“I’m telling you he did not use that word, George. And I’m telling you it’s a gross misrepresentation. How many times do you want me to say that?” Republican Sen. David Perdue (Ga.) said after host George Stephanopoulos pressed him for an answer.
"I certainly didn’t hear what Sen. Durbin has said repeatedly. Sen. Durbin has a history of misrepresenting what happens in White House meetings, though, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised by that.”
"I think he has been clear, and I think undoubtedly the president will continue to use strong language when it comes to this issue, because he feels very passionate about it."
“I can’t defend the indefensible. There are countries that do struggle out there, but their people are good people. Their people are part of us. We’re Americans,” Rep. Mia Love (R-Utah), the first Haitian-American elected to Congress, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“I was raised not to call people a racist on the theory that it was hard for them to be rehabilitated once you said that,” Sen. Michael Bennett (D-Colo.) told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “But there’s no question what he said was racist.”
"Let me put it to you this way," the former congressman said. "Mental instability, mendacity, now bigotry, having any one of those in the White House is dangerous, having the combination, that’s lethal.”
“I think he's being educated. And it's not a matter of educating Donald Trump. It's a matter of educating our entire society,” Young told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“Despite the blowup we had this past week, I do think he’s sincere, and I do think sincere people, with letting our better angles prevail, will come together with a solution,” Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) said on “Face The Nation.”
“Well, I for one, will not vote for government funding until we get a deal on DACA,” Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) told ABC’s “This Week,” referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
The CBS News poll, released Sunday, shows 70 percent of Americans favor allowing those who benefit from the program, often known as “Dreamers,” to stay in the country.
“The fact that these processes failed so epically that caused this trauma, that caused this terror all across state of Hawaii must be fixed immediately. And those responsible for this happening need to be held accountable in making sure this cannot happen again,” Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“When you reflexively refer to the press as the enemy of the people or fake news, that has real damage,” the retiring GOP senator told ABC’s “This Week.”
“I’m doing a big project on redistricting, that will be my focus on ’18, and we’ll see what happens after that. But could you imagine hypothetically if that ever happened? You’d have to sell tickets to that debate,” McAuliffe said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
"The real concern right now is the Democrats are exceptionally motivated to run a campaign against this president. And if that's the case, they may have some good opportunities in front of them in the 2018 cycle," Lewandowski said.
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