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The Latest: Trump uses London incident to defend travel ban

In this aerial image made from video, police officers work at the Parsons Green Underground Station after an explosion in London Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. A reported explosion at a train station sent commuters stampeding in panic, injuring several people at the height of London's morning rush hour, and police said they were investigating it as a terrorist attack. (Pool via AP)
In this aerial image made from video, police officers work at the Parsons Green Underground Station after an explosion in London Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. A reported explosion at a train station sent commuters stampeding in panic, injuring several people at the height of London's morning rush hour, and police said they were investigating it as a terrorist attack. (Pool via AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on President Donald Trump and the London subway incident (all times local):

7:10 a.m.

President Donald Trump is defending his travel ban. He says it should be “tougher and more specific.”

On Twitter Friday Trump says: “The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific-but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!”

Trump made the comment after tweeting about a reported explosion and fire on a subway train in London that police say was a terrorist incident.