your background, randal, you have a great, great grandfather who was a slave. so does that change your perspective of the pride you have in the flag? it s the history that the liberal left doesn t want us to hear a great great grandfather came across as a slave 8 years old. died as a successful entrepreneur, builder of a church, builder of education, a republican and proud american. and every single one of my ancestors have been proud americans. we need to be proud again, be hopeful and give our kids hope. that s what the left is trying to get away from us. brian: randal, knowing that you can do this and no one says you can t do it because we know freedom of speech. just the symbol of taking a knee during while the national anthem that you should have pride and the flag hangs there. i think that s more the issue. don t you? first of all let me say i always stand and i have had people in the military commend me for standing and making sure that i salute the flag. but it s still free
united states in a wide ranging chat at one point said if any nfl player takes a knee during the national anthem they should get that blank off the field right now. that s what weather it started to hit the fan. the president was on twitter all day long denkding his stand to be patriotic in this country you should stand up during the national anthem. ainsley: yesterday i got a news eletter. ravens jaguar game has begun and said that the team took a knee as you can see. hands on their heart, all in solidarity. just protesting this president. brian: stood during god save the queen national anthem. you had differenteople singing the national anthem. a couple took knees which is unbelievable if you have to take a knee during the national anthem just pass to the next person. no question. i think personally, i have been out front saying how outrageous i think taking a knee during the national an
family in san juan and joins us live right there. geraldo, how bad. hi, ains brie, brian and steve very bad. i know it is a compassionate country. distracted by that whole nfl national anthem thing and also suffering compassion fatigue after hurricane harvey and then irma and now maria, people won t be able to get their arms around the slow moving absolutely humanitarian disaster that is unfolding here in puerto rico. i mean, the two main items there, they have no electricity. they need electricity to pump water. so they have no water. you have a population of 3.4 million people living in dire, dire straits. they are waiting in line for gasoline for up to six to eight hours just to buy $20 worth of gas. they need gas to fuel their generators because there is no power. the electrical grid is
teams wind up with the same sweetheart deals and subsidies? yes. good question. i was intrigued to see that treasury secretary weighed in on this. the treasury secretary here s a man who is dealing with money. that s what he does, taxpayer money. he says the nfl should have a rule to stand in respect for the national anthem. the players have the right to a first amendment on the field off the field. this is a job. the employers have the right when the players are working to have rules. so he is backing up the president. and this is the treasury secretary. brian: he was asked that yesterday. both on record. stuart, we will see you from 9:00 to noon on the fox business channel. that s correct. i will see you. ainsley: thank you, stuart. fonelert new dails about the gunn charged with murder in that horrific church shooting in tennessee much the hero who stped his rampage. a live report at the top of the hour. steve: plus the island of puerto rico absolutely leveled by hurricane mari
nfl, for 9/11 people wore symbols, red, white, and blue on their cleats and they got fined or threatened to be fined. you can t wear something across your headline that the nfl doesn t sanction. i m shocked over a year later they have not addressed this with the players union. so it didn t even get to this point. ainsley: it s just sad when these guys are millionaires and protesting the president in this way. this is the red, white, and blue. this is america. i wish they would find a different way to protest. i m glad it s not violent. i m glad that it s peaceful. i understanding that our men and women who fought for this great country and flag did it so they have the right to do that. we are asking men and women who are paid $20,000 a year to go over to different countries and sacrifice their lives so that we can enjoy football. so we can spend our sundays at these football games. i guarantee we are going to see people give up their season tickets. steve: we will see. there was a lot