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Anthem. president trump tweeted saying, quote, marshawn lynch of the nfl's open raiders stance for the mexican anthem and sits down for your national anthem. great disrespect. next time nfl should suspend him for remainder of season. attendance and ratings way down. marshawn lynch has not said much about the ongoing anthem protest, but did wear a shirt last month before a game that said "everybody versus trump." chris? >> all right, coy, we see the president doing what he does very well here, picking an issue he knows divides people that may play to his base and doubling down. president trump ...

This is a long-running pattern. the anthem protest is a big part of that. if you look at the lavar ball situation, this is a seed that trump planted before those -- before this whole thing even blew up. before the players even spoke. the president teed this up by saying, i wonder if these athletes are going to thank me for this. you have to think that maybe he knew that this would eventually involve lavar ball in some way. lavar ball is much like the president in some ways, that he can't really resist the attention-gathering aspect of these kinds of things. and so we have now wound up in a ver...

Another sports feud on social media yet again. in a second tweet, completely unrelated to the ucla basketball players you have the president reviving the nfl anthem protest, this time talking about marshawn lynch, oakland raiders player who stood apparently for the mexican national anthem, but sat for the united states national anthem. the president is very much unhappy about that and wants the nfl to fire him. the nfl actually has not responded to the president's comment and suggestions that they should go ahead and suspend him, but again with all of the stuff going on, north korea, roy moore...

Injustices in america and nfl players protesting the anthem. watch. >> nfl commissioner roger goodell has been criticized for his handling of the anthem protest. he says the league wants players to stand, but has stopped short of imposing a role for players to do so. now the commissioner has reportedly asked for a raise and a few perks. espn says he wants 50 million a year. he makes 30 million now, and once use of a private jet for life and lifetime health insurance for his family. the nfl says the report is false, though it is true that roger goodell and dallas cowboys owner jerry jones are b...

>> shannon: nfl commissioner roger goodell says there will be no changes into blocking players from protesting the national anthem. by the way, the player who started those anthem protest is in the headlines again. he's getting a big honor. trace gallagher is life. >> "gq" magazines medicine of the year story is titled colin kaepernick won't be silenced. that's a play on the fact that he did not, for the article and that he isn't commenting at all. "gq" rights as its public identity has begun to shift from football star to embattled activist, he has grown wise to the power of his silence. it h...