Story highlights Tom Cotton and David Perdue attended the White House meeting ThursdayThey issued a statement saying they don't recall vulgar remarks from TrumpWashington (CNN) A day after President Donald Trump reportedly made highly incendiary comments about immigrants and African countries, two Republican senators said they don't recall those vulgar characterizations from the President. Tom Cotton and David Perdue, who've been close allies to the President on the issue of immigration, were in a White House meeting with him Thursday when Trump, according to sources, expressed frustration with people coming to the US from "shithole countries." Their statement came after the President tweeted Friday morning that the description of his remarks was not accurate. "The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used," Trump said. "What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made - a big setback for DACA!"

Source: CNN January 12, 2018 21:09 UTC