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Because they're expected to discuss the national anthem controversy. what do you have on the latest? >> reporter: dana, some of the owners are still arriving was a they had a meeting earlier with a group of players in midtown manhattan. these meetings taking on far greater importance. even drawing demonstrators to the front of this hotel in lower manhattan. couple of them carrying signs. at one point taking a knee in front of the entrance saying they were taking a knee sense white supremacy. after that, a couple of them got inside the hotel and briefly confronted dallas cowboys owner jerry jon...

>> one lucky guy, "outnumbered" on top of the hour, >> jon: right now the nfl owners and players association reps are in new york city for their annual fall meeting. it comes against the back drop of the growing national anthem controversy. rick leventhal live in new york city on that. rick. >> jon, nfl meetings don't always draw media attention. this year is different because of the anthem protests. over the next couple of days team owners, executives, players and league officials will meet to try to come up with solutions to address this controversy surrounding the demonstrations that have i...

To have black balled him for making it in the first place. and all of a sudden made the league itself the victim. but at the very least, there was encouraging optics of a notoriously apolitical organization standing up for its players by taking a knee. and perhaps the most dramatic display of top down unity was that of dallas cowboy owner jerry jones seen here before a september 25th game arms locked with his players down on a bended knee. jones' performance of solidarity was somewhat surprising considering that he had once criticized anthem protests before president trump's late september att...

>> in some ways back to a culture war that trump and pence felt they were winning on. this was big news two weeks ago. i have to be cynical about this for a moment. the vice president was in las vegas yesterday and speaking solemnly about the massacre and flew home to indiana and spent the night and went to the game today. he's about to head back to the west coast. it makes you wonder if he wanted to go to the colts game in indiana to make this statement, knowing that the players were almost guaranteed to kneel. there has been players kneeling every game. pence heading to the game today, they ...

Acknowledge that. but the president in the campaign he ran made the argument that america is perfect when it comes to the law enforcement. and that people really need to take another stand with the law enforcement so i think that that's why he's continuing to go at this. because it is based -- his base understands this is who the president is and he wants to remind the base that he's the person who ran. >> it's a decisive issue who say that 52% of americans disapprove of the anthem protests and 55% say they disapprove of trump's call to fire the players. seema, is this low hanging fruit that t...