he called on for years? i think the president made plenty of comments on that front. i think the point is that espn has been hypocritical. they should hold anchors to a fair and consistent standard. espn suspended a long-time anchor linda kohn for expressing a political viewpoint. the network s public editor said that there s a perception that espn is political and that has harmed the network. this is clearly a political statement. they should be consistent in whatever guidelines that they have set themselves in that front. john. i m sorry. i m going to try to keep moving to cover as much ground, as possible. john. do you stand by the statement saying what jemele hill is a fireable 0 pence? i do. they laid that out by suspending an anchor. go ahead. back on the response to the london attack, is the president aware that the british prime minister said that the speculation was not helpful?
are working on putting that pressure on north korea to reach that ultimate goal of denuclearization on the korean peninsula. nae that s what we re focused on.th what will the president say to the leaders meeting next week who are eager for talks with north korea and know that the president has avoided that. how will he address that with the europeans and others? i won t get ahead of any conversations that the president s going to have. as always we ll provide readouts and review of the conversations but clear of putting extreme pressure on north korea is very important. thank you. the president today tweeted out that he wants to see espn apologize for what he called untruths. by him saying that, though, does that mean she s willing to apologize for birtherism claims
a path? again, we won t have these conversations and lay out exactly what those principles look like over seven to ten days. right now, the goal, focus is making sure the program is taken care of with also coupling it with massive border security, interior enforcement. some specific things we would like to see, end of sanctuary cities, expedited removal, more immigration judges, raise act. see us focus on and talk more about. number one, the president said he wanted a travel ban larger, tougher and more specific. as you know, arguments set to start next month on the travel ban in place. why is he fight for it if it s too small, not tough enough and too broad? the executive action is motivated by national security and every step to take to protecting people in this country that s a step to take. we ll continue to push forward. john decker. second part, sarah, on espn, did he give any pause to make
those comments of private company from the podium at the white house? i wasn t talking about a private company but an individual. john decker. that s better. when a deal is ultimately reached if there s one reached on the issue of daca, will it be a deal reached between the president, the top republican, the president along with speaker of the house, the majority leader in the senate and democrats who will be just the president alone? we d certainly hope that it s a bipartisan bill that has both republicans and democrats coming together to really focus on responsible immigration reform. i think there are a lot of people on both sides that want to see this happen. we have had a lot of conversations with both republicans and democrats over the past week. we re going to continue to do that and push forward. francesca. thank you, sarah. a quick question but a quick clarification on the espn matter. you had said it s a fireable offense and saying she should be fired.
i stand by it. i think espn needs to stand by the standard that they have set in the own actions that they have taken about previous employees. i really don t have much else to add on that front. margaret? scheduling purposes, the u.n. stuff starts monday and that briefing is over but can you walk us through the president s schedule? is there anything to listen for in the speech this afternoon? can you talk about whether he s doing anything kind of policy related or meeting with anyone interesting over the weekend? is there anything else that they didn t go over on the schedule for next week about involving the first lady or anyone else in the administration? just get our heads around the next week. the first lady does have a couple of events and will be sure to get the details of those out for next week. she will be participating in the activities and some of the meetings at the united nations general assembly next week. the president will be spending most of the weekend preparing