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Professor williams and joann burger sweeney should have come out with more of an apology to make the issue right. the hashtag was inflammatory and unacceptable and doesn't represent a lot of the dialogue that goes on at trinity. >> tucker: i'm glad to hear that. what would have happened if a white plo fess somewhere wrote let them die" about a black lawmaker shot? will the school say he has a right to free speech and all that and we'll think about that? do you think? >> i think professor burger sweeney has taken her time with a lot of issues. i don't think she would be quick to act on that. sh...

Be one of them. let's discuss all this with my panel. joining me again, a historian and from fess sorry at prinston university, and a cnn senior reporter for media and politics. welcome back to all of you on a lovely sunday. i want to begin with this tweet that the president said yesterday to urge his followers to watch a show on fox news and when they did tune in, they called for the host call for speaker ryan to step down. the president has told speaker ryan, that that's not the sentiment that he was trying to convey. this is what was said. >> paul ryan needs to step down as speaker of the h...

The birther thing -- >> he really didn't get off the birther thing. >> he did. he said he was born in america. >> but he wouldn't fess up to the fact that he had done this for five years. and throughout the campaign again and again we sat at this very table, chris, from the time he attacked john mccain onward and said why don't the people around him tell him to stop tweeting, stop say tacking miss universe, and the truth of the matter is he can't, he won't and it's not going to stop. this is our president. get used to it. >> apparently you're right but he seems unwilling to let it go when it c...

The inside. i have. at some point the people around the president, men, women of whatever age, whatever vintage they are politically have to go up and say, boss, i'm your biggest true believer, you've got to drop this rap. this is no good for you. you got to say like you did with the birther thing -- >> he really didn't get off the birther thing. >> he did. he said he was born in america. >> but he wouldn't fess up to the fact that he had done this for five years. and throughout the campaign again and again we sat at this very table, chris, from the time he attacked john mccain onward and said...

Not a shred of evidence of your entire record to under mimine t conclusion. the fact that you have already served in both the executive and legislative branches strengthen even further your commitment to the duty of fairness and imparti impartiality. seems to me it does. am i right? >> well, thank you, yes. i do believe i've conducted myself according to principals that i think are valid and try to be consistent and honest in my evaluation of the many complex issues that we have here. sometimes good people can certainly disagree on them. >> anybody should know that's true. now the justice depa...