SUNDAY EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Trump: “I know, for a fact, that he cares very deeply about the people in Haiti”
PLUS: Paul: “You can’t have an immigration compromise if everybody’s out there calling the president a racist”
SUNDAY EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.): “There’s no question what he said was racist”
JANUARY 14, 2018 – In an exclusive interview, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) tells “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd “it’s unfair” to “draw conclusions from a remark that I think wasn’t constructive” and paint President Donald Trump as a racist “when I know, for a fact, that he cares very deeply about the people in Haiti because he helped finance a trip where we were able to get vision back for 200 people in Haiti.”
“You can’t have an immigration compromise if everybody’s out there calling the president a racist,” says Paul. “Both sides now are destroying the setting in which anything meaningful can happen on immigration.” Watch the exclusive interview with the Kentucky senator.
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) says, “There’s no question what he said was racist. There’s no question what he said was un-American and completely unmoored from the facts.”
When asked if it’s worth shutting the government down if a DACA compromise doesn’t happen, Bennet replies, “It should not come to that.” Watch the exclusive interview with the Colorado senator.
In an exclusive interview this morning, civil rights icon and former UN ambassador Andrew Young tells Todd that Trump is “being educated.” “It’s not a matter of educating Donald Trump. It’s a matter of educating our entire society,” Young says. “You don’t help someone who has an alcohol problem by constantly calling him a drunk. You have to deal with the sickness,” he adds.
When asked if Trump is redeemable, Young replies, “We are sinners that know we cannot make it on our own. And I think he’s kind of got to realize that too.” Watch the exclusive interview.
CBN News’ David Brody, The New York Times’ Helene Cooper, TIME’s Elise Jordan and NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell join the broadcast’s roundtable for insight and analysis, including a discussion on yesterday’s false alarm of a ballistic missile threat in Hawaii. (ICYMI: NBC News’ Jacob Soboroff offers an exclusive look inside the command center where that erroneous warning was issued yesterday on “Sunday TODAY.”)
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