PBS NewsHour

The political fallout from Trump's racist tweets

Clip: 07/15/2019 | 3m 56s | Video has closed captioning.

President Trump is defending racist tweets targeting four House freshmen, all women of color. Three of the four lawmakers had recently testified about their visits to crowded border detention facilities, lamenting what they saw there. But despite condemnation from congressional Democrats, some Republicans and even the British Prime Minister, Trump isn’t expressing remorse. Yamiche Alcindor reports