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On MLK Day, U.S. grapples with furor over Trump’s words

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Memorials honoring MLK Jr. came amid the ongoing furor over Trump's alleged comments.

This year's memorials honoring Martin Luther King Jr. came amid the ongoing furor over President Trump's alleged comments and his views on race. While the president released a video commemorating the civil rights hero, his derogatory words reported last week about African and Haitian immigrants hang in the air, as partisan acrimony threatens hope of a DACA deal. Judy Woodruff reports.

01/15/2018

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