Fired. President trump ramped his attack on twitter. Well then the president turning his eye on the Golden State Warriors. Curry turned down the invitation. The president tweeted this, going to the white house is considered a great honor for a championship team. Stephen curry is hesitating and therefore, his invitation is withdrawn. The Golden State Warriors responded. We have decided to go in february to celebrate equality and diversity and inclusions. Lets get right out to white house correspondent, athena jones, the president doubles down, what are you hearing from nfl team owners . Reporter hi, ana, there is a strong backlash to the president s remarks and not only last night calling mostly black nfl players and son of bees which are insults to players and to their mothers. It is leading a lot of people to ask why is he picking fights with black professional athletes. Why didnt say see that kind of passion and here is a news statement that we are getting right now from the owners of new york giants. Here is their statement, comments heard last night from the president are inappropriate and offensive and devivisive. We are proud of our players. In Roger Goodells statement, he said, our nfl players are at our best when we hope to create a sense of unity in our country. There is no better example than the amazing response from our club or players to the terrible natural disasters we have experienced over the last month. Thats referencing to players like j. J. Watt raising all the money and Roger Goodell is calling the president is decisive and thats on the owner and commissioner front, we are also hearing from several other players including player in the n nba and kobe bryant took to twitter in response to all of this saying a potus meaning the president of the United States, his words cannot possibly make America Great again. This is something thats getting a lot of attention in addition to people on twitter asking why the president is focused on this and why is he fighting with black professional athletes and they are wondering why hes not focusing on other issues like he will care and north korea and instead of doubling down. The most recent tweets we have seen him dealing with this issue and not domestic policies or Foreign Policy challenges that the u. S. Faces. Something thats getting a lot of attention. We have oa lot of sport analyst predicting well see more protests at future nfl games and including tomorrow and rather than fewer protests in response to the president. There is an higher nfltake a knee. All right, athena jones, i want to bring in our panel, our correspondent Brian Stelter and host of reliable sources and Kristine Brennan and paris denaurd. Lets start with you, paris. The president did not have to go there. The president did not have to pick this fight, why is he doing it . No, the president did not have to pick this fight but it is a fight that he choose to engage in. If Stephen Curry who i respect had reservations about going to the white house to in honor of his championship, he should have had the conversations behind closed doors and the team should made a statement to the white house accepting or declining their invitations. In response to Stephen Curry, the president it is not about the man, it is about the white house and it is about the president of the United States no matter whom that person maybe honoring you for your achievement before the whole wide world. They forgot the moment. It is not just steph currys tweet. The president made this statement regarding the nfl and Football Players kneeling during the anthem. Again, we have north korea this week and we have the healthcare debate thats heated up this week. There are a lot of other depressing issues in this country calling these nfl players who are peacefully protesting suns of [ bleep ]. The president was in alabama. If you know alabama like i do, that was football country. He was talking to a large crowd of people there. He knows that those issues matter. Another thing they take seriously is patriotism. Thats what he was honing in on o f the national anthem. My family comes from a long line of athletes and both professional and college levels. I get it. What you run the risk of doing when you make displays that could be seen disrespectful and you ta i cke the focus off of y issues and making a distraction by doing something so disrespectful. Kristine you made a comment. Explain what you are going with that there. What a losing argument for donald trump. I want you want to take on the entire sport establishment. Thats mind boggling and hes done it and here we are. The joke would be in the schoolyard and there is the bully. And in this case, it would be donald trump. You learn that you dont pick on the big guys. The serious part of this is so you got trump doing what he did and there was a moment this morning where everyone was saying, whats the response from the nfl, is Roger Goodell going to have a comment, can he repuluarepu repudiate the president and go against him. You saw the union had their response and Roger Goodell came out with a statement thats as strong as it could possibly be talking about the decisive rhetoric and lack of respect that donald trump is showing the nfl. Thats a Strong Language from a commissioner, especially the commissioner of the most Important League in the country. The nfl. Does it surprise you . I have known Roger Goodell for a long time, i know he would feel that way but obviously when you got a lot of owners and some of them supported donald trump. Yeah. Jerry jones and the list goes on. Those are the ones that donated a Million Dollars to donald trump. And Roger Goodell works for them and at their pleasure. The fact that he did this speaks volume of what a disaster pr move this was for donald trump. The goodness of the nfls leadership going right at trump on those issues. The goodness of these people and including kaepernick whos reaching a Million Dollars that he made to charity. Consider that, too. This man is giving a Million Dollars to charity. A lot of twitter backlash have been against what the president has said or his comments. But, i am seeing a lot of people on twitter and viewers who are saying we agree with the president s comments. Polls indicated that people should not be kneeling during the national anthem. The president may have a majority report in that view. Why did he take a baseball bat and swinging at this nest thats issues of racism and patriotism. What kaepernick was doing a year ago was trying to speak to systematic and in justice and racism in the country. The president in front of a white crowd in alabama bringing up the nfl and today to be tweeting about curry, another prominent black athlete. Hes kind of going against the whole establishment today. You got lebron james saying the president is a bum. This is so unusual. It makes you think is the president doing this to get people talking about him as oppose to the russia investigation or kind of rand randomly picks these fights for no strategic reasons at all. I want to read the tweet of curry, he tweeted going to the white house is considered a great honor and Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore, invitation is withdrawn. Hes taking players like curry and kaepernick. The white house went after jamelle hill on espn, these are all africanamericans. Just so happens that the people are speaking out are africanamericans. If you look at the totality of nfl athletes refusing to go to the white house. Donald trump, there is certain instances where people are not going to the white house because of barack obama being in office or president george being in office. At the end of the day, it is not that big of a deal as it relates going to the white house. It is much more pronounced. Say it again . It is much more pronounced with trump. What is much more pronounce now are two things, one, the level of disrespect that we have seen from these athletes as it relates to our country. Number two, there is a high level of racial tensions in this country that predates the president that is being capacon. There is a falsehood that hes a racist. Upon him or by him, paris. It is capaciexasberated uponr by him . Everything he said or does is racist in your eyes. The fact that he speaks out against a person thats black and about an organization thats overwhelming the majority of africanamericans that make up of the players of these association, then all of a sudden, hes a racracist. If you a taking a need to the national anthem, it is disrespectful. This is the president calling out the neonazis and calling africanamericans athletes and son s of [ bleep ]. I would not have used that language. Lets establish that. It is the action and thats why i made the point earlier. Colin has the right to protest any way he wants to. When you do, you offend both americans black or white. When you do that, you run the risk of distracting of the issues and of racial issues and it is an important to highlight. Dont do it in a way that disrespects the country or the flag. Thats the only thing. The president in a similar position here, right . Hes disrespecting the majority of the country and the majority of the country thinks he is disrespecting them. Hes saying you should be fired if he disrespects the flag. Well, a lot of americans think that he should be fired as well. Kristine, this is a league thats accused of some say because of him making a political statement. Right. When you look at the quarterbacks who gotten jobs and kaepernick has not, it is a valid question to ask and wonder why in the world this man who took a team to the super bowl five years ago, why is there a backup some where. The entire conversation moves right from saturday and sunday to see what happens as far as players and solidarity with kaepernick and twitter and all things thats going on there. It continues onto next week. Maybe donald trump has some grand plans districting us to something else. To pick this fight, it seems like the sports world was the one thing that he had not picked a fight with. Now hes there. It is thoroughabsolutely a l fight for him. By the way, there is a lot of fans that respect kaepernick or the right for kaepernick to have his First Amendment rights. Thats what donald trump questioned last night. Can you imagine the president of the United States questioning and saying a man should be fired for exercising their First Amendment rights. We are in interesting territory here and to have it in the intersection of sports and culture where it brings more people than any other conversations because you bring sports fans into this conversation. You have a National Dialogue unlike any we had so far in donald trump of nine months of his presidency. It is fascinating thank you all, well leave it all. New rhetoric and actions in the u. S. North korea crisis, north korea taking aim at the u. S. President. Well break it down ahead on cnn. The world is not flat. You cant just pinch it or swipe it. Theres a whole world out there and no other card lets you experience it like the platinum card. Backed by the service and security of american express. Tmobiles unlimited now includes netflix on us. Thats right, netflix on us. Get four unlimited lines for just forty bucks each. Taxes and fees included. And now, netflix included. So go ahead, binge on us. Another reason why tmobile is americas best unlimited network. 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Tough talks just this afternoon at the general assembly. North koreas minister slams President Trump. The spee this was further north than they ever flown in this century. Add to this, mysterious seismic activity near knnorth koreas testing site. Maybe this after shock is a result of a nuclear test earlier this month. Elise, you have been covering the u. N. All week. How is the International Community receiving this rhetoric coming from north korea. On one sense is a typical affair from north korea where they are blasting the United States. Whats different is becoming personal against donald trump. You heard kim jongun this week in an unprecedented statement of his own name attacking President Trump and calling h him names a ahm a madman as well. It is really getting into President Trumps head. Thats really dangerous because you dont know what will put this erratic leader on the rink. How is it playing . Is things different in terms of where we are at in this crisis . The fact that this is appearing now to be two leaders who are speaking to each other, leader to leader through the media. The fact that kim jongun, the leader had a first person statement reading or holding what appears to be the statements condemning President Trump for his assembly speech. The fact that you had that and never before, thats different. That took many people and observers and by surprise here and people covering north korea for many year and in some cases, for decades. Now, it does not mean it became more tense but it does that i think the rhetoric some what. There are personal attacks, how does it set the stage for any kind of diplomatic solution, elise . Well, it makes it difficult. Theyre boxing each other into a corner if you will. How can they talk about diplomacy when one is in all su the other one. First of all, you have these sanctions which secretary of state tillerson said this week or starting the work, you see few shortages in north korea and china this week announced and instructed banks not to do business with north koreans institutions. If you can see china starting to pick up the pressure and maybe that would cause maybe more likelihood of a diplomatic solution. I think that you know donald trump wants to show that hes strong. It does make it more difficult and reporters ask President Trump is it still a chance for diplomacy and donald trump said why not . This is a very transactional president. If he saw an opportunity for diplomacy, he would take it. Look, dealing with kim jongun is very unpredictable and rhetoric like madman and saying all these things saying hes going to test kim jongun and hes getting in his head is dangerous. We talked to other korean experts saying you dont fire with this guy. Hes playing with fire. Paula hancocks and elise, thank you both. 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