flying directly over indiana. this also raises the question why flying from vegas to washington on saturday just to fly back to l.a. on sunday. nfl had no comment on the vice president s actions. look, it was predictable that someone was going to take a knee. they are in virtually every game. and the story was going away. it was dying out. the protest had quieted. they re not about the flag. they re about police brutality, racial injustice in this country. let s just have an honest conversation can about what these players are doing. they re not against the military. whether you support it or not, that s not their intention. ironically, players of the incident call it a stunt. and the president saying hey, walk fought you need to if they do that, which is in itself maybe a stunt. on north korea, president trump is adding to a growing list of cryptic messages without offering any clarity here. over the weekend, he tweeted that decades of diplomacy has failed, adding that, okay, this
effort to do so. questions looming for the white house after critics say mike pence used the colts-49ers game to stage pence said he did not want to dignify the demonstration. after pence left, trump tweeted he asked pence to leave if anyone kneeled. it is almost guaranteed someone would take a knee, especially since 49ers players issued a statement a week earlier saying they would keep using their platform to make a statement. the 49ers are the only franchise that s had at least one player kneel before every game since colin kaepernick started doing it in the 2016 preseason. pence s move did not sit well with members of 49ers, including eric reid, who took a knee during the anthem. last time pence has been to a colts game is three years ago. so this looks like a pr stunt to me. this is what it looks like. a man with power comes to a game, tweets a couple of things
out and leaves the game, looking to thwart our efforts. all right, pence s move not sitting well with lawmakers. brian schatz of hawaii tweeted wait, this was orchestrated to make a point? that s not an inexpensive thing to do. democratic congressman adam schiff of california tweeting after all the scandals involving unnecessary expensive travel by cabinet secretaries, how much taxpayer money was wasted on this stunt? we have an answer. based on cnn estimates of air force data, it s more than $242,000. that does not include costs for advanced personnel, secret service or support on the ground. some costs will be reimbursed by the republican national committee, the rnc because pence then attended a political event in los angeles. in a statement, pence s office defending the trip saying he was not going to miss the las vegas memorial on saturday, adding if pence did not go to indiana for the colts game, he would have flown back to d.c. for the evening, which means
one or maybe an audience of maybe 51 others as well. you know? this was a very deliberate message. he s now said it several times over the course of several days, and each time, senator corker has used very tough words and so this is an effort i don t think to sway the president. i think this is about trying to sway members of the republican party at a minimum to issue a warning so a this moment in history this senator is saying we have a problem. it s interesting too when you look at the people the president has gone to wa ar with in congress. sessions, all republican senators. murkowski. that list isn t northeasteea long when it comes to democrats. you wonder about the consequences of this down the road. let s talk about the vice president as well. bit of a scandal going on, some say. he was at the colts-49ers game.
senator corker speak, if there s anything more there. otherwise, this kind of rhetoric can be incendiary and take tous military confrontation. you heard it said mr. gorbachev taer down this wall. very killed team of advisers, we re not sure that s in place. i want to ask you quickly about the vice president leaving the game between the colts and 49ers because a couple of 9ers players took a knee. one was it was a waste of taxpayer ace e. s funds, two, does this appear to be a manufactured controversy? of course it was. here you have something that started with a protest about race and criminal justice with nfl players who were trying to make a statement about that, not about the anthem, not about ta tree yachtism and the white house has consistently used this