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Oppression by taking a knee." his message, stay strong brothers. andy scholes, remind us where colin kaepernick is in all of this. he wasn't resigned, there's been debate about that. >> of course there has been. he's the one who started it and he had to fall on the sword for the whole thing and if you look at it now it's silly the way his nfl career ended because he wasn't the only one kneeling, he was just the guy that started the movement and the fact he doesn't want to have a job in the nfl, it's not right. because to think he's not one of the best 90 quarterbacks in this country, it can't ...

It's so much easier so now, we're ready, bring on t. shipstation. the number one ch of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get two months free. jillian: taking a stand for the flag, connecticut on outraged after an elected official defends her decision to neil during the pledge of allegiance. rob: jackie ibanez joins us with the brewing backlash. jillian: this is a move usually seen from nfl players now heading home for one connecticut down. elected official melissa slagged taking a knee while reciting the pledge of allegiance at the start of a board meeting. she defended her decision...

>> the controversy didn't go away but lessened as the season went on, so it just -- why is it all coming back to the floor now? >> because several owners were very concerned about the bottom line and concerned about the protests and that's a part of this conversation. there's no doubt that there were people who were very angry about the players protesting, even though we have to remember almost two years ago now, it was colin kaepernick taking a knee on the topic of social injustice. so this was not against the flag, against the police, against anything, but morphed into something much more. t...

By and large, they were focused on issues and it was about getting americans to fight with each other. sometimes even in person, there were events that were part of this trove of documents as well. >> so give us a sense of it. walk us through ads that really stood out to you. >> i think by and large, you see a lot of ads in the trove of documents put out by the house intelligence committee on the issue of race. russian agents sought to play up tensions around organizations like black lives matter. you saw a lot of ads around the kneeling protests in the nfl. folks like the former quarterback c...

First of all you wouldn't be where you are and keith and i wouldn't be where we are but for his dream and his legacy. >> true. >> every time we see people coming together, whether black lives matter, whether the young people in their protests of gun violence and the plethora of guns on the streets, whether colin kaepernick taking a knee during the national anthem. that's king in different forms. but people coming together to stand up the country a more perfect union. in king's last speech he talked about the fact that we had an obligation and duty to protest to make the country better. >> i'm ...