. the ucla players who were arrested for shop lifting in china, thanked president trump yesterday for helping them. this morning the president tweeted you re welcome and also some life advice, andy scholes has more in this morning s bleacher report. good morning. bloom. the bleacher report presented by the new ford f-150. president trump asked for a thank you from the ucla players and he got it and this morning he tweeted to those players, you re welcome. go out and give a big thank you to president xi of china who made your release possible and have a great life. be careful, there are plane p many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life. president trump spoke with chinese president xi on the three ucla players behalf while in china last week and the players expressing their gratitude yesterday. i would also like to thank president trump and the united states government for the help
a great life. be careful, there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life. bill: would you say lesson learned by some young man with a lot of talent who made a stupid mistake. sandra: stupid mistake and faced a big punishment if they were to be in china. bill: that s what is happening from ucla. this is what s happening now with the vatican. isis setting its sights on vatican city. what that group is now threatening and how the church is now responding? plus there s this today. $400 million is the bid and the piece is sold. sandra: i m taken back by this. this is unbelievable. i won t even tell you how much it was originally paid for this. da vinci s painting was
it. that is freeing the ucla basketball players, or having is them not face 10 years for theft in china. and the president sort of put out a tweet and pressed them to thank him, which he then did. tweeted about it this morning. this morning there is a new tweet. is this the new tweet? no. this is the old tweet where they thanked him. the original was where s my thanks? now he is saying to the three ucla basketball players, i say you re welcome. go out and give a big thank you to president xi jinping of china who made your release possible and have a great life. be careful there are many pitfalls on the long and winding road of life. i think it was obnoxious the way he did it. the players should make sure to thank the president and the government for making this a priority to put this on the agenda in a one-on-one meeting rather than have them get lost in the criminal justice system
in china. that could have been awful. look, this is an incredibly unfortunate episode these guys got themselves caught up in. you look at the life of a high-level college athlete, these are incredibly disciplined young men who have incredible opportunities that they have created for themselves. this is a huge lapse in judgment, as they said. they are being suspended indefinitely. i think the president was right to say you ought to thank me even though it is pretty obnoxious the way he did it. a.b.? he changed from this cranky person looking for credit about the pitfalls of life and have a great life was in all caps. so i think it was really positive. and the long and winding road of life. we can all agree with that. a.b. stoddard, gregory, thank you.