of the area on his way to an event in california. i asked vice president pence to leave the stadium if any players kneeled disrespecting our country. i m proud of him and second lady karen. as you just heard, drew some criticism. and in pence s home newspaper, pence s walkout was choreographed and rehearsed. it also was a distraction for what should be this administration s true priorities. for more i m joined by the author of the column for the indianapolis star, tim switz. it was rehearsed, as you just said, chris. the press corps was told to stay in the vance, don t go in the stadium. the vice president will be right back. that s exactly what happened. the san francisco 49 verse been staging this type of a protest for a long time now, sunday after sunday. so it was no surprise that some players took a knee during the anthem. and the vice president came to
well, it s great to have you on, tim, from the indianapolis star. i m joined by kareem jean-pierre for moveon.org and eric beach, a co-chair. eric, give us your thoughts and feelings about this subject. take your time. well, i look at it on the other side as well there hasn t been this much disrespect, there has never been this much disrespect from any vp from john adams to joe biden. that s where we are today. you have to hold the other side accountable as well. yes, everyone knew, the nfl knew. san francisco 49ers knew that vice president pence was coming to the indianapolis colts game. and the 0-5 san francisco 49ers decided to still kneel and protest. and i still asked the question is why kneel in protest? what is that getting and what is that accomplishing? and i think the vice president did, as your earlier guest said, what every american would do. in that situation or want to do in that situation would be to walk out. this is the flag doesn t represent a certain base of