VULGAR REMARK THAT BASHED HAITI AND AFRICAN IMMIGRATION.
KRISTEN WELKER HAS THE LATEST.
>> Reporter: GOOD MORNING TO
YOU.
THE IMMIGRATION DEAL BEING
NEGOTIATED ON CAPITOL HILL MAY
HAVE BEEN DERAILED THIS MORNING
AFTER THOSE COMMENTS BY THE
PRESIDENT THAT HAVE SPARKED WIDESPREAD CONDEMNATION, WITH
THE PRESIDENT USING AN EXPLETIVE
TO DESCRIBE AFRICA AND HAITI.
ITS BEEN EIGHT YEARS TO THE DAY
SINCE THAT MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATED HAITI.E EARTHQUAKE
DEVASTATED HAITI. THAT PAINFUL ANNIVERSARY
OVERSHADOWS AS OFFICIALS FROM THE NATION AND AROUND THE WORLD
LASH OUT AT PRESIDENT TRUMP.
THIS MORNING, A BITTER BACKLASH,
AS PRESIDENT TRUMP REFERRED TO
HAITI AND AFRICAN NATIONS AS
S-HOLE COUNTRIES.
>> THIS REMARK SMACKS OF PLAY TAUNT RACISM.K SMACKS OF PLAY
TAUNT RACISM. >> Reporter: NOW, HAITIS
AMBASSADOR VEHEMENTLY CONDEMNING
THE REMARKS.
THE REMARKS. AMBASSADOR SLAMMING MR. TRUMP
SAYING, EITHER THE PRESIDENT HAS
BEEN MISINFORMED OR HES
MISEDUCATED.
MISEDUCATED. ACCORDING TO A DEMOCRATIC AIDE,
THE PRESIDENT WAS MEETING WITH A
BIPARTISAN GROUP OF LAWMAKERS
THURSDAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE,
WHEN HE ASKED ABOUT PEOPLE FROM
HAITI AND AFRICA, SAYING, WHY DO
WE WANT THESE PEOPLE FROM ALL
THESE S-HOLE COUNTRIES HERE?
SUGGESTING THAT THE U.S. SHOULD
HAVE MORE PEOPLE FROM NORWAY.
WHY DO WE NEED MORE HAITIANS?
TAKE THEM OUT, HE SAID,
ACCORDING TO TWO SOURCES BRIEFED
ON THE CONVERSATION.
SOMEONE ELSE IN THE ROOM
RESPONDED, BECAUSE IF YOU DO, IT
WILL BE OBVIOUS WHY.
THOSE WORDS INFURIATING DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ALIKE.
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSWOMAN MARIA
LOVE, THE DAUGHTER OF HAITIAN
IMMIGRANTS, CALLED THE REMARKS
UNKIND, DIVISIVE, ELITIST.
JEB BUSH TWEETING, I HOPE
TODAYS COMMENTS WERE A CRASS
AND FLIPPANT MISTAKE.
OTHERS WERE SPEAKING OUT
OVERNIGHT.
OVERNIGHT.
>> I CONDEMN THE COMMENT IF ITS REPORTED AS TRUE.COMMENT IF ITS
REPORTED AS TRUE. >> Reporter: ON THE COVER OF
"NEW YORK DAILY NEWS" THIS
COLORFUL ILLUSTRATION.
COLORFUL ILLUSTRATION. A SPOKESMAN NOT DENYING THAT THE
PRESIDENT MADE THE REMARKS.
BUT TRYING TO CLARIFY.
CERTAIN WASHINGTON POLITICIANS
CHOOSE TO FIGHT FOR FOREIGN
COUNTRIES BUT PRESIDENT TRUMP
WILL FIGHT FOR THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE.
PEOPLE.
THE COMMENTS COULD MAKE
DEMOCRATS LESS LIKELY TO COMPROMISE ON IMMIGRATION.
ON THURSDAY, A DEAL SEEMED CLOSE
FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.
BUT THE WHITE HOUSE AND MANY
CONSERVATIVES WERENT ONBOARD.
>> WE THINK WE CAN GET THERE AND
WERE VERY FOCUSED ON TRYING TO
MAKE SURE THAT HAPPENS.
>> Reporter: ANOTHER
CONTROVERSIAL BREWING THIS MORNING, PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS
CANCELED A TRIP TO LONDON
PLANNED FOR NEXT MONTH.
IN A TWEET, THE PRESIDENT
BLAMING HIS MOVE ON FORMER
PRESIDENT OBAMA, WHOM HE ACCUSED
OF MOVING THE U.S. EMBASSY TO A
NEW LOCATION.
NEW LOCATION. THAT EMBASSY MOVE WAS A BUSH
ADMINISTRATION DECISION.
ADMINISTRATION DECISION. MANY OF PRESIDENT TRUMPS POLICY
DECISIONS HAVE BEEN UNPOPULAR IN
BRITAIN AND OFFICIALS THERE HAD
EXPRESSED CONCERNS OVER THE
POTENTIAL FOR PROTESTS, SAVANNAH
AND HODA?
AND HODA?
>> BACK TO THIS COMMENT. HOW ARE THE WHITE HOUSE HANDLING
IT?
IT? THEYVE BEEN IN THESE
CONTROVERSIES BEFORE.
CONTROVERSIES BEFORE. >> THATS RIGHT.
THEYRE SAYING THIS IS ABOUT
GETTING TOUGH ON IMMIGRATION.
AS YOU POINT OUT, MANY SAY THE
LATEST CONTROVERSY IS NOT
SURPRISING.
SURPRISING.
THE PRESIDENT LAUNCHED HIS POLITICAL CAREER BY SUGGESTING
PRESIDENT OBAMA WASNT BORN IN
THE UNITED STATES, SOMETHING
THAT MANY SAW AS RACIST.
IN HIS FIRST OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN
SPEECH, FORMER ERER ERER CANDIDA
SAID MEXICANS WERE BRINGING
CRIME AND WERE RACIST.
AND THE PRESIDENT EQUATED
COUNTERPROTESTERS TO WHITE
NATIONALISTS.
NATIONALISTS.
THE WHITE HOUSE INSISTING THE LATEST COMMENTS ABOUT HAITI AND
AFRICA, ARE NOT ABOUT RACE BUT
ABOUT GETTING TOUGH ON