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Can you see them doubling down on were the stand party vs. the kneel party. listen, were lit celebrating that in this country these days unfortunately. how sacred sour anthem and our flag and historical monuments and things like that. all very mixed and muddied it doesnt surprise me though that they are doubling down. jason: political sides put away, its our freedom of speech in this country that makes us great. i talked to two military people thursday night. one a 70-year-old vet and another a ...

Dissidents are patriots. schoolteachers and social workers ar patriots and yet at yankee stadium, shift sports, not only play the national anthem before the game but "god bless america" at the seventh inning stretch every year and say, please rise as the yankees honor a military guest. i have no problem with that. i stand every time im in the ballpark no matter what it is, i stand. and certainly respect the military person they bring out there. but never a schoolteacher, or social worker. patrio...

Dissent. but they talk about planes flying. they call it flag-waving. bob costas. thats just flag-waving. if you dissent, who thats patriotic. >> jesse: theres a big disconnect between fans out there. only a few players doing that. the owners are caving because they dont want to upset a few of their players. people dont like this, dana. >> dana: i think what they are going to see it as it will down to high school, college, little league. my team stood in your team didnt. you imagine the parents ...

Civil war, see it again with the civil rights movement, and were seeing it now around the removal of confederate icons. but the people who are attracted to it, i mean, unfortunately now given the proliferation of these groups online, anyone with a browser can find these ideas and become engrossed in them and start to believe the conspiracies that shape them. >> i guess what i was trying to figure out is, are we at the nature or nurture kind of question? i mean, do you have to be brought up in a ...

Martha. >> how do you think you ended up on that list? >> well, i was tough on trump during the campaign. wrote a long time back maybe a year and a half ago that he was making me nervous about the talk of of people with disability, about mocking women. e was getting out of control and i said look, this is getting close to kind of hitlerite flag waving. there were a lot of alt-right groups coming out saying, yeah, go for it. i was tough on him, appropriately so. proud of it. i think hes toned it ...

Small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. we will all come together and be crowd, exclamation point. i cant believe he actually wrote those words. dont sound like him. meanwhile, horrific and shameful incidents of racism, hate speech, and even some hate crimes have been reported across the country in recent days. social media posts have depicted celebratory confederate flag waving, white supremacist graffiti, and other deeply disturbing incidents. >> parents of ch...

With us now to dig deeper into what recapturing ramadi means for the fight against isis, chapman bell in london, courtney cubey at the pentagon and ron allen who is covering the president in hawaii. chapman bell, lets start with you. what have we been hearing from iraqi leaders today about ramadi? >> iraqi leaders are hayling this a victory. the spokesman of the joint operation command in iraq going on television today and calling it the happy news of victory by iraqi security forces liberating ...

Down? >> well, for one, i have identified the flag as an inflammatory, iconic symbol. i dont see any purpose to continue to have the flag waving in the air. its just -- it needs to go. and my -- my -- you know i preface in this in a way its time for change. time for south carolina to make a change. as i said earlier, they could be the leading pack in doing so. its not going to eradicate racism because i believe its like an elephant in the room. there has to be conversation. people can no longer ...

We are, i dont know how that advances our cause. >> an interesting point. im curious what you think about this. this is a president who has not been perceived in the past as being so gung-ho about american exceptionalism. this is something you associate with people on the right running for the presidency. and in fact heres what emin 2009. totally different than what he said the past couple weeks. >> i believe in american exceptionalism. just as i believe the british believe in british exceptiona...

We had to go, it turns out that it was, as david puts it, a hoax. the case about why we had to go turned out not to be true. it was maintained to us as if it were true. and that has to be seen as an original sin for why that war ended up being a bad idea. we all respect the people who serve. we all thank and frankly love the troops who went there, because their country asked them to. but the grounds on which they were asked to go were false. and that has to be the way that we tell this story for...