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Fox's Wallace: Pelosi's 'five white guys' comment is 'a parking ticket' compared to Trump's 's---hole countries' Wallace's remark comes as the president's comment has dominated cable news on Thursday night and Friday and even resulted in National Urban Radio Network White House correspondent and CNN contributor April Ryan shouting a question at Trump during a Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration asking if he "was a racist." "It was a dumb remark," Wallace said of Pelosi's "five white guys" comment to anchor Sandra Smith on Fox's "America's Newsroom."
An official White House statement did not deny that Trump made the remarks, saying that "President Trump will always fight for the American people." The president reportedly made the remark in the Oval Office while discussing extended protections against deportation for young immigrants and strengthened border protections.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina says he spoke 'directly' to President Trump inside the Oval Office after he reportedly used a crude slur to describe to 's***hole countries' from Africa. Graham said he pushed back at the president - an account that was backed up by Illinois Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois - after Trump reportedly made the comment at an Oval Office meeting, where he was also is claimed to have said disparaging things about Haitian immigrants.
This June 10, 2017 photo released by the U.S. Marine Corps shows an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter provides security from above while CH-47 Chinooks drop off supplies to U.S. Soldiers with Task Force Iron at Bost Airfield, Afghanistan. An audit by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction released this past week revealed that a Department of Defense task force to support economic development squandered hundreds of millions of American taxpayer dollars.
For years, a movement to limit the number of migrants into the U.S. and end a system that favors family members of legal residents has had to fend off criticism that it's as a poorly veiled attempt to produce a whiter America. Then its most prominent supporter told members of Congress in the Oval Office this week that the U.S. needs fewer immigrants from Haiti and Africa and more from places like Norway.
In this Jan. 9, 2018 image from video provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a woman and an infant are hoisted aboard a Coast Guard helicopter as they are rescued from a flood-damaged home in Montecito, Calif. Flash floods on Tuesday swept immense amounts of mud, water and debris down from foothills that were stripped of brush by a recent wildfire.
Federal lawmakers who represent New Jersey from both parties have asked the U.S. Justice Department to keep internet gambling legal. In a letter Thursday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the lawmakers urged the department not to rescind its 2011 legal opinion that says internet gambling is permissible under federal law.
"America is an idea, not a race," Graham said, according to three people familiar with the Thursday exchange. Diversity is a strength, he said, not a weakness.
In this Jan. 9, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. Trump used profane language Thursday, Jan. 11, as he questioned why the U.S. should permit immigrants from certain countries, according to three people briefed on the conversation.
This file photo taken on September 10, 2017 shows DACA recipient and appliance repair business owner Erick Marquez during a protest in support of DACA in Los Angeles, California. San Francisco-based Judge William Alsup issued his 49-page ruling on January 9, 2018, ordering the administration of US President Donald Trump to reinstate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program , an Obama-era program that provided legal status to young immigrants who entered the country illegally as children.
A Democratic commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission responded to a report that the agency's Republican chairman, Ajit Pai, was being subject to not only racists comments but also deaths threats which prompted him to cancel an appearance at a recent event. The question was: "What do you think about the horrifically racist things people have said about Ajit Pai, as well as the numerous death threats and threats made to his family? Merits of Net Neutrality notwithstanding, do you think his treatment should be given more attention?" Earlier this month, a report from Recode stated that Pai canceled a speaking engagement at a major technology industry event days before it was scheduled to place because of death threats.
Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe claims President Trump asked him if he could "get inside" Columbia University and retrieve college records of former President Barack Obama, according to a report Friday. Trump approached O'Keefe seeking the help of Project Veritas, a conservative group that attempts to expose media bias, to obtain Obama's college records to see if Obama claimed he was a foreign student at any point, according to a passage from O'Keefe's upcoming book obtained by CNN .
Donald John Trump House Democrat slams Donald Trump Jr. for 'serious case of amnesia' after testimony Skier Lindsey Vonn: I don't want to represent Trump at Olympics Poll: 4 in 10 Republicans think senior Trump advisers had improper dealings with Russia MORE believes white Europeans are better than brown immigrants. The comment follows the president's reported remarks referring to Haiti and African countries as "shithole countries."
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, walks with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the minority whip, as lawmakers continue negotiating on a deal that would include a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. In this Jan. 9, 2017, photo, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., left, and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md.
U.S. Congresswoman Lois Frankel takes a selfie aboard Brightline's introductory trip between West Palm Beach and Fort Lauderdale on Jan. 12, 2018, during an invitation-only media preview ride beginning and ending at the Brightline West Palm Beach station. Brightline is selling tickets and passes both online and on its mobile app and will begin service for the general public beginning Saturday, Jan. 13. To see more photos, go to TCPalm.com.
An Indiana Republican hoping to challenge Senator Joe Donnelly stops in Evansville on Friday part of the process of getting on the ballot. Candidates must submit 500 signatures of registered voters from each of Indiana's nine Congressional districts to be eligible.
Smith has embarked on the first of several trips to bring her poetry to rural pockets of the co... The oldest victim swept away in a California mudslide was Jim Mitchell, who had celebrated his 89th birthday the day before and died with his wife of more than 50 years, Alice. The oldest victim swept away in a California mudslide was Jim Mitchell, who had celebrated his 89th birthday the day before and died with his wife of more than 50 years, Alice.
"Angel Moms" Agnes Gibboney and AVIAC Director Mary Ann Mendoza discuss what they want to see from President Trump's immigration plan. Two "Angel Moms," whose sons were killed by illegal immigrants, are urging the Trump administration to immediately end sanctuary cities before any action is taken to protect The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
A Republican candidate for governor has failed to collect enough signatures for his proposed ballot initiative to repeal last year's increase in the gas tax. Assemblyman Travis Allen said Friday he's backing a rival repeal initiative instead.
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