The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Charlottesville where Heather Heyer was killed. Rather than condemn the bigots or beliefs today, the president took aim at a protest, a small group of nfl players calling attention to Racial Injustice and inequality last night. He tweeted the nfl players at it again taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem. A Football Game fans pay so much money to enjoy is no place to protest. Find another way to protest. Stand proudly for the National Anthem or be suspended without pay. This is an issue that President Trump has said he believes to be a winning one for him and while it may, in fact, rally many in his base its another example of this president seeking to divide a country that in some places, frankly, seems to be fraying at the seams. Few acts can prompt a president ial tweet as predictably as a nfl player
protesting in the National Anthem. After some Football Players took knees and raised fists last night, President Trump embraced what he believes is a winning issue for him notwithstanding how divisive it is saying players, quote, wanted to show outrage at something that most of them are unable to define. Find another way to protest. Of course, plenty of players including Philadelphia Eagle jenkins that raised the fist thursday have defined the motivations often and in detail. I dont see how we should somehow be quiet when we want to talk about racial equality or inequality and social justice. Reporter the president s campaign against nfl players staging the protests began in september 2017. Get that [ bleep ] off the field right now. Out. Reporter according to sworn testimony of Dallas Cowboys owner jerry jones the president told him in a private
conversation its a winning, strong issue for him. Adding this one lifts me. But critics cry it lifts up bigotry, as well. Our Commander In Chief is, in fact, the racial opportunist in chief in this country. Reporter all this as we approach the oneyear anniversary of the united the right rally in virginia. After which the president failed to denounce its racist attendees clearly, decisively and without moral equivalencies of neonazis and those protesting. I think theres blame on both sides. And i have no doubt about it. Reporter critics and many prominent africanamericans say hateful rhetoric has only amplified since. Since this guys got in the white house its not a big whistle. Its a bull horn. Reporter racists seem to be comfortable Coming Out Of The Shadows such as here telling cnn why he voted for president
trump. Rural america spoke up electing trump. We have the possibility of becoming a minority in our own country. Sounds like youre afraid of being me and its my country. This is also my country. You didnt win the culture war. Reporter that war rages on. [ bleep ] now there is there is a spirit in this country that is so foul i dont know if america can i dont think we can come back from this. Reporter the conversations can be difficult. Kanye west quick to pounce on perceived racism of the white house after hurricane katrina. George bush doesnt care about black people. Reporter west now considers himself a trump supporter and last night he had trouble answering this simple question from jimmy kimmel. You so famously and so powerfully said george bush doesnt care about black people. It makes me wonder what makes you think that donald trump does or any people at all. Why dont we take a break . Well come back and kanye west is here. Lets bring in the panel to have this conversation. Perry, why does the president want to have this question, this conversation, especially one year after what even a lot of his friends and supporters say was the low point of his president . First of all. I think they believe this. Remember mike pence went to the Football Game last year . Kind of a stunt in some ways and then left. I think if you look at the polls, second thing, poll reading in my job and the plurality of people dont like kneeling in nfl. This is one issue where trump probably has the majority of support with him and in the Republican Party its unified around being opposed to kneeling and this is may not like it but may be where trump is playing smart poll tiblgs. It is absolutely true most people or a plurality are with him. And in fact, lets put up this
the Washington Post kaiser poll earlier this year which found that 42 of adults sometim sometimes its appropriate to neil. 53 never. He is on the winning side of this. No. He is on the losing side of it because as president of the united states, especially after what we saw a year ago with the anniversary of charlottesville, really, remembering what happened in charlottesville, he should be reuniting people, bringing the country together. But instead its a battle this morning to this awful tweet and what i see from the tweet is that he doesnt see these players as american citizens who are speaking up against an issue thats incredibly disturbing, race in america, hes basically seeing them as entertainers, only. And his tweet he basically tells them, sit down and shut up. Stop. Youre being paid a lot of money. Be cool about it. And thats how he sees all black athletes. Look at what he did with lebron
james. And black figures. He goes to the iq. Talking about the iq. Sit down and be quiet. This is a pattern. A bigoted racist pattern by the president and ill add one more thing. This week we remembered the birthdays of stephon clark, would have been 24 years old this week and mike brown who would have been 22. Both killed by the hands of the police, murdered. And havent gotten any justice and that is what the kaepernick and others are really protesting. Right . Protesting the Racial Injustice and what do we do to stop this . Thats the question here. Bill, President Trump told jerry jones, cowboys owner, according to a deposition that the nfl protests, very winning, strong issue for me. Tell everybody you cant win this one. This one lifts me. And the nfl owners seem to take that advice. Yeah. That was depressing, too. I mean, id say the other side
thats but framing, look at the poll questions. Do you think its okay to protest . Kneel during the National Anthem. Just says protest. That in and of itself, the president has won. President trump said in his tweet that he thought most players didnt have any idea what they were protesting, couldnt describe it. Malcolm jenkins, im biassed. Pro eagles. World champion. Super bowl champion. Did they win . Malcolm jenkins tweeted before the game last night where players did protest, during the anthem, he tweeted, before we enjoy this game, take some time to ponder more than 60 of the Prison Population is people of color. What you witness on the field does not represent the reality of every day america. We are the anomalies. It sounds to me like he thought this through no matter what President Trump said. The players are not clear what theyre protesting. They have written opeds. Spoken about this. Its clear why theyre protesting. You dont have to agree to understand theyre clear about the case of policing in the country, from kaepernick forward. The timing you talked about in terms of charlottesville, not surprised trump said that. Shocked but not surprised. A momt of he is still i still expect this. Expected around the time of Football Season to start to weigh in on the issue because he thinks this is the issue where hes won on and like you said, the nfl basically folded and they have basically set up a policy of kneeling leads to fines and maybe suspensions and some ways trump, the nfl owners rewarded the policy. Not surprised he thinks its a winning issue for him. In june, the president seemed to be taking a more interesting and introspective approach. Take a listen. Ask all of those people to
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encouraged President Trump not to react and give oxygen to the claims made in the book. That seems to have held for several days but today something clearly irritated the president over this and he had his Press Secretary issue this statement. What exactly was omarosas role in the white house . Reporter she was actually a very high up employee. She had the title of Assistant To The President , a top earner making 179,000. But her role was not very well defined and aides often complained that they didnt exactly know what it was that she did in the white house. That was clearly something that made her clash with john kelly, the chief of staff coming into the white house last fall trying to weed out people he thought didnt have well defined roles. Jake, i have been on the phone with current and former officials that worked with omarosa saying she was glad she left the white house and thinks the claims in the book unfounded and absurd and did concede a close relationship with President Trump. Aides encouraged him not to hire her when he became president and he did so anyways and insisted on doing so and spoke with her and invited her into the oval office so they did have a close relationship despite the white house saying that what she says in the book isnt true. All right. Ka kaitlan collins, thanks so much. Omarosa not credible . I understand. But to be honest, there are a lot of people with credibility issues associated with the white house. Especially if you speak out against the president and the administration. Then you have a whole then all guns are blazing toward you. So, some she does have some of these conversations on tape. She was taping them in the oval office . Taping them in the oval office. And so, and i daily beast reported that. Jack dawson said he listened to it and matched up with the quotes in the book. Some of this is very much valid
and there are tapes to prove it. We just the whole book isnt on tape. The Trump Campaign is not responding to requests for comment about the accusation ta they offered her a job after she was fired from the white house in exchange for the 15,000 a month and make appearances and such and also not be allowed to talk about her time at the white house. This is after shed already given some interviews. Do you find that credible . Generally people dont deny things they might be true so i think its credible. The idea that they would offer hush money is not the most Ethical Administration or Political Team we have ever seen and not surprised by that. Omarosas book suggesting trump uses racial rhetoric, i dont need a book to know that and im curious to know if she has anything we didnt know about the general behavior and what did she do . They have one point is as a person covering the white house, never clear to me what she did or if she had any real influence
and the fact she is disgruntled leaving, she had very little power and fired and said very loyal things to trump before and now saying something very different and she is not among the more credible people to criticize him. Not just positive things of President Trump. Take a listen. This is an interview to frotline in 2016 before trump was elected predicting what would happen after election day. Every critic, every detractor will have to bow down to President Trump. Its everyone whos ever doubted donald, whoever disagreed, whoever challenged him. It is the ultimate revenge to become the most powerful man in the universe. Sarah sanders we didnt cover the positive things that omarosa said. We sure covered that one. We sure covered that one. But the fact is that shes going from that bizarre statement to calling the president a racist,
misogynist bigot. Do you believe either one of these omarosas . Unfortunately, that first statement not entirely false and people have bowed down to President Trump who said they never would and maybe she knew something about the power of the oval office and the ability of people to rationalize. And she said he would win. Yeah, right. I think the Hush Money Thing is amazing. If im not mistaken, the former bodyguard is paid 15,000 a month by the campaign. I mean, really . This is now the situation were in with someone disgruntled. Fire you and give you money to keep you quiet. She rejected it. Thats very revealing. I dont recall that in the past. White house aides leaving and being given money to keep quiet. Bill, i have to say its not surprising with the playboy playmate, the so its a common theme that were hearing with this president. With omarosa, look, trying to sell a book. She worked and worked in the administration before in the clinton i think for gore under clinton. And so, its not surprising. I agree with you. We dont really need the book or tapes to tell us that donald trump is a bigot or a racist. We have a lot of data points to prove that to us. Central park five. How he entered into politics going after obama, president obama. With the birtherism. How he jumped into the presidency. President ial race with calling mexicans racists and rapists. Sorry. Drug dealers. We have a lot there so we dont need the book to tell us that. One thing thats interesting is if you believe that she was offered this hush money and other people are paid hush money, i mean, thats not President Trump or the National Enquirer paying off somebody. Thats, you know, these people, these hard working Trump Supporters sending in 5 contributions to help make America Great again, stand by President Trump, paying if you
believe the story paying to keep people quiet. You know, if theres a lot more silence, they could work on making America Great again and not fight off accusations about this book. You have to i mean, omarosa is a show woman. Thats probably one of the reasons they wanted her out of the white house. But dont hate the player. Hate the game. Speaking of