having ongoing conversations with colin kaepernick whose been in silence since the president s comments. i m wondering have you spoken to him since then? yeah i ve spoken to him. i wish that unity that we showed for this weekend i wish we could have shown that unity for him when he was off the team. i wish we could have become a collective group and stood up for him in moments like this. we re talking about the moment where people come together i think that s want what he wanted to help. if the president was watching tonight what would your message be? i would love to sit down with the president and talk about these issues and be able to find a way to fix them or be able to find a way to have the voice of the people, the people that don t have the voice that they re not listening to. i can t sit here and say he s in the my president because at the
americans in this. do you think they ll come help you? yes, he said. we will move forward with the help of the united states. what they can give us we ll receive with a lot of love. thank you. reporter: you re welcome. thank you very much. reporter: we re thinking of you. bill weir joins us now from san juan. it seems like a lot of people you met, obviously you re strong in the face of it, how bad can it get given the outlook and the difficulties getting around? reporter: it can be so bad. don t let the resolved toughness of the puerto rican people deceive you. they re grateful to be alive, they don t want to create a bother but we are at the brink of a major humanitarian crisis. this is so much worse than irma, the storm in texas because we re a thousand miles away from miami. the only way to get aid in here is by boat or plane.
insufficient funds. what we have to do is make sure that we understand, i don t want anything from anderson cooper, i don t want anything from any white person in this country to be plainly plainly blunt. but what i do want is an opportunity for equality. i don t want to bring anderson down, i just want to have the same playing field. that s all we re asking more, that s why people take a knee. all the president is saying when you re on the playing field don t disrespect the flag of the national anthem. if you want to protest don t do so in such a way to the but paris. if it had been a white person that kneeled paris, you would have been making that argument against muhammad ali back then and yet your praising george w. bush for giving him no no what i was actually saying was muhammad ali came to the white house because he understood that the honor was
the numbers right now just don t add up. fill mattingly, thank you. joining us is rick santorum. also kirstin powers. senator, with collins a no vote, is this fight over. not by a long shot. whether this week this bill is going to pass, it s looking less likely, but i m not even 100% sure of that. what i can tell you is that i think what s been determined today, there s broad support among republicans for this approach that does two things. number of one another, block grants, a cap grant on medicaid which bill clinton proposed years ago. and the second thing it does is it takes the money from the affordable care act, puts it in a block grant and says, state, you deal with this problem
anthem. anderson, i was talking with an associate today who was saying listen, these are something that the cultural comments the president makes at rallies from time to time, he thinks about these in advance and he ll talk about these comments with his aids before he goes out and makes these kind of comments publicly. and sometime his aids and his advisers and friends will say, no no, mr. president don t do that. but the president often goes with his gut and will make these kinds of inflammatory comments and i think that s what you saw over the weekend here. keep in mind anderson we spent the better part of the day talking about the nfl and not the items you mentioned at the beginning of this newscast which is all the people suffering in puerto rico and healthcare and so on. so, he plans these things out, a lot of people raise the question is he just intentionally trying to do this to a, distract from failures on