the support of a steph curry stands. that is why they are not going. if steph curry had said he go, they all would have gone. it won t change anything. tom brady didn t show up when obama was the president. so what? they are just ballplayers. it doesn t change anything. to me, the interesting and as far as being invited and then withdrawn, if you invited someone to a party and they said we don t want to come so you say don t come, i ll take the invite back. look, what is the big deal? the other thing is yeah. rick: i have to believe all these years of presidents inviting teams to the white house that there were players on this team that didn t support that particular president but they showed up anyway and now this thing has been turned on its head. yes, to me, rick, the interesting thing is that the players who disrespect the flag and the income those are the two
land of mandela, the last one i will visit in the next four days, a president that will call women out of their name. women that struggled and got their sons to be professional ballplayers. some coming out of communities where that was unthinkable. how do i explain to people that this president, who said they were fine people among neo-nazis, would call these women the mothers out. how do i explain how he will call everyone names all over the world but the head and state and russia. how do i explain that? i guess the way to explain it is to say even in nations that are great, we can make mistakes and democracy gives us the right to correct mistakes and that is why we protest, because we have the right to say and speak our
ballplayers, arriving ready for the big game. steve scalise, this hat is for you. reporter: many in lsu hats, a tribute to the player not on the field. second baseman, louisiana congressman steve scalise, tonight, hospitalized in critical condition. shot down when a barrage of gunfire tore through the republicans final practice. senator jeff flake tweeting, we re all pulling for you, republicans and democrats alike. overnight, the president visiting him at the hospital telling reporters today scalise is in tough shape. it s been much more difficult than people even thought at the time. it s been he s in some trouble, but he s a great fighter and he s going to be okay, we hope. reporter: this morning, a third surgery for the congressman. the bullet that hit his hip injured his internal organs, fracturing bones and causing severe bleeding. today in congress a standing ovation for the victims and heros of the shooting spree. and at the stadium tonight,
undermine democracy. we ve heard from members of both sides of the aisle. we saw democrat ballplayers getting ready yesterday and stopped to pray for the republicans. we hear these good messages right now and we want them to linger like we did after 9/11. what is your real hope that it will last? life comes at you fast. yesterday was a tragic day but the silver lining in it was there was a moment where, as you said, everyone came together and you saw that scene on the house floor where paul ryan gave a fantastic speech that received four standing ovations from republicans and democrats. i can t remember the last time anything like that happened. president trump gave what i thought was the finest speech of his presidency to date where he reminds us there is more that unites us that divides us. i don t know if it will last long. there are real disagreements on healthcare, taxes and the things we re debating right now.
republican docongressman patric mehan. congressman doyle, i heard that you and the democratic members invited the republican ballplayers over for dinner last night. tell me about this unity dinner. yeah, just i think both teams were going to get together after which, what was a very stressful day especially for our republican colleagues and we were planning a team meeting too and we just thought it might be nice to get together. rodney davis had a preplanned dinner for the republican team, so many members were committed to doing that, but a lot did stop over, joe barton did come with his sons and stay. we know each other, we played ball, we debate against each