him? what was the answer? >> we asked if he had spoken, he said a couple of times he didn't want to comment on it. after that interview and before he published it and didn't want to add to it.

i'm not sure. the reporters and white house communications officials get in trouble and try to define what president trump said or meant to say at times. we can get in trouble doing that. the broader take away is without a doubt president trump is signalling a new openness to diplomacy. it has gone from at one point saying he wanted to annihilate this country and the fire and fury talk and the tweets about kim jong un. he seemed to have turned the page on that talk and at the least he is signalling an interest in a peaceful solution. >> the president is heading to walter reed medical center in bethesda, maryland. we will talk about the physical in a few minutes, but the motorcade is heading off. his tweet said i have

relationships with people and think you people are surprised. some people would see your tweets as combative towards kim jong un. sure you, you see that a lot with me and then they are my best friend. i can give you 20 examples. i'm a flexible person. insult people as part of the courting process. correct me if i'm wrong. that's how we start talking and it starts as this and then i'm flexible and we can be buddies. is there a magical opening? >> lindsey graham declared him unfit for the presidency and the president went after him. bob corker, liddle bob corker suddenly is a partner on issues like iran. he is basically right. he has this insult and as you say part of the courtship process. i don't know. i think michael is right that in recent weeks we have seen -- i

will get mail for this, but a more conventional approach where he is tightening the vice on kim's regime. today the white house hailed the fact that china put back his trade. >> we have to get back to paul ryan. >> it's about african countries and about immigration. it's tied into your job because a week from now there is another deadline on the government shut down and immigration is a big part of that. his comments inflamed the debate that is not hard to inflame, but really. what's your reaction. >> i wasn't sure what you were talking about. the fisa thing. i read the comments later last night. the first thing that came to my mind was very unfortunate, unhelpful. you know what i thought of right away? i thought about my own family. my family like a whole lot of

people came from ireland on what they called coffin ships. they came here and worked the railroads. the irish were really looked down upon in those days. i hear all these stories about irish need not apply. we could get construction jobs, cops or firefighter jobs. james and katherine ryan came over and worked the railroad until they had enough money to buy a farm outside of wisconsin and my great grandfather started a business with horse plows and it's a business run today by my cousins. it is a beautiful story of america. that is a great story. that is a story we have today. that is the story we had yesterday and that is what make this is country so exceptional and unique in the first place. i see this as a thing to celebrate. i think it's a big part of our strength whether you are coming from haiti -- we have got great friends from africa who are

incredible citizens. i think it's important that we celebrate that. having said that, you are trying to ask me about daca. >> you are trying to broker a deal, right? how do you do that with this? >> we just have to get it done. i'm hopeful that the talks -- it started about a week ago. we have been talking quite a bit it's not as if we had, but we started at the white house with an agreement that the four deputies, the number two leaders in the house and the senate because dick durbin is the number two guy who is the leading democrat on this issue. kevin mccarthy really well, our majority leader and in maryland and john cornyn knows the issues really, really well. the four of them started bipartisan talks trying to aggregate all the ideas that are out there to come to a consensus. do we need to fix daca, yes, we

need to fix daca. it's penitentiary we fix it in a way that gets bipartisan support and we don't have a problem or 10 years down the road. we don't want to just fix the sentiment and not the root cause. you have a balanced daca solution that has the security components along with the daca fix and that gets you bipartisan support for fixing the broken immigration problems. that's what i top twant to see out of this. not just this fix and let's put together a solution that starts knocking down these other thorny problems we've got in the immigration system. ultimately we should go to american based immigration system. the reason i say that is we fixate on labor force and i was talking about the workforce development. if we get every single able-bodied american from

poverty into the workforce. we still need people. >> you don't want to ship 200,000 salvadorans. >> correct, but i'm just saying we need to rework our immigration system so that the thesis is not given based on relations other than the nuclear family, but based on skills and what we need. we need people with the dairy industry in western wisconsin and people in the vegetable industry in california. we are going to need after we find every software engineer we will need more. that kind of thing. that's why i think i would like to take this opportunity to fix this particular problem which does need to get fixed and tried to knock down the other problems. >> does it get attached to the spending bill? >> we have to keep it separate because it's not good government putting all the stuff together. i think people are attaching them in their minds as far as

leverage is concerned, but they won't be attached as far as legislation. >> is there going to be a government shut down? >> i don't think there will be. we are making progress on what we call the cap steal that i'm working on with schumer and mcconnell and pelosi. we are making credit, but i think the democrats and i understand why. it's the only leverage they have. they want to see a path for daca. it's not just going to get kicked down the road and going to get resolved. i want it resolved, too. i want this agreement resolved because frankly my big concern is the military. we have hit the military -- >> you want a longer term bill instead of those conversations. >> speaker paul ryan is back home doing a live interview. a couple of interesting points. he said he is hopeful to get a compromise on daca dreamers. it will not be directly connected, but he is confident there won't be a shut down when the time runs out.

the speaker being asked about the president's comments. we are in a meeting with a group of lawmakers. he used the term shithole to talk about countries in africa. why would we want people from shithole countries allowed in on any immigration policy? he talked about haitians and the speaker of the house, paul ryan, the top republican in the land next to the president and vice president saying those comments were "very unfortunate and unhelpful." we talked about this and went on to talk about his own family's immigrant irish heritage and how unwelcome the irish were at the time. incredible citizens, he said. immigrants from africa. yes, making a case for merit-based immigration. whether it's farm jobs or medical jobs or whether it's this or that job. not based on they are from haiti or africa. we don't want them. on the very unfortunate and

unhelpful. what's the significance of that. >> i guess he criticized trump? you look at the answer, he did criticize him and he gets a check mark. get at that as quickly as possible. he defended haitian and african immigrants. he does not agree with donald trump's stand. he does not have the immigration views donald trump does, but in terms of will paul ryan criticize very deplorable comments from donald trump? sort of. he wanted to be mild about it. >> a number of points. we wish we could question him directly. number one, unhelpful and very unfortunate. he wishes he hadn't said it. mr. president, watch this. here's how you can talk about immigration to achieve your policy goal without using repugnant language. offensive language. many say racist language.

the speaker has to be aware he gets into a public fight in a mid-term election year, who knows. >> who knows. >> is it worth the fight? >> you have to ask when we have seen most of the responses, maybe mia love excluded, republicans have been along the lines of unfortunate and unhelpful. we are not hearing the impassioned pleas for the president to understand why what he said was so wrong or offensive or unacceptable. maybe republicans have lost their moral standing on the issue because they have spent nearly three years dancing around deplorable comments the president made that are tinged with race. they haven't ever been able to express to him this is wrong. we are not going do it and we won't go along with you if you speak like this. times out of 10, they fall in line behind him. >> what is different between then and now. overseeing the trump university

case, he's an american citizen from indiana. an american citizen with families of mexican decent, he said he couldn't handle a case involving him because he is mexican and the president had tough use on immigration. you heard the speaker gently. it's very unhelpful and very unfortunate what the president said. not i condemn it. listen to paul ryan back then. >> i regret the comments he made. claiming a person can't do the job because they are racist is the definition of a racist comment. it's unacceptable. >> what's the difference? >> part of the difference is he's trying to get as you were alluding to is trying to get to a deal. you could see paul ryan squirming. part of the frustration has to be that i don't think they are that far away and the suggestion

that paul ryan was giving trump a template on how to speak about this, trump is capable of this. it has been far overshadowed. part of our interview yesterday before this other story came out, we talked to him quite a bit about immigration. he still wants a wall, but there is flexibility there. he doesn't want to talk about comprehensive immigration, but said it's a possibility. when it comes to daca, he urged his party to have flexibility on it and talked about looking at it with his heart. talking about daca and looking at it through common sense. he wanted to get to a deal. this is not to defend what he said or ignore it at all, but only to point out that he is capable of this when he wants to. for paul ryan, it has to be frustrating for this to overshadow an ongoing negotiation. >> capable when he wants to, but

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. >> a quick look at other things on the political radar. do people love oprah winfrey? yes, they do. do people want her to run? mostly no. more than half of those who

responded said no. 33% said yes. people were asked oprah versus donald trump. a hypothetical. the results? 50% for oprah and 39% for trump. the other 11% not sure. the new candidate in arizona, the republican congresswoman throwing her hat into the ring and announcing she is running for the u.s. senate. a retired fighter pilot in combat missions over african began and playing up military experience and tough leadership style. >> i'm tired of pc politicians and their bs excuses. i'm a fighter pilot and i talk like one. that's why i told washington republicans to grow a pair of ovaries and get the job done. after taking on terrorists in combat, the liberals in the senate won't scare me one bit. >> running in a crowded republican primary with a seat left open by jeff flake who is

retiring. look who letterman had. barack obama almost one year into civilian life. he still faces immense challenges even though no longer has the stress of being leader of the free world. >> malia who is very thoughtful said hey, dad, i have this lamp this this box and put the desk lamp together. i said sure. so i grab it and it should have taken like five minutes or three minutes and i'm sitting there and i'm just toiling away at this thing and it's taking a half hour and michelle is finished scrubbing and organizing closets and all this and i was pretty pathetic. >> pathetic from the former president. the current president donald trump expected to get his first medical exam this hour. he is on the way to walter reed

medical center in suburban maryland. the president's prediction? >> i think it will go very well. i will be very surprised if it doesn't. >> it is the president's first check up as we said. let's look at history as we go back. this is the president as we know. he is 71 when he was age 70. his doctor told us his height is 6'3" and his weight then is 236 and bmi is 29.5. he was taking a staten and low dose aspirin as they get into their 50s and higher. the first physical of barack obama. the first year in office he was 48. 6'1", 180 and bmi 23.7. anti-inflammatories and nicotine replacement. he was a former smoker. that was the big discovery out of the first visit. still struggling, but described

as being in excellent health and fit for duty. george w. bush, the president before him, age 55 his first physical. late in the first year in office. august 2001. 6 foot, 190 pounds and bmi. mets just a multivit in, occasionally cigar. ran four times a win and swims and weight trains. outstanding health and fit for duty. we were getting a lot of questions about donald trump and his health. he did talk to dr. oz about how important it was that their president was fit for duty. >> when you are running for president, you have an obligation to be healthy. i just don't think you can do the work if you are not healthy. you can't rep tent the country properly in you are not healthy. i feel as good today as i did when i was 30. >> cnn's chief medical correspondent joins us now. what will the president be tested for today? how much is the bigger question,

should we, the believe, expect to learn? >> as far as what he is going to have done if it's representative of the past physicals that you showed here, it's a pretty exhaustive exam about four hours long. he is 71 so the big focus on someone who is 71 is always going to be their heart. he takes a cholesterol lowering medication. it was at 169 and what has been the impact of all these hamburgers and fish sandwiches and chocolate shakes and the exercise he had. what has been the impact on his health. that's one of the things that doctors want to probe. focusing on his heart and risk factors for stroke and cancer as well. as part of most primary physicals, they do ask about anxiety and depression and stress. that doesn't mean there is actual testing around those things, but it's more of a back and forth discussion that takes place between patient and physician about these things.

you get a bunch of tests and results and it will be a disclosure about how it went and it takes a few days for the results to come back and we will probably hear those next week. >> we will get a briefing next week. there is a lot of discussion about whether the president is fit to lead, a mental fitness. you write that's bothersome from a medical perspective to conplate. explain what you mean. >> there is a lot of arm chair diagnosis going on here. there is rules on this thing as far as professional stance, but more to the point is, diagnosing someone with mental illness is a challenging thing to do. you can't do it from afar and you shouldn't because it involves a lot of sustained contact with a patient and talking to them and talking to acquaintanc acquaintances.

and mentioned quickly. what is the second sentence then. because someone has a mental illness, they cannot what? hold a job or hold office? we had a lot of people with mental illness who had big jobs and held office. i urge a little caution as referring to a lot of these terms. >> excellent point. we will invite you back and get more details. we will have you back to talk about it. moving on, president trump cancelling plans for the first official trip to the united kingdom. perhaps the closest ally. why isn't he going to london? here's his explanation. the reason i canceled my trip is i'm not a big fan of the obama administration having sold the finest embassy for peanuts only to build a new one for 1.2 billion dollars. bad deal. wanted me to cut ribbon.

no. >> that decision was made not as a real estate transaction, but because officials worried the old site was vulnerable to a terrorist attack. the more likely reason is hundreds of thousands of protesters expected having gone to london. number one, why? why does he have to make something up and blame obama? >> i'm laughing about it, but it's not funny. it's not funny. he's the president of the united states. >> pure face. the idea that he would be met with hundreds of thousands of protesters in the streets as you say, america there was no closer ally than great britain. it would be a bit of a slap in the face. in fact if you look at the pictures of the embassy, he wrote an opedpraising why it happened and explaining that it

was financed through other real estate sales and his own ambassador breaking with the president on this situation. >> stunning to me. what does it say? i want to get to the broader issues and the fallout and the comments about african nations. what does it say? let's pretend it didn't happen. this is the most special relationship as they always say, the most critical. the most dependable u.s. ally. >> he is doing america first really well. that was the people on the campaign liked. the mayor of london is what's happening aggressively. that would not happen with president obama or president

bush. it is remarkable that foreign leaders at times list the ones that don't have to say please don't come. >> he often said we are respected in the world. that's a questionable assertion by the president of the united states just today with the un high commissioner in civil rights. the government of botswana and the current american is the as highly irresponsible and racist. it does not deserve a response. either the president is misinformed or miseducated. >> i think all of this is sort of falling with the backdrop which is that president trump is totally rewriting foreign policy. this comes a week after he decided to cutoff aid from pakistan which is a country that we had a working relationship with as we fight terrorism in the middle east and pushing back on south korea and north korea

trying to use south korea to wedge between the united states. this is one of many things that he is doing right now that some people are going to question the wisdom of, but he is changing everything. >> we are about to hit the one-year mark. we will keep track of it. thank you for joining us. be back here at 8:00 a.m. eastern. wolf blitzer takes over after a quick break. have a great weekend. i'm on the move all day long... and sometimes, i don't eat the way i should. so, i drink boost to get the nutrition i'm missing. boost high protein nutritional drink has 15 grams of protein to help maintain muscle and 26 essential vitamins and minerals, including calcium and vitamin d. all with a great taste. boost gives me everything i need... to be up for doing what i love. boost high protein be up for it ♪ ♪ i can do more to lower my a1c. and i can do it with what's already within me.

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it's 1:00 in washington and 2:30 in pyongyang, north korea. thank you very much for joining us. we begin with the vile and vulgar comments by the president of the united states, echoing across washington and indeed around the world. president trump today tweeted a half hearted denial that he denigrated timmigrants. i won't use the