Trump Backs Immigrant Plan; Trump's Mexican and Boy Scout Claims
BALDWIN: To President Trump and some phone calls, specifically his claims about two phone conversations filled with Trump praise, one from Mexico's president, Enrique Pena Nieto, the other from the head of the Boy Scouts. Both parties involved now say these phone calls never happened. But President Trump did talk to "The Wall Street Journal" last week after his speech to the Boy Scouts and this is just part of the transcript that we have that was released by Politico. Quote, I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them and they were very thankful. But the thing here is that the Boy Scouts are unaware of any phone call between President Trump and scout leadership and the scout statement apologizing for President Trump's political speech still stands. So, Kaitlan Collins is working this for us from outside the White House. Kaitlan, so that's the Boy Scouts. Talk to me about this alleged phone call between the president of Mexico and the president of the United States. Did it or did it not happen?</s>KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: That's a great question. It's being called into question right now whether it even happened. As you know, this all came about during the president's first cabinet meeting with his new chief of staff, John Kelly, on Monday here at the White House. The president was lavishing praise on Kelly and he was talking about the things he had achieved as DHS secretary when he made this comment about Mexico. Let's look at this.</s>TRUMP: So, as you know, the border was a tremendous problem and now close to 80 percent stoppage. And even the president of Mexico called me. They said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know they're not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate compliment.</s>COLLINS: So that might have been the ultimate compliment for Donald Trump. But it also might not have even happened. The president of Mexico is disputing this and saying that he hasn't had a call with President Trump, putting out a statement today saying they have not talked on the phone. Now, we know that the last time they met was July 7th at the G-20 Summit in Germany, and the president may be referring to that. But the White House has not returned requests for comment on this or some clarity about when this alleged call happened. So if this call didn't happen, as Mexico says, it really ties into this broader credibility problem that we're seeing with the White House. As you know, with that call that Trump says he had with the head of the Boy Scouts, that the Boy Scouts says didn't happen.