Florida's U.S. Senators are reacting to President Trump's Tweets that targeted a group of freshman Democrat House members.
Reporters caught up with Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott on Monday, as the president was doubling down on Tweets that read some progressive Congresswomen should go back to the countries where they originally came from.
It's believed he was targeting Muslim Congresswomen Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Michigan's Rashida Tlaib, as well as Massachusetts' Ayanna Pressley and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Omar was born in Somalia, becoming a U.S. citizen as a teenager. The other three representatives were born in the United States.
Rubio stopped short of calling the Tweets racist, saying he doesn't read into people's intentions, but he called the comments "identity politics," claiming that is "poison" and "toxic" and said the president shouldn't have written it.
Scott said outright that the Tweets were not racist and said Democrats have become the "anti-Semitic party" and claimed the female House members are attacking law enforcement, border agents and ICE, calling that wrong.
On Tuesday, President Trump took to Twitter to say that the Tweets "were NOT Racist" and that he doesn't have a racist bone in his body.
The president wrote that he truly believes, based on their actions, that the Congresswomen "hate our Country."
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