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He had one meeting of the secretary of veterans administration. one meeting. he had one cabinet meet income 16 months. you sit down with the secretary of the va and say you know what? i promise. you know the problem. what are you doing to solve it? how can i help? how do we get the guy out of mexico? just tell me what i can do to help. i dont believe thats his obligation. no doubt concussions are a problem but you can eliminate that by taking the face mask of >> is it, coach, the presidents resp...

Concussions? he had one meeting of the secretary of veterans administration. one meeting. he had one cabinet meet income 16 months. you sit down with the secretary of the va and say you know what? i promise. you know the problem. what are you doing to solve it? how can i help? how do we get the guy out of mexico? just tell me what i can do to help. i dont believe thats his obligation. no doubt concussions are a problem but you can eliminate that by taking the face mask off the helmet. >> is it, ...

Boys from playing >> cris collinsworth said look, there could be real damage to the ranks of high school football with the high number of concussions. do you share that concern? >> well, i this i we have to do things to lessen that. and we have. i mean, if you look at when i was playing, if you had an acl injury, many times it was career-ending. now we have guys getting hurt, acl injuries and they come back and play in that same season. so weve made progress in a lot of areas. weve got to make p...

Boys from playing >> cris collinsworth said look, there could be real damage to the ranks of high school football with the high number of concussions. do you share that concern? >> well, i this i we have to do things to lessen that. and we have. i mean, if you look at when i was playing, if you had an acl injury, many times it was career-ending. now we have guys getting hurt, acl injuries and they come back and play in that same season. so weve made progress in a lot of areas. weve got to make p...

There could be real damage to the ranks of high school football with the high number of concussions. do you share that concern? >> well, i think we have to do things to lessen that and we have. i mean, if you look at when i was playing, if you had an acl injury, many times it was career-ending. now we have guys getting hurt, acl injuries, and they come back and play in that same season. so weve made progress in a lot of areas. weve got to make progress in this. no one wore mouthpieces when i pla...

Enterprise. the president said this, president obama, "i would not let my son play pro football. these guys, they know that theyre doing, buying into. its no secret. i sort of have that feeling about smokers." there is a question about 12-year-olds. should 12-year-olds be running around knocking helmets with each other when the amount of evidence we have is pretty inconclusive about what that might be? >> from an nfl standpoint, theyre finding guys, throwing flags, yellow flags left and right. t...

Let my son play pro football. yesterday on msnbc former chicago bears quarterback tim mcmahon talked about injuries he received. >> i was going through tremendous pains in my head, loss of memory, and just an overall, i just didnt want to do anything. i can see now why some of my former teammates have committed suicide. >> assisting managing editor at quts sports illustrated joins us. the nfl is the most popular prosport league in the country but people screaming theres a problem with the sport....

Knowledge. that is not a good look for a president. we dont know that he did do that. this mayor said that money was hold hostage. rather fof ngovernor christie s he did get that cash. >> in switching gears, i know, lets talk about president obama. his football comments. a reporter asked him about the risk of concussions and brain injuries. he he said i would not let my son play pro football. >> were you surprised by his