Anderson, South Carolina (CNN) Donald Trump is backing away from his claim that President Barack Obama is considering an executive order to take away Americans' guns, saying he's hearing about it from "good sources" in the media.

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Trump served up a fresh platter of red meat to a crowd of 5,600 supporters Monday night in the deep red part of South Carolina by suggesting that the President is planning to sign an executive order to "take your guns away."

"You know, the President is thinking about signing an executive order where he wants to take your guns away. You hear about this? Not gonna happen. That won't happen. But that's a tough one, I think that's a tough one for him to do," Trump told the crowd. "There's plenty of executive orders being signed, you know that. And we can't let that go on."

But when pressed by that claim by CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day" Tuesday, Trump backed away from the comment.

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