Unity On Display Nfl News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

That they were a unified front after what president trump said on friday. you know, we saw groups of players taking a knee. some sat together on the bench, many locked arms during the national anthem, and for the first time we saw owners from teams around the league, some who did donate to president trump's campaign, standing arm in arm with their players during the anthem, showing their players that they had their backs and after the games yesterday, players around the league explained why they decided to do a show of unity. >> i felt like he attacked our brothers, my brothers in the league, ...

Have said look, congress isn't necessarily working with the president here yet, so we just need to give him more time. i think voters are being generous right now, but a year from now, six months to a year from now, i don't know if they'll continue to be that gen russ. >> we'll see. >> before you guys go, the president tweeted this morning that his comments on the nfl have nothing to do about race. he says it's about respect for our country, flag and national anthem. simone? nothing about race? >> well, we know that's not true. donald trump built his political career talking about race. he pio...

Why don't you do your job and actually protect this country and our flag and our veterans and stop being a league that allows people that beat their wives and beats their girlfriends, you help them cover it up for goodness sakes as owners, the owners are a flawed group in the nfl. this is a group of individuals that don't even care about their own players when they have traumatic head injuries and help cover it up to win games. this is a league that will cover up any crime that has been committed if one of their players can help them win a game. i'm not surprised they're standing arm in arm wi...

Thoughts on the president's comments. >> i certainly disagree with, you know, what he said and, you know, i thought it was just divisive and, you know, like i said, i just want to support my teammates. >> the patriots owner robert kraft is also a friend of president trump and he released a statement saying he was disappointed in the tone of president trump's comments and poppy, it's interesting, in the nfl world, we often talk about how the players and the owners are at odds over a number of issues. >> right. >> but this has certainly seemingly brought them together. >> it really has. and that...

Think that leadership in congress, meaning mcconnell and ryan, are taking the country in the wrong direction, but juxtapose that with this the same poll found among republicans, almost 80%, 79%, think president trump is taking the country in the right direction. john, so that would run counter to simone's argument? >> yeah. this will drive congressional republicans crazy but on many issues including health care, trump has more credibility than congressional republicans do. congressional republicans have won three national elections on repealing obamacare and then it comes up for a vote and the...