Morning. Whos in and whos out. Its very difficult for me to envision a scenario where i would end up voting for this bill. Goodness gracious. Temp males are back. Only this time they belong to Jared Kushner. He used private email account for white house business. Say i told you we have a lot to cover this morning beginning with the president going toe to toe with the National Football league after trashing players that protest during the National Anthem and calling for them to be fired. Roughly 200 players went ahead and protested anyway. Their boss did too. The people who would do the firing came out in droves to support their teams. Nearly every nfl owner as well as owners from Major League Baseball and nba issued statements calling for onity saying its the players right. The president said its about respecting the flag and the country. And we havent even mentioned puerto rico. 3. 5 Million People, u. S. Citizens still living without power. Many without water. Ill start with nbcs kristen welker. Please give us the president s side of this because im astounded by his activity this weekend. Four tweets on saturday going after athletes and sports teams. Four teams going after john mccain. Not a word about the people on the island of puerto rico. Well, again this morning hes tweeting about this controversy with the nfl. Look, hes on defense. His line of argument is this has nothing to do with race. He says this has to do with protecting our flag and, of course, expressing pride in the country as well as those who have served. Heres his latest tweet. It says so proud of nascar. Nascar saying it wouldnt protest and supporters and fans wont put up with disrespecting our country or flag. They said it loud and clear. Many people booed the players who kneeled yesterday which is a small percentage of total. These are fans who demand respect for our flag, and also the issue of kneeling has nothing to do with race its about respect for our country, flag and National Anthem. Nfl must respect this. He was asked about all of this yesterday. Heres what he had to say. They have rights, we all have rights, but when youre on that field, and, you know, theres a situation going on, this is a great, great country and we have a great flag and they should respect our flag. They make a lot of money. They have to respect our flag and they have to respect our country. The nfl has to work out their own problems. Their numbers are way down and i think this is a big reason why their numbers are way down. Reporter just moments ago the president tweeted this, standforouranthem. Bottom line he says this doesnt have to do with race. Those players first started to kneel because they were protesting what they say was essentially Police Mistreatment of people of color. So thats where all of this originates. They feel the president s opposition is not respecting their First Amendment rights to protest. Of course, the president getting criticized also because he has a history of stoking cultural flames in this country, whether it be excusing former president barack obama of not being born in this country or taking aim at a gold star family. So this is yet another controversy as you point out, this president is dealing with whole host of issues on the domestic front. We may hear all of this when he talks about jobs. This is extraordinary. Fact checking enthusiasts out there, nfl ratings are not way down. And players can do free speech on their own time, it is always our own time. We dont have slave to employers. If thats the case why would president tweet things about his daughter, nordstrom and her jewelry and clothing line. Why done he do that on his own time rather than on the official president ial twitter account. Now i want to turn to nbcs Morgan Radford who is live in new jersey, home of the jets and giants. More garngs weve heard from almost every single nfl team and tom brady who we need to point out who the president said in the past is the greatest quarterback of all time and tom brady did not go to the white house to celebrate when the patriots won and he does have his mom who is sick this year, but he has a wife who is an outspoken Global Citizen environmental activist and the president didnt mention anything about tom brady when he didnt go. Reporter and what you just mentioned coming off of tom bradys coming symbolizes this pivotal and explosive moment coming from this marriage between sports and politics. Weve seen 30 now out of the 32 nfl teams release statements in support not only of those athletes and players but also of the fans and the coaches who took a knee because they said they were taking a knee in stand for diversity and inclusion and against what they call fortunates divisive comments. As you heard the president did tweet this morning saying this wasnt about race but remember this wasnt about race for him. For a lot of those people who were kneeling it was. Kneeling has a very symbolic history in this country especially when it comes to black men. Back in 1965 we saw Martin Luther king take a knee and when he knelt he made a statement of protest but of peace and of prayer and thats what we saw Colin Kaepernick trying to recapture earlier this year but, remember, him doing that as a quarterback was also very symbolic as a leader because even though we saw other players take a knee and some even link arm in arm yesterday very few have been quarterbacks. There was one other quarterback who was previously referred to the president as a friend. Take a listen to what tom brady had to say. I disagree with what he said and thought it was divisive. I think everyone has a right to do whatever they want to do. You dont agree thats fine. Voice your disagreement. Thats absolutely, i think thats great. Reporter now, remember all this is happening at a time when 70 of americans say that Race Relations in our country are bad. Thats almost at a all time high. Nbc did a poll last week when they found the 70 . Last year it was 74 after the state of killing unarmed black men. Thats the tension were feeling. Fans said yesterday, all day before the game, during the game, after the game and some fans i spoke to said one of them avenues guy said look im a white guy. I get that i may not be feeling the brunt of these racist feelings but i under why they are doing it. Other said they stood with the president and felt it was disrespecting the flag and country. I need my panel to weigh in on this. Two of my favorites are here. Brett, heres what the president tweeted yesterday. Courageous patriots fought and died for our Great American flag. We must honor and respect it. Make america great. Did people die for our flag or die defending our Civil Liberties and isnt that what people are protesting. I would point the president to that liberal Justice Antonin Scalia who voted with the majority in the famous 1989 flag burning case. Its what the flag represents above all the right to free speech, the right to protest, the right to individual liberty and most of all conscious. This is the point thats constantly lost on the president. I dont know if its lost on the president or willfully using this as a political do you think its lost on the president yes, sometimes i do. There are two issues here. One is we can have a discussion about principle. And on principle what the president is doing is divisive. If were going talk about politics there im not so sure. What hes basically doing is trolling the left. You lefties get behind Colin Kaepernick, get behind an act and a statement that most americans disagree with and then see how this turns out politically. I think the left in this country has to be careful about understanding the difference between the principle which, on which the rights, on the right side of the issue and the politics where he may come out on top. Dont be surprised. Fascinating. Seems the principle ought to animate the politics. Seems to me when we think about whats Colin Kaepernick is protesting and we think about the kneeling thats taking place, the protest across the nfl and we think about whats happening in st. Louis, the officer being acquitted after he said he would kill this nword. Not about protesting the flag its protesting the experience of unequal policing of communities, racial injustice. Seems to me that if we begin to fall into the trap of the idolatry of the flag, to believe if flag represents the perfection of the nation it blocks us, it blinds us from seeing the problems with the country and to facing and confronting them honestly. Earlier today on Fox Newt Gingrich said if youre a multimillionaire who feels oppressed you need a therapist and not a publicity stunt. Hes speaking about these nfl players. But just accept for a moment the idea you dont have to be oppressed to be defending those who are. A billionaire or claims to be a billionaire and also claims to be persecuted the most hated detested man since jesus christ. Let me say this too. That kind of comment from Newt Gingrich, it speaks of something more insidious. He believes that these rich athletes, these rich black athletes should be grateful that theyve been allowed to make money. To play on our field. Thats what hes saying. Newt gingrich along with a whole bunch of folks in this country, a whole bunch of white folks in particular the racial equality is a philanthropy enterprise. You should be grateful. If youre rich you should shut up. If youre the party of lincoln then how does Newt Gingrich justify that Abraham Lincoln fought to free slaves. He didnt need to do that. Well, look, the consistency look this is extraordinary. I think this is one of these issues. Like so much of the Trump Presidency its just been such a surfacer and revealer of character. On some fundamental issues i cant say in the case of Newt Gingrich im particularly surprised by where hes coming out because i think his character has been wellknown for 20 or 25 years. That kind of comment is so extraordinary because the only way to see it is as a racially motivated comment. He would never say about an american who has done well in this world, a hedge fund billionaire, you should shut up because youre rich. He would say thats a view of the left, progressives are telling rich people they dont have a right to free speech. But an africanamerican who made money they are supposed to stay silent. We have to move on. The president issuing new travel restrictions expanding the list of affected countries to eight. Our justice correspondent Pete Williams joins us. Reporter the details about what countries are involved here. Five of the six original countries are part of this extended ban. This is an indefinite ban. Kpeeps restrictions on iran, libya, somalia, syria and yemen. It lift restrictions on visitors from sudan. It adds new restrictions on visitors and immigrants from chad, north korea and venezuela. Remember that the original travel ban the one that went into effect in march had a 90day restriction on visas. That expired yesterday. So for those original countries that were on that list the five of the six carries on as of yesterday, and then the restrictions on the new countries will kick in about three weeks. But heres the one big difference between the original executive order and this one. The original executive order lasted for only 90 days. This is indefinite unless those countries can improve three critical things. The way they identify people within their own country, the way they communicate information about terrorism to the u. S. And then the internal terrorism threat in those countries. So the white house says that this list was developed as a result of basically telling every country in the world, we want to raise the standard on the kind of information you give us about people who want to visit or immigrate to the u. S. Here are the standards you need to meet. Then they assess those standards and this is the result. Some countries, the ones i just mentioned flunked partially or entirely and thats why these new restrictions are imposed. The white house adding yemen and chad not talking about puerto rico and the virgin islands. U. S. Territories facing a desperate situation. The situation is growing more dire by the hour in puerto rico, less than a week after that monster Hurricane Maria obliterated the island as a category 4 storm. They are calling on the federal government, begging them to step up their response and u. S. Territory remains largely without power, Running Water and any cell phone surface. Talk about a scary and dire situation as they approach no gas and no resources. We go live to puerto rico in a moment. First joining me live is democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo who launched a relief and recovery effort for puerto rico. Governor you run the state of new york. This is a federal issue. Why is new york stepping up first. You were already in the virgin islands. Youre looking at puerto rico and the white house isnt. Well its not a new york issue, its an american issue. The people of puerto rico, the people of the u. S. Virgin islands, these are americans were talking about. And the reason why new york is concerned about it, we have the highest number of Puerto Ricans in our state anywhere outside of the island of puerto rico. And the reason im talking about it is because this is what we should be talking about. I mean all the conversation about the nfl players and taking a knee and all these other things are a distraction on real issues that were facing like life and death situations in puerto rico and the fact that the federal government hasnt stepped up and isnt doing what it should be doing from a financial point of view or from a Services Point of view and in puerto rico youre talking about a matter of life and death. These are people without power, theres no refrigeration, no clean water. This is what we should be talking about. And to the extent new york can help, we are. Were mobilizing entire statewide drive. But this is going to be billions of dollars. And its going to require real capacity, were talking about an island. Were going to need to send in the resources to make a difference and thats going to be a federal effort and to the extent i can help spur the dialogue, thats exactly what i want to do as governor of new york. Its going to take money and going to take time. Are you concerned about people giving up on puerto rico and moving here . You got over 3 Million People that are u. S. Citizens. Is new york prepared for those people when the airports open to leave puerto rico and move to your state . New york is prepared to do whatever we can do to help. We believe in immigration in new york. We are a state of immigrants. I am an immigrant. Im wholly against this antiimmigrant fever that has been stoked during the political campaign. But first and foremost we want to get the federal government focused on what it should be focused on and frankly the American People focused on this crisis and if the federal government acts, stephanie, we can stabilize the situation. We know how to do this. I was in the federal government for eight years during the clinton administration, secretary of hud. We helped nations around the world. These are americans. Its a question of Financial Resources and capacity. We just are not doing it. Were not even talking about it, frankly, which is frustrating. You and i are. So many persons you and i are. So many pressing issues. We spent the weekend talking about whether nfl players should kneel or not. This is our opportunity to change that conversation. Before storm hit 85 of food was imported into puerto rico. Now agriculture there is wiped out. Its going to become 100 . Theres a law, the jones act. It requires cargo between the United States mainland and puerto rico to be shipped on u. S. Owned ships by u. S. Companies. It dates back to 1920. Thats a very pro trump type of act. Should it be lifted to give puerto rico more options for importing what it need at this desperate time . Yes. Short answer, yes. This is an emergency situation. Its going to be very difficult to stabilize the island even if we are incredibly flexible. But the jones act, for example, would have to be waived at least on an interim basis. This is an island. You dont have the resources on the island. The help is going to have to be brought in by plane or barge. An island that was basically bankrupt or insolvent. I want need real Financial Aid and need capacity. They dont have the capacity on the island to do this type of work. Public utility system has to be rebuilt. 70 , 80 of the homes were damaged. Even the commercial structure, the tourism engine which drives the entire economy, that has been damaged. So its a massive amount of work and if we dont do it, you will see people fleeing the island and you will see years of recovery and im worried about the long term future. Governor, thank you so much for joining this morning. And thank you for your when puerto rico and the virgin islands. Thank you. I would like point to out, Brett Stevens just nodded his head. We have a lot more to talk about. A new version of the Health Care Bill unveiled. And Jared Kushner reported using a private email server in the white house. Well talk excuse me private email account. That server is in my mind. Well talk more about the nfl protests with a former player. Next much more on growing disaster in puerto rico. 3. 5 Million People without power. They are running out of fresh water. Running out of gasoline. How do you think that will turn out for an island occupied by u. S. Citizens. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchkin will talk about players talk a