so let s not shy away from the racial i wouldn t even call them under tones, but blatantly racist nature of someone who calls them sons of pitches, get them out of here. i think the fact that the president has allowed his base to kind of turn on the nfl has made a bigger monster. the remedy to that, i don t know if there is one at this point. i think it s just a wildfire that s pretty much to warren s point, it was burning out at some point. i think the only remedy now is to let it burn out again. if you look at what the players are going through, think about this for a second. if you re a player who plays for bob mcnair, owner of houston texans or jerry jones, let s say you do take a stance or continue to watch colin kaepernick or eric reid be put out to pasture and you re a guy who is looking for a new deal next year, do you think you re going to be willing to sit in the locker room during the protest knowing how your owner feels about that? you re pretty much saying my future is
you held him in such high regard. what is your advice to these players who, as you said, they re competitive people, they feel challenged by the president and he intends to challenge them. they re not wrong. and by the owners who have tried to sort of they don t want to see kneeling, they don t want the controversy. it s a sacred rich wall and so is the right to peacefully protest in this done tri. i think the players should sit down with the owners and talk about the best way to go forward, where, instead of being mandated that you have to stand or stay in the locker room, because that s not going to solve the problem either because those players who have to stay in the locker room if they don t want to kneel, when 24e do come o they do come out of the locker room, the fans are going to boo them when they come out of the locker room. that s not the way you want the game to start. both sides need to sit down and figure out a better way to get this done. whether it s keeping all
history to someone having such i think you can almost call it a fetish for an american adversary like donald trump does for vladimir putin. yeah, i guess we can mark a new low that we re discussing trump and fetish in the same sentence. so, it s good to be able to mark i did at your defense. we ll let you remain an elegant historian. we re only going to move forward from here. summits in the best of times are perilous, and these are not the best of times. there is a tendency for politicians whose unit of commerce, right, is affection and wanting people to like them and to be liked in return. they get into the hot house of the pinnacle. and even the word itself is egotistical. we are at the summit, and it s been true from generation to
the barrel looking for any remaining weapon against the investigation, it may be trump s supreme court pick who will ultimately pose a greater threat to mueller s search for justice. among the questions that could end up in the highest court in the land, can trump be forced to comply with a subpoena? can a sitting president be indicted? and a question the president has raised himself, is the entire investigation unconstitutional. joining us now is harry litman, former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. you have so many prestigious titles, i stumble over them. more importantly, friend of our show. if you could just weigh in on what you think the prospects are for any of those questions actually ending up in front of the supreme court. i think the prospects are pretty good. i mean, for one, we are still thinking about is there a chance that mueller will subpoena trump. that seems less and less likely. it seems like he ll probably deliver a report and simply say
could do your protest maybe after the anthem is over or at the end of the first quarter or whenever they want to do the protest throughout the game. there are other times throughout the game the players can still do their protest and it still can be just as effective. you and i had conversations in real time while this was happening. i think maybe the difference between last season and the one coming is that this was happening in real time. he was on the phone with his vice-president mike pence. mike pence not exactly a profile in courage. president called and told him to leave and he got up and left in his own little silent protest, i guess. yeah. this year we know it s coming. are you aware of any effort to sort of help the players do what warren is talking about, organize i think we have some headlines. some of what gets lost is the extraordinary amount of work and attention they draw to issues in their communities. this does get lost when the president goes to political ral