investigations and scale it down and make it more streamlined, but let s get the information. but one of the things trump has been so successful in doing is to set down this marker of, quote, collusion. which is not a legal term to begin with. there are much larger questions about his conduct in dealing with the russians than just, quote, collusions. did he indeed make it possible for the russians to further their goals by taking on positions and conduct that enabled the russians to get their way on foreign policy matters and influence his presidency. that is relevant. and there are ways to get at it and that s what we need to find out whether it happened and how. carl bernstein, david gergen, thanks very much. a quick note on something i said a moment ago, the buffalo bills are in the nfl, not the nhl. one of our writers is a steelers fan which might explain the typo and the fact i know nothing about sports.
presented that that statement had anything to do with collusion with the russians. this is well after the fact. this is about shaping the media s response to it. and as you heard rudy say, you know, once it sounds like people got their act together and actually sat down and said what really did happen, they found out that, hey, the president actually they never said it to us. they put it in a letter. in the law they have an suppression, rick, if you re lying about one thing, you can be assumed to be lying about a lot of things and it makes investigators curious. but let s switch topics. the philadelphia eagles, full disclosure, santorum is from pennsylvania, not philly. a steelers fan. good to have it on the record. the eagles are the world champs. they re supposed to go to the white house.e day before, trumps them. the white house says the eagles disagree with their president, odd language, because he insists they proudly stand for the national anthem, hand on heart, in honor
sport. the word if he canless. i think at this point it s roger goodell s ping. how did he blow this? the way he blew it is because there is this idea yes it might not be about race for some people but for african-americans and for people who understand racism in this country you are dealing with story after story of people, regular citizens calling the cops on black people for living their lives, for napping we had an nba player in milwaukee. millimilwaukee. tazed over a parking ticket. you can t say we don t want to talk about all that stuff going on. we just want to play the game. love the cleveland browns thing as a steelers fan. you would. i know. as symbolism, saying okay, you stay out of sight you know, you stay in the locker room. keep your protest where we can t see it. keep your protest where we can t see it. what s the point if you can t see it.
michael hader weighed in on the president s focus of the nfl. pittsburgh native and longtime steelers fan says he agrees on colin kaepernick but agrees more with president trump s remarks in alabama. quote, i never imagined myself saying this before friday, but i m forced to choose in this dispute, put me down with kaepernick. back with the panel. ed was saying before and the idea was expressed of you re tuning in to see a game. why be forced to confront this? i think first of all, we shouldn t underestimate the heroism of our own cause as americans much we are trying to make a multiracial, multifaith democracy work 300 million people, it s never been tried in human history. and we do a good job most days. but the reality is i sit here and when i m watching these games and going through life, i have a huge platform.
tours in afghanistan and was awarded the bronze star for saving the lives of his buddies in combat. his jersey has become the biggest nfl player item sold online. his patriotic gesture was indirectly criticized by his head coach. i was looking for 100% participation. we are going to be respectful of the team. villanueva, i love you. god bless you and thank you for standing. as far as the steelers go, no more. to show their support for villanueva, some fans burned their steelers stuff. jim, 55 years old, told us he has been a steelers fan since he was born but he was so offended by the steelers hiding in the locker room that he kissed his team goodbye. this was on my wall for three years. not anymore. in the fire.