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and a tennis star meltdown. i'll explain why so serena wils got it all wrong this weekend and i'll be joined by former tennis great himself. but first, the nfl fumbles on the anthem again. and that's the focus of tonight's "angle." ♪ last may, the nfl owners announced a policy requiring their players to either stand for the national anthem or remain in the locker room during the anthem. anyone kneeling or protesting would be fined. but what a difference a few months make, as the nfl has now announced that it won't implement its own new policy. so this weekend, kenny stills an albert welcome of the miami dolphins took a need during the anthem of their's season opener. their teammate, robert quinn, stood, but he did so with a fist in the air. what penalties will be faced?

none. it nfl spokesman tells "sports illustrated," the status quo continues as productive discussions are ongoing on the important work on social justice. you might have forgotten that this all started back during the obama era, and about august, 2016. that was when colin kaepernick refused to stand in a preseason game for the 49ers. after that game, he defended his gesture, saying, i'm not going to stand up to show pride and a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. to me, this is bigger than football. there are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder. well, remember, kaepernick started on police brutality but now, this has morphed into a much broader movement that the nfl felt that it had to support. so in an attempt to appease the protesting players, and put the

kibosh on the protests, the league committed nearly $100 million earlier this year to what they call "social justice initiatives." but just where does that money go? while, $73 million of it will be divided into three organizations. 25 percent to the united college fund, 25 percent to dream core, which is kind of a left-wing social justice crew founded and led by van jones. their goal is to lower the prison population by half and provide sanctuary to all. not sure what that means. and then half of the $73 million will go to something called the players coalition. the players coalition was a nonprofit quickly formed by a group of nfl players to guide the social justice conversation and receive any money that the nfl might be willing to donate. and get this, they've consulted

with george soros-backed criminal justice group and the liberal center for american progress. to this, according to espn. the coalition is led by 12 players, but it was founded by malcolm jenkins of the eagles. retired player and quan bolden. the group advocates for everything from criminal justice reform and racial equality to voting rights. but some players have withdrawn from the group, including michael thomas and eric reed, who was one of the first players to protest right along with kaepernick. in an interview with slate, he trashed the nfl's attempt at hush money, he called it, and resigned it from the players coalition altogether, claiming that malcolm jenkins told him that money would come from funds that are already allocated to breast cancer awareness and salute to service. so it would really be no skin off the owner's backs. they would just move the money from those programs to this one.

we didn't agree with that. because we weren't trying to cut other worthy programs. well, whatever the case, the nfl thought it could buy its way out of any further controversy surrounding the anthem by basically paying off a patchwork of left-leaning groups. but it didn't completely work. on the broadcast side of this issue, the increasingly liberal espn has decided it will simply no longer air the playing of "the star-spangled banner" at all before monday night football. well, i hope colin and company are happy with that. the fans aren't. the viewership of the nfl season opener at least was down 13% of last year and reached the lowest rating for an opening game since 2009. they did better yesterday, though. well, i have a better idea. if these players are the nfl were truly concerned about making life better for minorities the united states, why not consider dropping the

political trip on your shoulderd consider working with the trump administration? i know you might not like his tweets, i get that. but i have a question, are you aware of president trump's openness to criminal justice reform? >> working together, we can restore the rule of law, keep dangerous criminals off our streets, and help former inmates get a second chance at life. and a second chance that many of them will really succeed out. if only given the chance. america is a nation that believes in the power of redemption. >> laura: or his willingness to commute the sentences of those with exemplary records and unusual circumstances, like alice marie johnson. >> my message to president trump is, thank you so much, president trump, for taking the time to really look at my case and to really look at me. and as i have said before, i am well -- i promise you,

president trump, i will make you proud. >> laura: i love that moment. and of course president trump's policies have made this the best time ever for black americans to find jobs. black unemployment is at a stunning and record low, currently at 6.3 or 6.5%. although the president disagrees with the anthem kneelers, and we all know that, he also offered them an olive branch back in june. >> you should stand for our national anthem. you shouldn't go in a locker room when our national anthem is played. i'm going to ask all of of thoe people to recommend to me -- because that is what they are protesting -- people that they think were unfairly treated by the justice system. and i understand that. and i'm going to ask them to recommend to me people that were unfairly treated, friends of theirs or people that they know about, and i'm going to take a look at those applications, and if i find -- and my committee

finds that they are unfairly treated, then we will harden them, or at least let them out. >> laura: so my question is, how many of the nfl players have taken him up on that offer? reached out to the president? welcome and may be some have used back channels, i don't know. but did not do so confirms a suspicion that the anthem protests are more about ideology than equality. and that would be a real shame. and that's the "angle." joining us now with the reaction is the president of the national organization of black law enforcement executives, along with retired nfl star burgess owens. great to see both of you. vera, i want to go right to you. for your reaction to "the ankle, given what has happened over the past few years and where we are today, why not the players turn this into an opportunity to work

with president trump? especially on criminal justice reform? >> thank you so much for having become a laura. i can't speak for the players, but as far as the national organization of law enforcement executives, we do support anyone's right to peacefully protest. we do see this as an opportunity to address some of the issues in criminal justice reform, as well as trust and legitimacy. this opens the door for dialogue and conversation, as far as our conversation with the president, i can't really speak to that. >> laura: burgess, why do you think vera is wrong? this is an opportunity for conversation and community and people getting together, i mean, set aside the issue of george soros group helping advise the players coalition or any of that, but could something go dog come out of this? to not admit that, isn't that -- as a wrong? >> laura, i think your "angle" was a spot on.

we have an opportunity here to actually help those who are hopeless and unfortunately, i think our problem is we have this group of black elitists that are doing pretty well in our country. they are living the american dream. they spend more time telling our young people how they cannot make it and telling them how white people are stopping them from being successful instead of reaching out and finding solutions. we have now around the football field millions of dollars, billions of dollars represented by these young players, and not once have they come together and put together a conversation about entrepreneurship, how about telling our young men to man up and stop deserting our families, how about respect? there are a lot of things we can do. at the end of the day, the left doesn't want that to happen. they would rather have us be miserable did versus real solutions and that is what president trump represents right now, a way to talk through and get solutions. they don't want to come to the table because he will get credit for it. >> laura: friday on "fox & friends," the president actually addressed the anthem

issue again. let's watch. >> i don't know why they are not enforcing it. and in cases where they don't have it, you know, they have a new thing where they don't have to do that, you don't have to kneel, you can go back into the locker room, i think that is worse than kneeling in a certain way, going back in. that shows that you just have no respect for the anthem or the flag. >> laura: vera, what about that? the black law enforcement association executives support peaceful protest. but then you had colin kaepernick wearing the socks with a pig in a police hat on them and a lot of police officers that i speak to, and i got a chance to know so many over the years, are just like, you know something, this doesn't help make our jobs easier, this doesn't help keep people safer in the inner-city. there is a time for protest but when it comes to the national anthem, that should be a moment of unity for the country, and patriotism regardless of political differences or cultural is

agreement. >> the national organization of black law enforcement executives, our membership, we do not feel like that was an attack against law enforcement. we feel like it had brought attention to some very important issues. >> laura: what issues? >> criminal justice reform, as i think i just heard the gentleman speak about, going into the neighborhoods, making a difference, talking to the young people. our organization as well as other organizations, we are doing that. we are trying to get out and give the message of hope -- >> laura: hold on, vera, did colin kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem get the black police officers executives association to go out in the neighborhoods? i mean, burgess, police are out to the neighborhoods all the time, and they are getting disrespected by people who -- you know, are taught to hate police, sadly, both black,

white, and latino police officers. they tell the same story. i get at, people are frustrated, i understand it, and protest is fine. but it also seems like, there is just some common sense we are missing in this conversation. common sense. >> it comes down to this, you're right, there is a message going to the black community and not messages anti-american, antiwhite, anti-free enterprise, and you see that with the anger that is developing within our young people have no idea how to break out of it. i want to talk about the nfl because of the end of the day, it is the management. in might not be all the owners but they management has decided it is a good deal for them. right now they have figured out a way that they can make $27 billion for the next nine years in a global fashion, all they have to do is throw it the face of the and i felt as markets. because china, france, left-leaning countries, would love to embrace nfl, has become a global brand, of all they can do is just be named the brand at the the animals had in the past. this is a long-term process --

>> laura: they wanted to get rid of the problem and it has minimize the problem for sure but my radio audience is still ticked off. both of you, i appreciate it very much tonight. and the new orleans advocate says that, well, he is ageless at age 37 and still getting it done, as tight and to the saints, tough game last night. running back mark ingram says he is so wrapped he looks like the under armour manikin. hear from the effort mention players coalition is the the new england saints ben watson. hey, how are you doing? >> i'm good, how are you? >> laura: i'm good. the under armour mannequin, i saw that, and that must make you feel good even if you had a tough night last night. you heard the angle, ben. your thoughts on where things are, given the $100 million almost the nfl has given to various groups, including this players coalition. how are do you feel?

>> i think the bigger thing we are missing in this whole conversation, the fact that what call ended by kneeling was one take take on the long spectrum of players and americans were concerned about what is going on in this country. people, everyday people, fathers, brothers, sisters, they are all concerned when they see things that happen on television or maybe the experience of being themselves. what call ended obviously brought a lot of attention but this is one thing on a long a long spectrum and specifically when you talk about the coalition, tomorrow we are having a listen and learn to new orleans, learning about criminal justice system, educating ourselves, hearing some grassroot organizations that are involved in us, going to bail hearings, hearing from people that are now able to vote because of a law that was recently passed here in the state of louisiana. so players are engaged, players want to learn, players want to advocate. i heard burgess say something before about what guys are not doing. let me tell you something, i'm a father of five. i live here in new orleans. i'm in a room, a locker room,

with 53 other guys from various places around the country and we do go into our communities, we do encourage young people, we do tell them that they can do whatever they want to do. in my house, i tell my kids that they can become whatever they want. but i'm also real with them. i'm also real with them, laura, telling them that there are certain challenges that they are going to base because of the color of their skin. >> laura: that this is what eric reid said, who obviously was a boarding colin kaepernick early on. a free agent. i guess he hasn't been to sign to anyone yet which is tragic because he's a really good player. why he left the players coalition. this is from november of 2017. "we know we agreed to be a part of the players coalition we were under the impression that it was going to be our organization, that we would all have equal say. we've come to find out that it's actually malcolm and anquan's organization. malcolm wants us to invest, i call it donate, to the company that played salaries for his staff. but again, we would have no equity."

what is your reaction to his ongoing complaint about what has happened with this players coalition, where a huge amount of money is going into concerns about where that money is it ending up, who's getting wet, and what audit is being done all that? >> there is auditing, it is unofficial 501, all that stuff is right. the nfl wouldn't be giving money if they didn't know how to trace it and where it's going. as far as eric, he is -- i'm glad you mention that he's a great player, because he is a great player. he is one that should be in his league. him and malcolm have dealt with their differences and this is september, this is a month ago, i'm not going to comment on where they are or not because that they believe that they are in a better place. again, where we are now is different. players are poised to make a difference and that is exactly what we are going to do. >> laura: did you need a donation from the nfl to be involved in your community? i know a lot of you guys do a lot already, you did it before

colin kaepernick, and you are doing and after colin kaepernick. again, it looks like from the outside -- and even some of the more left-wing critics of you guys -- and there are people on the left to really think you guys were just bought off, like this guy stephen crockett in "the root." i'll put up the full screen of that. "malcolm jenkins sounds like the man who turned his back on harriet tubman to do the good work of making sure he can effect change from inside the plantation. please stop calling malcolm jenkins the face of colin kaepernick's movement. that would be like saying ben carson is doing the work that malcolm x started." that is a nasty comment about ben carson. you get the point. you guys were too quick to take the money, instead of continuing to protest and standing against what the nfl owners are really all about. you are getting hit by both sides, the left on the right, i guess. >> honestly, laura, i can understand how from the outside it may look that way, but when you are in the inside, and you understand him again, that

generations of players coming to this point in moving forward are going to be concerned about the issues that all americans should be concerned about, you understand that the money being donated was simply awesome the nfl coming together and negotiating that and them being willing to support some of our causes. i think that we can learn a lesson from what has happened here because on the outside, again, when you watch the news and when you hear the tribalism that is going on, there's a lot of back-and-forth but there is no communication. what we have done between players in the league is to come together, communicate. they are learning about it. because of that, they want to support our initiatives. >> laura: ben, why not work with president trump? is doing criminal justice reform, prison reform, he's reached out to you guys, given an olive branch, saying, you guys have ideas, bring them to my committee and we'll consider them. i let you have the last word briefly. >> this is the president of united states. he has ample resources, he has gone through thousands and thousands of people who need pardons. we wrote an op-ed talking about, we want systemic change, not

just a pardon here or there, although that may be great for someone that happens. these issues don't even -- it's broader than that. >> laura: i get it. >> i commend the president on his willingness. >> laura: what i am saying is, they are doing prison reform now, and he has expressed, as i explained in the "angle," a desire, perhaps, was kind of takes off a lot of conservatives, to do a broader criminal justice reform. he's bringing in all these people, including van jones, who is also getting money from the nfl, so why not -- forget the politics for a moment. we could actually get something done with this president, even with all of our differences on other issues, his tweets or whatever. you know what i'm saying? come and talk to him. i think you would actually find someone who would actually want to work with you on a lot of things. that is my sense. final thought? >> after i get out the interview, please forward me the president's number so i can contact him directly so we can work. as players we are open to any

invitation for the president of united states, obviously, and we will work with him. but for me, i will say this one thing for me. this issue of judges is important because in the book of micah it says to all come to your god. this is one of those issues -- >> laura: that's a great one. we will end it there. thank you so much, ben watson. up next, bannon. but thanks to cigna, we can do more than just look heroic. we can help save lives by getting you to a real doctor for a check-up. nurse, this thing's defective. please don't touch that. we are the tv doctors of america. together with cigna reminding you... to go, know, and take control of your health. doctor poses! cigna. together, all the way.

♪ >> tell me what the democrats are running on. >> them. 45! >> they are resorting to races and insignia phobic and every other things. >> african-american employment come hispanic on appointment and record lows. >> this election cycle is about the highest stakes possible. >> this is armageddon. >> you know, this is tough stuff. we are fighting a war. >> laura: that is a clip from the film "trump at war," the new documentary from former white house chief strategist for steve bannon. and president trump's enemies are seemingly emboldened after the release of the woodward book and that anonymous "new york times" op-ed by senior administration officials. bannon says president trump is now facing what is essentially a coup from within his own white house. he joins us now with more. you can see the film one stay on that one america news network, that is going to be a lot of fun. how are you doing? long time no see.

>> thanks for having me. >> laura: thanks for dressing up. you have your own clothing line coming out, black on black? >> i knew if i was going to come on the show, he would bust my chops. i deserve it. >> laura: i need the military jacket tonight because you're at war so you are to be the military court. why the film, why now? we are at war -- we've been at war from the beginning -- >> i've talked about this for years, i've been on your radio show, you were on my radio show. trump has been at war with a permanent political class. eight months ago, i started this film feeling that by the time we had the run up and was going to be like the tea party movement. we needed these rally films to get people in power. this film is for the base was to get them excited coming to get them out, walking, et cetera. you can already tell it's gotten a big reaction already from the democratic left. >> laura: the funny thing is, it is coming out wednesday when you had omarosa, michael wolff,

woodward, and now the anonymous call in. and there are some other hearsay come of this is all planned. i don't know if it was all planned or coordinated. you almost think it would be, given that this is -- every day it is a drip, drip, drip. >> the film shows what president trump has been up against from day one. the campaign and particularly in the white house. i think those books of the anonymous column, it is quite evident that president trump -- there is a coup. i mean, there is a coup, saying there was a coup by general mcclellan and his senior leadership in the union army to try to thwart what abraham lincoln wanted to do in the i might have an exact type of coup right now. what was that an anonymous letter is absolutely outrageous. i think the president ought to take immediate and direct action to find out who the conspirators are. i don't think there is any one author. i think there is an author -- i think there is somebody who drafted it, there are many voices in there. i think you can tell the weight is written. i think it is a much broader conspiracy than people think. i think it is six to a dozen people and i think you ought to

immediately start to do what andrew jackson did, do what abraham lincoln did, find out who is responsible, and fire them. >> laura: people are wishing she met john welch's booth was still around. i mean, this is the level of discourse and dialogue are they always blame trump for previously, he is the one who wanted to punch out a rally. >> you can see -- i have a prologue in this film that is 5 minutes long. if this was put into theaters, because it is going to be distributed otherwise, it'll probably be x-rated for violence and language. what we did is went back to the rallies, we went back to what ntb has done to the trump supporters. we show the violence. the left is out of control right now. across across the board. >> laura: is it by any means necessary? >> absolutely. now they have cohorts, cohorts across the administration i think it is broader than the white house. remember, what "the new york times" it said was senior administration officials and what that basically means for "the new york times"'s cabinet secretaries or deputies,

major agency heads, and assistance to the president, which is about 40-50 people. >> laura: nikki haley came out with an op-ed in "the new york times" where she basically was supportive of the president but said, when i want to challenge the president, i do so directly to his face. there was word that the president didn't like that that much. why do you have to write a column with that focus? again, it was fairly positive toward the president but pointing out she disagrees with him on key issues. when i worked for the reagan administration, it wasn't so out there, constantly, that you had perpetual infighting, although there were people who were less conservative than reagan. the it was more of a movement, sense of a movement -- >> i don't know, jim baker, and towards the end of the first term or the second term, you had the knives being put into the conservatives every day. write houses are naturally -- >> laura: that's okay. >> cauldrons of opinions, et cetera. >> laura: tromped out like people of differing opinions and in the end, did gary cohn

get his way on trade? >> he did not. >> laura: bob lighthizer didn't. trump did. >> i said to politico, what president trump ought to do is buy a million copies in or drop them into the congressional districts who got to win. president trump at the right idea for the beginning. he understands we are in economic wars trying and he will bring all forces of the government to bear in the economic war. cohen and porter and all this crowd that is part of the committee to save america come over to the book is basically the type of note, the two central parts, the war, economic war against china and afghanistan, in which the president was lied to and misled, about the cost of afghanistan and what kind of control we had over the country, that is my jim mattis went to afghanistan to try to -- by the way, they were not on front and truthful to the president of the united states. if you look -- and they say in there that he has the temperament of a 5-year-old. i told politico today, if that is a five euros, i want more 5-year-olds on the national security council.

here is a guy that has been everything they say in a book about history policies ergonomics -- dead wrong. >> laura: obama has taken credit for the economy. you have this manufacturing boom, blue-collar jobs, wages going out for the lowest wage workers, they said it would never happen. it's happening, he's killing it on the jobs front, obama is taking credit on friday. >> not just obama but also the bush administration. let's be brutally honest -- >> laura: and anonymous. >> a lot of the anonymous are people from the bush administration, establishment republicans, establishment republicans, and the democrats have been about to manage, decline, states of america. president trump is at is raster, innovator. this is what drives him nuts because of his policy -- what he's doing is reorienting the world supply chain, back to united states, that is where mexico has just cut a deal with us. that is why the e.u. will cut a deal with us, that is why korea and japan will cut deals with us. he's winning. he -- economic nationalist. it you can tell what he's doing on trade.

he's bringing jobs back. they hate that. goldman sachs, gary cohn of these guys are the investor relations department -- >> laura: they are all bought into china. >> 100%. what they told trump was that the rise of china is like the second -- >> laura: inevitable. >> like the second law of thermodynamics, some law of physics that can be turned around. he said, that's not true. he's been relentless. the book opens where they are stealing, taking up his desk the deal about nafta and about kore. they said it was terrible, tromped at it now. eventually got around to it. he renegotiated and after, he renegotiated korea, and is renegotiating in the process of taking the supply chain back. >> laura: why was omarosa hired? >> she was on the campaign. by the way, omarosa was very good in the campaign. >> laura: she was effective. >> she was very effective on the campaign. she did a terrific job, we had d to throw amaro sent if it's a very tough situations and i think that is why -- >> laura: she was taping conversations. >> in hindsight, reince

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♪ >> laura: from bob woodward's new book to the anonymous "new york times" op-ed to the brett kavanaugh senate hearings to the obama come back, to the political stage, well, there appears to be an all out coordinated attack from the resistance against president trump. the hoover institution's victor davis hanson calls this the circus of resistance. and a great piece that ties all these events together. joining us now for a conversation debate, dan bongino, former secret service agent and nra tv host victor davis hanson. then chris hahn, here with me in the studio, and have a good to see him come a former aide to senator chuck schumer, radio talk show host.

all right, v dh. let's start with you. is woodward calling up omarosa? is that it's what you mean or is it just the constant drumbeat? >> no, i didn't say it was people got into a room as the senate democrats did with the kavanaugh hearing. not like that. here we are, 60 days out and suddenly we have been on sourced, unnamed, anonymous op-ed with which is very rare in the journalistic press by "the new york times" alleging all these bad things are trump did and they are stylistic. there is not any citation that the iran deal, getting out of their parents accord, or negotiating our impeachable offenses paredes is member of an "resistance." four days later, the same theme is again exhibited in bob woodward's advance copies and barack obama, unlike past presidents, now decides suddenly

he will go out on the campaign trail, he can't decide when he says that trump is basically a clear and present danger. he is so dangerous that he's taking credit for all these good things that are happening that really should belong to obama. and then we have this really tragic situation with the mccain funeral follow the script of the paul wellstone for 16 years ago were turned into a pep rally and then mccain's theme was sort of channeled by the anonymous. there is one thing about all of those that that is strange and is common, and that is, it's a complaint against style and temperament and so-called disability, but is juxtaposed to a record booming economy, and a record of achievement -- >> laura: but it's obama's economy. it's obama's economy, victor david hanson. >> it doesn't matter overseas because -- she's doing so bad that is mine. i want to claim that bad record. >> laura: we got to play some of this obama from friday. >> please, i loved it. >> laura: this is the guy,

after groton president, very charismatic, but i don't like people that try to take credit for other people stuff. let's watch. >> when you hear how great the economy is doing right now, let's just remember when this recovery started. >> laura: when the recovery started. >> boy did it start? >> laura: remember, barack obama in 2016 was income he thinks he's going to wave a wand and bring back these manufacturing jobs. he didn't wave a wand but he did have sensible policies. booming manufacturing, wages going up a blue-collar, even cnbc had to do a piece today basically admitting that the addition of the manufacturing jobs under trump has been astounding and dwarfs what obama did. >> no question at all, the economy is doing great right now. they didn't just start the day the man took office. let's be clear. >> laura: the growth of manufacturing, which they said would not happen and blue-collar and manufacturing, they said it

wouldn't happen from steve ratner to barack obama, and it's happening under trump. >> the growth in manufacturing under trump is a product of the booming economy, a product of developing partners products u, it's natural to happen. it started under obama and it continued. don't forget, the jobs that obama was creating come of the economy was creating about 20,000 jobs more per month they may have been other than a trump administration over the last two years of the obama administration. it's not like this just happened. >> laura: there were jobs created but again, this goes back to the resistance, dan bongino. you agree with what victor davis hanson was saying? >> yeah, victor is right. to the politics of the swamp forever has been about two commodities: connections and money. donald trump is a threat to both of those things. he doesn't give a rats caboose about your connections because he doesn't need them and he certainly doesn't need your money. to grace's point also, i love dg with chris, he's a good friend but he rarely, if ever, knows the numbers, and he doesn't kno. on barack obama led the worst

recovery from recession and american history. this is drudgery to statistical numeric fact. and it was hard for liberals to digest. but it's a matter of fact. >> come on. >> notice what he does, laura. he goes right to the stock market because he can't argue but i just said -- >> 11 billion jobs. >> the jobs, donna brazile herself in a disclosed email, you can all read on the internet, acknowledge and 2016 at the jobs created under the obama administration were part-time jobs. they were not full-time jobs and chris's number about that is wrong, too. full-time equivalent jobs, donald trump, 4.1 million. obama, 3.3 million. >> the favorite number during the obama years were draw participation, which is down, a quarter percent under trump. >> laura: i think the main thing is, victor, you talked about this before. wages are going up. that is what all the economists have been looking for.

they were flat under obama. >> in the last 12 months, wages of the middle class worker have gotten off 3%. that is a funny number. three. because barack obama was the first modern president ever to achieve 3% annualized gdp growth. the reason he didn't was because he put on new regulations, he had the neo-socialist obamacare health plan and he jawbone to the economy. he said, you didn't build that, now is not the time -- >> laura: people were not as optimistic. >> he raised taxes and it created a climate where people did not want to invest. >> laura: there was an anemic recovery, a recovery, but just the numbers -- guys come out i wish we had an hour. thank you so much. by the way, serena williams had a messy loss during the u.s. open final, an amazing player but a sad, sad event because of how this all went down. now she is in some circles becoming like the colin

kaepernick figure of tennis. so how did that happen? feminist hero or a sore loser will discuss it next.

>> serena was watching her coach give her -- >> verbal abuse. >> i'm here fighting for women's rights, and for women's equality, and for all kinds of

stuff, and for me to say, see, for him to take a game, it made me feel like it was a sexist remark. i mean, he's never took again from a man because they said "he"? for me, it blows my mind. >> laura: and now, tennis superstar serena williams has been fined $17,000 for three code violations during saturday's u.s. open final. we at the ingram household were watching every minute. williams lost to japan's naomi osaka and williams says the critical penalties lodged against her by that matches male umpire were indeed sexist as you just heard. but this isn't the first time she's tangled with referees or umpires, even female ones. >> really, really -- about as angry as i've ever seen her. you can't call that there. she's done it again.

>> wow. violations. violated for water? really? >> laura: what did she say? don't even look at me? she's now their marker for the female cows that many saved borders are now claiming. joining me now with her reactions is john lloyd, a british and former tennis star and occasional commentator. along with sports agent anthony tolliver. albright, john, you've been out there on the court, just a few years ago, and i loved watching them play any part should be 70s in '80s. it is high-pressure. was this a sexist call by the chair umpire? >> no, no, no. not at all. carlos ramos is a stickler for the rules. i mean, that is the way he is, and he went by the book. i mean, the three things that he

called serena for were correct. what could he have handled it differently? ot events and softer and said something to her at the changeover and turn the mic off and said, listen, serena, i can see the coaching going on, tell your coach to cut it out, and maybe this thing wouldn't have started. perhaps. but once it started, this was a serena -- it was a bad day for her at the office, and you can't say that sort of stuff to the employer, not these days. these umpires are very professional, they have rulebooks, carlos ramos is known for keeping the rules the street. you've got to use your common sense here and back off when the times were getting bad. >> laura: anthony, i'll go to you. you're a sports agent, you handle a lot of high-profile folks. margaret court, who is the record holder and tennis grand , she is considered the grande dame of the sport, she was quoted as saying, the rules are the rules, she doesn't like it

when players try to pretend they are bigger than the game. your reaction? >> yeah, i think that serena was having a really tough day. i think she was a little more upset with what was going on against osaka as opposed to what the ref was saying to her. however, this has been a tough year with her, her getting random tests, random drug tests that she feels a bit unfair, particularly coming off of her new child. remember, this has hasn't been the sport that has been so welcoming to her and her sister. when they first came out, this was a whole new look for a two black girls from compton, and he took this sport by storm. so she has felt a whole bunch of different things over her 20 year career, 20 plus year career -- >> laura: anthony, she's a global superstar and there have been glowing profiles about -- and john, you can chime in quickly, i mean, she has been

lauded by everyone and everywhere, and she is the star is still of tennis. osaka is probably the next generation. but i don't know. my daughter and i were watching it together, she's 13, she doesn't even watch tennis very often prayed and she just kept looking at me, going, i can't be she's big into the umpire that way. she doesn't even play tennis. john? >> i believe that serena and venus, it's the greatest sports story in history, what they've achieved. i mean, don't take that away from them because it has been unbelievable from where they came from, and how their father predicted they were both be number one in the world, and they've achieved that. they've been amazing. this, though, was a bad by serena. could the umpire perhaps to diffuse the situation better? perhaps. but serena, i don't think, knew the rolls. i don't think she realized she was about to get again penalty. i don't think she realized there was a three step to the rules,

which the umpire in forest correctly. and she just lost it. you can't do that kind of thing, and it was a bad day for her. >> laura: another woman, anthony, who has been a superstar in her own right, her own day, i grew up watching martina navratilova, and she said basically cover this sort of behavior, the sort of behavior that no one should be engaging in on the court. they have been many times when i was playing that i wanted to break my racket into a thousand pieces and then i thought about the kids watching, and i grudgingly held onto that racket. one of the greatest players who ever lived in women's tennis. anthony, close it out. >> like i said, i think she was more frustrated with what was going on. john mcenroe has done much worse. that was her point. but she was frustrated. >> laura: that's not sexist. >> she's a global circus door. i don't know if it is sexist -- >> laura: this is not sexist and tennis -- let's have tennis be one of the few sports that is no longer political, okay?

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warriors are good or protest but not so good at diagnosing was ailing at-risk communities. there is no better example of this than at chicago. a relentless cycle of violence that groups parts of it. on friday night, we aired a powerful town hall, got incredible kudos. thank you for sending them. featuring officials and residents from the south and west side in search of solutions. while many liberal activists will tell you police or in part responsible for fueling the chaos, the officers who face off with these murderers gangs beg to differ. >> first of all, we have had 2,025 shootings in the city up-to-date as of today. first of all, it did not start yesterday, started several years ago when they decided to underfund and undermine the police department. we are still almost 1,000 policemen short of where we need to be. >> laura: hold on. you are 1,000 police officers are short on the city of chicago

today? >> we only have half of the detectives that we need. we used to have 2010 detectives. >> laura: how many do you have now? >> just about a thousand. >> laura: what is the reason for that? what are the politicians it? >> you have to ask the mayor rahm emanuel for that answer. our opinions don't count. they are part of the problem. that is what has to change. >> laura: we also highlighted the horrific human and emotional toll this violence takes and there are few examples more upsetting to the core then the cause of demetrius griffin jr. he is a 15-year-old boy who was reportedly burned alive in 2016 after a gang tried unsuccessfully to recruit him. demetrius' aunt, rochelle sykes, spoke with us about the murder. >> he wasn't in a gang. he didn't do drugs. what is it that he could have done so bad that a monster would take his life like that? and then two blocks from his home? we have to pass that block every

time we visit my mom. i can't go into the house without hearing him say -- he was looking so forward to high school. he only did two weeks of high school. he wanted to be on the swim team. he loved dogs, he loved animals. why would you do that? why would you burn someone alive? and then why is there such a code of silence that you did not hear him hollering for help and did nothing? >> laura: no one saw anything? >> no one saw anything. >> laura: no one said they saw anything. did mayor emanuel call you? >> we have not heard from either one of them yet. >> laura: [laughs] is not acceptable to any of you? >> no. >> laura: rather than staging protests, may be the end, should focus on safety, family, personal responsibility, and

education, some of them are. but their foundations, all of those, for real social justice. when we come back, the latest on the treacherous path of hurricane florence. stay right there.

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