[ music playing ] thats rihanna. The song goes on the, say, baby, please come back, baby, it was me. We will get to one of her hit songs that young girls love. Good morning, its twens wednesday, september 17th. We have the chairman of deutsche, incorporated, donny
deutsche and Columbia University school of Public AffairsDorian Warren is back. In washington where there is a lot going on, we have reporter for the new york time Jeremy Peters with us covering capitol hill. We have so much going on. Well start in washington just to give you a sense of water going on there. Developing news in washington, concerning americas war on isis. For weeks, president obama has claimed he wont be deploying Ground Troops in iraq. We all heard that, right . Yesterday the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff testified it could be a possibility. Now the white house is trying to clarify that. We will get every angle of this, this hour just ahead, but we want to start with news from the nfl and why we may be witnessing a turning point in our society. We can only hope something definitely is happening. First the latest. Star running back Adrian Peterson is being told to stay away from the Minnesota Vikings, while facing child abuse. He is accused of spanking his 4yearold son with a wooden switch. They kept peterson off the field and announced he would be reinstated. That changed after the team and league came under heavy criticism. The states governor mark dayton released a statement calling for petersons suspension. He wrote, in part, this, its an awful situation, yes, mr. Peterson is entitled to do you process and should be innocent until proven guilty, however, he is a public figure, and his actions, as described, are a public embarrassment to mens mince strikes and we will have more ob that. Sponsors are beginning to make clear statements about how they at least feel about this and theyre asking for at least some sort of explain stiegs what is being done. The headline this morning is the vikings have reversed field. Adrian peterson has to stay away
from the team until this situation legally is resolved. He was put on the, water kaushlgsd i havent herd before the exception exemption rule t. Vikings cant keep him away from the team. Clearly under the pressure you described i describe, the Minnesota Vikings and the league said they have to find a way to get him off the field, we dont throw him off the team else inially, we keep him away from football until this plays itself out. It could be a long time. By the way go donny deutsche, right call or does it look like they are scrambling . Heres the turning point that happened yesterday a. Company out of toulous budweiser spoke up finally, it spends a billion or two on nfl. It was not dramatic. It was right. It says we cannot be behind this. This is unacceptable. Pepsi, which spend 100 million. I said this yesterday. This is where the action stops. This is where the zpom inos starts to fall. This is what happens to every ceo, letters show up on their desk. I annual not going to provide wour toilet paper anymore, i will not drink your beers. They turn to the ceos, the corporate people. We node to do something about this. This is what is going to change today, starting at 2 00 oom am this morning when the First Press Release came out. This is when the fuse starts to change. I think so. There will be news every hour on this. We will get to a complete look at exactly who the sponsors are, along with willie and me and whats in here. Just how this paper is covering the nfl and this controversy is a way to look at it as well. You just wonder, is this a moment or is it not . Are the fans still going to go . Is this all going to go away . Im not sure. I want to say, a couple months ago, michael sam, everyone said, not everyone, culture players will be a distraction, right. The first only gay player, whats a distraction now . This is a distraction. Heres the other big controversy involving a star player. Running back ray rice is appealing his indefinite suspension. The leagues Players Association, in a statement, the union write, in part, supporting facts reveal a lack of a fair and impartial process, including the role of the in addition i commissioner. Commissioner Roger Goodell handed rice org untilly a twogame suspension for assaults his wife t. League then increased the penalty after another video showed the extent of the violence or confirm it. Players cannot be punished twice for the same action. Rice, dropped by the Baltimore Ravens has been accepted into a Rehab Program and can apply to be reinstated by the league at the discretion of the front office. The nfl is a billion dollar business and the companies that help foot the bill are clearly worried about whats happening. We covered this yesterday, it was radisson hotel, which earlier pulled the sponsorship of the Minnesota Vikings now. Another huge name is raising its concerns, beer giant anheuserbusch. We are disappointed and encryingly concerned about the recent incidents that have overshadowed this nfl season. We are not yet satisfied with the leaks handling of the behaviors that so clearly go against our own company and moral code. God just spoke. Visa, who is this, visa says Domestic Violence in any form is unacceptable. It has for the place in the nfl or our society more broadly. Our expectation remains all of visas partners remain high ethical standards and operate with full transparency. Go ahead, willie. I want to say to your point and donnys point, budweiser, 1. 2 billion bore sponsor puts the heat on the nfl. Last call bud. Follow the money. Thats what i have been tweeting. There is a lot of sponsors making comments. Now the ones that dont, so its a domino effect. Here it comes, theres more. Several sponsors spoke out against Domestic Violence, reiterating their support for the lead, bridgestone, fedex, verizon, taking a wait and see approach. Fike stores in the twin cities have pulled petersons jerseys from the shelves. The runningback is an atmosphere light. His product remains for purchase. They can pull it if they want. None of the sponsors are leaving the nfl. They have no choice. There is very few ways to get eyeballs of men, sports on television is about the only way. Theyre not going anywhere. Having said that tow, they can certainly wield their bats to change the math. Are you surprised, donny, as a brand guy, that the nfl didnt act more quickly and decisively. I said this last week. I said theyre protecting them to protect the shield. This is not protecting the shield. This is destroying your brand. I hate to say it one or two players are disposable in the nfl at the expense of your brand. This is the tip of whats been an iceberg thats been freezing for a long time. Whether its punching out a pregnant women. Whether its Aaron Hernandez allegedly killing people. Item number 56. To me, im not going to give these companies applause right now. Let remember we watched the guy track her out of an el vamplt it was clear what happened. We watched. Nothing happened. The companies do have the power. You will see it foul. I will give them a onehanded applause, to your point, where were they six weeks ago, 8g weeks ago . There are so many facets to this. You got the players, the nfl the
sponsors and the nfl working on such a moosive financial scale you cant get your arms around the numbers. You got the fans who love their teams and they love their teams. You got the tv networks who have a stake in this. You have the sports page was have a stake in this. There is one article in here about the nfl. There is about ten others page after page after page about the teams. Heres where i have to fault the owners and the nfl, they could have tossed every one of these players as it happened and not one viewer is going. So it was only time. Same thing with goodell. Nobody was going to point a finger atful he suspended a guy for a year. There was no downside morally, commercially, so it tons me from a both moral and a dollars point of view where they would not
have taken a harder stance. I think society we are shocked we are here, that we when you are coordinating a football event, you book rihanna and you dont even think. I wouldnt have thought about it. I wouldnt v. So lets get to that part of the story. That brings us to the situation of cbs sports and pop sing erie hannah what may or may not be connected to her own past which is Domestic Abuse. In 2009, the seven time grammy winner was assaulted by boyfriend chris brown inside the lamborghini. The image of her injuries were online and seen everywhere especially by her fans and there are millions around the world that believe on twitter, she has 37 million followers. Like willie. Exactly. Brown pled guilty to a felony assault and avoided prison time. He received five years probation and the two entertainers were
ordered to stay away from each other. Three weeks after the assault, they reunited in miami. They have since split up. During an interview with abc, rihanna discussed the assault and her decision to go back to her abuseers. I realized that my selfish decision for love could result into some young girl getting killed. I could not be easy with that part i couldnt be held responsible for telling them, go back. Christians, even if chris never hit me again, whos to say that their boyfriend wont . I just didnt realize how much of an impact i had on these girls lives until that happened, until that happened,
it was a wakeup call for me, big time. So since then, a lot of her songs have not reflected those combhents in a video with Eminem Rihanna speaks about an abusive relationship. Just going to stand there and watch me burn . Well, thats all right because i like the way it hurts. Now cbs has abandoned its plan to use a different rihanna song run this town as part of its open for nfl football. That song contains the lyrics, hear the screams from every, where im addicted to the thrill. Its a dangerous love affair. It goes on. Last week, after the ray rice controversy hit, cbs dropped a song with the chairman of the Sports Division saying, in part, we to the journalistically and from a tone standpoint, we needed to have the appropriate tone and coverage. Rihanna wrote back, cbs, you pulled my song this week, now you want to slide it back in this thursday . No, f you, she added quote audacity. Cbs sports pulled the song for the rest of the season saying we will be moving in a different direction with some elements of our thursday night football open. We will be using our fewly created thursday night football theme music to open our game broadcast. I cant believe i have something in common which are hasnrihanna sean mcmanus saying we have moved on. I actually agree which are hannah, why should she be penalized for being a survivor . Chris browns career is doing just fine. He hasnt been penalized economically in the same way. Why are women often the ones that have to suffer the consequences economically . I agree with you. I actually disagree, by the
way, im not saying she deserves to be penalized, but if you are cbs the reality is you are covering football. Dont invite ler in the first place. Once again, the new world changed in the past weeks. Its a commercial reality. They were saying the horrific picture we just saw there, they were setting themselves up for people to be thai saying is this the face of nfl football . They actually had no choice. Its a sad commentary. I would have done the same thing. The big point of view is why are we running lyrics like that in the first place . Why are we booking . I like the decisions that cbs, i think theyre doing what they have to do. I think we all are police it with why that booking seemed okay. It was okay to all of us. To your point if i could just argue, if she did that interview and she went on a campaign to help people understand Domestic Violence, to help people understand why they shouldnt go back, why its so hard not to
and she didnt sing songs that say she likes the way it hurts, i would agree with you. Yes, but its the most violent professional sport we have. My car, we watch every sunday. I want to call my good people at the view. I love rosie and onepy. I was stunned how two days ago, rosie was saying i like chris browns music, i will continue to listen to his music. Even rosie, they were not outraged. They were like well explaining and i think the women have to get more outrage. These are victims in crimes f. The victims will not say yes. They cannot go back. We have to, too. When you have a platform like the view or like morning joe or like the today show, we have to take a stand even if it hurts our sponsorships, forget it. Take a frisking stand. Do what cs says, you are done. We ent dont want to equivocate on Domestic Violence. I wouldnt have equivocated an their statement saying we are going in a different direction. No, Domestic Violence. We dont support it. We dont want anything to do with it. Im convinced. I think there is a double standard for male artists and female artists. Erie hannah, lets remember, was a victim a. Victim of abuse, when she sings those songs, these not endorsing that lifestyle, sometimes people ty sing about the way they were or felt in a different moment in time. So i dont think cbs putting rihanna on a pregame show was an endorsement of her viewpoint. But it would have surfaced it. Right. But i think we have to be careful walking the line. She a victim. Rihanna is a victim. I know shes a victim. But her responsibility as a public person. Yes. Shes come out and talked about Domestic Abuse. A woman is singing the song. You can call it art or an
expression of a different time. I think its eminem if she tries to fing leave again, im attired to set the bed on fire, im just going rihanna said im going to stand there and watch me burn because thats all right. I loo tick way it hurts. Well, there is some art i think if you know who you are appealing to, thats young, my girls listen to rihanna. My 11yearold loves her. I just want to say i have the same standards around eminem and chris brown as which are hannah. I want to have the same standard because those men dont get penalized for the same lyrics. By the way. Im not saying that excuses rihanna. Its a bad message. In terms of chris brown, we should be criticizing them as well. You want to go into language, snoop, all the songs, thats a whole other discussion look, you know, we havent talked much about peter zorub either and were going to get there. There is so much. And bloody scrotums and on and on and on. I do think its a moment in time. I think the advertisers have spoken. The players will only understand one ting, if they dont get to play. Thats i. Theyre not going to understand penalized for two games. You take away anybodys livelihood, people pay attention. Thats whats got to happen. Actor vigo mortonsen will be here. Senator Claire Mccaskill in an oped, she wrote and sent it to me, i think she ruffled a lot of feathers. She will tell us the story live in our 8 00 hour with Brand Marketing inno straighter steve stout. Up federal government, a dramatic robbery on video. Plus a new study ranks the nations with the best well being. Is it the u. S. . Its got to be sweden. Okay. Apparently, were not near the top. Apparently, were actually very far down the list. First. Bill kierans has a check on the forecast. Hi, meika. Yesterday, we talked about the people stranded in the Cabo San Lucas area t. Military is taking them out by helicopter and airplane. This is how people are ending their vacations. The only people coming in and out is the military. Theyre taking them to tijuana, mexico. Imagine that, thats the end of your vacation. The problems are just starting in the Desert Southwest t. Heavy rains have now moved into arizona and soon will be all through new mexico. Thats where the heart of the flooding will be. This is the second time in ten days this area lab hit by a tropical system. Thats never happened in our recorded Human History. Potentially three to six inches of rain, lifethreatening rain from albuquerque to phoenix, tucson, flack staff and possibly as far north as las vegas. The rain is already falling. The rest of the country isnt too bad. All the problems we will associate with this tropical system will be isolated. You are watching morning joe. Well be right back. You can eat that on Weight Watchers . Looks amazing. Looks like my next dinner party. Thats only 4 points . With Weight Watchers you can enjoy the food you really want. Dine out on favorites. Or cook up something new. I can do this every day. Join for free and start losing weight now. Learn how to eat healthier, while enjoying the foods you love. Get inspired at meetings, online, or both. Weight watchers because it works. When laquinta. Com sends him a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what salesman alan ames becomes . I think the numbers speak for themselves. Im sold a selling machine ready for you alert, only at lq. Com. To roll out a perfectly flaky crust thats made from scratch. Or mix vegetables with all white meat chicken and homemade gravy. But Marie Callenders does. Just sit down and savor. Marie callenders. Its time to savor. All right. 23 past. Let take a look at the morning papers. The New York Times the fate of nascar driver tony stewart is in the grand jurys hands, an upstate Prosecutor Says he will let the grand jury review the evidence in the kevin ward, jr. , death to determine in stewart
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