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white house official told me tonight there is debate internally on whether trump said " shithole " or " shithouse . "
on the sunday morning shows today , republicans who attended the immigration meeting in which president donald trump reportedly labeled immigrants from haiti and african nations as “ people from shithole countries ” came to trump ’s defense , stating that his reported comments were misrepresented or that they could n’t recall him saying those words .
during a panel discussion on abc ’s rich lowry noted .
” the conservative commentator pointed out that regarding the president ’s “ general remarks , ” trump had “ said them .
” he added that the “ general tenor of the discussion has been reported accurately .
perdue and cotton seem to have heard latter , this person said , and are using to deny .
“ he said s - house , and not s - hole .
” lowry had previously reported this during a panel discussion in which he tangled with cnn political commentator joan walsh over whether she ’d prefer to live in norway or haiti .