Muir is next. Im kristen and he. Tonight, the president punts, holding his own event. After disinviting the champion Philadelphia Eagles, instead many in the crowd today for the president , white house staffers. Calling it a celebration of america, after he learned only a handful of eagles players were going to come. And tonight, the controversy of this image. The player praying before a game, speaking out now after this image was used to make it look like the eagles were kneeling during the anthem. The urgent alert at this hour from authorities. Volcanic debris is coming down yet again. And new images tonight, families trying to outrun giant plumes of ash. Some buried alive. The heartbreaking headline here in New York City tonight. A name known to so many, designer kate spade, famous for her handbags and womens accessories, found dead inside her apartment. The letter she left behind. New tonight, what the judge
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organization said they were going to attend the super bowl celebration. days before the event, less than eight people were registered to come to the celebration at the white house yesterday. you can imagine what the optics of that would be. and in the white house s thinking, this was something meant to embarrass president trump in what they say was a political stunt. if this wasn t a political stunt by the eagles franchise, then they wouldn t have planned to attend the event and then backed out at the last minute. and if it wasn t a political stunt, they wouldn t have attempted to reschedule the visit when they knew the president would be overseas. and if this wasn t a political stunt, they wouldn t have waited until monday, well after 1,000 of their fans had traveled and taken time-out of their schedules to offer only a tiny handful of representatives to attend the event. reporter: the white house is turning this into something about the national anthem and patriotism in general.
national stage. what is it like for you now to watch this from the sidelines? well, it is you know, it s a little i guess discouraging just to watch. at this point, you kind of know when sarah sanders is lying because you see her lips moving. the idea that they didn t know that most of the players who are on record as saying they didn t want to come to the white house is just absurd. they did know that most of the players. and when it comes to stunts, this whole thing is a political stunt generated by the white house. remember, the vice president pulled off an elaborate stunt early in the season to walk out of a game. and he did it because he was emotionally upset. when in fact, we found out the press had been told beforehand he would be walking out of a game, whether they were kneeling or not. so ts isll about politics. and it s all about, you know, this kind of imperial presidency that trump is trying to surround himself with, which is if you
they didn t stay in the locker room. when it became cle that the event had been canceled. press secretary sarah sanders tried a little gaslighting. is loyal to its team in goodes or bad. then late today another line came from the white house. look, if this wasn t a political stunt by the eagles franchise, then they wouldn t have planned to attend the event and back out minute. if it wasn t a political stunt, they wouldn t have attempted to reschedule the visit when they knew the president was going to be overseas. and they wouldn t have waited until monday to offer a tiny handful of representatives to atte the event. a political stunt she says.
were 30 members of the eagles organization that committed to attend this event as recently as friday as well as over 1,000 fans of the eagles organization and the eagles are the ones that tried to change theiror commitmt after the 11th hour. the president, frankly, i think that the fans deserve betterde than that. this wasn t a political stunt by the eagles franchise, they wouldn t have planned to attend the event and backed out at the last minute. if it wasn t a political stunt, they wouldn t have attempted to reschedule the event when they knew that the president would have been overseas. if this wasn t a political stunt, they wouldn t have waited till monday will after a thousand other fans had traveled and taking time out of their schedule to offer only a tiny handful of representatives to attend the event. sean: the president was right to cancel this event. by the way, look at the nfl today. look at this rule, the new rule, requiring players you know, to