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Now, the line between politics and sports always sort of controversial, always critical of one side or the other for stepping over that line. that line has now been obliterated. the raiders, the owners have spoken out as have many owners around the league. one of the interesting parts is many of these owners -- i'm losing my umbrella. many of these owners have in fact given political money to president donald trump who thought in alabama opening this fuse by criticizing colin kaepernick and others who have knelt against police injustment and brutality against african-americans. the raiders hav...

>> i disagree. >> can you really argue there is not a racial component to this spat? >> no, ma'am. because it doesn't matter if you're purple, green, or blue. the president of the united states is so passionate, and me as a son of a retired sergeant major who fought two tours in vietnam. my wife's dad, two tours in vietnam. all my uncles. we fought for this flag so we could have all types of religions and all types of people under this flag. so the flag protects all of us. so yes, it's emotional for president trump and many, many americans, which support the majority that disagree with people ...

Sweet! back to the nfl controversy, the president again pushing for nfl players who kneel during the anthem to be fired. these are players at games that began at the top of the hour, kneeling in direct response to the president. the white house insists the president's position was not racially motivated. the white house legislative affairs director making this defense earlier today. >> in the nfl, players who take

Solidarity with his players there. let's go to met life stadium in east rutherford, new jersey. any minute now, the dolphins/jets game is set to begin. what you're seeing there is the steelers/bears game in chicago. those steelers, all of them, stayed inside the locker room, and they protested by not participating in the national anthem publicly there. back to rutherford. let's go to morgan radford there for us. morgan, are we expecting any kind of reaction or statement from either team there? >> reporter: well, you can hear the crowd actually cheering behind me in the stadium just as this gam...

We're just getting word, watching national anthems ahead of 1:00 p.m. eastern nfl game starts. we have been perusing all of these games, folks. we have seen players from the saints, the patriots, the dolphins, the buccaneers, they have not all stood, some have been standing together locked in arms. some have been kneeling. we also can note that tom brady of the patriots, he did come out on the field. he stood there with his team. his head was down. his hand was over his heart, but perhaps most notably, in chicago, the steelers are playing the bears. and they had said via their coach earlier to...