at the 11th hour and the president frankly thinks the fans deserve better than that and therefore we changed the ceremony to be a focus on celebrating our great country. >> any concern that we heard from steph curry and lebron james, whoever winds the nba championship, is this about something more than the national anthem, something otherthe national anthem? >> look, if this wasn't a political stunt by the eagles fran choice, then they wouldn't planned to have attend the event and backed out at the last minute. if it wasn't a political stunt, they wouldn't have attempted to reschedule the visit when they knew that the president was going to be overseas and this wasn't a political stunt they wouldn't have waited until monday, well after 1,000 of their fans had traveled and taken time out of their schedules to offer a tiny handful of representatives to attend the event. >> this isn't about the national anthem, it's about --