Rep. Adam Kinzinger Adam Daniel KinzingerFox News reporter defends confirming Atlantic piece despite Trump backlash: 'I feel very confident' GOP lawmaker defends Fox reporter after Trump calls for her firing Lindsey Graham: 'QAnon is bats--- crazy' MORE (R-Ill.) said Wednesday that Sen. Dick Durbin Richard (Dick) Joseph DurbinMcConnell focuses on confirming judicial nominees with COVID-19 talks stalled Senate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Top GOP senator calls for Biden to release list of possible Supreme Court picks MORE (D-Ill.) should have confronted President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE in an Oval Office meeting last week in which the president reportedly decried immigration from "shithole countries."

In an interview on CNN's "New Day," Kinzinger said that he was not supportive of Trump's alleged comments, but criticized Durbin for confronting the president "through the media" instead of doing it in person.

"My senator, Dick Durbin, did not confront the president in the meeting. Instead, comes out and goes right to the media and does it through the media," Kinzinger said. "Look, have the courage to confront the president in the meeting, like I guess Lindsey Graham Lindsey Olin GrahamSenate Republicans face tough decision on replacing Ginsburg Democratic senator calls for eliminating filibuster, expanding Supreme Court if GOP fills vacancy What Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies MORE did."

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has said that media reports detailing Trump's remarks, in which he demanded to know why the U.S. should admit immigrants from "shithole countries" over those from places like Norway, are "basically accurate."

But Graham has insisted that, after Trump made the comments, he confronted the president directly.

"Following comments by the President, I said my piece directly to him yesterday," Graham said in a statement last Friday. "The President and all those attending the meeting know what I said and how I feel. I’ve always believed that America is an idea, not defined by its people but by its ideals."

Trump has denied that he used such language to describe countries, like Haiti, El Salvador and several African nations, and two other lawmakers in the room, Sens. Tom Cotton Tom Bryant CottonRenewed focus on Trump's Supreme Court list after Ginsburg's death Republicans call for DOJ to prosecute Netflix executives for releasing 'Cuties' Loeffler calls for hearing in wake of Netflix's 'Cuties' MORE (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.), said that Trump did not make the remarks, which have spurred backlash across the political spectrum.