the crowd s sentiment shortly after the chant the blow black was severe. the new york times that trump s allies flooded the team with expressions of term. house republican leaders pleaded with mike pence on thursday to separate the party from the message. leading to this attempt by the president to distance himself. when your supporters last night were chanting send her back, why didn t you stop them? why didn t you ask them to stop saying that? well, number one, i think i did. i started speaking very quickly. it really was a i disagree with it, by the way. but it was quite a chant. and i felt a little bit badly about it. but i will say this, i did i started speaking very quickly. but that s not true. our friends on the 11th hour put together this video fact check.