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Sunday shows – Fallout over Trump tweets

 

Chris Wallace presses Stephen Miller on ‘send her back’ chant at Trump rally
BY JUSTIN WISE
 
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday pressed White House senior adviser Stephen Miller about the “send her back” chants targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) at a Trump campaign rally in North Carolina. 
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Cummings: ‘No doubt about it’ Trump is a racist
BY ZACK BUDRYK
 
House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said Sunday there was “no doubt” President Trump was a racist amid fallout over Trump’s tweets attacking four congresswomen of color.
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Liz Cheney: ‘Send her back’ chant ‘inappropriate’ but not about race, gender
BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO
 
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Sunday said that the chants of “send her back” directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) that broke out at a President Trump rally last week were “inappropriate” but not about race or gender.
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Trump campaign aide says president ‘a compassionate man’ and ‘not a racist’
BY ZACK BUDRYK
 
A former White House aide on Sunday cited the positive impacts she said President Trump’s policies have had on people of color while defending his record on race amid controversy about his attacks on four minority congresswomen.
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Top Democrat insists country hasn’t moved on from Mueller
BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO
 
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said that America has not moved on from former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump.
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Bullock: I would not have endorsed health care for undocumented immigrants on debate stage
BY ZACK BUDRYK
 
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) said Sunday that he would not have joined his fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who raised their hands on the debate stage last month to indicate they favored providing health care to undocumented immigrants.
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Booker: Trump is ‘worse than a racist’
BY ZACK BUDRYK
 
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) called President Trump “worse than a racist” on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday, comparing him to segregationist Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace (D).
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Nadler: Let Republicans ‘waste their time’ asking about FBI misconduct
BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO
 
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Sunday said Republicans would be wasting their time by asking former special counsel Robert Mueller about FBI misconduct.
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Trump campaign aide defends tweets: Congresswomen made ‘very disturbing statements’
BY ZACK BUDRYK
 
Former White House aide Mercedes Schlapp defended President Trump’s repeated attacks on four minority congresswomen during a Sunday appearance on ABC’s “This Week,”, accusing them of anti-Semitism and pushing a “government-controlled agenda.”
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Schiff: Trump ‘has decided racism is good politics’
BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO
 
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday said that President Trump’s attacks on four progressive congresswomen of color is part of a strategy to embrace racism as a political strategy.
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