Dick Durbin issued the following on social media.
White House has responded:
Dickie responded
White House further responded
Durbin, the Senate majority whip, posted on his Facebook wall over the weekend that during a White House meeting, one GOP leader told Obama: “I cannot even stand to look at you.”
The White House issued a statement Thursday saying “we regret the misunderstanding” about Sen. Dick Durbin’s account of a meeting between House Republicans and President Barack Obama.
Dickie responded
“Durbin stands by his comments,” said Max Gleischman, a spokesman for the Illinois Democrat.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said on Wednesday that the remark was never given. “I looked into this and spoke with somebody who was in that meeting, and it did not happen,” he told reporters at the White House briefing.
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