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Trump's line agreeing with Sen. Feinstein on clean DACA bill is missing from official WH transcript
Retweeted by Dave Weigel: https://twitter.com/daveweigel
Trump’s line agreeing (momentarily) with Sen. Feinstein on a clean DACA bill — “Yeah, I would like to do it” — is missing from official White House transcript https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fifty-five-minutes-at-the-table-trump-tries-to-negotiate-and-prove-stability/2018/01/09/0b41af64-f570-11e7-a9e3-ab18ce41436a_story.html?utm_term=.9133ef17f438 …?amp=1
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Politics
55 minutes at the table: Trump tries to negotiate and prove stability
The Debrief:?An occasional series offering insights from reporters
By Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker January 9 at 7:45 PM
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So pliant was Trump that when Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), one of the most liberal members of the chamber, asked if he would support “a clean DACA bill” that protects the dreamers with no other conditions, the president sounded amenable. ... “Yeah, I would like to do it,” Trump said.
Trump’s apparent concession so alarmed House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that he interjected himself, although he was careful only to gently contradict the president, who in the past has referred to him as “my Kevin.” ... “Mr. President, you need to be clear, though,” McCarthy said, leaning over from his perch to Trump’s left. “I think what Senator Feinstein is asking here — when we talk about just DACA, we don’t want to be back here two years later. You have to have security.”
Later, again attempting to nudge the president back on track to a more conservative plan, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) made a similar pitch for precision. “We have to be very clear, though,” Perdue urged.
McCarthy apparently was not the only one concerned by Trump’s seeming agreement with Feinstein. When the White House released its official transcript Tuesday afternoon, the president’s line — “Yeah, I would like to do it” — was missing. ... A White House official said that any omission from the transcript was unintentional and that the context of the conversation was clear.
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Josh Dawsey and David Nakamura contributed to this report.
Ashley Parker is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2017, after 11 years at The New York Times, where she covered the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns and Congress, among other things. Follow @ashleyrparker
Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post. He previously has covered Congress, the Obama White House, and the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns. He joined The Post in 2005 as a local news reporter. Follow @PhilipRucker
55 minutes at the table: Trump tries to negotiate and prove stability
The Debrief:?An occasional series offering insights from reporters
By Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker January 9 at 7:45 PM
....
So pliant was Trump that when Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), one of the most liberal members of the chamber, asked if he would support “a clean DACA bill” that protects the dreamers with no other conditions, the president sounded amenable. ... “Yeah, I would like to do it,” Trump said.
Trump’s apparent concession so alarmed House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that he interjected himself, although he was careful only to gently contradict the president, who in the past has referred to him as “my Kevin.” ... “Mr. President, you need to be clear, though,” McCarthy said, leaning over from his perch to Trump’s left. “I think what Senator Feinstein is asking here — when we talk about just DACA, we don’t want to be back here two years later. You have to have security.”
Later, again attempting to nudge the president back on track to a more conservative plan, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) made a similar pitch for precision. “We have to be very clear, though,” Perdue urged.
McCarthy apparently was not the only one concerned by Trump’s seeming agreement with Feinstein. When the White House released its official transcript Tuesday afternoon, the president’s line — “Yeah, I would like to do it” — was missing. ... A White House official said that any omission from the transcript was unintentional and that the context of the conversation was clear.
....
Josh Dawsey and David Nakamura contributed to this report.
Ashley Parker is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. She joined The Post in 2017, after 11 years at The New York Times, where she covered the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns and Congress, among other things. Follow @ashleyrparker
Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief for The Washington Post. He previously has covered Congress, the Obama White House, and the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns. He joined The Post in 2005 as a local news reporter. Follow @PhilipRucker
The transcript has been corrected:
The White House puts out a corrected transcript of meeting in which @POTUS appears to say he's for a clean DACA bill. "Yeah, I would like -- I would like to do that." Sentence was missing yesterday.
6:30 AM - 10 Jan 2018
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They thought no one would notice a corrupted transcript, got caught, looked up the Presidential Records Act, and quietly fixed it. Based on this, it’s legitimate to question what other federal records they may have falsified when no one was looking.
6:35 AM - 10 Jan 2018
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