well the controversy continues in the american national football league over standing and saluting the flag as more and more professional football players have chosen to kneel during the national anthem an act of protest against police violence president trumped your attention to the protester in a speech in alabama last month calling the gesture disrespectful to the flag subsequently more n.f.l. players have joined the demonstrations every sunday. well joining us now is d w correspondent alexandra fon naaman who was in baltimore covering an l f eight n.f.l. game there xander the games just kicked off was there another needing protest against racial injustice there. but what we saw today in baltimore was very interesting because it was a sort of a compromise we saw the river coming out on the field and then taking any kneeling down before the national anthem was played and for the national anthem they stood up and they remained standing and that was actually what many of their fans wanted to see i talked to many of them and they told me that they wanted their ravens to stand during the

including social new sign read the drudge report news website and even debates over the national american football league l m open decided to us new york as if they could tell the difference between real and made up accusations against russia which scandal was said to be the result of russian trolls by a u.s. senator was it a an f l players not standing up for the pledge or for the flag was it b. confederate monuments or c. the california independence movement california and it's a you're right see because i don't know i really don't know do you believe that kid who is a russian agent is it alexander ovechkin matt drudge or tom cruise tom cruise no doubt us a b. and you're right which is used as a tool for russian propaganda according to this same us senator is it a fox news be read it or see snap chat or. reddit yeah you're right about that i would say b. and that's what yeah the same guy said that read it down right now do you buy this idea that rush is everywhere russian trolls are in fla anon do you buy that i think it's all over the internet so it has to be true the country prefers the quick explana

support for the military and for american foreign policy an expansive american foreign policy more broadly in the national football leagueits audiences are here the military recognize this is a captive audience they're patriotic and yes we could use that to market some of the young men and women who may someday want to serve in the united states military . the pentagon's public relations budget is the envy of other government departments the department of the fence spends more on p.r. than the rest of the u.s. government combined to defeat. the american way. that budget pays for all the recruitment and american see german football games and other sports broadcasts so why the need for even more military content during the pre-game ceremonies because the two types of messages one subtle one overt work well together when i came up. on television play off. what you have just seen when you watch in the game there are patriotic n.f.l. players there the people in the stands everybody is paying tribute and all of the symbolism puts you in the frame of mind so that when you see. you are ready to embrace what's in the head the cer

the one to sport and to american football at first where the man was still out of the take any protests in. racial inequality has find a grievance against the national football league cullen kaepernick alleges he had been without a job since the start of the season because of team owner collusion the former san francisco quarterback first took in me during the u.s. national anthem last year as a means of publicly objecting to police shootings and alleged racial brutality they want to see action now and women hosted munching on sunday with the home team looking for their first win of the season and they're still looking after gladbach picked up the win and moved into fifth place in the league. braman fans are nothing if not optimistic despite not having seen their side win all season they filled the phase i study and coach alexander newry was relieved to welcome captain draco you news of age back to the starting line up for the first time this season after injury. it was the opposing team's captain who opened the scoring on twenty seven minutes now stingo taking advantage of some sloppy better defending. hugo could have anticipated that turn and finish simply exquis

national football league. i continue to believe that dissent is as american as the flag in which the league and the owners are wrapping themselves, and, you know, you're in the sports world today, but you exist in the political world. don't you think it's kind of amusing that the president will be talking about the nfl's approval ratings? >> yeah. that's true. the president's approval rating hovers in the 30s. but let's take it even farther back, and mark, you'll be good at this. we're talking about patriotism and dissent and what the meaning of the first amendment is and what the meaning of the flag is and is it disrespectful to not stand for the flag and does the flag exist to allow people to protest, gives them their rights. also the president coming out today and getting in a fight with a congresswoman about the death of an american soldier. we're politicizing, this country seems to be politicizing the death of an american soldier. i just want to know where are we right now? what is going on? is nothing taboo, is nothing sacred? >> of course not. this has been one of the recurring lessons of trumpism over

turning out to american football where the man who started the taken the protests against racial inequality has filed a grievance against the national football league cullen a cuban excess he's been without a job since the start of the season because of a team owner collusion the former san francisco quarterback first took a need to ring the u.s. national anthem last year as a means of publicly objecting to police shootings and alleged brutality. of the protest movement has also arrived in europe and germany leading the charge this weekend the soccer team had a berlin to the knee in a sure solidarity frederica barger joins me for more on that story germany is a long way from the us to us more about this a taking the need to test here in berlin yes i'm richard let me start first of all by showing you the moment when this happened on saturday. hopefully we'll be able to see a clip from that match on saturday when the players to kony on the pitch. coaching staff and other team officials also neeld off the pitch so you could see it maybe you could see it better in the. behind this you can see older team members they took a knee on the pitch also team o

up we're going to head to american football where the man who started the take a new protest against racial inequality has filed a grievance against the national football league collin capper nick says that he has been without a job since the start of the season because of team owner collusion the former san francisco quarterback first took a new during the u.s. national anthem last year as a means of publicly objecting to public shootings and alleged brutality. the protest movement has also arrived here in europe with germany leading the charge this weekend players from the soccer team here so berlin took the knee in a show of solidarity let's get more now you see her here on the set for the ricoh budget was joining us from our social media desk so frederica germany a long way away from the united states of course tell us a little bit more about how this protest came here to berlin well sara let me start off by showing you the moment when this happened on saturday so here you can see her to players to come and me on the pitch and he was not just them he was also the coaches and other team officials they also kneeled down so it really was a collective gesture

and the dispute in american football over players kneeling during the national anthem takes another twist. now leagueeeting president trump for talks on trade in the region. the future of the north american free trade agreement will be high on the agenda as will other issue which pertain to the uk. the us has just imposed an 80% tariff on canada's biggest plane manufacturer bombardier, who have a plant in northern ireland, and that's on top of an existing 220% tariff. wider bi lateral trade will be discussed — it's notable incidentally, given donald trumps complaints about nafta, that the us has a $12.5 billion goods and services trade surplus with canada. and they will discuss the ongoing dispute over canadian softwood lumber, president trump has imposed extra tariffs of up to 24% on softwood. let's cross to ottawa and talk to roland paris — a former senior advisor to prime minister trudeau. injoining me. in the last few minutes president trump has suggested that nafta could exist without mexico. does canada think that? canada's preference is to maintaina that? canada's preference is to maintain a t

every capacity and instinct for authoritarian divides americans every day in completely unnecessary ways, a man who can turn the national football league into a matter of deep division, and who acts on the international stage with a restlessness and eagerness and a pride and a vanity that puts all of us and our lives and our secured at stake. it is because he is absolutely the worst possible answer to these problems, that he is intensifying and deepening these divisions, that he is terry america apart -- emotionally, culturally, and politically. the --e country is fast fast dividing into two warring tribes. and the one person we need at this moment to bridge those divides, to address these problems with sincerity is the president. and he has a chance if he had reached out to the democrats, engaged on infrastructure, with held his vicious tongue. if he were able to control himself, he would have been a great president. but he isn't. he is what he is. and what he is is a danger the likes of which we haven't seen in our lifetimes. [applause] >> thank you. that was a terrific and hard-fought debate. it reminds me of something peter morgan

national football league. however, his playing career was so brief, he was able to become the nfl's youngest assistant coach. he later became the fourth african american head coach for the tampa bay buccaneers and the first african american head coach to win a superbowl with indianapolis in 2007. today is a heralded analyst with abc. he is also an author. success has followed him here today. i welcome hall of famer, tony dungy. we see how things started and the arduous trek you took to get here in the hall of fame. >> it's really hard to believe. i started at the university of minnesota. i played quarterback my whole life, elementary school, jr. high school, high school, college. i didn't get drafted. i was crushed at the time. i didn't know what would happen. it ended up being the best thing for me. i went to pittsburgh, switched sides on the ball. went to the defensive side, played for chuck knoll and learned professional football from coach knoll, learned the other side of the ball. after two years, i was traded to the san francisco 49ers. i played for bill walsh. at 25 years old, i was out of the league. the coach called me back and said, i think

national football league. however, his playing career was so brief, he was able to become the nfl's youngest assistant coach. he later became the fourth african americand coach for the tampa bay buccaneers and the first african american head coach to win a superbowl with indianapolis in 2007. today is a heralded analyst with abc. he is also an th

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weeks more and more national football league players have been taken to one need here in the national anthem to protest racial injustice and police brutality against african-americans president trump blasted those who take any accusing them of disrespecting the u.s. flag his remarks angered protesting players and their supporters even more. that is our rights as americans too that we fight for i mean they're saying that we can't you shouldn't protest because the whole purpose is. to have you know the land of the free that is your right to protest and if you want to protest us fine if you don't that's fine also but don't take our right away in baltimore the ravens briefly took to one knee before the national anthem began playing and even if they stewed again before the music played fans could be heard booing them from the stands it seems like presence trump and many of the fans have some success in their rejection of the players' protests but the controversy is far from over and the underlying problem a feeling of racial injustice among many of fricken americans remains unresolved the debate has extended beyond the u.s. borders has n.f.l. team sunday played the seco