largely a white audience in alabama. then he starts feeding off of people, right? he starts to get reaction to it. it was this kind of rambling speech in alabama on friday in support, actually, of the senate candidate there, luther strange. this is part of what he said. would you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say, get that son of a bitch off the field right now, he s fired. he s fired! you know, shannon, people are saying, look, this was a strategic move by the president at a time it has less to do about the flag and about the nfl and more to do about distracting from some of his problems like the health care bill that now once again seems to be in trouble, private jet use by members of his cabinet. i could go on. whether this was a well, thought out plan, hey, i m going
two forces that often disagree, the league and their players? or what have they set off in terms of this conversation as a country? donald trump overstepped and now he s reaping the whirlwind. all of this started because donald trump was in huntsville, alabama, making in speech on friday. donald trump, you know, he has this lizard brain that s finally attuned to the worst angels in the nature of his audience. i m sure he thought to himself, hey, i m going to demonize black dissenting athletes. this crowd in alabama, they re going to eat it up. donald trump did not understand the brotherhood in the national football league. he did not understand the sense of, i am sparticus solidarity it in the locker room. donald trump didn t just give his opinion. he s not backtracking furiously and saying, it s my opinion people should stand during the anthem and show respect. we could talk about his respect for this country in a different segment. but what he did realize, though,
oral argument calendar, canceling the planned oral argument on the challenge to the trump travel ban that was to be heard on october 10th. this coming monday is the first day of the new supreme court term. late last year the supreme court scheduled argument on the showdown of the trump ban on the legal question of whether the president had the legal authority to issue this order in the first place, his executive order. then yesterday the trump administration issued this new proclamation that substitutes for the original 90-day travel ban on visas and puts a new keeps five of the six original countries that were on the travel ban and adds three more for a total of eight. the the solicitor general sent a letter to the supreme court last night saying, why don t you ask both sides for their views on whether how this should
is that he he threatened the livelihood of the players, called on their first amendment rights and for them to be fired. he called them the b word, s.o.b.s. i m not going to say the word on the air. now when you do that you re insulting the families of players, the livelihood of players, threatening that. players are going to stand together. it became a point of honor. i ll quote josh norman for the washington football team who compared the president to someone going on his lawn and urinating and saying, you either stand up to that or you don t. there were people on the other hand booing. you heard tom brady talk about that. it was heard at several stadiums but it wasn t necessarily i wasn t in those stadiums. it wasn t overwhelming. while there aren t many polls about kneeling during the national anthem, but last september shows one that shows only 38% approve of not standing during the national anthem. i wonder if you think what the
nervous. let me ask you about the other big story now. the president versus the nfl, just like north korea, escalating. another game tonight and trump has tweeted more attacks, all about the kneel, about whether or not players should be punished for not standing during the national anthem. what s the latest? reporter: let me read you two of his more recent tweets, chris, and then do some analysis on the other side. he tweeted, so proud of nascar nascar saying they weren t going to kneel and its supporters and fans. they won t put up with disrespecting our country or our flag. they said it loud and clear. the issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race. it is about respect for our country, flag and national anthem. nfl must respect this. the president really on defense essentially saying, look, his comments, his attacks on those within the nfl are not about race, but of course that protest initially started to essentially speak out against or to show