as policy. it wasn t taken very seriously. it is happening apparently. here is boris johnson on that, again, an appeal to working class people, but many have criticized this will he be in their interests long-term. take a look. people who bet against britain are going to lose their shirts, because we re going restore trust in our democracy. and we re going fulfill the repeated promises of parliament to the people and come out of the eu on october 31st no ifs or buts. now? well, i mean, boris johnson is a bad person to be talking about trust. this is a person in common with the president has shown a disdain for truth in his political career, and sometimes a disdain for basic indecency. now he does have in common with trump an anti-elite kind of image. in johnson s case, it s just as peculiar coming from a background that includes eaton college, the most elite private
i wish he could get more people in the middle of the country. laura: you need the independents, the base, you kneeled the wall built, national emergency, we re going anything that direction, got to get the wall built, no ifs, ands are buts. ari made a great point. you need to reinforce this message. i m going to say this every night. where is ben carson? i saw him at the state of the union. where is rick perry? these guys have to push the president s agenda the president is doing a great job. laura: he cannot do it alone. trying began s cabinet was all over the place 5.2 million new jobs. laura: numbers don t move the needle that s what the democrats are trying to rub against. they re trying it say the economy is broken, we need to do more for the middle class. this president is delivering. laura: he connected emotionally last night with people. you need the emotional connection, dan.
do initially. and again, people do evolve on issues. we should give people leeway in that. but was that the right way to respond initially through that video? right, to try to talk through it, to try to explain and also but blaming it on internet trolls and people looking for outrage. yes, we live in an outrage culture right now, but is that really the issue when it comes to this? i think you are onto something really important. what he said in this brand new statement was point blank no ifs or buts, i sincerely apologize, i am sorry that i hurt people. but you re right. in that earlier video it was different. look, going back to 2010, 2011, kevin hart said things like if i can prevent my son from being gay i will. those are deeply offensive comments. and you can t explain it away by saying he was joking. i don t think he was always joking in those comments. as you said, people are always evolving. people have to be given the space to evolve. and i think his statement today was
this, it s a big story, what s going on here? and from what kevin has said, and i do remember this coming up before, that he had addressed it, and he felt like do i have to keep apologizing for something, so i think that s a valid question to ask. and i ll ask you, don, because you were just talking about you re a member of the lgbtq community. if someone makes a statements that are inarguably wrong, flat out, no ifs, ands or buts about it, and they ve addressed it before and apologized for it before, if it comes up again do they need to apologize again, or as he said in the first statement, listen, i ve addressed this before, i ve apologized before, i m not going to keep doing this again? i m not sure where the line is. and i m not making a judgment on it. and i m certainly not making a judgment on how anyone feels about it because the tweets were ugly and they re wrong, period. but where is that line? nischelle, i want to get to
sports columnist joining us from santa barbara, california, where the cowboys are out for their preseason. matt, you were at the game with the 49ers when the 49ers were kneeling there in protest, some of them were. how is the reception to that? how does it compare to how the cowboys are acting? reporter: i think it kind of depends on where you are and which part of the country. san francisco, obviously a liberal stronghold, it s okay. with the dallas cowboys owned by jerry re-jones, that s jerry jones, that s a no fly zone. they re not going to kneel. he s made it clear to his players that they will stand at attention for the national anthem, no ifs, ands or butts bs about it. leland: the nfl says they re trying to figure out the policy, as least the way you describe it, mr. jones has made it clear that his sideline is a no kneeling zone. how does he do that and can he