Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Order simply disrespecting the flag, but about social injustice, a dispute about the Justice System and police brutality. Whats notable here is that though President Trump argues that his players have a difficult time defining exactly what theyre protesting, he revealed earlier this year that he clearly understands their motives. I want you to listen to this sound bite from President Trump in june. We have a great country you. Should stand for our National Anthem. You shouldnt go in a locker room when our National Anthem playing. Im going ask all of those people to recommend to me, because thats what theyre proegt, people that they think were unfairly treated by the Justice System. And i understand that. And im going ask them to recommend to me people that were unfairly treated, friends of theirs or people that they know about, and im going to take a look at those applications. And if i find a
cases because there is actually bullying going on, despite the good efforts of the first lady. but the whole idea of the office of the president does carry a weight to it, and it does you talk about leadership. that is the ultimate in somebody at the top saying to somebody in any community i see you, i hear you, i care about you. you know what drives me crazy? this is a tale of two president sis. literally, you have the president of the united states this week met with republican governors to talk about how to do criminal justice reform, how to do prison reform. and then he turns literally around in the same news cycle, destroys all that coverage, and picks a dumb fight. so you got the policy moving in this direction. he s not dumb. he clearly sees it that there is a political advantage among the people you mean, for the quote/unquote racist base? i m not saying it s a racist base. i m saying for his base, and i m not calling them racist.