Kanye West Hospitalized for Exhaustion.
SESAY: A source close to Kanye West's family says the rapper is in the hospital being treated for exhaustion. He canceled the remainder of his show Sunday after he had a colorful rant about the election on Thursday. One fan recorded West's rant at a show in San Jose.</s>KANYE WEST, RAPPER: I said something that was Mr. -- politically incorrect. I didn't vote. But what I didn't tell you, if I would have voted, I would have voted for Trump.</s>WEST: Black people, stop focusing on racism. This world is racist, OK? Let's stop being distracted to focus on that as much. It's just a</s>SESAY: West then had a similar meltdown Saturday night in Sacramento, stopping the show after two songs. We'll talk more about West shortly. Donald Trump is not letting go of his latest feud against members of the hit show "Hamilton." Brian Stelter reports.</s>BRANDON DIXON, ACTOR: Conversation is not harassment.</s>BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT & CNN HOST, RELIABLE SOURCES (voice-over): That is "Hamilton" star, Brandon Dixon, responding to Donald Trump's Twitter fight with the most acclaimed show on Broadway.</s>STELTER: Trump lashed out at the cast, tweeting that they "harassed" future V.P, Mike Pence --</s>STELTER: -- after Dixon delivered this message following the performance on Friday night with Pence there in the room.</s>DIXON: We are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us.</s>STELTER: With the president-elect back in firm control of his Twitter account, he is not letting go of the perceived sleight, saying that. "The cast and producers of "Hamilton," that I hear is overrated, should apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior."</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES: It was very inappropriate.</s>STELTER: And Trump's ire is not just reserved for "Hamilton."</s>ALEX BALDWIN, ACTOR: Google, what is ISIS?</s>STELTER: After "SNL" portrayed him as "in over his head," he tweeted, "It is a one-sided biased show. Not funny at all. Equal time for us?" Alec Baldwin, who plays Trump, responded, "Equal time? Election is over, no more equal time. Now you try to be president and people respond. That's pretty much it."</s>STELTER: Trump's former campaign manager says his tweeting is a non- issue.</s>KELLYANNE CONWAY, DONALD TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN MANGER: Why do you care? In other words, who is to say he can't do that, make a comment, spend five minutes on a tweet. You are assigning malice or wrong doing where it doesn't exist. We should have learned that that doesn't fly with the voters.</s>STELTER: Some media watchers are worried that Trump's tendency to lash out could hurt free speech. Others say a thicker skin would just serve him well.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is going to be made fun of, as he should be. Any president will be and should be. And he's got such a thin skin he can't shrug it off.</s>STELTER: Shrug it off is exactly what Mike Pence did after the stars of "Hamilton" spoke up.</s>MIKE PENCE, (R), VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES: I wasn't offended by what was said. I'll leave to others whether it was the appropriate venue to say it.</s>STELTER: Whether Trump can take a cue from his V.P. and tone done his reactions remains to be seen. Brian Stelter, CNN, New York.</s>SESAY: Segun Oduolowu is back with us now, an entertainment journalist and pop culture contributor to "Access Hollywood, Live." Whatever you were doing just now, dropping your cell phone. To pick up on the "Hamilton" line what do you make of Donald Trump's reaction to something his vice president elect shrugged off?</s>SEGUN ODUOLOWU, ENTERTAINMENT JOUNALIST & POP CULTURE CONTRIBUTOR, ACCESS HOLLYWOOD, LIVE: This is why the people who are protesting Trump are doing it so loudly. Are you kidding me? If the vice president wasn't offended and they were talking about him, why is Trump, the president-elect, going on Twitter and castigating actors? This is theater. This is the home of satire, comedy, drama. And they were very respectful. This is the Trump bully. This is why people make fun of Melania and her whole anti-bullying --</s>SESAY: What about those who say that's not the place to do it?</s>ODUOLOWU: It is the place to do it. They were respectful. They said -- he actually said -- no disrespect -- and they talked. Here's what bothers me. When Republican Representative Joe Wilson called Obama a liar on the floor of Congress --</s>ODUOLOWU: -- in 2009 where were all these people saying that's not the place to do it? This is a man calling our president-elect a liar. These were actors in a politically satirical play asking the vice president, you guys ran on a divisive platform, just represent all of us. That's all we're asking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.</s>SESAY: President-elect Trump said they should apologize and some are wondering whether this points to a narrowing of freedom of speech down the line. Do you have such concern?</s>ODUOLOWU: I have every concern with him. This is subterfuge. This is to avoid the fact he paid $25 million for his university. This is him throwing, you know, a bunch of junk and being David Blaine. Look at the magic over here while you forget I just paid people off for fraud. Look at my stuff over here while I bully people on Twitter and calling women these names and making fun of handicapped and disabled people, when I'm calling Mexicans rapists and murderers. Look over here while I'm mad at actors doing their job and actually bringing attention to social injustice. Look at that on Twitter while I do these horrible things over here. Don't pay attention to it. It's subterfuge and it's wrong. And if you come after free speech, are you seriously going to say in theater people don't have the right to speak their mind and ask of the audience. He wants to be an emperor, it's Trump everything. Even in ancient Rome you could go to the theater and they would talk to the audience. How dare he?</s>SESAY: We'll leave that one alone because I'm sure that's going to rumble on.</s>ODUOLOWU: We're going to be here for a long time.</s>SESAY: Let's talk about Kanye West hospitalized. Some might say that the rants of the weekend point to something not being quite right and now we're hearing he's in hospital you say?</s>ODUOLOWU: Everybody that is watching pray for him. Listen, I've done a lot of television work with Dr. Drew. I'm an advocate for mental health. You can see Kanye was in trouble. But please do not believe any of the people that say they are around Kanye, are saying, hospitalized for exhaustion? He was handcuffed. So, if you are tired, they don't -- the police don't handcuff you for your own protection.</s>SESAY: Let's play some of what he said over the weekend. Here he is talking about Hillary Clinton and her connection to middle America or her lack of connection, for want of a better world. Let's listen.</s>WEST: It's a new world, Hillary Clinton. It's a new world. Feelings matter. Guess what, everybody in middle America fell away and they showed you how they felt.</s>SESAY: Don't have a lot of time left in the show. But do you think these comments, you know, him supporting Trump, as he said, and what he said about Hillary Clinton, will they be held against him?</s>ODUOLOWU: Do you hold the actions of a person who is mentally unfit or mentally diminished against them? I hope we would not to. But a billionaire just convinced poor people he is one of them. Who knows? We pray that Kanye gets better and mental illness is a real thing.</s>SESAY: It is, indeed.</s>ODUOLOWU: But when they handcuff you that is not exhaustion. There is something wrong with Mr. West.</s>SESAY: We hope he recovers. It is a very troubling situation, all of it.</s>ODUOLOWU: Absolutely.</s>SESAY: Segun, always a pleasure. Thank you for being so forth right.</s>ODUOLOWU: Thank you for having me.</s>SESAY: You are watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay. I'll be back with another hour of news right after this. Stay with us.