Trump defends video shown to South African President

The White House is insisting that a video played for visiting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, that showed images of crosses in South Africa, was about burial sites for white farmers who had been killed and politically persecuted.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt clashed with an NBC News reporter over whether the video displayed by Donald Trump in the Oval Office had been verified.

Reporter Yamiche Alcindor…