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>> yet, mike, there are some broader issues raised by what we do know about this. we have the text messages, the references to owning seven or eight guns. there is, a broader issue this raises at gun ownership in the nfl. tony dungy talked ant talking to his team and finding out 75% of them own guns. startled by that. can you talk a little bit about what we know about gun ownership in the nfl, why it's prevalent. >> i will. context is important and conclusions are important. as much as we talk gun ownership, look at the concussion issue. we should not jump to conclusions but there's a higher r...

Son play football. was taken aback. i got a 5-year-old. it crossed my mind. i played football as a kid. i thought i wanted my son to play football. everything we're hearing in the nfl, everything we're learning about the concussion issue, how concerned are you about the safety of kids playing pop warner football? >> we're finding out so many things about the brain and how when you have a concussion you have to take care of it and be careful. that's why when we hear leach locked him in a shed in the dark punishing him, i was furious. i played in the national football league. i understand the se...

The stands swinging on people. i think that's the key. >> yeah. look. and obviously, you don't have to be oscar wild to make meta world peace jokes. people are having a field day with. this all kinds of wits. you might remember in 1992 when charles barkley famously dunked in the olympics and hit a player from angola in the chest with an elbow. it is something that he did out of adrenaline and afterwards it was treated like a big joke, look at charles doing that. i do believe that if that was kevin durant, the same elbow would have been thrown, it would have hit him right in the chest and we wo...

I talk to athletes and they all say the same thing. the players are getting faster, they're hitting harder, they're getting bigger, and these hits can be lethal. jim miklaszewski who was at a texas radio station 25 years ago said he went out and talked to tom landry on the sidelines and landry said 25 years ago i don't like where this is going. these players are getting bigger and faster and people are going to start getting killed. i mean you start talking about an 18-game season, that's insane. >> the concussion issue has been extremely troubling. you have so many players long term that end ...

Tort law, as the nfl has experienced with the concussion issue, state tort law always exists as a way to ensure or help ensure safety in things like the seaworld show. >> thank you. a question, if i may, about independent agencies. congress has established several independent agencies. we believe they're essential to enforcing our laws and safeguarding consumers. congress requires the president to have good cause to remove the heads of these agencies to insulate them from political interference. you have objected to this limit on the president's power and struck down the for cause requirement ...