reviews about that, in part where the president says some of the athletes don't know what they're protesting when many of them have articulated specifically what they have protested, which has been law enforcement incidents involving african-american men where they have had a really troubled history, and that's one of the things they have been trying to speak out about through that symbolism. >> i think they have been pretty clear on that. let's remind everybody, omarosa stayed in the administration for four months after what happened in charlottesville. four months. kelly o'donnell, kelly, thank you very much. you're very deft with the microphone. with me now, michael denzel smith, author of "the new york times" best-seller "invisible man" got the whole world watching a young black man's education, and "washington post" columnist, christine emba. the president is tweeting about the nfl because he believes it's a political winner for him. steve bannon has gone out there