o is indispensable, and i couldn't ask for a better partner. the most trusted name in news. [ applause ] i'm van jones. this is the van jones show. i want to thank you for being here. look, on our show we are trying to find a way to bring back some decency and civility and sanity to a country that honestly seems to be losing all three. that's why i am so glad we have here tonight the living embodiment of all three qualities. megan mccain is in the house tonight. [ applause ] >> we have megan mccain. it's amazing to have her. she's obviously a dauter of a famous senator, but today she's actually a star in her own

right. she's fighting every day for the best in the republican party. we'll get her insights which we desperately need. later we'll talk with nfl jenkins from the philadelphia eagles fresh from victory in the super bowl. sorry, not sorry from your patriot fans, he'll explain why he refuse toss visit the trump white house and what he is doing instead to truly make america great. it's been a crazy week. i understand governing can be hard sometimes. lots of things are hard sometimes. i have two boys in grade schools. homework can be hard sometimes. when my older son struggles with m mandarin, i don't worry about it because it's a tough subject. we are concerned about our government. we are messing up prekindergarten stuff. approving a budget.

keeping america's government open. passing a bill to let the dreamers stay when the vast majority of americans want the dreamers to stay. that's baby stuff. that's abc stuff. i mean, this week congress was able to end the second shutdown of america's government in three weeks by passing a budget. but isn't passing budgets just congress's job. that's what they are supposed to be doing. if we were struggling over climate crisis, the wealth gap, world peace, i would understand. but we can barely do basic stuff anymore. and why is that? it's because it would take real courage and real character for our leaders to just reach across the aisle, form a stable bipartisan government majority, governing majority, and get stuff done. instead the leaders are doing the opposite. they are stoking up the outrage and anger in the country over and over again. for example, some ofs had hoped that trump's chief of staff john kelly would bring some order to the chaos in the

white house. never mind. i mean, under his leadership, you know, the white house keeps trying to link the dreamers who are overwhelmingly law-abiding to despicable street game. how is that a strategy to bring people together and pass something? it doesn't make any sense. and it's worse than that. this week kelly is out there accusing dreamers of being lazy and gets off their asses while he's covering up for wife beater on his own staff. and then trump who never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity, haepd praieaped pr the same wife beater but said nothing about the pain or courage of the two former wives who are speaking out. look, that's not hard to get right. this is the first week trump says he wants to have a military parade because they are doing it in france. hypocrisy is every where.

not just republicans, but they are mad we don't have more shutdown. republicans under obama said deficits are terrible but now they love them to death. there is something wrong right now in the country h and what we need is a rebirth of courage, of character in the country. and there is no family that symbolizes those virtues more than ts mccain family. for generation after generation mccains have emerged as leading pat rates in their times. stood up for their principals and willing to pay a cost for doing so. so my nerks gext guest is megan mccain. please welcome her to the van jones show [ applause ] >> thank you. a little intimidating all these

photos. >> we had so many to choose from. you and your family have been out there doing extraordinary stuff. >> thank you for having me. i haven't been on cnn in years. years. thank you so much for having me. >> yeah, it's great. i want to say to your face, i've said it behind your back, i don't know if the country deserves you. >> oh, god. >> and i say that honestly because you are so rooted. you are a principled conservative. but you continue to try to reach out and make connections. so we need a lot more of that. so let's give her another round of applause. [ applause ] >> i agree. i really genuinely appreciate that. because i was listening to your intro, very easy to get jaded. i found myself going to places like that that i didn't think i was really capable of in the past, two and a half years i think something, cancer combined

with the election, i find myself getting a lot more just cynical about our country and hearing that, thank you very much it means a lot. >> your family has been key to this country through worst times teen th even than this. so we can't give up. you mentioned cancer. i told my audience last time my mom is struggling getting better but still struggling. how is is your dad? >> he had a bad bought at christmas time. hospitalized at walter reid. but he made this incredible come back. and i was with him at christmas time and doing a lot of physical therapy. and god bless his physical therapist who help him. they are end leslie patient. it's scary, i feel guilt i all the time for doing here and doing my job. i mean, as much as i want to say i get cynical and doubt, i get up in the morning, i prep, get my hair and makeup done and

dress, and talk. this is not what so many millions of americans are going through. still hard to live your life and job and having this omni present in everything you do. i have found i have bonded with people i never thought i would have over this. >> it's amazing how human it is you go to a hospital and it doesn't matter, you are rich or poor, that person in that bed is in their most fragile state. and people come together. but you don't do that just? hospital rooms, you do that beyond that. and it's tough. i want to say of all the great inour dad did,our dad ha done so many amazi things, thing that touched me most in the middle of the california pain going up against president trump hand spoke up. i want to show you this clip that everyone loves so much. i want to show it one more time. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him. and he's not -- he's an arab. he's not -- no.

>> no, ma'am. he's a decent family man citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues. and that's what this campaign is all about. he's not. thank you. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> so good. thank you. i can't go a day without someone bringing that up. every place i go on the subway, at restaurants, i cannot go a day without someone bringing up this moment. and i was there when it happened. i remember it incredibly vividly and thinking this is a moment that, you know, he's really not going to give in to what certain advisers are telling him to. there were a lot of people recommendly trying to get my dad to go with jeremiah right, you are a muslim, not an american aspect that later republican politics turned into. and he refused. and refused in that moment. and i can remember thinking it was a morally amazing and beautiful moment. but that maybe there would be people in pt republican party

that would be quite angry. >> yeah. well, you kw, where did that urag go? i mean, that is courage. i mean, you have the biggest prize ever right in your grasp and you make a decision to say there is principles bigger than that that i'll not violate even to grab the presidency. i don't see that courage in my party or your party. what do you think has happened? >> i think it doesn't win elections anymore. and the saddest way i can say it. and i think that, i think about that moment and where we are at politically a lot, and i do think that if i could go back in time, and my dad could do it all over again, and he would say build the wall h you know, whatever, praum esident obama i muslim, it would not be worth it. i would still say don't do it. [ applause ] >> let's me tell you something, my dad has glioblastoma cancer stage 4.

when you are having the conversations my family has been having, i feel such a relief right now and such a burden that is not on me. because i can't imagine what it's like being president but giving that up. but doing it the way president trump did it. i don't think dealing with cancer and the place i'm at in my life and where my family is at, i think it would be -- i think it would be a burden and i think it would be something that you have a hard time >>ea you are lukey to rely on john mccain as your da to you used to be on fox. now you are on the view. >> yeah, pretty crazy. >> what role did your dad's advice play in make that decision? >> i when i decided to take fox he was imploring me to take a risk and go on shows like this and get out of the echo chamber, because he does believe we are too insulated and tribal. and i can remember when i got the phone call about the view, i was in may owe clinic with him when he was getting a scan, and

waiting for results, and he said, agent called me and looking for you, say no. i'm not interested. and he was like why would you say no to something like that with working with whoop i goldberg being the one republican on this platform? and he keeps emphasizing speak out to other sides. i can talk forever, by the way, i'm sorry. >> are you guys happy to hear what she has to say? [ applause ] >> i can literally talk and talk and talk. >> just to play devil's advocate, did he give you bad advice? because now you are on the view and it looks like rock em sock em robots. and are y and you are the only one that's there. how does it feel when you are in those tough exchanges? sometimes the audience is mean. how do those exchanges feel for you? >> it's not pleasant when the

audience, physical audience in there tends to be mostly liberal. but i don't regret anything. and it's really huge privilege to be on this show. the women cohose the show, especially whoopy doing it 11 years, and joy 20 t and legends. it's a privilege to be there every day. it is challenging every part of my profession bause is almost like trying how to speak a new language, i wouldn't even call them liberals, most extreme liberals i've ever met in my life trying to showcase and my beliefs and express it in a concise way. >> what do liberals get wrong? i mean, you are one of the few people, every day you are trying to bridge that gap. give us some feedback. what are we miss sng what are we screwing up? when you go back to your dressing home and put your head on your desk, what is it that liberals need to get better about fwh this whole situation we are in?

>> i am first to say i'm not a huge trump supporter. but i decided on election night i would be analytical and i want to call balls and strikes in the way that i can. and i don't think i suffer from trump derangement in the sense that i can separate the man from the white house. i've never been accused of being racist in my entire life until recently until president trump became president. and i understand there is a lot of tensions in this country overheating in a way we have never seen before. and historically turbulent moment and i don't pretend to understand the plight of minorities in this country. but i'll sail that i have vivid memories of my father being called racist, of jed bush. >> over doing that particular charge, now it's almost like an ant

antibiotic we use? >> i think it gives a service to that. [ applause ] >> thank you. for me i want to accelerate those things and i don't want that to be thrown arndound. i understand there is a lot of pain right now. itts hur me that you are throwing out t i and basically the party i'm in and al the people that are in it are one guy end entity and everything is the same as simple as you are a racist. and john stewart as this ha macing quote, and i'll butcher it a bit, he knows good people not scared of black people, not scared of brown people. they are scared of their insurance preen humes going up. and i do think there is a lot of gray zone with trump supporters. and i would like both of us, myself included, because i'm certainly guilty of this as well, to stop throwing around horrible allegations and name calling. >> the blanket condemnations of both sides. >> yes. >> we'll come back and talk about that and a number of other things. when we come back we'll get her predictions for republican

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[ applause ] welcome back to van jones here. i am here with my guest megan mccain. i want to talk to you about immigration next big fight. you were saying when we left you saw some areas where liberals could grow and learn.

you know, there has been some tough talk on immigration front, sometimes in flam tory, feels racist from the right. what do you think that conservatives are missing? what do you think the conservatives cob learning in this moment? because you emotionally intellectually have to deal with liberals every day. what can you tell a conservative they wouldn't know? >> i think especially on daca and dreamers overwhelming majority is on the same page with this. so a lot of room for bipartisan agreement. i don't pretend to understand on both sides why we haven't made moovement there i'll say when my father was part of the gang of 8 i can remember the protest in anger when he was trying to pass the bill with the other eight senators and i remember signs outside his office jose mccain and lindsey mccain rhetoric. and it is something very hard lined and tribal flt republican party. i remember reading a quote by ann coulter where she said

president trump can provide abortions in the white house as long as he kept this hard line on immigration. and for whatever issue, it building it up, whatever it is. >> do you think the average conservative understands when a john kelly, chief of staff says the dreamers are lazy and they should get off their asses. that is so painful. do you think the conservatives get that at emotional leaf snell. >> level? >> i do think we'll have to at least going into midterms. face of america is changing in a lot of ways. i'm from a border state whether you like it or not chl. and i think this language, i never thought it would work to begin with, so probably wrong person to bring crystal ball going forward 2020. and i do think there will be ramifications whoever the next presidential nominee is.

i derstand its short hurtful. and i work with colleague on the view when the president said s hole, and she was really upset. her husband is hay tan and her children are haitian. and hearing her story her son would go to school and feel scapegoated. that is something i didn't think would be happening in america. >> one thing when you know somebody, i know a lot of conservatives, used to say about republicans that i never say now, because i know how that lands for them. that's important. and these issues come up, immigration you have to have a phd to understand it. and i want to show you one of the phrases that the president uses all the time. >> americans are dreamers too. we have some bad om bras here

and we need to get them out. >> get rid of chain migration. >> the more confusing the rhetoric gets. i want you to understand some of the terms being thrown around. for instance, chain migration. >> under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives. >> that's just not true. currently, u.s. citizens are allowed to sponsor only their spouses or fiances, their children or parents, and their siblings. that's it. if are you a green card holder are you allowed to sponsor your spouse or unmarried children for permanent residence. now, in theory, they could sponsor their family members creating this long chain. but that sar narrcenario is hig

improbable. it takes decades for a single family member to get approved for a visa. so the term chain migration is not only misleading but highly derogue torety. good thing the official term for this is family reunification. keeping families together. that doesn't sound quite as scary. >> you know, i applaud my little video there. i worked hard on that. [ applause ] >> you know, the language, you know, the language of different sides use, whatever, makes everything so hard. you mentioned you being from a border state. arizona. >> arizona, yeah. >> jeff flake. >> i know. >> how do you feel? talk us about jeff flake winning the senate. he's so good. >> he's intense unpopular wit republicans, and i shoulday my father is intensely unpopularwi. i think jeff flake is the least popular and my father is the

third less popular. we are party of trump. and if you go against him as intensely jeff flake has been, ramifications for the base, especially in arizona. >> do you think jeff flake primary donald trump and get this going at a national level? >> i think it's a nice pipe dream in this room. i don't know how it works in iowa, new hampshire. as much as i want to believe there is this room for more independent, more moderate republicans, i just don't know if trumpism is leaving any time soon. and it's more than likely he'll run for president again. i would like to see for debate standpoint but i don't think there is any chance of him winning. >> you are mccain. don't you think on principal they should, you sound resigned about the party? >> because i know what the party is. >> what is the party? >> it's trumpism right now. have no doubt about it.

trumpism has taken over. and difficult for me to come to terms with. >> do you see they lump it together with the republicans, it's this thing, if trumpism has so muchentum? >> i do understand it. a lot of people voted for president ump because they were disillusioned for hillary clinton or more worried about the economy than the job. >> another question. one of the things your dad got criticized for was picking sarah palin. >> i forgot about that. >> isn't this party, not really donald trump, but isn't this really the party of sarah palin? and if she had -- she would have run now, how well do you think sarah pale enwould do in modern republican party? >> i still think president trump is lightning in a bottle. the billions who are mark cue bin and stuff talking about

running for president. i don't think it's easy. it's a specific man and moment. i think the question of sarah pal len sen, she was the first populous party. i'm mixed on that because part of me thinks that could be yes, other part was that was just the wave the party was going. i don't know. i just wish there was more room in the republican party for different perspectives and different leaders. but i have thought that since 2009. so this isn't something new. it just seems to be particularly insular right now. >> tell me about your relationship with joe biden. >> oh, my gosh if he runs for president i'm screwed in every way. >> why. why do you love joe biden? >> because he's been friends with my father for many years. and his son had had glioblastoma like my father had. and he understands pain and

trauma in a way that i don't think most people do. and he has become -- i was always friendly with him in the sensou areridly when you see someone socially with your parents. but in the past six months he's really become someone i have turned to when i feel like the world is falling in. and he is the former vice president of the united states of america and the fact that he makes time for that and cares and says the kind of wonderful that he said on the view, which i didn't expect to cry and i ended up doing. he's a very special man. i disagree with him 75% politically, but he's such -- there is a level of decency and character reminds me of my dad. if he runs for president i don't know what i'll do. because i don't think i can bring myself to say anything negative about him. i mean it. it would be too hard. >> you said something that your dad was the third least popular. >> among republicans. >> and i just want to say something to you in closing, this country has a way of recognizing greatness, not in

the moment, but in time. and you are one of the part of the greatest families john kelly john mccain is one of the greatest americans. we thank you you for your service and commitment. >> thank you. and i'm so proud. thank you so much. >> megan mccain. thank you for being here. up next, we have super bowl champ jenkins. and i'm going to houston, that was ravaged by the hurricane, now they are having a political storm. i'll take you there when we come back. cream.ction or a it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla.

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>> everybody is watching immigration battle play out in washington d.c. but i want to get a sense of these conversations on the ground in the cities actually directly impacted. so i got back in my van, yes, van in the van, and i went to houston, texas, a place that has about a million immigrants. you think of houston these days, you think of hurricane harvey, but some of the biggest victims and heros were undocumented immigrants. everybody's hearts went out to them in the flood but a week later president trump rescinded daca and put thousand of dreamers under threat of deportatn. i wanted to go to houston and the aftermath of both of these h challenges. check this out. >> houston, texas.

big old storm. let's see how they have survived the political stuff. how are you? >> nice ride you have here. >> it's state of the art. >> welcome, welcome, welcome. get in this van. we need you. >> hey, buddy, how are you? >> can i borrow those pecks? you are in good shape, brother. >> thanks, guys. >> everybody around the world saw those images, saw the floods, saw whole neighborhoods under water. the flood waters have receded, but some of the pain is still here, jesus, you are a paramedic and you were in the thick of everything. >> we were working nonstop, those days pulling people out of

the water. seeing people go through these, you know, emotional roller coast tear ers, losing their family members. working nonstop i get to watch the use, and it's the president saying that there is plans on resending daca. >> iave a dreamer. amer. >> you have daca status. >> correct. >> so you came to the united states when you were five, correct? >> yes, five. >> both came to the united states when you were five years old. >> yes. >> that's amazing. >> i just became a citizen, u.s. citizen and my first vote was for donald trump. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> on the citizenship part. >> welcome to the team, brother. >> hold on a second. so we have two kids from mexico, basically the same age, one is now a citizen, one is a dreamer. and one voted for donald trump. >> why did you vote for donald trump? >> just look at what's going on right now, the economy is up, jobs are coming back to america.

he was just the right guy. >> when he first announced, he said, you know, mexicans not sending best people, rapists, and some of them might be good people. how did that land with you? >> well, he didn't rfr to all mexicans. he truly didn't refer to the people who were in mexico. i think donald trump cares a whole lot about all americans. >> as a christian, i can say that no human is perfect, right. so i can understand why somebody like donald trump is as ignorant as he is. because he's never had to live that struggle. he's never been an immigrant. >> i just don't understand how you can go to a country and cal their president ignorant and then tell him to give you legal status. i just don't understand that. >> i'm going to call ignorance ignorance when i see it. >> so why would somebody want to help if you are treating them like that? i would be grateful for giving a chance. >> dictatorship. i'm not going to pretend to suck

up to him so i can get legal status. >> if you are sitting here legally and you are not, can you see that's frustrated? >> can you see for a young guy like jesus, basically when the europeans came over here it was all right, now they are not? >> things changed last 250 years, but we have rules now and that's how we maintain society. >> this obsession with the wall, i think for some people feels like an obsession with people of a certain skin color from certain part of the world. why is southern border so important? does it have anything to do with the fact that a bunch of brown people? >> no. it isn't even brown people. >> has a lot of violence, it just does. south america, central america, a lot of central american countries have a lot of violence. and i know because i've been there. this is not offensive but i feel like it's a betrayal. you came here, you made it, you are a citizen now, so forget the rest of the people. >> that's absolutely not true.

i respect american national sovereignty, but i also respect mexican national sovereignty. but at the end of the day some had to come for your gent situations. my mom had to come here and no chance for us to do things legally. my dad was involved with drugs and drug cartel so we were trying to leave that life. >> in the state of the union i think he sounded very compassionate i'm going to help 1.8 daca recipients and give him legal status. >> my daca expires 2018 so it's have an expiration and it's coming up soon. some say leave it to legislation, if they don't come up with solution come october, then i'm deported. >> so stereotype noup the trump voters heart less people, you are mean, tough on mexicans, you are heart less and mean on mexicans? >> i'm not heartless and mean. i enjoy helping folks that come

here. >> what is significa about this high school? >> crystal ray was started about six years ago, and these kids are primarily latino and lower income housing. many of them daca kids. and my company, what we do is fund scholarships for these kids. >> why do you personally do this? >> i was -- my dad died when i was 7 years old hand raidsed by a single mom. we ask parents pay what they can pay. we had a woman in the firstie couldn't afford to provide anything. she said i can provide tore till owes to the school. so every week she brought tortillas to the school, and those are the people we want to support in the community here. >> you have two guys, one is for trump, one is against trump, but both are helping the community. both saw their mom struggle through. and both would do anything to help ha undocumented kid.

i don't think the country knows that's what's going on here in houston. >> somebody wants to be here working hard and doing things that make this country great again. >> had to get that in there. that was good. >> we were so close. [ laughter ] >> just trying to help you out, brother. >> that was a hard core trump supporter wtsho wan to build a wall but he was moved to tears about helping personally undocumented kids. as i said before, the truth is messy. when we come back the super bowl champion malcolm jenkins is here and talking about the big win and why he wouldn't be celebrating at the white house. see you when we get back. [ applause ]

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[ applause ] brand new super bowl champion but he's been a champion for social justice for years. please welcome philadelphia eagles malcolm jenkins in the house. [ applause ] >> congratulations, man.

>> preaappreciate that. >> you did it. before we get into the political stuff, how does it feel to beat tom brady? >> feels good, man. [ applause ] >> feels good. >> yeah, man. so i mean that last couple minutes, i was biting my nails. i thought you were goners. what happened? >> it was a close game. we knew that the patriots would adjust at halftime and it would come down to the wire. we knew at one point we needed to make a play, brandon brown made it and got the first super bowl in philadelphia. >> amazing. [ applause ] >> you don't just have two super bowl rings. you also have now two daughters. >> yeah. >> that is crazy. literally ten seconds before the game started. >> tell us about your daug. >> yeah. we just had my second daughter salan jenkins. january 16th week of nfc championship. >> look at that. >> she's down on the field after

the game. it was at superbo bowl so fun times. >> i think when people see protests on the field you think you have political 15 seconds ago. bu but you have been actively involved in community stuff for years. i tried to put it in. i said let's put it up on the screen. we have a whole list of stuff you've been doing. you've been doing ride along's with police. meeting with legislatures. testifying on capitol hill. why do you feel as athlete feel it's important to do all this stuff? not just the protests on the field. you are doing real hard work. >> yeah, i think most of us, especially in nfl, you look at where these players are coming from, it's the same neighborhoods and communities that are under served, that are depleted, and we are sometimes the few that have gone out and made it and had the opportunity through sports to go to college, get an education and experience

things. >> well, why do you keep going back? >> my family still lives in the same area. my family is all in northern new jersey. and you see some of the disparities and in justis in our country, not only effect my family but the k that i serve through my foundation all over the country. i can have them in my program but still sending them back to that neighborhood that has no opportunity, no real chance for them to thrive. >> you and ant twon bolden something very extraordinary 20 players to create the coalition, bargaining with the nfl to get them to do more. you have 3.a gend around criminal justice, around police reform, around education. i mean, this is the highly unusual. why did you decide to go and get all these people together to work as a unit? >> well, shortly after the

player protests started in 2016, after kaepernick started that whole movement h and twon bolton reached out to a couple of guys and we organized the trip to d.c. we met with legislatures on both sides of the aisle about criminal justice reform. and we took two trips. and after our second trip we sat down and said if we could, a group of five athletes use our influence to get all of these meetings and people can't get, how much more leverage can we have if we actually create a collusion of players all over this league that can obviously create change in these 32 cities in our country? and because we knew there was interest of other guys. so we started reaching out to our peers, and soon after started what we were calling the players coalition. >> and how is it going? i mean, it's got to be weird for -- this is not like a normal labor union. you are getting together not fighting for your own benefit, fighting for the community.

how is it going? >> it's a learning curve for us hand done a good job of reaching out to experts in the field to kind of, on tch us what's voes and platforms to educate our fan base, to draw attention to solutions and how everybody can play a role in it. >> it seems to me that given how politically engaged you are and so katded you are going to the white house would be next logical step. but you said you are not going to the white house. brother, why aren't you going to the white house? people go on planes. they stand in long lines to get into the white house. why are you not going to the white house? >> well, me personally i've been to the white house before. winning a chp winning a championship with the saints i did the whole going to the white house, taking picture with the president. at this point in time i'm not interested in photo ops. i'm very interested in doing the work on criminal justice reform. very interested in meeting with members of both parties, doesn't matter to me, where that work is is where i'll be. this is not just one of those

opportunities this is sell tore i event. where the president comes in shakes a couple hands and takes a picture and leaves and i'm not interested in that. >> but if you don't go does it make it seem like you are not patriotic or mad at america? how do you deal with people make those criticisms? >> i any everybody has their own opinion. when it comes to this presidency i'm not very excited about getting my picture taken with him. not worth my time. i'd rather spend my time working on issues we've been fighting for of the that's my personal decision. >> tough question for you. tu said one of your big pilars is criminal justice reform. and the white house people now pushing to make that happen. if donald trump called you and said look i don't like your protests or like your flag stuff, whatever, put that to one side. come to the oval office and talk to me about a substantive issue like criminal justice reform. >> i think i would definitely consider it. if i wouldn't, what is it that i'm trying to accomplish?

so if you can go directly to the president of the united states and talk about these issues that are playing our communities, i think that's a responsibility for us regardless of how you feel about somebody on a personal level. >> well, give him a round of applause. that's what's not happening. [ applause ] >> look, that's the kind of leadership that's not happening. you have people literally will not get in a room together because they disagree. what you guys have been able to do is unreal. as greats a mohamed aluhammad ae never got the whole to talk about the issue. you guys have gotten the entire nfl, the owners and leaders to sit down and negotiate with you, human being to human being not about your salary but about social justice. this never happened before. it is an honor to meet yoke doing what you are doing.

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i. i am back with super bowl champion, activist and entrepreneur. i have crowd sourced a bunch of questions from the viewers. >> does social activism have a financial impact on athletes? >> i think when it comes to your finances, it usually is off the field. nobody yet has been actively fired for their about activism. you have seen colin kaepernick not be able to get a job afterwards. >> is it worth it then? >> i think so based on the results. if you want to push for change, change comes with a cost and a sacrifice. you have seen the money off of the field be hurt. there are sponsors and endorsements you will lose.

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hello. you are in the "cnn newsroom." great to have you with us. president trump's personnel problem that blew up in the middle of the week didn't get better. to people who worked close to the oval office suddenly quit their jobs. both men accused of violent behavior and domestic abuse. both accusations coming from their ex-wives and both of these staffers are now out. the president coming to their defense earlier today. cnn ryan nobles is at the white house with more on that. ryan? >> yes. this is another example of the white house being forced to deal with a crisis. one that they didn't seem to