hasn t been managed proper. nfl fans overwhelmingly support the league s new national anthem policy. i support the policy but i don t understand the policy. i don t think anything got solved here. 78th army marching band going to be with us. of course it s memorial day weekend. it is an all-more than show this morning, an all-american weekend because it is memorial day weekend, and most importantly it is about honoring those that have served that have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom, for allowing us all to do what we do in this countr. pete: we ve got the 78th army band here, they ll be performing all morning long, the obstacle course, it s pouring rain right now. you know what we say in the army if it ain t raining, it ain t training.
orrin hatch with josh holt s mother, and president trump was able to free him, they didn t ask for anything in return from the venezuelan government until last night was a big moment for the whole family, but also for everyone that worked so hard to make this happen. griff: that s a key point. the context of all this, listen, venezuela was hoping to use holt as a bargaining chip to ease sanctions already in force against venezuela, the president not only getting holt free but also the administration is not moving away from lightening those sanctions out there. so that is a significant win in and of itself aside from obviously holt s release. pete: yet another forgotten man who is remembered because this president has stayed focused on fighting for u.s. citizens around the globe to come home. abby: 17 civilian hostages under the trump administration so far have been released from other countries. great news for the united states states. other headlines that we are following. we begin wi
here to react, managing editor, katie frays. thanks for being with us. morning. your response, as he said yesterday, this is the 17th civilian released from another country. this shows president trump, he s not asking for something in return for the release of these hostages. he s better known or the world stage and not asking for much. he s not actually. and we had the anonymous source saying there was no quid pro quo. venezuela didn t get anything from this for releasing josh holt. we have to give credit to senators orrin hatch and bob corker. this is the reaction from dictatorships and regimes of looking at america s new president saying this is not someone who is going to apologize. this is not someone that s going to cow to us. this is a president that is going to say give us our american citizens back. we ve had four just in the last month. of course with north korea as
demonstrate. are we going to get to a place where the policy doesn t solve anything, you ve got some owners paying fines, some kneels and some stay in the locker room. is that what you re criticizing that s exactly right. there s no doubt that black lives matter. being african-american i can say that. i said it at the beginning. the commissioner didn t want it on his table so he pushed it down to the owners. and you want owners to be politically correct rather than be just. the way you stay just, telling everyone to stand. you re going to stand for the national anthem. to me it means more than what they re talking about. but here after this season we re going to go to washington, march on the hill and talk about this. that s what they need to do. you sea you re saying split e protest from the flag. and a guy like roger goodell should have realized, let s take the politics out of it. they re donating millions of
dollars to social justice causes. they re interested in that as a league. you re saying the half measures mean you re going to revisit the debate. the nfl gave a lot of money to a lot of the players for a situation like this, why are they still debating this. if there s something that s still wrong, which is what i ve withibeen saying. the majority of the athletes in the league are african-american. the first thing the commissioner should have said when this first started with kaepernick, you re going to stand for the national anthem and after this season we re going to go to washington and i m going to help with this situation. not pass it to the owners. and then people are upset because the owner have to tell the team what to do. he own the team. but now it s like, you can stay in the locker room, if you come out, i ll pay the fine. what did you solve? i don t think anything got solved here. i think on this measure you would make a great commissioner. stand on the field, protest