many sports celebrities started their careers and over a visa so there s a hall of fame in the museum germany s most successful ski jumper yes vizsla definitely belongs there and spoiler alert i m going to get to meet him later. the best thing about obese and out of the town starts right at the foot of the face the back slopes pretty crowded today i wonder what made all these people come here. was my what makes the heirs give a special that s known for its warm hearted people. the beers cheaper. oh god it s close yes it is your point we ve been coming for seventeen years here you know and sure enough a good family slope the size does that mean easy or a bit of everything large easy and hard combined we ve often gone sledding on this big trail. like that only. and how was it good niceties are easier than skiing yeah
these guys these people are people that are role models and if you look at it, a lot of these athletes have have grown up in these types of neighborhoods where you know, they ve come from the bottom and so they relate more to the average person than some of these politicians who are sponsored by a lot of these corporations and have a lot of money. in fact, sports celebrities have a long history of using their fame to make political statements. we get more on that from jason carroll. reporter: the president s controversial first few weeks in office have inspired a new wave of athlete activism. nba player lebron james, misty cope land, olympic medal winning fencer all speaking out against president trump s policies. super bowl champs chris long and lagarrette blount now joining at least four other new england patriot players passing on a white house meeting with the
then president obama snubbed out a cigarette and went golfing on a weekday. funny. it was a very funny it was very funny yesterday to see josh earnest. was it two days ago? my message to tom brady was to be a role model i think because he blew off the white house. he was absent from that. the word is he doesn t approve of the president s policies. the reason we brought that up. there are a lot of people in this country that look up to celebrities, whether they are sports celebrities or movie stars to help us figure out how we should think, you know what like lindsay lohan. she s in trouble. she didn t show up for community service or something here in new york city. blake shelton, country music superstar got on the twitter
easter egg roll. but these are not hard boiled eggs, again like we had in our easter baskets. they re wooden. and there are five different ones. the first four are, you know traditional kind of festive spring colors and they have the signature of the president and first lady on them. but then there s a fifth. very cool. reporter: yeah. it actually has, i guess you call it the signature, the paw prints of beau and sunny who of course are the first dogs. this is a tradition that dates back to president reagan back in 1981. they started the signature of famous people, of celebrities, sports celebrities and some politicians. so this is continuing that tradition. and it s always fun to see the kids. i can tell you when i was coming in this morning, it s not something you see every day, little people with floppy ears on very excited to get into the white house. chris, looks like a great day for it too, right? reporter: it s the first, i think, really beautiful spring day that we have
i being riveted for six hours with people talking about dna. it was a single camera, no editing in the courtroom. i was like, wow, this is as gripping and amazing as anything in the movie theater across the street. humbling for someone who spends years trying to make an hour and a half interesting. it s sort of our obsession and fascination with real actual human drama in the forefront. you made the comment that you think we viewed our sports celebrities and people in the platform differently. do people root for celebrities to fail these days? maybe they didn t there might have been a time in society when they were revered and now we wait for them to be knocked off their pedestal, so to speak? there is truth to that. however, i don t think anybody was rooting for o.j. to fail. i think this was a confusing moment for most of us.