President trump now slamming espn and demanding an apology after host jemele hill called the president a white supremacist in a tweet. the initial response following that tweet from the white house came from press secretary sarah sanders who called hill s comment a fireable offense. hill issued an apology to espn saying her comments were her personal beliefs not the network s. now the president is weighing in. caitlin, why is the president weighing in here? well, that s a great question, kate. though the president has a lot on his plate right now ranging from north korea to tax reform and what s going on with immigration, he s instead been on a tear on twitter this morning going after espn and an employee who labeled him a white supremacist tweeting espn is paying a really big price for its politics and bad programming. people are dumping it in record numbers. apologize for the untruth. so we see there, he s calling on this employee from this company