They have a First Amendment right to do that, but nfl owners also have a right to fire those players. Reporter this is all happening just one day after President Trump rescinded his invitation for Golden State Warriors guard steph curry to visit the white house. Now the entire team isnt going, but the hockey team that just won the stanley cup, theyre taking a different approach. Im talking about the Pittsburgh Penguins, they put out a statement this morning that reads, quote the Pittsburgh Penguins respect the institution of the office of the president and the longstanding tradition of championship teams visiting the white house. Any agreement or disagreement with the president s politics, policies or agenda can be expressed in other ways. And, in fact, President Trump tweeted about that very statement and praised the penguins for sticking by the tradition and coming to the white house regardless of where the players stand on politics. But, you know, all of this i hate to use the word
Times i asked him again. He said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. He did not do what theyre saying he did. John roberts is reporting on this on a moving bus at this moment. John, its a fine distinction, but the president didnt say he believed putin. He said that he believes that putin means it, right . Yeah. There is a different here and the language is what is important. Were pulling this bus, by the way, up to the royal palace in downtown hanoi, where the president and the president of vietnam will hold bilateral meetings. The president did make a lot of news on Air Force One when he said that he talked to President Putin about whether or not Russia Meddled in the election. He got a denial from putin. Headquarters of raqqa fell. And the president and President Putin agreed they would find a way forward and political solution to syria under the framework of the u. N. Security council on syria. The two leaders saying that efforts to deconflict between the two militaries ha
Bernie sanders volunteered shot republican congressman steve scalise, democratic leadership blamed both sides for the shooting. There is a lot of heated rhetoric from all different directions. I think sometimes there is rhetoric on all sides that is not quite acceptable. I do think the language, the rhetoric on both sides of godmother control. Heres what president obama says. First of all, i think its very hard to untangle the motives. The danger. The act of a troubled individu individual. It speaks to a larger political statement across the country. Lets pretend the white supremacist driving the car was a muslim. The media would call him alone wolf and say his motivations were unclear. Remember, this is how cnn described the islamic terror attack in london, as a van attack. They described this as a Dodge Challenger attack . The same people who dont like donald trump say is volunteerism and they are urging him now to say whites premises on. For a party who called islamic terrorism work
No rest for people northeast of the center of the storm and these nighttime hours, Tornado Warnings are requiring people to stay up and stay alert. Harvey has been downgraded to the Tropical Storm but it continues to punish the infrastructures of central and coastal texas with wind and water. One confirmed death and injury. Most of them in one town that seem to take harvey dead on. Local media is reporting at least ten people in this one town were treated for injuries from a collapsed rooftops. It is rockport, texas. Take a look from the air. This is what is left of rockport. There was no escaping harvey. Rockport is a fishing town about 30 miles northeast of Corpus Christi and other areas like port lavaca and others pierced by the power of harvey. Leadership in the state of texas compared for assets deployed all over the region and we just heard tonight. Lets bring in the texas Lieutenant Governor dan patrick by phone. Always good to be with you. I wish it was under different circumst
Country . I hope he did write those letters. I hope he does call those Family Members in the coming days. He was wrong to try to make up this just awful lie that President Obama didnt do that. But my concern is more about what it says about future decisions hell make about putting soldiers in harms way. Or point of fact, current kinetic Military Taifd by this nation in places like niger were frankly, senator, i bet if he polled a thousand americans, 999 Couldnt Have told you that the u. S. Had members of the Armed Service theres in harms way in niger. What is going on there . What is striking to me, four americans were killed there, and what do we know about why were there, what the strategy is, what the u. S. Government is doing . Well, listen, to be fair to President Trump, this Counterterrorism Strategy of pushing Special Forces out wherever al qaeda was gaining
president talked about at length today, and i want to ask you, because i have you here and youve been very koch vocal on t