five times more likely to experience being mishandled at the hands of law enforcement 75%. the players are taking a kneel and taking a stand and i commend them for their effort. this president i think if woe it will our kid that america come first and proud of who we are. laura: guys, look, i think we all want things to be better. we want people to have job and want families to stay together and police to respect everybody there are mistakes made. absolutely. not a lot will be solved by taking a knee or wearing a black arm band. people can do what they want and the leagueville to decide how i disagree with you. laura a disagree with you laura: we are out of time. fantastic conversation. nancy pel lose senot ready for primetime. cn network gives her a town hall to boost fortune it back fires,
that s down 28%. donald trump would like to claim that is literally because of black players who are kneeling and zlouing the nfl. donald trump regularly attacks nfl players. what do you make of this idea essentially creating a safe space place for nfl football players? it smacks of pretext and a marketing plan that is fully based on donald trump s plan of making america white again. now when mcmahon is says he wants to have a football league who will not include criminals hopefully what he s talking about at least as of 2015, the 44 members of the nfl both black and white who have been accused of some form of sexual assault or physical assault, yes, professional sports, actually the whole world should be rid of people like this but when he actually talks of taking a kneel
the united states. i tried to imagine would we ever see a ronald reagan make a statement or a jack kennedy who had something to do with dealing with the russians as did president reagan. it lowers the threshold and the dignity of the office to engage in that rhetoric and for the white house to say he is trying to show he is strong and not reak and will stand up for america, you it stand up for america, but he ought to start standing up for america by going after the russians and what they tried to do. i said this before, but the president has been involved in criticizing black athletes for taking a kneel during the anthem because they are protesting unjust treatment of black men and women being killed. i would hope and he is criticizing, and i want him not to take a kneel to president putin and to stand up and say mr. putin, you tried to interfere with our system and you are undermining our
petition their government. and the protocol for the flag, not laws, they are protocols, i respect the flag and the national anthem. but the first amendment gives us the right to express our grievances. so take a kneel. however those young men do it, they should not be fired because the law of the first amendment provides them with that right to do that, as colin kaepernick did. that s why i took a kneel and i ask everyone else to do it. i certainly agree. thank you, congresswoman. thank you. everyone should take a kneel but then get up and deal with the issues that we re taking a kneel with. thank you. i want to bring in yamiche alcindor, reporter and contributor to msnbc. just seconds ago president trump tweeted this. we have done a great job with the almost impossible situation in puerto rico. outside of the fake news and politically motivated ingrates,
country. as you mentioned, we saw earlier in the first game of the day in london, those players from both sides of the team taking a kneel, and others were standing locked arm in arm. even the owner of the jaguars stood there locked in solidarity. this is much bigger than just the nfl. this has also extended to the nba and also mlb. we saw the first baseball player take a knee yesterday. and those mega superstars like lebron james and steph curry, they jumped in to say, look, this is really about our freedom of speech. we re taking a stand for equality. we re taking a stand for inclusion. let s take a listen to what some of those fans had to say. i think the sports players, the nfl, the nba, and major league baseball players are completely validated in their protest, and all donald trump is doing is validating everything the players have been doing and everything that colin kaepernick has been doing for the last two years. what do you mean validating? there s inequality in the co