support immediately on this, but there was definitely an issue or reason that sean spicer went out on the apology last night. he had no choice and was told by top advisers to the president, perhaps not the president himself, but he conveyed that as well to go out and do this right now. the interesting thing about this, though, sean spicer, i am told, was not completely making this up, pulling this out of the air. there s been a lot of chatter on fox news and other places and other news map sites about the holocaust. about assad. so this has been out there in the ether, unclear if he was pulling from that or not. so has the resources of the entire u.s. government at his did po sal looking for historical reference deciding to go to the alt-right internet where there are routinely anti-semitic things said. great. exactly. the challenge for spicer is he had multiple times to clean this up yesterday in the briefing