continuing to fire up people on social media. and now the question, by the way, is what is going to happen on sunday, or even more nfl players going to take a knee not just to protest racism, but to protest president trump. brian stelter, cnn, new york. let s bring in erica ray davis with cache digital to talk more about this. erica, thank you for being with us this hour. so, this movement started taking a knee to bring attention to the issue of police brutality, to racial issues in the united states. the president of the united states reframing it as an issue about the american flag and the national anthem. yeah, george, thank you for having me. i have to say not only is donald trump guilty for reframing this as a flag issue. i think many of his supporters i hate to overgeneralize, are responsible for reframing this, of being about the flag when as you said it is about police brutality.
house was a great honor until you showed up. is it started friday when mr. trump blasted football players who refused to stand for the national anthem. wouldn t you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag, to say get that son of a [ bleep ] off the field right now, out. he s fired. [cheering and applauding] he s fired! called them sons of pitches, i believe he did. on saturday several league owners shot back calling the president s remarks callous and offensive. roger goodell was especially critical. he said this in a statement. divisive comments like this demonstrate an unfortunate lack of respect for the nfl. our great game and all of our players and a failure to understand. the overwhelming force for good of our clubs and players that represent our communities. this controversy is not going away any time soon. in fact, it could become even more pronounced in the football games on sunday.