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There is criticism of his -- shep, look, yes, he speaks to his base and riles up his base. there's a lot of voters in the united states. he has to be careful of antagonizing the voters. >> shepard: generally speaking, we say base but we're talking about 30, 35% of the population. are they being misled about what the justice department and what the media are doing? >> we've talked with the president about the president not always being on speaking terms with the truth. you decide whether or not that's being misled. he at least is putting a big, big spin on ball for them. the broader public has ...

Smith. he said if you're going to tweet, tweet facts. nobody took a knee last year. some players stood with their fists in the air in protest of plys violent. the nfl said they were disappointed in the cancellation saying this decision by the white house has led to the cancellation of several player-led community service events for young people in the washington d.c. area. not clear what was cancelled since two or three players were planning on being in attendance. no question that relations between the white house and at least the nfl franchise, the philadelphia eagles are at a oric low as of...

Let's go to john bussey, associate editor for the "wall street journal," whom this network shares common ownership. there's a lot of lies. there's some that haveleaded guilty, to items regarding russians, others that are charged with items regarding ru and there's those that lied with items regarding russ and now all of these investigations and the push backs and the national anthem and the philadelphia eagles. this is not normal in america. what is this? >> it's an argumentative president that today got stood up on a date at the white house so he cancelled the dat so he did so in a way that d...

Distinction. the american public realizes that she works for us. so does the president. >> shepard: so does he. >> yes. we're paying their sally. so how does this shake out? why? pressure from the mue igation continues to mount. this is like a siege engine rolling up to the castle. you imagine him sort of attacking sessions because of that frustration. you imagine him speaking this way about the eagles to try to make this a patriotic issue when it's not. you can argue just as effectively that the eagles are being reportsful of the constitution, which the president suggested they weren'ts being...

As well. the eagles stood at every time. none knelt. a small number was showing today so he cancelled their event and said the philadelphia eagles disagree with him and standing for the national anthem. st for every game last e team season. after the president scrapped the event, torre smith tweeted as follows. so many lies, shake my head. one, not m people were going to go. two, no one refused to go simply because trump insists folks stand for the anthem. three, the president continues to spread the false narrative that players are anti-military. some athletes have knelt during the anthem to ...