Scaramucci here. Does he see this as winning . Plus President Trumps education secretary says the commission, tasked with keeping your kids safe at school wont be looking into the role of guns. What . Lets call it the eagle debacle. Facts first. The white house says the president is standing up for the National Anthem. But not one single eagle in protest during the National Anthem during the regular season. Not one. And yet, President Trump disinvited the whole team from coming to the white house today. Had a celebrating america ceremony instead. Military there, alleged eagle fans. Some of whom were told couldnt name the teams quarterback. Then accused the eagles of pulling a political stunt. Another tangled web from the white house . Another play at dividing the country . Maybe anthony scan help us figure this out how this its good politics. Former White House Communications director, friend of show. Congratulations on the show. Godbless. Wish you great success. Appreciate it. Do you like this move . Disinviting the eagles . You have to step back and look at totality of the facts. Go back to the nfl owners decision about, what, it meant to stand or kneel for the National Anthem. Then what happened, the eagles players disconnected from the decision. There were 10, 1 eagles that would sw up. Versus, 45, 50, eagles. The president felt that probably too small of a quorum of eagles. And probably a notion of symbolic protest as a result of the, nfl owners decision. And so the combination of the two things, the president made a decision to, cancel the invitation. And theno with the, celebration. Right move . We know what h did. The question is why did he do it . What is he trying to achieve . You are going to disagree with me perhaps on this. Said this publicly. Dont mind saying it on the show. High have no problem with the peace, social Justice Movement and protest of the players. My problems has been with the venue, chris. Theyre being paid to be on the field. The nfl is super tied into our military. I have been to our air bases, military support bases in iraq,. The troops love the nfl. And so, it i a little built dishonorable, to me, personally theyre kneeling. The president takes it that way. And so i have no oblem, protesting, finding venues to do this, cly the nfl can work with the players outside of the arenas. I hear you, heard this before. Not an uncommon argument. This is the president of the United States. What he is saying is, i will punish you if you have a different opinion. Disinvite you from the peoples house. That is not his no trump in the. He is saying you dont come, a move of division, and, isolation of a group of people that he has deemed unpatriotic. How its that president ial . How is that good for the country . So, so, again, he is the temporary occupant of that house. We h to give him some respect. If you have got, 45, 50 people. 35 of the 50 meem, from coming to the house. In general, sons of bitches who shoul be in the country. Dont forget that. I mean, awe you are a new yorker. I am a new yorker. Some times prone to embellishment, hyperbole. President of the United States. You have to understand huh he got to be the president of the United States. He got there by practicing an unorthodox style. Got there by explaining to the American People that current shenanigans that go on in washington are not to their favor. And . Let me finish. Now, 15, 16 months. 500 dates later. He has actually done a very, very good job for the American People. But not going to agree with everything that he do and you obviously dont agree with the decision. Not what i agree or dont agree with. Scrutinize why he is doing it . Had to add a phrase. Why he won. And, he played to these types of divisions and tensions. We have reporting from the white house right now. That he sees this as a wing issue for him. If he campaigns on this, he is saying, one very simple thing. If you dont play american the way i say you should, you are not a patriot. You are an enemy. That. That is not good for the country. You are not. The way you are phrasing it, obviously not good for the country. You are phrasing in a way i think is incorrect. She mow me. Tell you what i think. The president is saying the same thing i am saying. Fine with the first amendment. Fine with y peaceful protests ofhings you disagree with. Whatever it relates to the peace, social justice. In the venue as it relates to the nfl and relationship the nfl has with our military and the aura and cultural symbol of the nfl, we want you to stand for the anthem. Not how he feels . What he says and does . You said the same point. Three times. I get that he doesnt like. Im actually really trying to answer your question. Because, he is not really trying to divide the country. What he is trying to do is actually unite the country. Around this idea that the flag is held sacred and that the flag, we should have unconditional love for the country. As lincoln said about the country. The last best hope for man kind. Every one of us has a generational, immigration story. Every one of us has had aspirational standard of success in the country. Yes we have had problems. The stain of slavery, some levels of police brutality. Not saying it is perfect. But it is way better than the other alternatives out there in the world. All the president is saying that we should have unconditional love for the flag. And we should support that together. Whatever our differences are l t lets pick a different venue. I think thats unifying. You think thats dividing. What you said is unifying. Here is your problem, my friend. Thats not what he is saying. He is saying if you dont address the flag the way i want you to. The flag is a symbol of freedom. Keystone freedom. Freedom of speech and expression. I dont think he is saying that. Invite him on the show. I dont think he is saying that. The president is invited to come on the show whenever he wants. An open offer. Probably not going to come on your show, chris. What does that tell you, by . If he wants to duck questions. No. You know, i mean you cant. You cant tell me. Listen, he is the president of the United States. Being irritated is part of the job. Dealing with hard questions is part of the job. I dont, i dont with an that. You said the president. This personally to expand his opportunity. Go a networks. He is a television star. He has an unbelievable force of his personality. He can answer any tough question. Handle any situation. Yet he wont. He has a point of view. Man he will. Maybe there is an evolution. Open invitation. Evolution of the process. Deal with the future in the future. Today trying to unify. I dont understand that on the facts. How is it unifying to say if you dont honor the flag, and exercise your freedom of speech the way i like, you a a bitch should get out of the country. I will disinvite you from the white house. Now you are being unfair. You are relating to that, off the cuff interview, outside of the ms 13 meeting. Where he was cuffing it. He some times is prone to do. And he doesnt want the people out of the country. He tweeted about it. What he really wants. He disinvited them. To have unconditional love for the flag. Recognize the symbol that that represents for all of us. Membrance day or whenou seatns painful sacrifice that people have made and you waulk the halls of walter reid hospandhe and died or been injured or wounded for that flag. And the concept that that freedom. We are all been fitting from. All of the p saying, hey, listen, have conditional love for the country. Salute the flag. Lets protest. And in different venues. Away from the sacredness of the flag. Unconditional love for the country is expressed in the freedom and our respect of tolerance. If you are on the job. You are getting away. You ask veterans how they feel about what is going on here. And you will see that there is no clear majority of them saying we hate that the guys socially on the payroll. Many said they fought for this. You are on payroll at cnn. Will you enter into peace and social Justice Movement here at cnn. Without the conisnt of your employer. I mean you are on the payroll. Getting paid to do the show right now . That is about the relationship between the player and the nfl. Not about the president of the United States. Who says, i heard cuomo decided to form his kind of protest, i dent li dont like it. I think he is a bad guy. Should be out of the country. Not american. An opponent to the president. You are now silly puttying the story. Stretching it. I havent moved it. A better metaphor. Laffytaffy, stretching the story. Converting it to fit a narrative that is inaccurate. What is accurate. You are on the field the you represent the nfl. Youre tied into our military. Cultural totem for the society. Show love and respect for the flag. Many people died over it. Thats the nfl owners opinions now. They created their own rules. You are eliminating. Eliminating some facts. Im not eliminating a single fact. Heres ee limb nation of fthe fact. They decided. 35, 40. I dont know the exact number. Not to show up at the white house. Do they have the right to do that. They do. Why doesnt the have right to s. Dont have full quorum of Philadelphia Eagles. You guys are having a protest relate to this. I dont want the news cycle. Of course doing it right now on your show. I dont want the news psych to be about this. I will have a peaceful celebration. I am going to disinvite you. And accuse you. Where i i am going to attack yo and di you. Here is the thing. We will talk about this in a larger way. Does this president ever have to be the better man in your opinion . Does he ever have to rise above any slight, any perceived indignity, ever, ever have to be better . Here is the problem. I will answer the question. It will surprise you. Of course he does. As he . Let me finish. The problem with the narrative. Okay. He is taking in 93, 90 , enemy incoming, constant, barrage of attacks. Constant barrage of criticizcri. Dont give him credit for anything. Sitting there a. But to have peace on the north korean peninsula. Lets hope you are right. In the process of, theon he middle east. Economy is rising. Wildly ambitious and optimistic. Talk real economic data. We have the lowest africanamerican hispanic unemployment. You understand what you are doing. Because the h isoing good things. It is okay. No, not saying that. Not saying that. Ohe is counter punching against a very heavy onslaught of negative incoming that is coming from the mainstream media. Peace on the peninsula. He will get it. I said when the first word came out. A huge if, if it happens. This is the stuff of a nobel peace prize. Can i get invited back on the night. God willing it happens. Who doesnt want peace. A man and an administration that does what you are doing right now. Doesnt matter what we do wrong. Look what we do right. If we do anything wrong. Other people do things wrong. Second night on the show. Be super respectful to you. What you are saying is unfair to what i am saying. You are asking, number one should the president be a better person. I said yes, raise a higher ground. Be a better person. Why is he having a hard time doing that in situations like this . Then i answered it. I said he is hav a hard time doing it in situations like this, he is getting 90 incoming of inning tiff tee from the media. No one is giving any credit for success. About a relationship with the truth. I think we see it here. Where he is saying it is about the anthem. The university, theyre going to give you the ph. D. In psychiatrist. Im not getting the ph. D. In psychiatry. It is not about facts. Awe all it is not about personality. Whether he tells the truth. I dont care about his personality. I care whether he tells the truth to the American People in the matters that are important. But you, but you are, you are like everybody else now in the media. Oh the president is a liar. President the is lia when you lie why shouldnt you be called a liar . There are different stields of communication, chris. Lying is not a style of communication. Anthony, please. Different stields of communication. 63. 5 Million People voted for him because the they get the gist of what he is talking about. They voted for him despite hey wld call in the own lives, lying. I think if you were to ask peoplef you say that the eagles are disinvited because how they protested during the anthem. Not one of them needle in protest during the anthem. Is that telling the truth . No it is not. It is a lie. Little gaslighting. Because you are talking about last years nfl. They didnt protest. But i am talking the decision that was made by the nfl owners. And then, ultimately, after that decision, 35 or so defected from the in vi tags to tvitation to house. Lebron james said this. Going to lebron now. He matter, right. Thats typical of him. Know, no matter who wins this series, nobody wants to invite any body. There wont be any body going. Message black athletes received from the president of the United States. You said, during the clip. Im not the one who told them how to shut up and dribble. Your. Fox d el i respect his right to speak. His right to stay what is on his mind at ape press conference. He has the the right. But then you cant say at the same time if he is saying that. The preoesnt ha right too. Not just about having a right. How you use your rights. Doing what is right. Heres what i would say. I like calling balls and strikes. If lebron james is saying that, and Stephen Curry is saying that. Their coach is saying that. And there is a problem disconteth in the, in the United States. The president , okay, before he was president , was aing person. He had great relationships with the rap community. Great relationships with nfl athletes. Africanameric africanamerican athletes. Dont forget the central park five. We are going to go back 30 years. Does that matter. Before the presidency. Going back 30 years. Does it matter or no . Second night on the air. Ng to giveive him something here. With what he did with birtherism. And obama. How can you call him a unifieper . Heres what happens. Maybe this will never happen to you. Maybe be smart never to run for if you do run for of theyre going to examine every syllable and every element of your life. Maybe you are better person than donald trump. Maybe you will come out more perfect than him. But heres what i know about him and everybody else, whether bill clinton, you pick the president or the political leader. Theyre flawed people. Everybody is flawed. I am probably more flawed than most. That is not an excuse for what yos president. Hey,chris. This is about getting things. The American People. Warren buffett said something i apply investing. Rather be roughly right than precisely wrong. The American People looked at the president. Voted for him. He is going to get most things roughlig as precisely wrong. Didnt get majority of the country. Underwater with his ratings. He looked at the playing field. Hat was a little hind sight. H election we have an interesting strategy we will lose the the majority. I was i was on the campaign. I remember going back and forth in wisconsin. The other team didnt go to wisconsin. They went. Didnt go. They made mistakes in their campaign. Honid not go to wisconsin. Secretary clinton did not go. He is the president. Gicve him a break. My message to the president , assuming he hate watches your show. You are a healing sort of guy. You can unite this. Figure it out. Ood strategist. Take a step back. If Stephen Curry and lebron james and a large group of the the same thing. Meet them in the middle. Put it back together. That would be my message to the president. Strong message. Whether inse or on your televisionshow. Not just boldfaced names. You have huge fraction of the africanamerican community. 13 of population is africanamerican. We have to put the country together. This to do it. He would say my economic policies are helping people. Lowest rates of unemployment. Truth matters most. Saddler, Kelly Saddler is, let go today. Yeah. All right. Disappointed in that. When she said about john mccain. The joke, he is going to die any . Way. Why does he matter in this . The white house never said that this is wrong. They said this is an internal matter. N get rid of her. It comes out they still dont say what she said was wrong. Now we find out the reason she was fired, is not because of what she said about john mccain. Its because she, reportedly said that, mercedes schlepp was the leaker, they fired her over that you. Respect all that . Let me say couple things about Kelly Saddler. A very hard workingperson. She was extremely loyal to the president. There are factions inside the Communication Team that have been pea shooting at each other since the day they joined thete knit that team together. And to think about the way a corporate merger would go since that did not happen, faction on the right. Faction on the left were shooting at each other. And some one had it out for Kelly Saddler. Because that was a sorry joke. It is unforg statement. Not here, suggesting the statement was okay. But i am suggesting as somebody that run a pretty decent corporation. That when you are sitting inside the inner sanctum, somebodyg li outside the sanctum and rat on the person terrible thing to do. Only difference. Not a private concern. White house. They work for the people. Americas dard. Hold on a second. Yes. But somebody could have said, bad thing to say. Lets drop it right here. But they had it out for her. So they got to outside. Cell ph. And anonymously rat her out. Why not do what i do. Say, hey, this is how i feel about the situation. I dislike Kelly Saddler. Going to till you what she said about john mccain. Nobody did that. Itshington chris. Thats why people dont like washington. About a dynamic in the white house. And, no, the president wears a lot on his sleeve. Thats why a lot of people like the president still, chris. Great to be here. You are helpful to the show. Kelly saddler will get a great job. She is a great person. I dont know the other people. See what happens. Havent heard from the white house