a knee over a flag that many of our generation preceding us have died to protect the freedoms there, they somehow get honored as martyrs by the media. the president is pointing out that shouldn t be accepted. they have a first amendment right to do that, but nfl owners also have a right to fire the players. the president is not looking at through through a racial lens. there s plenty of african-american athletes on all of the championships that the president welcomed to the white house. they re the ones who chose to make a political issue out of this. joining me now is joe watkins, a republican strategist. erin dell more, whom i m going to call erin d., because we also welcome in erin mcpike, for independent general review. i m going to begin with joe to keep it simple. so talk to me about the significance of what we re watching unfold here, and your reaction to the white house, joe, blaming the players for making this political. well, i think the players