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People. let's bring in d. lemon. d. lemon, the charge from jay-z's side is, i'm trying to do the right thing. it's not just about protest, it's about what he calls action items and that's what i'm going to be working on. do you accept? >> not fully. i can see where he wants to move on, but they haven't really dealt with the initial issue yet. and the initial issue was the kneeling and is the kneeling, and also that colin kaepernick has been somehow banned from the nfl. so you don't have a leader take you onto the battlefield and then you get rid of that leader, abandoned that leader and i thin...

A deal with the nfl. but if now the second part of the protest is that you still don't have a job, let's figure out how you get that job, right? i don't think it's either-or. i would love to see jay z say, yo, i want to work with the nfl but this deal is coming to a screeching halt if colin can't get signed. i think that's reasonable. that's a win for the culture. i have a lot more to say about this but it's probably a book. i'll defer to the squad. >> that's a good tease. bakari, which side are you on, jay z or kaepernick if it breaks that way. >> i don't think it's a side issue. with all due...

No other specifics on that. joe johns at the white house. do you know anything else about what we can expect from the president in an hour? >> not so far because the habit at the white house is if the president is going to speak, staff tends not to speak for fear of getting out in front of him. still a scattered series of messages from the president indicating, among other things, that the victims of these shootings cannot die in vain, always, as you referenced, the idea of marrying gun control, background check legislation along with immigration reform. we also know that throughout the weeken...

>> we get excited about great summits, we want some sort of action item agreed upon. we should lower expectations, that is unlikely to happen but it would be great if we could get the talks jumpstarted again and have donald trump and xi jinping talking again. it is good that donald trump has been unwilling to put anything on the table. there are reports the chinese want to the united states to guarantee we weren't going to put tariffs on again and that huawei should never be a negotiating chip for the united states, great danger to the united states security. as china puts these demands, it is...

We need to have this discussion about race, the race question. i think that we need to go beyond talking. we have to make it an action item. we have a president who has infused bigotry into policy. when he was contemplating his immigration policy, he made the s-hole countries remark, and he was in the white house at the time. he went on to talk of policy that would eliminate diversity visas. these are the visas that many persons in africa have benefited from. he has a policy still, currently, that is not what i would call something that i'm proud of, and i don't think the country is, and that ...