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JUST IN: "I was not happy with it. I disagree with it," Pres. Trump says of “send her back” chant from crowd at his campaign rally last night.
He asserts he tried to stop the chant by "very quickly" speaking again as the chant broke out, despite a long pause during the chant. pic.twitter.com/NpN5QlB6Nn
"The president didn't join in," Kevin McCarthy said when asked if Trump should have stopped the "send her back" chants targeting Ilhan Omar last night.
"You want to try to hold him accountable for something in a big audience?" he continued. "I think that's an unfair position" pic.twitter.com/yfUHPIfzVU
Former GOP Rep. Mark Sanford, who is considering a primary challenge against Pres. Trump, tells @TheView that Trump's attacks on the four congresswomen were racist: "If it quacks like a duck and it swims like a duck and it flies like a duck, it's a duck" https://t.co/ErW0qw7ZLkpic.twitter.com/k0UpOyIaLq
House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings ripped into the acting head of Homeland Security, upbraiding Kevin McAleenan over the conditions of detention facilities for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico borderhttps://t.co/ghw8mXmILk
Less than 1,000 children have been separated from their parents at the southern border this fiscal year, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan says https://t.co/0xsNpHaPnz
The House has passed a bill that would raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, but there's little chance the measure will be taken up in the Republican-controlled Senate. https://t.co/ruG0bzfU38
NEW: Trump has directed his administration to work to have rapper A$AP Rocky freed from custody in Sweden after Kim Kardashian West contacted Jared Kushner about the issue. https://t.co/daAo6rGQz6
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