cases because there is actually bullying going on, despite the good efforts of the first lady. but the whole idea of the office of the president does carry a weight to it, and it does you talk about leadership. that is the ultimate in somebody at the top saying to somebody in any community i see you, i hear you, i care about you. you know what drives me crazy? this is a tale of two president sis. literally, you have the president of the united states this week met with republican governors to talk about how to do criminal justice reform, how to do prison reform. and then he turns literally around in the same news cycle, destroys all that coverage, and picks a dumb fight. so you got the policy moving in this direction. he s not dumb. he clearly sees it that there is a political advantage among the people you mean, for the quote/unquote racist base? i m not saying it s a racist base. i m saying for his base, and i m not calling them racist.
be decried. and as a republican who supported the president, i would say mr. president, please decry these nazi racist crazy people walking across the street from the white house. i mean, we ve got to denounce this stuff. now, that said, my friends, my brothers, the fraternity of the nfl, these guys have a great platform. they can make a huge difference. these are game-changers in their community. and by the way, the show that we were on that we did last year, i mean, it was some great things that were said about the positive things the nfl, the league, the owners have done some things positive. i think there is a lot of positive things that we have. i don t understand why it s still necessary for these guys to take a knee or raise a fist. i don t understand. because the conditions have not changed. you got to remember, we re old guys now. you re talking about some of these guys are two, three years
to talk to the president in order to understand intent, in order to get what was in the s mind. you say no. no. first of all, that is something that might be injugermane in a criminal case there isn t going to be any criminal case here. secondly, the president has already talk about what his intent was or not. he said he didn t have the conversation with comey, if that s what we re talking about. so that s a dry hole. the other thing we hear in that radio interview from giuliani and jay sekulow a lot is the idea of a perjury trap, that they believe they don t want to have a president in a perjury trap. one other point about what was in his mind, the firing of james comey. that was something he had the right under the constitution to do. and in any event, the obstruction of an fbi investigation is not obstruction of justice within the meaning of the statute. it may sound odd, but it s not. and the u.s. attorney s manual is very clear on that. it s there is case law on that.
order simply disrespecting the flag, but about social injustice, a dispute about the justice system and police brutality. what s notable here is that though president trump argues that his players have a difficult time defining exactly what they re protesting, he revealed earlier this year that he clearly understands their motives. i want you to listen to this sound bite from president trump in june. we have a great country you. should stand for our national anthem. you shouldn t go in a locker room when our national anthem playing. i m going ask all of those people to recommend to me, because that s what they re proegt, people that they think were unfairly treated by the justice system. and i understand that. and i m going ask them to recommend to me people that were unfairly treated, friends of theirs or people that they know about, and i m going to take a look at those applications. and if i find and my question finds that they re unfairly
okay. but lebron james obviously did more. he support the protests for colin kaepernick. and then while president trump is putting babies in prison cells, lebron is putting children in classrooms, and he gets called dumb. at what point can these young people win? at this point, they can make a difference. they can stand up for their communities. they can show up and be counted. there is so much that s going on in the communities. i just moved in to inner city philadelphia from harlem, and i m telling you, it s amazing the opportunity that we have to make a difference in people s lives if we love them and care for them and show up every day. it s interesting, though you. talk about the office of the president as being more important than the president himself. and i hear what you re saying in that. it is, though, in past administrations people talked about the bully pulpit the president has. right. under this president, it is actually a bully pulpit in many