Lets start with what happened last night, andy scholes is with me for all of that. So this is players from different teams taking different action to make their voices heard. What did we see. Players on different teams doing Different Things but there is no rule or discipline coming their way because the nfl released a statement saying how they enforce their National Anthem policy was on hold while they continue to have discussions with the players on how to handle it. So that means theres no punishment for players demonstrating and last night multiple players did protest before the first preseason game of the year and the Rockets Red Glare that is dolphins Wide Receiver kenny stills and Albert Wilson taking a knee during the National Anthem. Stills has kneeled during the National Anthem during the past two seasons and he spoke about the decision to continue to do
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Field, where players are protesting Racial Injustice. The President Tweeting about that. All happening as a former white house insider makes explosive, new claims about donald trump and the n word. Well share details in a moment. All going down one day before the anniversary of the deadly White Supremacist rally in charlottesville. A State Of Emergency already declared in virginia. Racists planning to take their protests here to d. C. Were talking with two women personally impacted by this violence. If mother of heather hire, the woman killed in charlottesville, will join me, as well as charlotsha charlottesvil charlottesvilles mayor. Also, the Manhattan Madame testifying today. Why the Special Counsel wants her and what she is telling our team this morning. Youll only see it and hear it here on msnbc. Our team is set up and ready to go on this friday. Were going to start with President Trump up add bedminster, putting himself in the middle of the culture wars again. Coverage of nation
pot, it does give his base some cheap sense of yeah he s sticking it up to those people and at some point it s frustrating. the nfl players have been calling for something to be done about criminal justice reform. he cannot get away from getting in these racially charged conflicts. he did it at a round table discussion because you re right, he is acting on that let s remind people where this started. it started the conversation, the action from colin kaepernick, the former quarterback for the 49ers, he took to twitter and he hasn t given interviews, he hasn t spoken out but he s done a lot, put his name and money and effort behind enacting change. he writes my brother, continue this protest of systemic
rapists, and things like that. he continued this approach during his black voter outreach, which was not effective, perhaps, obviously. the challenge with all of this, malcolm jenkins, so many players have written op-eds, given interviews, repeatedly tweeted why they re protesting. what hasn t happened is president trump clearly articulating that he understands why the protest is happening. you wonder if this is another example of projection that comes out of the white house when he doesn t understand. he says the person he is going against doesn t understand, trying to confuse his base. for the most part, they tend to be falling for it. i want to touch on a final thought as we look ahead to what will happen this weekend and these rallies and protests in washington and elsewhere after charlottesville, a year after that. i covered the president, obviously, a year ago, and so did you. it was the question of, can you bring together the country at a time when they so clearly people so