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It's not in their contract at all. the nfl says the players should stand, but it's never been mandated. i think the important thing -- we mention the president, i think he is almost the key factor in this. it was not a story anymore last september. it trickled to a couple guys standing. until the president ginned it back up and the alabama senate race in his speech there, the famous sob line. it's almost like -- if the president just stays out of it, it would have gone away, because he kept entering it, i think that's one of the reasons the players felt they had to answer. >> george, there's i...

Kristen brennan is here for "usa today." i was stunned listening to this at my desk this morning. deportation for exercising a first amendment right of kneeling for the anthem. is that what you heard the president suggest as even a possibility? >> we are replaying poppy what we saw in late september in that alabama senate race, when trump issued that, that infamous line the sob line that triggered all of this. here we are again. the nfl i think has done exactly what he never wanted to do. i don't know if they thought this through. i can't believe the owners did this. they have now ensured that...

Apparatus at this point because the agenda is moving forward even as all these fireworks go off some where else. >> christine, i'm seeing some of the social media comments, saying, president trump was right in some ways on this issue and lavar ball was wrong. could this, in fact, have a negative impact on the future of his son's career because obviously ucla was hoping that this whole scandal would die down. >> all three of the players right now including lavar ball's son, they're suspended indelve and one would hope they'll be suspended the entire year. this is a very serious thing that did h...

People that look like me don't understand. >> hmm. good first step for the league and players? did anything actually get accomplished? >> i think it was a really good first step. just the fact that they're having this meeting is significant in the wake of donald trump's s.o.b. line of almost four weeks ago now, triggering all this reaction and fueling this, you know, this concern all the way around the country. what does it mean moving forward? i think they're going to have another meeting. my sense is they will eventually do something, whether it is highlighting each team in the community and...