Sessions Backs Trump over NFL Controversy: ‘The President Has Free Speech Rights Too’

‘I agree that’s a big mistake to protest in that fashion, because it weakens the commitment we have to this nation that has provided us this freedom’

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SESSIONS: "Well, the president has free speech rights, too. He sends -- he sands soldiers out every day to defend this country under the flag of the United States or under the national anthem and the unity that those symbols call on us to adhere to. So, I agree that is a big mistake to protest in that fashion, because it -- it -- it weakens the commitment we have to this nation that has provided us this freedom. I would note, of course, that the players aren't subject to any prosecution, but if they take a provocative act they can expect to be condemned, and the president has the right to condemn them, and I would condemn their actions, not them as a human being. But I don't think that's a good -- in many ways, these players with all the assets that they have can express their political views other than in effect denigrating the symbols of our nation, a nation that has provided our freedom to speak and act."

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