here was nothing racist about this because he insults everyone. >> reporter: pretty much, poppy. the message is that the president is an equal opportunity insulter, but yet we know based on his tweets just in the last several weeks, his go-to for insulting programs, whether it's lebron james or don lemon or omarosa is that they are not smart. he took it even further when he used a term that he actually pretty rarely uses in a direct way to call one of his opponents. he called her a dog. he didn't say she was "like a dog." he said, "that dog." i think that's what really took it across the line and highlighted for some people that this is a white house really struggling with issues of race. they are already defending the president against accusations that perhaps there is an alleged tape of his saying the "n" word during "the apprentice," and now this. it is getting bipartisan condemnation. senator jeff flake saying this is unbecoming of a president. and other lawmakers saying it doesn't matter whether she was