widely but it sort of is worth watching from here on out. earlier this month democratic congressman from arizona led a congressional trip to ukraine. congressman gallego who is a u.s. marine said the u.s. should provide ukraine better weapons so the ukrainians can better defend themselves against russian troops. turns out not everybody in russia appreciated the comments from the congressman including one member of the russian sort of pretend parliament who went on state sponsored russian tv last week to declare as punishment for those comments about ukraine congressman ruben gallego should be, a, placed under surveillance and, b, kidnapped. i think it is fair to say to congressman gallego was less than fazed by that threat from the russian parliamentarian and tweeted in response, f around and find out with an american flag emoji. it is sort of hard to know if that was the sort of thing
u.s. marine, said the u.s. should provide ukraine better weapons so ukrainians can better defend themselves against russian troops. turns out not everybody in russia appreciated the comments from the congressman including one member of the russian sort of pretend parliament who went on state sponsored russian tv last week to declare as punishment for those comments about ukraine congressman ruben gallego should be, a, placed under surveillance and, b, kidnapped. he should be kidnapped. i think it s fair to say congressman gallego was less than fazed by that threat from the russian parliamentarian and tweeted in response, eff around and find out, with an american flag emoji. it is sort of hard to know if that was the sort of thing designed to have a nice, domestic shelf life on russian state tv or if this is an actual thing to worry about from the guy in the russian parliament but since that initial weird threat of violence from that russian politician toward a sitting u.s. congressman
russian dumas. their pretend parliament. he won on state sponsored russian tv to declare that as punishment for those comments about ukraine, congressman reuben got legal should be, a, placed under surveillance. and be, kidnapped. he should be kidnapped. i think it s fair to say that congressman gallagher was less than face from that threat from the russian parliamentarian. he tweeted in response, f around and find out with an american flag emoji. it is sort of hard to know if that was the sort of thing that was designed to have a nice domestic shelf life on state run tv. or if this is an actual thing to worry about from the sky in the russian parliament. but since that initial threat from violence from that russian politician towards congressman, things have escalated for the worse. that same russian politician has now gone back on russian tv to say that congresswoman reuben got legal deserves to be convicted in a russian court for a crime, i do not, no. but he said that once that is
anthem has been performed. the decision met with decidedly mixed reactions. vice president mike pence, who, as a pr stunt, remember this, left an nfl game over the kneeling controversy last season. he linked to this story on twitter with the hash tag winning and an american flag emoji. the nfl player s association responded in a statement, quote, the nfl chose to not consult the union in the development of this new policy, our union will review the new policy, in quotes, and challenge any aspect of it that is inconsistent with the collective bargaining agreement. new york jets chairman christopher johnson is running the team while his brother, woody, serves as president trump s ambassador to the court of st. james in the uk. he told newsday after the decision, quote, if somebody on the jets takes a knee, that fine will be borne by the organization, by me, not the players. i never want to put restrictions on the speech of our players.