they've evolved into a racially tinted anti-trump movement bad for the sport
and bad for the players that's my opinion
today the Philadelphia Eagles were supposed to go to the White House to
honor their Super Bowl win the president has disinvited them some players had
refused to attend if they don't all come then nobody comes trump digs in with a
hard-line he wants him to stand for the anthem
none of this kneeling in the locker room this is not just about respect for the
flag it's about race and the response of African American football players to the
Trump presidency the Neela's are overwhelmingly black their protest
picked up steam when the president called them sob s and now we have an
ongoing confrontation it's also about politics the kneelers have become part
of the resistance to all things Trump ninety percent of the black vote goes to
Democrats and the Democrats want to keep it that way Democrat Senator Bob Casey
jumped on the controversy and invited the Eagles to Capitol Hill the Democrat
mayor of Philadelphia called the present a fragile egomaniac Trump race politics
that is a toxic mix but what about the sport who's looking out for the state of
football nobody the players are hurting
themselves and the sport the owners have grown fat on profit and dither divided
on the sidelines same with the NFL and the politicians they're taking sides and
the president is saying enough don't disrespect our nation or the presidency
I'm with him get out there and play that's what America wants the second
hour of bonyen company is about to begin
an indicator just released this is the is M non manufacturing service sector we
comes in it and very nice strong better-than-expected 58.6 the dividing
line between expansion and contraction is 50 anything about 50 you're doing
well this by the way I believe it's up almost
two points on April which again is a strong number this would be the 100th
straight month of being above 50 of growth that's pretty impressive but
that's a very strong number better than expected on the service side of the
economy which is actually a bigger slice of the overall economic slice so it's
good it may be having a modest a fractional impact on the market we're
now up ten points and the the market did start to rally just a fraction there
when that number was released now how about the the tech stocks four of them
on your screen right now they're all hit record highs as of now look at that
Amazon at sixteen eighty three Microsoft at 102 Netflix 367 Alibaba 210 and the
Nasdaq Composite that just hit another all-time record high as well the action
today folks it is in the technology stocks quickly check the price of oil
because it's down this morning down again now at $64 per barrel all right
then I want to get back to the editorial about the Eagles and the anthem Neela's
here's the presidential tweet on the cancelling of the White House event now
I want to focus just on the last part quote staying in the locker room for the
playing of our National Anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling
sorry Philadelphia's mayor responded with a
statement that said now just part of it here disinviting them from the White
House only proves that our president is not a true patriot but a fragile ego
maniac obsessed with crowd size and afraid of the embarrassment of throwing
a party to which no one wants to attend joining us now a former NFL Super Bowl
champ and author of why I stand burgess Owen all right give me your take please
on the president the Eagles and the dis invitation well let's do it first of all
that monologue was spot on my friend I don't think I can add to that
I just want to give a little backdrop behind this curtains of NFL this whole
thing our country is fighting for the hearts of our of our country at this
point and for black conservatives we'll fight for the heart and soul the hopes
and dreams about black kids understand that the last eight years here's
something that we have to keep in mind at which we should be demonstrating 83%
of black teen males the last eight years have been unemployed seventy-five
percent of black boys in the state of California last year could not pass
standard reading a writing test we have 7% of black men that desert
their families black-on-black crime is through the roof
you know one of the things that my parents taught us growing up in the
early days we had a lot of pride in our country is you you see an obstacle you
pray you work you over you serve and overcome that obstacle and instead we're
now doing complaining and pointing fingers I'm in California right now and
we're California because I'm knocking on doors and making phone calls for a young
man Omar Navarro who's gonna be sitting a Maxine Waters home finally this is our
problem is the black ëletÃs not not Donald Trump not white Americans not the
flag is his white leaders become wealthy with the misery of black Americans so if
these young men want to help out educate yourself
pull back stop looking at Beatty and understand that our enemy is an ideology
it's not a color didn't any we start doing everything we can start witnessing
do you sense any movement in the black community in terms of votes up until now
90% of the black vote has gone to Democrats ninety percent goes to
Democrat presidential candidates do you think there's any shift in that bear in
mind what you're saying about the historically low level now on the Trump
of black unemployment yes well there's a lot of good news out there and blacks is
finally hearing it and yes we are trippin we went from I think 12% of
black men for Canada truck 22% now of a black men are rolling rooting for a
president Trump yes we are the greatest president the greatest president that we
had last few years is President Barack Obama he fell short of his promises and
miserables at all-time high and black America waking up I'm thankful
excited about someone is drawing a line in the sand we need to be proud of our
country proud of our kids and let these kids know that this is the place to get
it done let's not let's not put down opportunity that these young men are
having and should be going out and telling the other our kids that they can
also experience yeah get out there and play that's what America wants Burgess
Owen thanks again for joining us this morning on a historic day thank you very
much appreciate it in particular really driving the overall market again to the
upside little air Amazon Microsoft Netflix Alibaba all-time highs all
across the board right there stop Charlotte is with us TJM Europe managing
director yeah you know Scott are you a little exasperated by this because yeah
that just keep on going up don't they well they do really just two of them
stored I mean Fang is now a little bit of a bang we've kind of separated and
it's Amazon and Netflix have kind of really taking things a lot higher and
we've got the other ones slowly but surely bringing up the pack but they're
the solidifies right they're the ones that are keeping things kind of bid it's
hard to really get on a horse that's up ninety percent already this year right
yeah and that's what you've got with with Netflix and then Amazon's a close
second with 40 to 45 percent but the other ones between 10 and 20 percent
those are nice solid games and you know what that's American ingenuity that's
American being hard at work that's America creating the next wave of what's
gonna be here to support this market well you're sitting there in London and
you've been in London for quite some time you I don't know how long you've
been there but it you've been there quite a while what's the view of these
huge American and very powerful technology companies what's the view of
them from Europe you know it's unfortunate Stewart but you probably
have seen us or a little bit over there as well but with some of the European
regulations they've begun that starts a nitpick and try to take away and what
those those big great American stories I guess there's issues with with security
there's issues with you know hacking but at the end of the day those companies
are companies are the ones that have been driving things forward and creating
new jobs creating new ideas and the American ingenuity is what's really
gotten us to over at but I it's it's hard that
socialist mindset keeps creeping in and they want to pick away at what could be
wrong with them instead of celebrate what's great like Burgess was
celebrating the good instead of nitpicking at the bed I've never seen
anything like it this concentration of the flow of money into five huge
American technology companies all right back to business their Young Scott get
out there with your ski glasses and make some money will if you can oh sorry
sorry no offense all right thanks God right at
face book with some of the updates of the operating system what's this all
about you know how Tim Cook has taken on
Zuckerberg at a recent commencement ceremony saying about privacy issues now
they have turned apple is putting apps you can get apps that make it more of a
social media experience on the Apple iPhones things like sharing photos with
friends you know after a dinner you could chat on FaceTime with up to 32
people virtual reality apps that they're talking about multiple players that
that's sort of a Facebook is doing also watch this Apple is saying we're
shutting down those shares and likes that are popularized by Facebook that
Facebook uses to follow you around the Internet so Apple taking direct aim at
Facebook an apple just hit an all-time record highs on your screen one hundred
ninety three dollars and 45 cents investors approve got the earth today we
find out how far the tide has indeed turn if it's turned at all in California
to GOP candidates for governor one of them has to finish in the top two two in
today's primary to get through both of them join us in our next hour and
minutes from now the man who refused to bake a cake for a
same-sex couple he took the case to the Supreme Court and won the couple joins
us after this that's the Baker and his wife by the way
check that big board and we are now up just three points that's it
how about the Dow 30 I believe we're kind of evenly split there between
winners and losers yes we are it's a Teddy dead-even split right there now
look at Twitter please that is at a 3-year high the stock is going to be
included in the S&P 500 that means a lot of fund managers have to buy it that is
why it's up 4% pushing $40 a share now in Colorado a baker refused to make
a cake for a same-sex couple the case went to the Supreme Court which ruled in
favor of the Baker Jack Phillips is his name he joins us now along with his
lawyer Kristen Wagoner first of all to us to
mr. Jack Jack do you regard this is an out-and-out victory for your religious
principles I believe that this is a very big win for religious freedom the
Commission ruled egregiously against my right to practice my faith and so it was
it was a verdict against the Colorado Civil Rights Commission in fact they the
Supreme Court took that Commission to task as opposed to the gay couple or you
correct they recognized that the Commission treated my faith with
disregard with disrespect and intolerance how of you I'll get you in a
second Kristen I just want to know how you've gone through all of this because
this is this case has evolved over the past year at least I think have you held
off this case is six years old six years or more so I didn't realize that yeah um
knowing that I serve everybody who comes in my shop is is good because I serve
everybody I just don't create cakes with every message that people ask me to
create and so when the Civil Rights Commission forced me to start creating
cakes for same-sex weddings I'll serve the two men that came in my shop what
other messages would you refuse to put on a cake yeah not just refuse to put on
a cake but cakes in general - I don't create cakes for Halloween I wouldn't
create cakes that would be anti-american or
would be disparaging against other people denigrate other people or even
disparage people who identify as LGBT it's the message of the cake it's never
the people who worry the cake okay Kristen your gentleman's lawyer here
does this case and the Supreme Court ruling open up this as a precedent that
other business owners could say no I'm not selling my product to you for
whatever reason does it open it up like that no it absolutely does not the
Supreme Court found that Jack serves everyone who comes into his store but
that he can't promote all messages and that's a critical distinction that needs
to be made when we're dealing in areas involving religious hostility by the
government the court said in a 7 to 2 ruling yesterday that religious
hostility by the government has no place in a pluralistic society and that that
hostility was so obvious in this case it ruled in Jack's favor this hostility
tell me there was some nasty words used about Jack is that correct yes there
wasn't just nasty words including comparing his beliefs to those of the
Holocaust and slave owners but they actually said in ruled in three other
cases that cake designers who didn't want to criticize same-sex marriage with
religious messages had First Amendment rights but Jack did not because the
government disagreed with his religious beliefs on marriage well you got from
here Jack well hopefully we go right back to making the wedding cakes that's
why I opened the bakery in the first place almost 25 years ago to do the
wedding art that I love now I was told that your wife has had some trouble
actually going to the bakery because of all the trouble surrounding it it's been
a very trying time over the last six years we've had death threats we've had
you know scores of hundreds thousands of emails hateful emails hateful phone
calls and she was at a point afraid to come to the shop because you never know
what's going to happen is it just gay marriage that you'll objective no not at
all there are dozens I gave you some
examples of other cakes and messages that I don't create I serve everybody
who comes in the shop gays Catholics Muslims anybody but it's gay marriage
that you objected to in this case in this case I checked to being
forced to participate in a marriage that represents a view of marriage that goes
directly against my core faith it's the message it's the same couple or another
gay couple turned up in your bakery again and no government agency was
forcing you to make a cake in any way shape or form
what you do it I would say that I told these two gentlemen also you cookies
brownies make you birthday cakes anything I'll make you custom cakes this
is just a cake the message of this cake is one that I can't create yeah do you
think your client here was picked on oh absolutely he was targeted because of
his religious beliefs and we need to remember that if we want freedom for
ourselves and we have to extend it to other people political opinions may
shift culture may shift in certain ways at certain times but the First Amendment
protections should apply to all of us nope regardless of our beliefs on
marriage jack is there a particular not a particular church but a denomination
within Christianity that you belong to not really I guess evangelical would be
an appropriate term it covers a pretty wide swath but I'm a follower of Jesus
Christ okay look it was a pleasure having you on the program we thank you
very much for appearing I'm sure you must be utterly exhausted we wish you
well in your future endeavors and Kirsten thanks for joining us - thank
you good luck all right later tonight by the way
comedian Samantha bee she says she says he will try to explain her extremely
vulgar comments about Ivanka Trump on her show in my opinion that is another
play for ratings and Roseanne fired for tweeting ABC already thinking about a
reboot of her series can a reboot succeed without a good question
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