no matter how he described it, controversy followed. jay-z responded this way. i think we passed kneeling, i think it s time to go into actionable items. all right. kaepernick heard it and then tweeted this. they have never moved past the people. let s bring in d. lemon. d. lemon, the charge from jay-z s side is, i m trying to do the right thing. it s not just about protest, it s about what he calls action items and that s what i m going to be working on. do you accept? not fully. i can see where he wants to move on, but they haven t really dealt with the initial issue yet. and the initial issue was the kneeling and is the kneeling, and also that colin kaepernick has been somehow banned from the nfl. so you don t have a leader take you onto the battlefield and
people. let s bring in d. lemon. d. lemon, the charge from jay-z s side is, i m trying to do the right thing. it s not just about protest, it s about what he calls action items and that s what i m going to be working on. do you accept? not fully. i can see where he wants to move on, but they haven t really dealt with the initial issue yet. and the initial issue was the kneeling and is the kneeling, and also that colin kaepernick has been somehow banned from the nfl. so you don t have a leader take you onto the battlefield and then you get rid of that leader, abandoned that leader and i think colin kaepernick has been a leader on this particular issue and i don t think they should abandon his issue jay-z said it was never about him having a job, kaepernick. it is about him having a job. i disagree with jay-z about
what s going on about voting rights is down right evil. they claim there s widespread abuse. nothing substantiates that. there is some forces want to the create this sense of fear. we re having a tremendous amount of this black on white violence. they think the country is moving too fast. instead of bringing racial harmony, having an african-american president has exacerbated the problem, the country s not the same country. it s always somethinging thering to stir up controversy. joining us now is maria teresa coo kumar and jonathan capehart of the washington post as well as james peterson, director of africana studies at lehigh university. professor, take a look at the gop s impeachment posse in the house, blake farenthold will, michele bachmann. on the senate side is, ted cruz, tom coburn has been talking about it recently. what i don t know we do know the
he has such a record, and they do call it baggage. he s got a lot of experience, he s got a long resume. he s got a lot of name recognition, that s good, people know him. but the flip side is, a lot of that name regular in addition is pretty good. and you mentioned some of the other baggage, he s married three times, he s admitted to an affair and that may not play well with social conservatives. paul, we ll talk to you again here shortly. we told you about this story last weekend right here. we were just getting word that they have been kicked off the plane by the pilot. we re talking about those two imoms. what about you if you get on the plane, can you be kicked off for
new orleans and baton rouge would be saved. also mirroring arizona, the second state with some stiff immigration laws. the governor nathan beale signed that law yesterday. the author will be here with me in the studio live and also someone who s against it. you want to hear the conversation. also another conversation you ll be interested to hear, a rare interview with hank aaron, talking about baseball, how it s letting down the black community. also talking about who the real home run king should be. from the cnn center, this is your cnn saturday morning. glad you could spend part of your day here with us. it s 7:00 a.m. in morgan city, louisiana. all eyes on morgan city today. let s talk about this flooding, major flooding has swamped the upper mississippi and ohio river valley is now making aim at lower mississippi. later today the army corps of engineers could open the morganza spill way in louisiana. it has not been opened in more than 40 years. w450i why would they