The US President Donald Trump has been labelled a racist after he lashed out at a group of left-wing Democratic women of colour.
On Twitter he told them to stop criticising America and "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came".
Of the four congresswomen, three were born and raised in the US, while the fourth, moved to the US as a child.
RNZ's Washington correspondent, Giles Gibson, speaks to Corin Dann.
