Bosses, the folks that own the teams, the players on the teams or those that opt out. Theyre saying its not that they cant opt out but opt out in private and now on the field. Now what happened . Dan springer with the very latest. The nfl is all over this. The owners have come out with a new policy that they hope will end this twoyear controversy. Some call it a compromise. Some players that dont want to stand can stay in the locker room. If theyre on the field, they must stand. If they do anything else, their team will get fined by the league. Colin kaepernick that started this in the black lives Matter Movement wont have a team so he wont be affected. Michael bennett and others, Michael Bennett wrote a book called things that mike white people uncomfortable and he said he would take a seat. That was before the policy change. This appears to be a partial victory for the white house. Remember the game that mike pence attended but then he left with some players took a knee. President tr
Number two after President Trump. Its Howard Schultz. The former starbucks ceo who is all over the air waves pitching himself as an independent alternative in todays divided politics is uniting democrats on both ends of the spectrum against hip. Axios reporting today theyre hearing about threats of boycotts and social isolation. Attacks on starbucks. And emotional insistent lobbying of his advisers. People saying he should either run as a democrat or spend his time and money doing something that shouldnt ruin the world. A Hillary Clinton confidant says Howard Schultz is a jack. Hes arrogant and wealthy, and those people tend to not see the world as it is. I cleaned that quote up, by the way. I have been a democratic but im not a democrat. I dont affiliate myself with the Democratic Party. They are so far left and want the government to take over health care and the government to give free college and give everyone a job. Schultz is not alone in that criticism of those kinds of progress
We have White House Reporter from the Associated Press jonathan lemire, stormer chief of staff for Hillary Clintons president ial president ial campaign, adrienne elrod, an msnbc contributor and Michael Steele is with us. Good to have you all. Lets jump into the news. The stock market is bracing for another bump y ride as u. S. And chinese negotiators appear far apart on President Trumps trade war. Over the weekend the president tweeted saying we are right where we want to be with china. 200 billion in tariffs are taxes on working class and middleclass americans. Maybe they dont care but thats a lot of money. This is where we need journalists. The president has been lying nonstop saying china would pay for tariffs, just look mexico would pay for the wall. We found out the president is lying, mexico is not paying for the wall and the American People need to know that this is a tax increase on them. Take a listen. Our country can take in 120 billion a year in tariffs, paid for mostly by
The un warns theres more to come. Hello to you. In washington, dc, the stage is set for the senate trial of donald trump, only the third american president to face impeachment. The speaker of the house of representatives, which is controlled by the opposition democrats, has signed the articles of impeachment and theyve now been sent to the senate, which is dominated by mr trumps party, the republicans. He is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress. The trial will start on tuesday. Ben wright reports. The trial of President Trump has been triggered. A month after the house of representatives voted to impeach donald trump on charges of abusing power and obstruct in congress, last night the democratic speaker of the house nancy pelosi signed the impeachment articles, a momentous moment that required many pens. The papers were then ceremoniously carried across the Capital Building to the senate by lawmakers who will prosecute the case against President Trump. This is where th
Things that came out of the Mueller Report and the things that are coming out now when it concerns whats happening with ukraine because that is important to our democracy as well. Sure. Look what happened in puerto rico. Look what happened in puerto rico. And so i think the sad thing is that i think people are becoming immune to it, and theyre just they cant take it anymore, so theyre just kind of tuning it out. And i dont know what the answer is. I know that we have to keep on top of it, but i dont know what the answer is to get people engaged. Climate change is important, but whats happening with this president now is also important, and people should be just as engaged and just, if not even more, outraged by it. Look, i get that it can be too much. You know how like you have compassion fatigue. You can have consternation fatigue also. Then you look at what happened in the midterms. You had a huge turnout. I was worried about the same type of, you know, fatigue back then that were pe