Article snippet: Sen. MORE disparaged several nations as “shithole countries” in a private meeting with lawmakers about immigration reform. At a press conference, Durbin, who was the only Democrat at a Thursday meeting at the White House, said that Trump used “hate-filled, vile and racist” language to describe immigrants from poor countries. “I cannot believe in this history of the White House, in that Oval Office, any president has ever spoken the words that I personally heard our president speak yesterday,” Durbin said. A second senator, Arizona Republican MORE, who has frequently tangled with Trump, tweeted that other senators meeting with Trump had relayed Trump’s remarks to him. “The words used by the President, as related to me directly following the meeting by those in attendance, were not ‘tough,’ they were abhorrent and repulsive,” Flake tweeted. None of the other Republican lawmakers who were present in the meeting responded to requests for comment, however, and GOP leadership has so far not weighed in. Sens. MORE (R-Va.) were the other lawmakers in the meeting. Durbin said he personally heard Trump use the disparaging comments and that Graham “spoke up” and rebuked the president at the time. “My colleague [Graham] spoke up and made a direct comment on what the president said,” Durbin said, according to MSNBC. “For him to confront the president as he did, literally sitting next to him, took extraordinary political courage and I respect him for it." The White House init... Link to the full article to read more