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Republican Sen. David Perdue (Ga.) on Sunday said MORE did not use the word “shithole” to refer to African nations, Haiti and El Salvador during a White House meeting with lawmakers. During an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” Perdue said the comment attributed to the president in The Washington Post is a “gross misrepresentation.”  “I’m telling you he did not use that word, George. And I’m telling you it’s a gross misrepresentation.

The controversy over MORE’s reported use of the phrase “shithole countries” to describe several nations showed no sign of easing on Sunday, as lawmakers wrestled over the comment and what it means for immigration negotiations. While lawmakers from both parties condemned the reported remark, some stopped short of labeling the president a racist, and two Republican senators either denied hearing the comment or said that the president did not utter the words. Sen.

Republicans hoping to hold on to the Arizona Senate seat currently held by Sen. MORE’s supporters without alienating more moderate general election voters.  The Tuesday announcement from Arpaio, whose criminal contempt conviction Trump pardoned last year, came just days before McSally joined the primary.

Senate Majority Leader on Tuesday that he will give an immigration bill a vote, but it won't be attached to a spending deal. "It is still my view that I will call up a DACA related immigration bill that ... the president will sign and that it will not be a part of any overall spending agreement," McConnell told reporters, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Congress has less than two weeks to meet a Jan.

A Republican senator said President from Haiti and Africa in a meeting at the White House last week. Sen. David Perdue of Georgia, a close ally of the president, told ABC News Chief Anchor Dick Durbin, D-Illinois. “Multiple sources? There were six of us in the room,” Perdue responded to Stephanopoulos. “I haven’t heard any of those six sources other than Senator Durbin talk about what was said.” In a statement Friday, Sens.

Republican strategists have turned decidedly pessimistic about their prospects for the 2018 midterm elections. Prominent Republicans are now saying privately that Democrats are virtually certain to win control of the House of Representatives. As one senior Republican on Capitol Hill told ABC News, “If the election were held today, the House would be gone.

A Hawaii congresswoman said the false alert of a missile attack in her state shows the need to try to lessen the chance of nuclear warfare. “Nuclear attack is not a game,” Democratic Rep. nuclear weapons.

Tweet it out, put on “tapes,” or just let the cameras roll. There will be a clear historical dividing line that separates what the American presidency and American politics were on either side of the current occupant of the Oval Office. That’s the unmistakable conclusion one year into the entirely unconventional and enormously consequential presidency of Donald J. Trump. Trump has fundamentally remade the office and how it functions, often on the fly, and generally in ways that he alone could have envisioned or executed.

Tom Cotton and David Perdue, both Republicans, who were also present -- who maintained he hadn't slurred Haiti and Africa. "Did you see what various senators in the room said about my comments?" he asked reporters. "They weren't made." Trump denied being racist, too. "No, no, I'm not a racist," he said. "I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed. That I can tell you." The president's remarks come after a weekend of non-stop criticism and calls for him to apologize.