much. and when you have somebody like bob corker now engaging in this kind of back and forth, i just think, look, where is this going to end up? now we re going to have senators name calling and i think at some point you have to step back and be a grown-up. didn t work when marco rubio tried in the campaign. everybody else ends up a little bit degraded when they try to take him on nobody survives the that s right. the back and forth really. it s probably not unusual for presidents and members of congress to not get along all the time, but, boy, it s unusual it to play out in public. when people start calling each other names you never want to feel like, well, i let the guy get the best of me. where does it end? in other words, we re flu flunkiflun flunking kindergarten. also later the president s protest of the nfl players protest. why he walked out of the colts/49ers game and the storm he caused. on us.
guidelines for a second time. this comes after hill in a tweet said her followers should consider boycotting dallas ko s cowboys advertisers. because jerry jones threatened to bench any player who kneels during the national anthem. later, hill clarified saying she wasn t advocating an nfl boycott. espn is a broadcast partner of the nfl, the home for monday night football. hill remained on the air a few weeks ago after calling the president a white supremacist on twitter. the white house called for her firing in response to that tweet. now to our politics lead. a closer lock at how much you and i paid for the vice president to take a stand against an nfl protest of a different kind. his travel is under scrutiny now after he and his wife walked out on yesterday s colts/49ers game when several players took a knee during the anthem. to get to the game, pence travel add cross the country from las
or national anthem. but he also tweeted that he was proud to is an with all our colts for our soldiers, our flag and our national anthem. showing a ikts about of picture wife standing during a game. but it looks like a stunt as many folks have been saying because of the very clear process in a all these pieces of communication have come out. well, that is the criticism that the vice president has opened himself up to. you to remember that he was in las vegas just a couple days ago gee, he will be going back to california. so he took the plane all the way from the west coast back to indiana to go to the game just for this national anthem and then leave the stadium shortly even before the game start and he will be taking the same air force two plane back nows thousands of miles tole came kalg do a fundraiser. so he has opened himself up to a pretty significant criticism that this was a political stunt that he is using taxpayer money to fly across the country to
his exit were told by one staffer that the vice president might be leaving the game early. president trump then followed all of this with a tweet saying i asked vice president pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting or country. i am proud of him and second lady karen. now, this all comes as a new associated press poll comes out and it shows 52% of americans disapprove of pro athletes who are not standing for the anthem. while 31% do approve. that same poll shows that 55% of americans oppose donald trump s response to the protests while 31% approve. let s bring in peter alexander at the white house. and peter, this is not only the latest chapter in this back and forth. reporter: yeah, i think you re right. it s obvious that both the president and the vice president believe that this is a political winner and they might be right. americans certainly split on this topic of whether nfl
extremist belief we can point to with him is challenging. we have gotten so used to a social media footprint by these attackers that in 28 to 48 hours which can conclude something or we get a manifesto or a note or someone who knows him and we ve got none of that. so it s ongoing, i m sure we ll find out what it is. there s a cognitive opening in his life that predisposed him to violence and find out what it is and we can put the puzzle pieces together. i want to ask you to stick around. we ll be back with more in just a moment. and also we ll talk about the politics of sports and how there is identity politics displaying out on the gridiron. the vice president walking out today of the colts/49ers game because players kneeled during the national anthem. we ll dive into that and is it really just theater playing out for the vice president all at the hands of president trump?