but the leadership -- i mean, tim scott is a leader. he was one of the core four when it came to tax reform. but we need the leadership to say something. if donald trump, no matter if he's -- as the naacp says, he's racist or what have you, he is the president of all america. he says he's the president of all america, not his base, not trump land, not white america, not rural america, not just the forgotten man, but all america, black, brown, jew, protestant and catholic. what will be done to leverage like the naacp president said, what will be done to leverage that all the leaders, not just the president, but those on capitol hill make sure they understand that the black and brown community are to be looked at, to be helped? the black and brown community still have the highest numbers of negatives in almost every category in this nation. >> and, pastor burns, it is clear not only is there no apology coming but the president, as is his usual way, is trying to mud the water and fight back. >> you know, first of all, i think we should und

they confirmed to tim scott that these comments were made using that vulgarity by the president. we will get you more details when they come in. as we are set to close out the new week. take a look on the screen. all of the five indexes they were record closes across the board. never before seen. this will be the night straight record close for the dow transports. the second straight for the other averages. it's very significant because we're really looking at the big gains for the year and it's a very young year. it is up right now about 17 points today will be the eighth year to date record close. for one individual stocking here. your newsfeed will now prioritize what family and friends share while reducing the amount of advertising content that you see. if you don't push for the advertisers and not content to people's individuals newsfeed how will you make money. the shares are sliding it's the worst performer on the nasdaq right now. earning seasons kicking off this morning. the biggies are jp morgan and wells fargo. two out of the four are up. we do have jp morgan which rep

tim scott, the african-american senator from south carolina said publicly that senator graham who was also in that meeting confirmed to him that the reports of the president's comments are accurate. as the story is developing, we are starting to get different takes coming in and two of them, cotton and purdue said it didn't happen, but graham is telling tim scott in south carolina that it did happen. we should point out in the last several minutes, the president did hold an event at the white house signing a proclamation honoring martin luther king day on monday. during that event, reporters were in the room and asking the president questions, shouting questions at the president about the remarks at one point. april ryan who is a contributor at cnn asked the president point blank, are you a racist? he did not respond to any of those questions. we should point out the president is up at walter reed undergoing a physical examination. something the white house has been telling us was going to happen all week. as we are looking apt the president's health and looking for the report on the

but it's a tough path to walk right now. >> so if you have tim scott corroborating and lindsey grahamt, dick durbin saying he said t i can't get over the fact that the president is straight up denying having said this, and that the sources are telling us here at cnn that he's actually loving this controversy. so, david, he's being called a raci racist, and he has hurt so many people, he has hurt america's image, and he's enjoying this? >> look, brooke, i said last night, and by the way, we should point out that the white house itself last night after this was reported did not deny what he was reported to have said. >> correct. >> i'll say it last night, and i'll say it again, we know who this president is, and that question has been asked ance answered. the question is who are we. and is this what we want to project to the world. i'm the son of a refugee who came from one of those broken places that the president would, in a modern day context r, woul have called a shithole. and this country opened arms to him. this is why i love our country so much. and the strength of our country is

the only african-american republican senator tim scott calling the remarks disappointing. but the majority of gop leadership keeping quiet. now, the timing of this couldn't be more extraordinary. today is the eight-year anniversary of the earthquake that killed 200,000 people on the island nation of haiti. today, ironically, the president is expected to sign a proclamation honoring the martin luther king holiday. he was recording a preplanned video about dr. king when the story broke about his remarks. alisyn and chris, back to you. >> okay, joe. thank you very much. we have cnn political analyst john avlon and political commentator errol lewis. guys, here we are. i don't want to normalize it. i don't think on morning tv, kids are watching, i don't think we should say it. john thinks differently. >> the president said it. >> i'll say it. >> i personally have a discomfort with this. presidents course coarse language. >> nixon used coarse language. >> and so did bill clinton. >> shithole in and of itself, i'm sorry, isn't what's offensive here. >> there it is is. >> it is --

i want to talk about some of the reaction from capitol hill, tim scott, senator tim scott, republican from south carolina said this, our strength lies in our diversity including those who came here from africa, the caribbean and other corner of the world. to deny these facts would be to dee night the brightest part of ouvriere history. congresswoman from utah, the president's comments are unkind, divisive, elitist and fly in the face of our nation's values. my parents came from one of those countries, pay taxes, rose from nothing to take kafr of and provide opportunities for their children. the president must apologize to both the american people and the nations he so wantonly maligned. >>> you know, i don't think you're going to get an apology on this. the president is not really a big apologizer in chief. >> i'm not going to set my clock -- not going to hold my breath. that's not who he is. i mean, again, i think a lot of the things that have transpired over the last 24 hours are more of a confirmation really of the type -- >> it shows he doesn't understand immigration in this count

tim scott said he is disappointed. those are not as far as you can go. but the republican leadership says nothing. either they agree with it or they're scared. >> business is at hand. it is trying to get an immigration bill and solution for dreamers. this is a president who claims he wants to make america great while really using language and acting in a way that brings out the very worst of america. classic nationalist in that sense. what he did is other things that are so ignorant on their face. particularly stunning for a president of the united states who would have those views, let alone then say them because the contrary evidence is right in front of him. on top of that ignorance, it gets in the way of everything he said he wants to do. he talks about pursuing an immigration bill of love and now he's talking about s-hole countries and keeping people out. not truly understanding who we are as a people. not understanding how well immigrants from around the world assimilate into this country and make it so strong. and he's got plenty of employees and

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 larger point here, that as you started the show, wolf, the president of the united states on martin luther king day wakes up to headlines everywhere saying, i'm not a racist. the fact he felt the need -- he got a question, sort of a question that none of us could imagine prior to this presidency being asked, and answered it and asserts, as he did during the campaign, i'm not a racist, i'm the least racist person i know, to have that be the headline on mlk day shows you just how unsure he was. >> and when there was an mlk day event, he just ignored the questions. this time he didn't. >> he's trying to defend himself from democrats on the hill and people around the country saying these are clearly racist remarks. the thing i think is interesting is how much this has roiled the immigration talks. there was a potential daca deal on friday, but this has set it b

tim scott is african-american. he was the most passionate about getting that done and he got it done. so i appreciate your point but i think that part of the reason the obama administration did make some mistakes, it didn't make more mistakes because they had more eyes on the situation. the president we have now makes the same kind of mistake frankly over and over and over again annoying and frustrating even his strongest supporters because i don't think he has that cognitive diversity he needs to learn fast enough. and listen, i'm somebody liberals hate me because i will give him his credit where it's due. but on this point, it's hard to give him more than a d minus when it comes to his growth curve and learning curve on how to lead a multiracial democracy. >> paris, let me give you the last word and ask you this question. what could the president do to grow in this area? >> what the president can do to grow in this area is to continue to put people -- bring people together, bring diverse opinions into the white h

lindsey graham basically confirmed the remarks to tim scott, according to tim scott. jeff flake the remarks were confirmed to him by a participant in the meeting. both of them republican senators but lindsey graham has a clear obligation to explain exactly what it was that the president said that provoked him by his own words to confront him in the meeting and this really -- this whole episode underscores the situation that republican members of congress put themselves in when they commit to defending the president because the price just gets higher and higher. i don't think tom cotton and david perdue a year ago, who, by the way, it's important to note, the proponents of the hardline legislation to cut legal immigration in half. imagine that they could be in this situation a year ago but that i think is the price of 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 didn't deny them over that night and according

neil: senator tim scott put it better than i could. right now the fact of the matter is to the senator's point that if you're looking for this the world as we know it still early but it has not happened. normally, shutdowns tend to be on the heat of the party that controls congress and in this case, it is the republican party , but that is not necessarily a given. one of the things we've discovered looking at this in the past is that when you look at where this goes, and how people are weighing this, they don't like a government shutdown but they're opposed to forcing one based on making daca the lynch pin for it. in other words, as much as they dislike shutting down the government, they really dislike shutting it down based on a single issue and in this case, daca. mark pen joins us with that of course, you recognize him as the key clinton polster. i like to call him the clinton s vingali. very good to have you my friend. >> good morning. neil: one of the things we're looking at, were you surprised by that, that people don't like thes

and senator lindsey graham confirming what the president said to senator tim scott and also challengingresident to his face in that very moment, something not likely fellow republicans in the oval office would forget. joining me now is editor of the weekly standard and msnbc contributor bill crystal. >> it's been a pattern of this past year for the republican party and conservatives to some degree with donald trump. >> what is it? i mean, paul ryan calling it an unfortunate comment, not questioning the comment but last week in realtime calling it, well, unfortunate. what is it? is it fear of the wave of the midterms? fear of the president? fear of his twitter account? >> a little bit of fear. i think to be fair, a lot of these elected officials will tell themselves, look, i can pick a fight here or be a little politic or a little disingenuous, but maybe i can get things done that i care about and that are good for the country. not just tax cuts but other things, decent appointments, strengthen my ability to calm at some point and try to push the president on to a responsible path, try t

tim scott condemning the remarks and neil love the first haitian saying i can't defend the indefensibleink you can get enough bipartisan support on this censure move. >> i think it's important that we find out -- i think it's important that we offer this resolution. the head of the black caucus and myself on behalf of the black caucus and the democrats in the judiciary committee that we offer this resolution of censure and that we give our republican colleagues the chance to speak out. i think it's important that congress speak out and i'm not going to take the cynical view which may be the correct view, i won't take that view right away that our republicans colleagues are irredeemable and will not condemn the condemnable. >> you tried to censure the president in august after his remarks following the violence from white supremacists in charlottesville. does something feel different to you this time? >> i don't know. it's cumulative. we've seen some republicans expressing great unease about this. we'll see. >> let's talk about the russian investigation. you're the ranking democrat in al

. >> senator tim scott telling the charleston post and courier telling them lindsey gram said the commentsre basically accurate. dick durbin arguing the president did use the vulgar characterization. >> he said the hate-filled things and said them repeatedly. >> the president is such a potty mouth. that's the guy who should be eating tide pods, i'll tell you that. ( applause ) i mean, when you think about it, his resting face is already the face you make when you eat one of those. ( laughter ) so here we go again, folks. president trump busted for making monstrous comments, this time about an entire continent and haiti, and just like every other time he says something indefensible. fox news sprang to his defense. >> president trump said something almost every single person in america agrees with. a lot of people come from other countries who aren't nice. >> this is how forgotten american men and women talk at a bar. if you're in a bar and in wisconsin and you think they're bringing in haiti people or el salvadorians or people from niger, this is how some people talk. >> trevor: they're the

he even said that to his senator from his home state, tim scott. really, it's just a case of a lot of people saying we don't know, we don't remember, we don't recall specifically. remember that the president hasn't come forward and said he unequivocally denounces the statement. >> and julia, you heard in peter's report the comments about the analyst and why she didn't work in north korea. it seems to be a pattern of sorts with the president. what are we hearing from white house aides? >> we actually heard reports and sources tell us that president trump actually on thursday night going into friday was almost calling his allies and friends and bragging about these -- the coverage this was all getting on national tv. i think the president probably looks at this and says this isn't necessarily bad for my base. i mean, his base has tended to really really, i guess, absorb this more nativist, very hardline immigration stance that he's often put out. so i think the president has definitely seen this maybe as a positive sign, but it's interesting because

even the only african—american senator, republican senator, tim scott, he said it was disappointing to. the criticism from the republican side was quite muted, even though you have the un and democrats condemning out right this use of language and i think poisoning potential negotiations that are going on at the moment between republicans and democrats, to fight —— to try to find a fix for the young people who are here through no fault of their own. thank you. the role played by the media is to be examined by the manchester arena bombing inquiry. 22 people were killed at the end of an ariana grande concert last may. some families who used social media to appeal for information about missing relatives found themselves subjected to intrusive attention. judith moritz reports. the manchester arena explosion shattered countless lives. 22 were lost and many more were changed forever. the attack made international headlines. that meant there was huge media interest in the stories of those most closely affected. they included the family of martyn het. he had previously been on tv, possibly as

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why does it take the only black republican member in the house in the senate, mia love, and tim scott to come out and say something. donald trump and the republican leadership needs to read what love wrote because what she said was excellent. good for her. it is a shame that we are here now and shame on the republicans for being silent and someone in that room should come out and admit that this is what the president of the united states said and put an end to this speculation whether he did or did not >> we'll have haitian american assembly woman from new york to have her response to all of this. >> simone, the sad irony, this comes less than 24 hours before the president will sign this proclamation of martin luther king day and all that it means and all that he meant for this country. >> donald trump has no real understanding of, in my opinion of the legacy and the work of martin luther king. what's so problematic, donald trump quote on quote, explanation via twitter, he reenforces idea that haiti is just poor because it is poor. he has no recollection of history or the facts. if an

tim scott of south carolina, the only african american republican in the senate calling the remarks disappointing. he says our strength lies in our diversity including those from africa, the caribbean and every other corner of the world. to deny these facts would be to ignore the brightest part of our history. >> and this from congresswoman from utah. p president's comments are unkind, divisive, elitist and fly in the face of our nation's values. my parents came from one of those countries. the president must apologize to both the american people and the nations he so wantonly maligned. >>> the outcry over the president's remark has been global. mexico's former president fox twooeted at trump, your mouth is the foulest shithole in the world. america's greatness is built on diversity or have you forgotten your immigrant background, donald? as for reaction in africa let's go to nairobi, kenya. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning again, dave. well, yes, the reaction is petering through, but already on social media, many african commentators are saying things that are quite unpalatable usu

. >> one other thing, senator tim scott of south carolina confirmed that lindsey graham told him that's what the president said it. if there is another confirmation. >> harris: how could all of this impact the delicate immigration negotiations going on right now? that's a higher conversation that has to be had immediately. let's bring in bill cassidy from the great state of louisiana, great to see you this morning, thank you very much for being with us. you heard me mentioning that the house speaker majority stepped up and said what he said about these remarks. i want to get your take on it. >> i thought what you just said it was perfect. the president denying he said it, whether he said it or not is not the issue. what about the higher problem of what do you do about border security and daca? as washington gets a twitter about what the president did or did not say, we will not focus on border security and doing something for daca. i'm a doctor, i know sometimes you put your blinders on and focus on the problem and drown out other distractions. this is a distraction. you pegged it, it's

senator tim scott said that was what was said. senator flake seems to be siding with durban on that. the senators who are in the actual meeting don't seem to have a consensus on what was said. in this partisan era people are going to believe the person they usually stand with. republicans will believe tom cotton. democrats will believe there met -- durban. let's start with brian this morning. brian joins us from michigan on the independent line. you are on with our guest. go ahead. caller: good morning. i think we should not shut it down to work on a deal but i have a question for miss john. i am 60 years old from the detroit area. my entire life i heard about slavery and now jim crow. is the black democratic congress telling black people to vote for having illegal mexicans here. aren't they pushing black people once again to the back of the bus and putting illegal immigrants here? host: we will leave it there. i don't know if you want to tackle that. >> i would just say that democrats are pretty united on the idea that this is a

lindsey graham told tim scott that the president said it. senator purdue and cotton are not saying they heard exactly that, it is becoming a bit of a partisan football game here. >> you have heard the president say things that upset members of congress before. what do you make of that response? >> i think it is fascinating that we have senators and cabinet nebrasmembers willingly digging their hands in the sand about this. they say they don't remember hearing this in the meeting, and some senators saying they did. so is the party kind of -- i think it is so political at this point, but i just think you look at rand paul who is defending donald trump, and people pretending they didn't hear it and they're enabling him, protecting him, defending him, and that is more scary to me than hearing this from the president because he made a lot of racist comments before. >> where are we in terms of momentum. you heard lawmakers speaking to reporters out of the white house. we heard more from republicans and democrats and it seems like a debate is under

grandmother also reportedly confirmed hearing trump's racially fueled remark with republican senator tim scott. reached friday, scott said that graham told him the comments reported in the media were basically accurate. if that comment is accurate, the comment is incredibly disappointing scott told "the post" and courier. two put out their own joint statement and in plain english took a pass. president trump brought everyone to the table this week and listened to both sides, but regrettably it seems not everyone is committed to negotiating in good faith. we do not recall the president saying these comments specifically. house democrats are pushing to publicly reprimand and centur the comments of the president's comments next week. listen to it reaction today from speaker paul ryan. >> i read those comments later last night. so first thing that came to my mind was very unfortunate unhelpful. but you know what i thought about right away, i thought of my own family. my family like a whole lot of people, came from ireland on what they called coffin ships then. came here and worked the railroads. w

what sarra saying -- told senator tim scott that is exactly what happened.white house is choosing to rely on the word senator's cotton and purdue and not from graham or durbin. senators who were invited to the white house to try to craft a way out of this impasse. they can filibuster, they can move onto the next question, go around us. at one point sarah sanders describing the remarks. that is not going against political correctness, that is being discriminatory against people coming from those countries. >> "the lead"'s jack tapper -- walking to a setup. >> we call him two days later and say they have done it. we met your criteria. we are ready to go. and then to be called into the president's office and find that we have been sandbagged. general kelly and steve miller invited five other members of congress who are no the in favor of immigration reform and they were there to refute any assertions we made that this was a good policy. so you ask me where we are today, i will tell you where we are. more republicans are willing to step up distancing themselves

jillian: finally tim scott couldn't escape south carolina coast before the snow started so he tried gettingnsportation a boogie board. >> how far do you want to go? >> any time you want to turn around. >> i will try to turn around -- whoa. jillian: he got a good laugh out of it i guess you could say. rob: that's right. jillian: fun in snow. rob: they tell you bomb cyclone hits. got to have a little fun. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> a monster winter storm barreling up the east coast right now. blizzard warnings in effect for millions of folks. >> a new war of words between steve bannon and president trump. >> president responded almost immediately with a statement he was fired. he not only lost his job. he lost his mind. >> jaw-dropping response coming hours after excerpts from a new book were published just a few days ago steve bannon was considered by the press to be the unhinged. and now he is a hero. >> the president, i think, is a great man. you know i support him day in and day out. >> president trump will sit down with senate republicans to discuss daca and border security. >>

i think it's damaging to the republican brand at large and we saw with tim scott, they are left to sayngs like diversity is one of america's strengths. we shouldn't have to point that out and trump is forcing republicans to do so. >> the gop can no longer lift the white house anymore because -- >> in the white house shake up. >> stick with me for a moment. i want to read new polls and get your take on the back end. it is showing the majority of americans saying d.r.e.a.m.ers should be allowed to stay in the united states according to a new poll. 79% believe d.r.e.a.m.ers should be allowed to stay and apply for citizenship. 7% say they should be allowed to stay and 11% say they should be required to leave the united states. when it comes to president trump's proposed border wall, 34% of voters support building a wall. 78% of republicans support building a border wall versus 19% who oppose it. 91% of democrats oppose building a wall compared to 8% in favor of it. let's go back to both of you really quick. looking at the numbers are republicans taking a hard line in the daca negotiations

reportedly, he did tell fellow republican senator from south carolina tim scott that the reports about the president's conversation was accurate. beyond that you have senator dick durbin confirming that the president made those remarks, and saying that they were hate-filled. all of that the backdrop of this not only a disagreement what the president said, but also on policy with the government shutdown looming on friday, we could potentially see some kind of deal from lawmakers to keep the government funded, or a stopgap bill that would keep the government funded and punt on this conversation about daca and immigration. or we could see a government shutdown if some democrats follow along as they have promised to not vote on any kind of budget without a resolution to the issue of dreamers being included. boris sanchez, cnn, traveling with the president in west palm beach, florida. >> let's talk about all of this with international professional. boris laid out for us. he needs to avoid a government shutdown. and perhaps, perhaps there is still hope for an immigration deal. and yet this i

according to tim scott he confirmed it as basically accurate for him. jeff flake has confirmed that he was told this is what the president said and we have testimony from a leading activist who said he spoke with a top supporter who said the president was bragging about using those exact words in the meeting. i look at what senators cotton and purdue have done today as kind of a reminder that in this political era to defend donald trump as more and more republicans on capitol hill have chosen to do is to constantly find yourself dredging deeper into a well that you could not have imagined when you started, defending things that you cannot have imagined as defending a year ago. i think both of them are in this situation. by the way, they are the advocates of the hard line immigration policy that president trump has endorsed and that faces a lot of resistence among other republicans because it takes the party from a position of opposing undocumented immigration towards a clear and unequivocal opposition to legal immigration and that is a very important di

senator tim scott says that graham told him the reported comments are basically accurate. and tonight, outrage is building over those remarks. plus the president's long-time attorney denies that trump had a sexual encounter with a porn star after a report by "the wall street journal" alleged the lawyer helped facilitate a six-figure payment to the actress in october of 2016 for silence. more on that story coming up. but i want to begin with the growing fire storm over president trump's racist trash talk. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. you and your colleague, ranking member jared nadler, you're planning to introduce a resolution next week to censure the president over his shithole remarks. why take this action? >> absolutely. one, i think it's important for the american people to understand that this is not how we run government, this is not how we feel. two, it's important for the world to know this is not how americans view africa, nigeria, haiti, el salvador. i hate to put it in such a basic term, but we have to show the world we're better than this. he may

it was he, tim scott and nikki h lachlt ey and i said that's the future of the republican party untiltrump beat marco rubio in the primary and crushed my dreams. here we are today. i'm glad to see -- i was skeptical of her appointment in that position, given she had no foreign policy experience but she's actually done a fantastic job. and i'm actually glad to see her in that position. she seems to be almost inoculated from the chaos going on in this administration and i wonder is it because she's come out with different positions than the president at times which we all know doesn't go over very well. with her, he seems to have laid off of her. i wonder if it's because he knows he has to be careful with his image with women so i don't think he wants to attack her. she's doing a great job. i'm proud of her. >> dude, it is 2018. what is going on? >> first of all, the idea that the one person who is classing up the joint, classing up the entire trump administration by exponential points, you're going to go after her and say she doesn't have any class? this is where we are in this moment.

it's also important note, wolf, that lindsey graham apparently had a conversation with senator tim scott, who has indicated that based on his communication with lindsey graham that the president's words as being described in the public domain were accurate. and that is just a terrible thing for this nation. we have to decide as a country that we are better than this, and it's going to require people on the left, on the right, progressives and conservatives, democrats and republicans to speak up, to stand up and to denounce this vileness coming from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. >> as you know, the president did honor dr. martin luther king jr. in the oval office today. he was joined by dr. king's nephew, isaac newton ferris jr. who later told cnn he doesn't think the president is racist, just, quote, racially ignorant and racially uninformed. what do you think of that analysis? >> well, i mean, i think clearly the president has engaged in behavior that would be consistent with being at minimum a racial arsonist, fanning the flames of hatred to advance his own agenda, certainly on the campaig

. >> reporter: senator tim scott telling the charleston post and currier said lindsey graham said the comments were basically accurate. >> i was in a meeting directly afterwards where those who presented to the president our proposal speck about the meeting. and they see those words were used before those words went public. >> reporter: the bitter infighting is stalling talks over a potential immigration deal that would protect d.r.e.a.m.ers. >> you can't have an immigration compromise if everyone is calling the president a racist. >> reporter: the president declaring that daca is probably dead, but later leaving it open. >> we are willing and able to milwaukee a deal on daca, but i don't think the democrats want to make a deal. >> reporter: i for one will not vote for government funding until we get a deal on daca. >> i don't know if there will be a shutdown. there shouldn't be. >> reporter: president trump addressing this frightening false alarm in hawaii. >> the u.s. pacific command has detected a missile threat to hawaii. a missile may impact on land or sea in minutes. this is not

will also on friday, republican senator tim scott told the charleston post courier that graham told him the comments as reported in the po media were basically accurate. and republican jeff flake tweeted that the comments were made to him directly following the meeting. however, two republicans in the meeting, david purdue and tom cotton issued this comment, quote, we do not recall the president saying these comments specifically, but what he did call out was balance in our immigration system. >> thursday, we had a meeting and coming out of that meeting we had a gross misrepresentation of what happened in that meeting. but it's not the first time we've had a gross misrepresentation by that individual? >> are you saying the president did not use the word that's been so widely reported? >> i'm telling you he did not use that word, george, and it's a gross misrepresentation. >> i didn't hear that word, either. senator durbin has a history of misrepresenting what happens in white house meetings, though, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised by that. >> you're saying it did not happen or you

speakers include representative debbie dingell of michigan, john delaney of maryland, and tim scott of south carolina. this is about 50 minutes. hello, hello. georgetown. the way you can tell you are at a catholic meeting, there is no one in the front row. and the audiovisuals never work. thank you all for coming. we're delighted that you are with us. my name is john carr, the director of initiative on catholic social night at georgetown university. we are very grateful to the chaplain's office for their help and our friends at the democracy fund who support our efforts at civil dialogue at a time when it is more important than ever. atl dialogue, at a time when it is more important than ever. we do large dialogues at the georgetown, and it would mention a couple of those at the end. i'do some convenient ones, probably the most important thing that we do, is reach out to young leaders here in washington. -- it is my experience, i am very old, as i am told by my children all the time -- my experience is that a lot of young leaders come to washington, many of them motivated to their fait

according to his fellow south carolina senator, republican tim scott, graham told him the reports were "basically accurate." so far the only person who's given a full account of what the president said yesterday is the one democrat who was present. illinois senator dick durbin, leading advocate for d.r.e.a.m.ers and other immigrant groups. in a series of press appearances this morning, durbin recounted exactly what happened inside the oval office. >> the president came into the oval office and senator lindsey graham and i made our presentation. as senator graham made his presentation, the president interrupted him several times with questions. and in the course of his comments, said things which were hate-filled, vile, and racist. we have a group that have temporary protective status in the united states because they were the victims of crises and disasters and political upheaval. the largest group is el salvador ran, the second is honduran, the third is haitian. when i mentioned that fact to him he said, "haitians, do we need more haitians?" then he went on and started to describe the

. >> reporter: that's south carolina senator lindsey graham told tim scott, his colleague from south carolina, that he did, in fact, hear him use that word. the senator today again would not say whether the president definitively used it but said he confronted him about it. what's really interesting is that three years ago, four years i guess, when all of the immigrants from central america started coming over the border into texas senator lindsey graham said something very similar, though he used a different four-letter word. listen here. >> the people coming across the southern border live in hell holes. they don't like that. they want to come here. our problem is we can't have everybody in the world who lives in a hell hole come into america. we're just gonna have to create order out of chaos. >> reporter: so lindsey graham said that people coming over here who live in hell hole, yet he's considered to be a leader on immigration reform. the democrats putting the blame squarely on the president for not negotiating in good faith as illinois senator dick durbin, who is seated to the

republican senator tim scott is saying south carolina colleague who was in the room with the presidentham told him that president trump said some version of what has been reported about that blank hole comment related to immigration last night when this broke and i came on your show. white house aides were not denying it was said. but two other republicans today who were in that meeting senators purdue and cotton said they do not recall the conversation playing out that way. and the president himself who knows what he said or didn't say tweeted, quote, the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough but this was not the language used. what was really tough was the outlandish proposal made, a big set back for daca. added he never said anything dog tore about haitians other than haiti a very poor and troubled country. never said quote take them out. made up by dems. i have a wonderful relationship with haitians, probably should record future meetings. unfortunately no trust. the president held an event at the white house today to commemorate dr. martin luther king jr. day. various

republican senator tim scott is saying south carolina colleague who was in the room with the presidentdsey graham told him that president trump said some version of what has been reported about that blank hole comment related to immigration last night when this broke and i came on your show. white house aides were not denying it was said. but two other republicans today who were in that meeting senators purdue and cotton said they do not recall the conversation playing out that way. and the president himself who knows what he said or didn't say tweeted, quote, the language used by me at the daca meeting was tough but this was not the language used. what was really tough was the outlandish proposal made, a big set back for daca. added he never said anything dog tore about haitians other than haiti a very poor and troubled country. never said quote take them out. made up by dems. i have a wonderful relationship with haitians, probably should record future meetings. unfortunately no trust. the president held an event at the white house today to commemorate dr. martin luther king jr. day.

senator tim scott will be with us, michael dukakis, rnc chair, i've got many other big names.ng you, i cannot share them with you. i hope you understand why. i hope you understand why it's incumbent upon you to watch tomorrow that on top the oncoming drama, we did not orchestrate the government shutdown and a cheap ploy for ratings. we considered it. they already appear to be doing the job for us. we will see you tomorrow from washington. good night, america. >> dana: i'm dana perino along with kim legal file -- this is "the five." all right. see the clock on the bottom right of your screen? that's how much time is left for the senate to avert a government shutdown. down to the wire in less than seven hours, the house passed extensions, but democrats are including protection for young, undocumented immigrants. president trump invited minority leader schumer to no deal but little progress. >> we

shame on lindsey graham telling tim scott, tell us what you told him. shame on him. >> in this history lesson we are reminded of. most of us come from grandparents from other parts of europe. the african-americans you meet on the street have been here for hundreds of years before us. that's just a fact. people like michelle obama's family go way back. also by the way, to add one more iconic reality, the lady on top of the freedom building on the capitol was put there by slaves. your thoughts? >> i do agree with joy. the most shameful thing, we have accepted and we know this president is a racist and to quote his own staff, a dope, is the behavior of the republicans. to have mr. cotton and to have mr. purdue jointly say, we have no memory of this. how sniv elling of that, how cowardly is that. you either remember something like that or you're going to cover for him. they know it's wrong, won't say it and have the guts to keep their mouth shut. they have to weigh-in -- >> durbin said he used that term a lot. >> how do you forget that? >> i would hear it.

contemporaneous statement to tim scott. has a lot of value in it. jeff flake said people told him this was the language, the sentiment before it even came public. dick durbin put out this statement. let's put it up for people. they're using the fact that durbin got jammed up in the past talking about what happened in the obama administration. he said now they are trying to hoist him on that. he is saying credibility is something that is built by being consistently hon efforts over time. senator durbin has it. perdue does not. ask anyone who's death with it. what does this mean for the daca deal, a.b.? >> well, actually, of all of those accounts i found erick erickson the most compelling. he spoke with one of the people the president called to bask in the glow of the backlash, basically gauging his allies's response to this firestorm. so it's really hard to believe that it wasn't a naked base play. he knew staff was in the room. he had that last week for which i give enormous credit for something that illustrated leadership from something we haven't

he actually apparently told his fellow south carolina senator tim scott that the reporting on the president's remarks was accurate, then you have senators cotton and perdue who initially said they could not recall what the president had said, but then kind of went back today on the sunday morning talk shows and denied that the president had made those remarks. it's just one more line of division between lawmakers and a process that has exposed serious gams in where these two parties are when it comes to not only the issue of daca, but also on funding the government. let's not forget that the shutdown is looming at the end of the week, friday at midnight, it's unclear if lawmakers will be able to come to a consensus on the issue of immigration, if we may see potentially the passing of another continuing resolution, a stopgap bill that would keep the government funded and then kind of punt this debate further down the line, or if as some democrats have threatened, we may see a government shutdown, keep in mind, that some like congressman john lewis has said that they will simply not vote for an

note and i should note once again that republican members of congress are speaking out like senator tim scottke mia love, the first haitian-american elected to congress, called it unacceptable, demanded an apology, but we have not heard from republican leadership, right. >> that's right. we haven't heard from leadership and that is significant. we will see in the coming hours and days if they, indeed, do step up and say something about that. we heard from senator orrin hatch last night a top republican who said i want to know more exactly what president trump said, but we are learning more from those senators and representatives in that meeting about what president trump said. we have confirmation, this according to jake tapper, he spoke with senator flake and flake says look this is essentially something that senators up here were talking about after the meeting, before "the washington post" broke that story, confirming according to one republican senator in the room that yes, those statements were, indeed, made. senator durbin, also in that meeting, confirming president trump's statements c

included representatives debbie dingell of michigan, john davey of maryland, and senator tim scott of north our lineup. this is about 15 minutes. >> thank you all for coming, we are delighted to have you with us. fromme is john carrr georgetown university. grateful to them for their help, the friends at the democracy department, who support our efforts at evil dialogue, at a time when it is more important than ever. we do large dialogues at the georgetown, and it would mention a couple of those at the end. i'do some convenient ones, probably the most important thing that we do, is reach out to young leaders here in washington. -- it is my experience, i am very old, as i am told by my children all the time -- my experience is that a lot of young leaders come to washington, many of them motivated to their faith. but they get pulled into the wars. the great temptation in washington is not corruption, i think, it is in this is in. especially, -- it is cynicism. thiswe are, i day before rate of the union, which is -- which is of the union, as close as you get to american liturgy. i am cath

confronted the president about his remarks and as you noted he apparently told his fellow south carolina tim scott that the president did say something like that. he also have others like jeff flake who wasn't actually in that meeting but heard from some people who were shortly after it took place. here's what the arizona senator had to say. >> all i can say i was in a meeting directly afterwards where those who had presented to the president our proposal spoke about the meeting and they said those words were used before those words went public. so that's all i can tell you is i heard that account before the account even went public. >> reporter: so we have a disagreement between lawmakers over what the president did or did not say and the backdrop of that is the division between lawmakers over the policy that was even being discussed specifically a legal solution for the legal status of d.r.e.a.m.ers. those 800,000 or so young americans that were brought into the united states illegally as children and as of mid-march the program that gave them legal status is set to expire, so the discussion of

i think you saw tim scott in the senate. you saw mia love in the house call for an apology. so i really believe that this statement is so far beyond the norm. and it is so offensive that republicans cannot just condone this. and they would have to, on and up and down vote, get some of them. >> congressman, is president trump a racist? >> you know, that's a good question. most of the time i say i don't care if he's a racist or not. i know his policies are drim terro discriminatory. and i know everything he's done has been a disgrace to the african-american community to nominating jeff sessions to disbanding the civil rights movement to his voter fraud commission that he set up, which really was a voter suppression commission. so i know his policies are very discriminatory, but, you know, my grandmother who was very poor but was very wise, she used to always say if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and acts like a duck, it's probably a duck. the president's action would lead many reasonable people to conclude yes, he's a racist. >> you have been in private meetings with

remember, it was lindsey graham i believe and others who came out quickly, tim scott, against what happenedcharlottesville. most politicians will be shrewd enough to do that. that doesn't mean they are white supremacists and nationalist. graham, mr. is, mr. scott who is black -- you can be black and be a supremacist, at least one who encourages it and i think you can be -- where do you stand on restoring the voting rights act? where do you stand on health care? because you do know that when you cut health care, you heard a large percentage of african-american people in your statate. where e do you stand on living wages since 52% of african-americans make less than living wage, 64 million people who make less than a living wage in this country? where do you stand on immigration reform? declaresichard spencer emigratition is the fifirst bate of white supremacy and white nationalists in the modern era. that is what he has actually said. the question becomes, not are you loud like trump and are you -- you carry on the antics of trump, it is the policies of what nationalism and white supremacy.

senator tim scott said graham told him the reported comments are basically accurate. we all know the president meant what he said. sources telling cnn the president called friends to do a victory lap. so it's painfully ironic or for some just painful that today the president sought to honor dr. martin luther king, jr., saying this. >> that is what reverend king preached all of his life, love. love for each other, for neighbors and for our fellow americans. dr. king's faith and his love for humanity led him and so many other heroes to courageously stand up for civil rights of african-americans. today we celebrate dr. king for standing up for the self-evident truth americans hold so dear, that no matter what the color of our skin or the place of our birth we are all created equal by god. >> so that's what he said today in front of the cameras. but remember behind the cameras this is what the president just said yesterday. and i quote, why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? kind of makes your skin crawl to hear him talk about dr. martin lut