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
that the nfl is back, and so, too, is the president s crusade against these player protests. he was apparently reacting to what happened last night at the preseason game. a couple players taking a knee during the anthem. few others raised their fists. when the president tweets and says, they want eed to show the outrage at something most are unable to define, the players have been clear. they were not protesting the anthem. what they re demonstrating against, they say, is racial injustice and police shootings of unarmed black men. if you ask the question, why does the president keep ing to this issue? well, people close to him tell me, and i m sure you have this in your reporting, that he screscrew views this as a political winner. when things aren t relevant for the base, this is the president s view. it is one of the reasons he talks about immigration and, yes, about this issue of nfl protests. take a look at what he said in the past about this.