progress to reform law enforcement s approach to communities of color, one that all too often ends in the police violence, protested by the nfl players and others in the first place. earlier this week sports illustrated presented the muhammed ali award to colin kaepernick for drawing attention to these issues. but as with ali s legacy, i and others question whether his message has already lost on a business eager to get back to business as usual. joining me now is bill roy, writer for espn s the undefeated and jack brewer, former nfl player and ceo of the brewer group. let me start with you, bill. as one that has been out there raising a lot of these issues, you know, eric garner now and
they can say, well, we don t want you to, but the bottom line is they are allowed to do this. jordan schultz, thank you. bill rhoden, we ll let you get seated. our understanding is it s going to happen shortly. mike lupica, thank you. mike, prediction on the yankees game? oh, man, you know, they ve got so much momentum, i m on my way down to the ballpark now. this is starting to feel like october 1996 all over again, craig. mike lupica, all right, we ll leave it there. i will hold my personal opinions on what mike just said. i ll keep it to myself. reporters gathering there of course at the owners meeting, reporters also gathering at the white house where sarah huckabee sanders, press secretary, expected to deliver the daily briefing minutes from now. we re watching several different things. this is msnbc. we ll also continue to talk about what s happening with this harvey weinstein case, more women out with claims of sexual harassment against harvey
looking for reasons not to kneel, but i m just hoping that goodell and his league continue to not let somebody else set the narrative that this was ever about disrespect for country, flag, anthem, the military. if you go down that rabbit hole, you re going to end up in crazy town or trump town. mike, ratings are down for the nfl across all networks so far this season. how much of this, the protest movement, how much of this do you think has to do with that? craig, ratings are down everywhere in television. but maybe somebody dropped off while i was talking moments ago. it s an unknowable thing. how much of this is a backlash against what started with colin kaepernick. but the idea that they can put this all on that and to act like somehow, you know, in about eight weeks we re going to have a going out of business sale in the nfl is ridiculous. bill rhoden, there at the
and it s appalling to me. and i m sure it s appalling to almost any citizen in our country. it should be. i mean, you know, calling our players s.o.b.s and all that kind of stuff, that s not the men that i know. former buffalo bills and new york jets coach rex ryan breaking from president trump hours before we witnessed the leaguewide response to the president s disparaging comments. those comments from alabama. let s get the inside scoop from bill rhoden from espn s the undefeated and ruth marcus. bill, first to you. the president, the white house seems to feel that they are on political solid ground here. appealing to their base. but mixing politics and sports the way they did on nfl sunday, what s your take as to how this is going to play out? this is all very bizarre. i ve been around nfl locker rooms period for more than 40
offended by the president telling you how you can exercise your first anticipate rights but there s a lot of people when he talks about our heritage and when he talks about our flag really rally to that. so to that. it might be offensive and also might be smart politically. bill, finally, and i just stand to be corrected that tom brady linked arms, which was another symbol of unity in protest, not taking a knee. but the fact that the owners are now involved, and roger goodell, who is not some wild-eyed activist. here s the problem with this industry that we re involved in, sports industry, he s put he s asked the owners to do something they know they can t do. they absolutely can t do it. he s talking about firing people. even jerry jones, who the owner of the cowboys, who sort of said the same thing, but they realize they can t do that. they re in a league that s almost 70% young, black men.