that black balled colin kapernick from playing professional yi football. for him to come out, and apologize, i can only give him credit for something he was dragged to do. nevertheless, it is some kind of step. despite what he said, the fact remain, the person who deserves the apology is colin kapernick. the person who should be in the league is colin kapernick. >> the league has struggled with advocacy. drew brees, apologyized in the past and recently, that he solidly opposes disrespecting the american flag. part of the it is the league protecting the bottom agline. iot don't think he would have me this statement if he thought that team owners would be upset by it>> it is tough to say. the nfl teams run as 32 countries. he has been soofter than some of the owners. realized the relationship, the political affil yags they v many have been trump supporters. i still see they are as dug in as they were before. frankly, they don't want to answer the question why colin kapernick is in the national football league. >> what is your sense of where sports may o be g

the second thing is that guys like colin kapernick really disrespect the flag. that's the lowest point. we have to respect the honor of the people who died. that is what memorial day is all about. but you get a guy like colin kapernick or all these other celebrities and whatever, this is our flag and they disrespected it and i would love to disrespect one of their relatives in the same way. >> bob tell us about your brother. what happened? >> he wanted to get drafted and he was ready to come home ... a sniper got him he was in the regimental combat team and was behind the lions but they had those snipers over there picking people off right and left. he had been promised to be able to come home and had already served his time. they kept promoting him. they did not know how to manage the piece. everyone was just waiting for the next move. >> how old was he when he passed away? >> 22. bob thank you for the call and thank you for sharing your story. >> i'm very sorry to hear about your loss and obviously it state with you all your life. you're mentioning of china as

during the recent protests in the us, colin kapernick”s gesture has been copied again and again.polis last weekend one national guard officer and his squad troops knelt alongside protestors in a powerful gesture of reconcilliation. and on friday, in the canadian capital ottawa prime minister justin trudeau joined protestors and took the knee himself. our north america correspondent david willis has more on the story. this is a significant reversal of policy from the nfl. very significant and a sign of a zeitgeist you might say. let me tell you why, because 75% of players in the nfl are african—american, yet almost all the team owners are white, and many of them are supporters of president trump. president trump, who early of course back in 2016 in the days of colin kaepernick called for players who took the knee to be sacked by team managers, while the has re—entered the fray after another leading player in the league called for, came out against the kneeling protest, only to withdraw that, those comments in the face of widespread criticism. resident trump has gone after him, say

that's already sought to identify itself with protest movement is nike, which backed the athlete colin kapernickreleased this advert music. that has received a lot of attention online. for more on how american businesses have reacted to the george floyd protests here‘s michelle fleury in new york. we have seen a broad response from the business community here in america, quite astonishing, from different sectors. on the retail side, you have big players like target, which is headquartered in minnesota. coming out and recognising that this was a painful time for his community and outlining the steps it was taking to help both the staff members but also doubling down saying we are not walking away from our local community, mentioning specific neighbourhoods saying we will continue to have a presence here to try and create opportunity and jobs and i think that is one of the messages that has come out. certainly if you look at some the african—american leaders here in america, the ceo of merck, huge global drugmaker, talking about the difference between me and some of those in america is the opportu