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President is right when he says the anthem protests are one factor in a tv ratings drop. and since the president weighed in, the owners are now dealing with a surge in ticket holder requests for refunds. other sports leagues are watching this quite closely. the nba season kicks off in a little more than two weeks. and the nba headquarters this week reminded teams and players of the league's long-standing policy requiring players to stand during the national anthem. there are, however, some ongoing conversations about alternative ways for the players to show their displeasure with the president...

The united states only to die a few days later. this morning his parents are breaking their silence for the first time since his death. they are going to join us coming up live. brian: that's an important story. what do americans think of their anthem protests, here live for a three hour long discussion. ♪ we're coming to your town ♪ we're an american band when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums smoothies. it starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue. and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum -tum -tum -tum smoothies! only from tums

Fired from their jobs, one of his friends, jerry jones, took a neon the field himself. a pushback on the president, essentially affirming the right of these players to express themselves on the field, whether you agree with the anthem protests or not, right? this was a repudiation of exactly what donald trump had been calling for. he is pretzeling this somehow into him having a political or rhetorical victory. those who support the president will say this was a victory. because he's right and a strong leader. it will be something like that. what we saw here again -- you have to remember what t...

Critique of the nfl players using the national anthem as a way to protest police brutality. what's the reaction been since the last couple of hours when that version went out? >> i think it's classic misdirection considering even the people that disagree with the anthem protests know pretty well that the protests are directed at first toward police brutality. they have really very little -- they have nothing in fact to do with the military or the soldiers or anything about the fighting in afghanistan or iraq or anything that's happening at walter reed. it's misdirection. i think that people kn...

Our promises. i'm the one out here taking the brunt of the failure to keep their commitments. i can understand the frustration. i'm the most frustrated person in the senate, believe me, because we made these promises. we haven't fulfilled them. and if we don't do that, we will pay a heavy price at the polls and rightfully so, frankly, for not fulfilling those promises. steve: all right. luther strange, who would like to win today in the runoff election down against judge roy moore. by the way, we did invite the judge on. they declined the invitation. luther, thanks for joining us and good luck...