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Anthem. for people to disrespect that by kneeling during the playing of our national anthem i think is disgraceful. i think it is a very important thing for the nfl to not allow people to kneel during the playing of the national an then to. respect our country and to on respect our flag. >> lets start there. i have scott jones, special assistant to president george w. bush. great to have you on. >> you heard the president saying, why have you been so preoccupied? i find all of this disgraceful. ...

And on puerto rico, let me get over to jim acosta who is standing by. it was puerto rico from the very beginning, hes been criticized, it sounds like hes saying puerto rico is pleased with the job done so far. >> i should point out were being asked to leave the rose garden any minute now. you heard the president say, his administration has received tremendous reviews from people on the ground of the if you go listen to what some of those local officials have been saying over the last 12 to 24 ho...

Peaceful solution to the current crisis. i have reminded that spain has spearheaded the adoption of sanctions, which were first targeted. so weve gone through the political and economic situation of both our countries. spain and the united states are friends and aize with many common aize and interests. and wee agreed to work together with a comprehensive and cooperative vision. i would like toa the warm welcome that was extended by president trump and his team at the white house. and i would li...

Happening with the military. kim jong-un needs to believe the use is serious. thats the one thing thats been around. nobody believed there was a military option. theyve changed that calculus. i wish the president would tone down his part of it and start looking for that diplomatic out for kim jong-un. i think we could go a long way. i do agree they had to change is that break that paradigm, theres no military option. there are not very good options and we hope to god they dont use they will. the...

Players. you just heard the presidents words. what are you hearing? >> let me tell you, the game i worked on sunday, the seattle seahawks were in tennessee to play the titans. before the game, i noticed something different. ive been doing this 20 years and i noticed that players were not really distracted, but they were a little bit annoyed. they were ticked off, angry. their emotions were all over the place. and i felt it was because of the presidents comments. i felt they felt emboldened. when...

Of next week, this is when white houses can start making mistakes. people have a hard time as theyre under the glare of investigation and doing interviews, also making sure that theyre sticking with their day job. so watching how the white house, john kelly in his now role of he clo , the chief of staff, hes been able to structure the work flow. how now when people are sitting down for these interviews and talking on muellers team does trump react? does his team react as they try to move on to t...

About. so he got out there and did that which means, he does know the nfl distracted from the opportunity of him to lead out in front early on on the puerto rico issue. to your point, he didnt step away at all from his criticism. and you can see how firmly he believes in the position he is holding on this nfl issue. he didnt shy away from saying that, or equivocating in any way. he is clearly on one side of this issue. and he reaasserted that he thinks the nfl should put a rule in place that pre...

Investigation into all of this, the financial trail. it was a young fbi agent about, the third day in the academy. they tell you, remember, every investigation is never about the money. it is always about the money. so i think what youre going to find is there will be a financial angle in addition to what gloria is voting on. nothing solid if they dont get that piece of it done. >> lets listen to the spanish pm talking, it seems it was a toned down message when we heard him speaking last week. t...

For the president to go to puerto rico. he said he would like to go to the virgin islands as well. so you heard him try to make this pivot over the last few days. weve been focusing a lot more on the presidents views when it comes to what the president is saying. not so much his focus puerto rico. you can look at the number of tweets that hes issued since friday night. 24 or so tweets on the nfl and the players and on these sports issues. only about four or so on puerto rico. at the same time, n...

Capitol hill. president trump told house republican whos are having a bipartisan meeting on tax reform, if they fail on health care, he would work with democrats. the work that did he, according to the discussion. how is that supposed to sit with your fellow republican whens he is saying, you dont play my way. im working with democrats. >> it is one leverage point that trump actually has. probably not the best way to use it. if you know, he got great reviews when he crossed the aisle and worked ...