I dont agree with bob corker its world war iii. Everybody in washington, d. C. , has said for a very long time the very things that bob corker finally said. If bob corker has any honor, any decency, he should resign imtdly. The truth is the president will not get his major things done without bob corker. Valued member of the republican senate. Key player on the budget. President set to host Rex Tillerson as well as james mattis at the white house. Now hes comparing his iq with that of his secretary of state Rex Tillerson. New details about wiensteins final hours before being ousted before his company. Reportedly writing, i am desperate for your help. Do not let me be fired. Let me take a leave of absence and get into therapy and counseling whether it be in a facility or somewhere else. Allow me to resurrect myself with a second chance. Sources close to the company tell nbc news that it is moving to take Harvey Wiensteins name off his television program. One powerful woman appears to be coming to his defense. Its not Harvey Wienstein. You look at everything, all over the world today. You know, and how women are dressing and, you know, what theyre asking. What are they asking for . Trouble. What are they asking for . Trouble. Are you kidding me . Were going to get to that in a minute. Were going to begin with breaking news. Wildfires burning out of control in california. Yet another Natural Disaster unfolding before our very eyes. More than a dozen wildfires are burning in the state of california at this moment causing mass destruction over a 200mile span. Heres the latest. 15 fires are burning out of control in eight counties across the state. The biggest and most devastating are in napa and sonoma counties. At least 11 people have been killed. And Officials Say they expect that number to rise more than a hundred are in the hospital. The fires have scorched more than 70,000 acres forcing at least 20,000 to run from their homes. Some with just minutes to spare. To put the devastation in perspective, heres a look before and after pictures of a neighborhood in santa rosa. It looks like a bomb went off. A bomb went off. Weve had that same description over the last four weeks for the virgin islands, kooupuerto rico. I want to go right to napa where power is out for thousands of people. Steve patterson is live. Whats the latest . Reporter the first thing you notice here besides the Tropical Force Winds swirling smoke that chokes you as you get into this area is that communications are down. This is completely useless. We are cut off from the outside world here. There are a lot of families trying to get to a wifi situation, anywhere they can communicate with the outside world. Take a look at this. This was a home here in napa, the heart of wine country. You can see completely charred and destroyed, a fire place the only thing that remain there is. The structures are completely charred to the bone. Cars here charred out, blackened. This is a sight that weve seen driving through this area as you go into the heart of napa. Again, the heart of wine country towards the fall harvest. You mentioned those 11 dead. Two of them were here. At least we know two at this point. Theres still obviously taking a look at damage. There are so many missing trying to communicate with the outside world. What we know about the two here, it was an elderly couple. 99 and 100 years old respectively. They had just celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary. Their daughter said they simply did not have enough time to make it out alive. She said the only thing that would have been more tragic is if one had died and the other had survived. Tragic situation here in napa. Schools are shut down. Hospitals were evacuated. And then people, again, theyre trying to find some way to communicate with their families to tell them theyre okay. That is the major problem here in napa as crews continue to battle and try to keep this fire outside of encroaching into more homes. All right, steve. Please stay safe. Nbcs own steve patterson. I want to go further south to Orange County which is near l. A. Firefighters there are trying to contain a different wildfire thats destroying homes even impacting disneyland. Gadi schwartz is in anaheim. More than 1,000 homes evacuated in three cities. Are they making any headway . Reporter they are making some headway. Let me show you whats going on right now. This is one of the homes that was destroyed. A very difficult day in this neighborhood. There are three others right here on this street that have been destroyed. I want to show you the headway that has been made. So this is a blacked out area. This is where the fire has swept uphill so fast. Fires move much faster uphill. And it came and took out this house. It took out that house. It took out that house. But im going to show you some houses that are still standing. In fact, over here if you look just a little ways down, youve got one home that was protected. That was by firefighters who were here. Youve got several other homes down on this culdesac that firefighters were able to save. But this is just one of those things that people here have to contend with almost on a daily basis. A lot of people down here were watching the coverage in napa. They didnt know what was going on down here so close to them. And then all of a sudden they smelled smoke and they found themselves with fire right on their doorsteps. In fact, we were just talking to carrie a little while ago. She lives down the street. This is in your street here. You live one street over. You guys were watching these fires all night hoping they werent going to encroach. Tell me, how did this happen . What happened yesterday that made you notice what was happening . Reporter well, i was just sitting at home and i was sitting at my Kitchen Table and my girlfriend sent me a text saying are you okay. I had no idea what she was talking about. And then she sent me a link. When i walked outside, i just walked im on the corner house of cloverdale and garden view and i turned the corner, and this big black cloud of smoke reporter so you had no idea what was going on and you come outside and thats what you see. I panicked. I went inside and collected all my photographs, grabbed my computer, my stuff out of my safe and my dog and my son was able to get in so he helped me pack up some stuff and we just kind of took off. Reporter and this has happened before. Nine years ago we were evacuated. My house was safe. It didnt happen up here. But it was the closest call. So i actually still had my pictures in the boxes from the first time it had happened. So yeah, it was pretty scary. Reporter have you been able to speak to some of the neighbors . I did. Ive spoken to them. Theyre anxious to come in and see what they have left. Ive sent them a few pictures. I know the maguires. Their house is safe but theres quite a bit of damage up there. On my house, i know some of the embers went in and across the street i have a retired fire chief that was working there. My two trees in the front were on fire and some things in my back yard. Reporter that was just neighbors helping neighbors putting out embers. Yeah. So we got in, we kind of went in around 7 00 last night. Reporter and the neighbors here, were they able to get anything out . Were they even home . From what i understand, they werent home. Reporter this happened so quickly they didnt know it hit their home. I had no idea these fires were going on. Reporter thank you so much. Our thoughts are with you. This is a reminder what can happen on a daily basis here in california. Joining me now by phone is mark giagarduci. Mark, give us the latest from the front lines. Well, good morning. Well, today has been a day to try to continue to contain the fires that we happen. The weather is actually cooperating a little bit better. The winds are died down somewhat. That of course gives us an ability to get in front of these fastmoving fires. The other thing is to ensure we do any search and rescue operations and be able to identify any of those that are missing. And begin doing the damage assessment. Lets talk about those who are missing. I know there are 11 people who are confirmed dead and a hundred reported missing. Do you have any update on those . You know, the numbers may change a little bit. Dont really have an update. We do know that the we have the 11 confirmed fatalities. I will suspect there will be a few more. And a lot of that may be that there is a lot of people that have had to go to different shelters. There is a capability in the area. Those will all be factors once you get the communications back up. We should be able to bring back that proposed missing member down. I know this type of here is ripe with wildfires but you said more than 230 broke out in the last week. Is that an unusually high number . Well, i mean happened in october. We have what we call fire weather that takes place this time of the year. Its warm winds that saturate the environment and make it very dangerous. We put out these red flag warnings app and in the Northern California area. Southern california they have the santa ana wind conditions that bring hot winds from the desert and blow out to the ocean. These are part of living in california. Roughly 1500 more fires. You know, certainly the number of fires have increased. And its keeping us really busy. You certainly are busy. Mark, please, please stay safe. Thank you for joining us this morning. In the state of california. Thank you, mark. All right. Stick around, everyone. Any minute now secretary of state rex stiller son set to arrive at the white house for a luncheon with the president. This of course as he responds to the reports that tillerson called him a moron. Now the president is saying, quote, i guess well have to compare iq tests. Bring it on. We would love to see that. Plus were going to tell you President Trumps new nickname for gop senator bob corker. And now the real housewives of trump, First Lady Melania Trump is striking back against Donald Trumps first wife iva that after she said this. First of all, i have direct number to white house. But i dont want to call him there because melania is there and i dont want to cause any kind of jealousy or Something Like that. Because im basically first trump wife, okay . Im first lady, okay . Im first lady, okay . Andy cohen said it sounds like these two need to have a showdown. Melanias office said this, mrs. Trump has made the white house a home for barron and the president app and is honored by her role as first lady of the United States. She plans to use her title and role to help children not sell books. Unfortunately only attention seeking and selfserving noise. I have a message for both of those ladies. You need to channel your own disney princess. Let it go so why wouldnt you take something for the most important part of you. Your brain. With an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is now the number one selling brain Health Supplement in drug stores nationwide. Prevagen. The name to remember. Its called broccoli of cheddar soup. Ve . I loved it, but it was like, honey, i am way too decadent for you so i came up with o, thats good a new line of comfort soups with a nutritious twist. We replaced a hunk of this. With velvety butternut squash. If i hadnt told you, you wouldnt know. Comfort food that loves you back. O. Mmm. Thats good welcome back to velshi rhule. President trump hitting his own secretary of state this morning over the nbc news exclusive report that secretary Rex Tillerson called the president a moron. The president tells forbes the report was, quote, fake news and said, quote, i guess well have to compare iq tests. And i can tell you who is going to win. Wow. This comes amid a twitter war with bob corker. Called the white house a quote, adult day care center. Last night steve bannon helped his old boss fight facts. If bob corker has any honor, any decency, he should resign immediately. Steve bannon, remember, this is a guy in 2010 who said what we need to do is bitch slap the republican party. He also said our backup strategy is to f up Hillary Clinton so bad she cant govern. And theres steve bannon talking about common decency. Thats rich. Rich like his wall street backers that he denies he has. But this morning trump ally and former speaker gingrich warned the president against alienating corker. Thats been probably the biggest weak neness has been no working together. The president will not get his major things done without bob corker. Joining me now Peter Alexander at the white house. Garrett haake live in South Carolina. And randall lane who interviewed the president for that extraordinary forbes piece. Got to start with you, randall. We are all talking about trump wanting to pair iq tests with tillerson. First of all, hes joking, is he not . With donald trump you never know. We were with him friday. Spent an hour in the oval office. I would say it was a little surreal that the president in the oval office, what he thought about the secretary of state reportedly calling him a moron. He paused, thought about it, and donald trump does not like getting insulted publicly or privately. I think he was sending a message. He also said im the guy who came up with fake news. Which he didnt. So its ironic to lie about coming up with fake news. My biggest takeaway in your piece is that i cant find anywhere where the president seems to be putting country before self. Talk to me about your takeaway. Its interesting because what you have with donald trump if you look at the consistency here, if you look at how he runs his businesses or random businesses, thats the bottom line. If you want some consistency with trump, hes a transactional guy. Hold on. His businesses went bankrupt four times. Hes blown up essentially every Business Partner hes ever had. Hes also had a lot of great assets. Hes cut a lot of great deals. Hes had a hard time running ongoing businesses. Thats what youre seeing in this white house. You have somebody who has a mindset that hes going deal to deal, win to win opposed to some have a career building an organization. And so thats you know, if you look at the threads. If you look at how he looks at trade. If you look at even we talked about obamacare. Again, he wants a deal. Its not about how i make Health Care Policy better, its do i cut a deal with democrats or republicans . Did he share details on what those details. Or tax reform. The president has never shared a game plan or one that involves facts. Tax reform, for example, saying he knows so much about it. He doesnt even talk about the truth. He talked about the fact hes going to suffer. Well, in fact, he wont. How exactly is he going to get the deal . Again, this is somebody motivated by wins. And not so much by ideology. Youve seen that consistently throughout his life and throughout his presidency. He told us when he sat down he could do a deal on obamacare with the democrats or he could do it with republicans. Shes shopping and he said basically is going to look for the best deal. When youre a deal maker and you have two bidders, thats how you get the best price. What donald trump ultimately wants is to, you know, be perceived. Hes never been interested in that. Lets go to speaker groundhogs point. The president wants a win. How does alienating bob corker do that . It doesnt, stephanie. Thats why were seeing people like Newt Gingrich and other people trying to communicate to the president that this is not helpful. Im in South Carolina because we were talking to Lindsey Graham here today and i asked him about this. He tried to tell me he basically put this argument to the president yesterday on the golf course in a way he thought he could understand putting context around why its so important to knock this off. Well be judged by whether we get it done or not. I told the president if we could cut taxes and repeal and replace obamacare and make the world a safer place, it doesnt matter who they run against you. Reporter and so thats the context for this. Come 2020 nobodys going to be looking at their score card of which republican won which twitter fight. They need to put points on the board legislatively. And maybe thats why Lindsey Graham thinks no big deal. Send this big ole kiss to the president. He shot a 73 on the wet golf course, isnt he special . Is grahams goal let me make nice with the president to get something done . Sort of like rand paul . Or does he maybe want the secretary of state position . Reporter i think thats unlikely that hes angle for any other position than the senate. But he said his goal is to make nice with President Trump to find a way to get something done. He said this is not a guy i agree with all the time. Hes the president and i need to work with him to get things done. Whether thats working together on issues of Foreign Affairs and military which is a big part of Lindsey Grahams portfolio. Or things like daca and the dream act where hes one of the more liberal senators on the republican side in terms of coming up with a deal for these folks. And getting the president for him is maybe a way to turn the president that direction. All right. Peter, to Randalls Point earlier the president loves to tout himself a deal guy. And President Trump supporters say hes ready to make a deal. He said in another tweet this morning he would use, quote, the power of the pen to give americans Great Health Care with so many failed tries. Why does he keep going back to this . Hes got to pen. Hes used the pen for all those executive orders that do nothing but have his own team write big reports. What is the power of the pen hes speaking about . Reporter well, it seems to be hes touting the potential for an executive order of some kind. No timeline for that. No specificity on what it would be. The understanding is this would be something rand paul has been championing that would allow americans to purchase their Health Insurance across state lines. Be clear, stephanie. I was on the south lawn this past weekend when i was pressing President Trump on his conversation with Chuck Schumer basically saying that he called schumer on friday. He said he wanted a temporary deal to troo i to fix obamacare. It sounded like there was an opening for a bipartisan deal. As schumer quickly communicated, he said repeal and replace is a nonstarter for us. Twhen president was on the south lawn, he said thats what republicans want. Repeal and replace. Thats what i want as well. So the idea that there could be some Bipartisan Program Going Forward seems off the table. He a appears to be trying to fix the system as best he can. The year is coming to an end. All right, peter, randall, garrett. And by the way peter and garrett, you better step up. See the hat randalls rocking today . Step it up. Thanks so much. Were going to take a break. Stick around, everybody. Were getting some gop reaction to trumps latest attacks including tensions with iran and north korea. Thats not silly talk. Thats serious business. Next ill speak with floridas republican congressman francis rooney. Hes a member of the house Foreign Affairs committee. 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What do you think . Well, i think all that is distractive from the pursuit of the mission of protecting u. S. Interests in light of these very difficult problems you just for sure. But thats the president himself causing this distraction. Do you agree with bob corker . Or the president . Well, i dont think any of it is helpful on either side. Steve bannon thinks corker should resign over this. Do you agree with this that . I dont know about that. He voted against the iran treaty when he was a senator. Maybe he can stop the casual language and contribute responsibly towards deciding whether or not this treaty is in americas interest or not. All right. Well, do you agree with senator corker that Rex Tillerson, defense secretary james mattis, and the white house chief of staff john kelly are helping, quote, separate the noise, separate the country pr the chaos . Because bob corker seems to think theyre helping. Zp well, i definitely think that general kelly has brought a lot of organization and discipline to the white house. And as you know, its a terribly difficult job running the back office of the white house. Im glad hes there. In terms of distraction, today alone for example, President Trump has attacked Rex Tillerson, the nfl, espn, all of congress. So your message to the president if youre speaking to the fact we shouldnt be distracted, would you include the president in that . Its above my pay grade to tell the president what to do. Its not above anybodys pay grade. We all voted. We are all citizens of the United States of america. So if youre saying we shouldnt be distracted, who is that we . Because its the president whos drafting these tweets. If it were me, i would say lets keep focused on the hard line with north korea which is having productive results of much better than previous administrations have been able to do. Lets focus hard on this iran agreement and whether the opportunity to get a better deal might exist if he decides to decline to certify it. Those are the things we want to address here. I want to talk immigration as well. The president said this morning the problem with agreeing to a policy on immigration is the democrats dont want to secure borders. They dont care about safety for usa. And now the white house issued demands yesterday in exchange for a deal to protect d. R. E. A. M. Ers that, of course, the 800,000 people brought illegally here as children. Those demands include funding for a southern border wall. We know sthast a nonstarter for democrats. Talk about a nonstarter for a lot of republicans. Your state has almost 33,000 daca recipients. Where do you stand on the wall . Well, i think this is an opportunity to bring some Immigration Reform which is needed in perhaps prid oing work for these daca kids. Theres about 350 miles of that border that could probably benefit from a wall. Right now it has a car barrier, but not a pedestrian barrier. We also have a problem of visa overstays. Half the people in this country came on a visa and just overstayed it. Weve got to enforce our sovereignty. And do you think we can do that . The clock is ticking for congress. Oh, i think we can do it. Weve got the resources to do it. They do it in europe. We just have to be vigilant that people here on visas check in all the time, we know who they are, and we know if theyve overstayed. Quickly before we go, ive got to ask you about the nfl. Youve worked with nfl owners on the Construction Side of things. What do you think of now this dispute, this battle that nfl owners are faced with . Does it make sense . Well, i think once again theres in so many things, my close friend jerry jones has shown the right way. Hes confronted the problem. Hes a genuine american hero. Im glad he did it. Youre glad jerry jones did it and you think the rest of the nfl owners should . I think they should do what jerry jones did. I dont buy appeasement and hiding behind problems. I think we have to face the fact that this is america. Thats our country. And we need to be prepared to honor it and defend it. Well, freedom of speech is part of our country. Oh, sure. But these are employees. If theyre my employees, theyd be gone by now. Well, what if your employee excuse me. What if your employee was President Trump . Would it make sense for someone whose job is to protect the American People, fight for the American People to launch this war with the nfl with all the things hes got to do . Does that make a lot of sense . Well, i think its probably really an emotional problem for him to see these defiant actions. Again, im more focused on north korea and iran and hopefully getting some tax reform moving forward than the nfl. Without a doubt. Its certainly emotional for the president leaving so many of us wondering why this strikes a cord with him. Why not the 3 Million People suffering in puerto rico. The military moms worrying about their sons and daughters who are stationed overseas. Wow wonder why its a fight with the nfl thats reaching the headlines. I appreciate you joining me this morning and all the things youre working on. Thanks so many up. Thank you. Next, new developments in the Harvey Wienstein scandal. Taking sides from meryl streep to donna karan. Plus what were hearing about his last minute plea to save his career. And here on velshi rhule, we are also remembering some of the most inspiring people in american history. We started doing this in light of the fight against confederate monuments in this country. We want to introduce you to monumental americans who may be deserving of a statue. Today its harvey milk. He was the first openly gay elected official. He helped bring lbgt rights to light. Milk was born right here in new york in 1930. He served in the navy during the korean war. Later he worked as a teacher, insurance agent, and banking researcher in new york. He moved to San Francisco in 1972. During a migration of gay men to the castro street neighborhood which was becoming a haven for lbgt activism. He won his First Political office in 1977 as city supervisor. He served seven months in office but during that time he passed a gay rights ordinance to protect citizens. In 1978 mill was assassinated along with San Francisco mayor george moscone. A former city supervisor killed them both. Harvey milk was awarded the president ial medal of freedom in 2009 by president obama. And our producers successfully get me to cry almost every day here on television. If youve got a monumental american, tweet us plea please velshi rhule. Lets talk about the monuments that should go up. My ancestry dna results are that i am 26 nigerian. 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Aiding and abetting is a moral crime. You are a scum in a fancy dress. Anthony bourdain tweeted out a racy ad for her clothing saying how many 17yearolds have you dressed like they are, in your words, asking for it . She said im sorry if i offended anyone who might have been a victim. She said my statements were taken out of context and do not represent how i feel about the Current Situation with Harvey Weinstein. You notice there she didnt actually go on to say anything about Harvey Weinstein. Her defense of him still stands. Heres some of karans comments. You watch and decide. Its been a hard time for women to see it here in our country. Its very difficult. But i also think, how do we display ourselves . How do we present ourselves as women . What are we asking . Are we asking for it . You know, by presenting all the sen sensuality and sexuality . I dont think its weinstein. I think were looking at a world much deeper than that. Yes, i think hes being looked at right now as a symbol. Not necessarily as him. I know his wife. I think theyre wonderful people. Harveys done some amazing things. Its not Harvey Weinstein. You look at everything all over the world today and how women are dressing, you know, what theyre asking. By just presenting themselves the way they do. What are they asking for . Trouble. What . One more time. While Harvey Weinstein may have done this and others may have done it as well doesnt make harvey right. And another thing, you can walk in the middle of times square with 100 bills taped to your body but it doesnt mean anyone should rip them off of you. Joining me now carla hall. What do you make of donna karans comments . I mean, hello . I dont know what she was thinking. I mean, thats the age old excuse that people used to make for women when they were sexually assaulted. Well, she was asking for it because of the way she was impressed. I mean, its ridiculous. I dont know why she said it. She shouldnt have said it. In the case of the Harvey Weinstein instances. Most of them arrived at breakfast meetings or arrived to do business and i dont know how they were dressed, but clearly business was on their minds. And i think they communicated that when they arrived at Harvey Weinsteins hotel rooms. But irrelevant of how those women were dressed donna karan is saying her comments were taken out of cone text and the problem is bigger than weinstein. If the problem is bigger than weinstein, doesnt that point to what brave heroes these women are for speaking out . I mean, every day as a journalist, its hard to try to speak truth to power. Think about what its like for these women. If its all men in power, if its the most powerful man in the entertainment industry. If donna karan is actually right, then isnt she wrong in her assessment of women . Yes. I think she is wrong in her assessment of women. I dont think this isnt about how women are dressed. And you just touched on something interesting. This isnt even really about sex. This is about powerful men, usually, and powerless women. And its about that inequality. Thats what allows men to feel that they can get away with harassing women whether its Harvey Weinstein or whether its, you know, a medical school dean or a geologist in antarctica who is under investigation for harassing his graduate students. These are about power positions. Its not about sex, i dont think. Well, the los angeles times, your paper put up an article arguing it goes far beyond hollywood and called on all businesses to, quote, confront their demons. How engrained do you believe this type of business excuse me, this type of behavior is in our culture . I mean, i have to say i spent 14 years in investment banking. Without a doubt from the time i started to when i left, there was definitely concerted efforts, improvements across the board. I think it was still engrained, unfortunately, in a lot of businesses where the balance of power exists. Whether its acidemia or business or hollywood or the tech world where supposedly people should be more open minded but theres such an imbalance of men and women. I think its interesting that most of these businesses make managers and supervisors go through training about what Sexual Harassment is and how to avoid it. So we cant say they dont know what it is. I think its that theyve been allowed to get away with it. People look the other way. Okay. Then to your point that anybody that works at a company has to go through mandatory Sexual Harassment training. For Harvey Weinstein to send that lastditch effort email to executives saying give me one more chance. Ill go into therapy. Going to therapy now . Are we actually going to act like he thought it was okay until last friday . Right. And it didnt work, the lastditch effort didnt work. You know, the New York Times story documents that by his own words, he says hes been working on his behavior in trying to figure himself out for awhile. We know these allegations have been going on for a couple of decades. And we know that people even if they didnt report them and sometimes they did, people talked about it amongst themselves. So it was kind of known and it was still kind of tolerated. I think this happens in places where men are making money, are being suspectful. And so other people say lets look the other way because hes being so successful for the company. Once that stops, then i think youll start seeing less hopefully less Sexual Harassment. Maybe Harvey Weinstein isnt the only one, but maybe this will be a tipping point. Thank you so much for joining me today. Carla hall im tongue tied over this story. Carla hall from the los angeles times. Thank you, carla. Thank you. All right. Stick around, everybody. President trump going after the nfl this morning. Turns out it has been a fight brewing for decades. Were going to talk about that and why hes now targeting the nfl tax breaks. And President Trump has complained on twitter that the late night shows are not giving him a fair shake. So last night Stephen Colbert challenged jon stewart to Say Something nice about trump for each negative joke. Stewart, im going to say he had a bit of a hard time. On friday trump made it easier for employers to deny women birth control. Pretty soon the only contraceptive women will have is his face. Now, im in the groove now. Im starting to feel it. Donald trump is great to women. Good. Good . Better than Harvey Weinstein. Maybe. Well fact check that. Plus, when you get a flu shot at walgreens, you help provide a lifesaving vaccine to a child in need through the un foundation. Its that easy to get your flu shot and make a difference. So swing by your local walgreens today. Walgreens. At the corner of happy healthy. 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But back in 2015, that status ended and the league no longer had to report the salaries of top executives. While the individual teams were not exempt, stadiums were partially funded by taxpayers. In 2012, virginia paid 4 million bucks to help upgrade the redskins workout facility. And minnesota spent more than 300 million to help build a new stadium for the vikings. But for a president who touts his plans to reduce tax burden on businesses, why tweet about ending the leagues tax benefits . Well, the president has had a long and tumultuous history with the nfl, starting in 1984 when he bought a team called the usfl, promoted in the spring. After pushing to move the schedule from spring to fall, he tried to force a merger with the nfl through an antitrust lawsuit. The league won the suit, but the jury cited mismanagement for the u surks usfls trouble, ending the merger. We welcome my panel. Andr andrew, lets start with you. The packers are a special case because they are owned by green bay residents. How did things like funding stadiums work there . Well, i think everywhere owners are looking to see if they can get a Public Private partnership for their stadium. We have a new stadium going up in las vegas, for instance, that is 900 million of state dollars. Its not been a problem lately except for nevada, and you see teams are using this leverage to have this ability to build stadiums to gain money. Were in an age of relocation. The chargers, the raiders and the rams have all left behind their cities, or are going to, for these reasons alone. Thats the owners, what were talking about. 900 million in the state of nevada when they are basically a broken Public Education system. Pat, talk about the sports leagues. How is there tax handled . At the level, they have the tax status that the nfl used to have. They put out a statement that of the stadiums that have been built, 36 of them have received huge tax subsidies. The nfl, baseball, both have had stadiums since 2000 that have taken advantage of this. Its more about the economics of sports rather than just whats going on with the nfl. We have to point out they take advantage of it. Its legal. Theyre allowed to do it. The question is, should they be . So, andrew, does the president have a point here . Should some tax laws change . Are they getting too much of a benefit . Well, we assume hes talking about the owners, because as you pointed out, the legal status has changed. It has changed its taxexempt status from 2015 because, understand, the league is just a passthrough. Its a clearing house. All the billions come in from the networks and other sources are passed on to the 32 owners. If hes talking about the league itself, thats wrong. But if hes talking about the owners, yes, its a leverage economy situation where they have the supply and there is so much demand. L. A. , which is now housing two stadiums, was used as a stocking horse negotiation for several teams to get cities to pony up and politicians to realize they could potentially lose their team. Again, supply and demand, the owners themselves. Tax breaks . I dont know. Using their leverage of having such a short supply of teams, yes. Pat, whats your take . The president taking aim at the nfl. Bob craft . Thats his homeboy. Does this make sense and is there a tax argument . I would have to disagree with the president in that its very difficult to legislate supply examine demand in this particular case. As andrew suggested, you have a fixed supply of teams in all of these leagues. The fact the city wants more teams, as we saw in st. Louis, of course, we felt that the pain and suffering of losing a second nfl team because there was a better offer somewhere else. At the end of the day, i dont see how you legislate that. I will point out that even though every case has to be looked at on an individual basis, there is research that a lot of teams dont generate the benefits that pay for the cost, but there is evidence that a new facility has reconstructed the downtown. Are we going to see the boys stop kneeling . Legally, they could say, im the employer and these are the terms of employment. Yeah, weve got a real crucial time here. I think this is a defining moment for the league. Players dont want to move on. Owners seem to want to move on and stick to sports. That unity in week 3 seems to be shattering a little bit, and now you have the president getting involved, and this is his week for taxes. He seems emboldened that he made an inroad with jerry jones. That unity three weeks ago, that seems to be dissipating. Lets see what happens. Is there a middle ground anywhere in here . Because there is an argument to be made that by not moving on, youre only indulging trump. Trump actually likes the conflict, likes the fact that players continue to take a knee. Theres one thing we know the president likes. He loves drama. Pat . There is no rule that they have to stand for the anthem. Whats happened is we have a conflating of the anthem and military police with social issues like Racial Injustice and inequality that the players are actually protesting like kaepernick 14 months ago. I think there is a middle ground to figure out what is the right way to deal with both issues. Stephanie, if i could real quick, with the nba season about to start, im really fascinated to see what happens there because i think some of these issues could be more jermaiengi there. All right, we have to leave it at that. Im stephanie ruhle. My colleague is on assignment right now. Andrea mitchell reports. Moments now, President Trump sitting down for lunch with his secretary of state less than a week after nbc news broke that story about Rex Tillerson calling the president a moron. A bigger concern over the widening
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