For more on the NFL situation, Bill welcomed Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade.  "This protest started with Colin Kaepernick under President Obama," Kilmeade reported, "and it took everyone by surprise.  The main issue to me was last week when we saw video of a youth football team taking a knee during the National Anthem.  They're in third grade!  That's the damage this is doing." 

Kilmeade also opined on President Trump's decision to enter the fray:  "I don't think it was planned, I think he just brought up something that was clearly bothering him.  I thought he made it worse and made it easier for people to protest, so that instead of 12 protesters we have 200.  He also knows he is taking a stance that is popular with most American people."  Bill agreed that the president's criticism of the NFL players was spontaneous:  "Knowing Trump for 30 years, I agree that there is a stream of consciousness.  If something comes into his mind, he just throws it out there.  But he should have added that the United States has freed billions of people and it is a noble nation that was founded on noble principles."  Bill reiterated that this issue is being pounced on by the far left and that this controversy is mostly about race.