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White supremacist. >> i think that's the most outrageous anyone could make and a fireable offense by espn. >> i think espn should take action. >> i made a comment, i stand by it. >> sanders is facing ethics complaints for suggesting a private citizen should be fired for criticism of the president. joining me now is the head of news at npr and nancy gibbs, the outgoing editor of "time" magazine. there's a couple issues to unpack. does it have a chilling effect when the press secretary says they should take action against the press critic. >> it takes more than that to chill the press corps. it'...

"fireable offense" during a press conference wednesday. and anti-trump super pac has since filed a federal ethics complaint against sanders but she doubled down on the language friday just hours after. president trump himself chimed in tweeting that espn is "paying a big price for its politics and should apologize for untruth." but like bennett, hill's friends and fans have her back. among them, colin kaepernick who tweeted "we are with you." our next guests are intimately familiar with the tight rope black athletes have faced when they spoke up about life off the field. we'll be right back.

Going to keep having with social media, with donald trump and the presidency, obviously as controversial a president as we've ever seen and sports journalists should not shy away from these issues but i believe the forum can be a column for me or a commentary about, say, nfl protests, that's where you then talk about donald trump's dreadful response to charlottesville. and that's how i have decided to make those decisions and write those commentaries in that format. >> thank you all very much for being here. appreciate it very much. coming up here, what happens when the white house press sec...

Statement that it was a fireable offense. >> i do. >> that was white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders doubling down to fire gem elhill after had he called president trump a white supremacist on twitter this week. espn president sent a company wide e-mail to no one is told what view they must express. well, the memo came the same day president trump demanded an aapology from the sports network saying espn is paying a really big price for its politics and bad program. people are dumping it in bad numbers. apologize for untruth. brit any, right when i was reading that want only were y...

If he were not white he never would have been elected. two days later the white house, itself, responded. >> i'm not sure if he's aware, i think that's one of the more outrageous comments that anyone could make and certainly something that i this is a fireable offense by espn. >> after that, hill issued a statement. espn accepted that apology, but the white house was back at it again today t. press secretary stood by her position that hill's tweets were a fireable offense and the president, himself, tweeted, espn is paying a really big price for its politics. apologize for untruths. charlie pi...