Sarah Huckabee Sanders says NFL players should 'protest the officers on the field that are protecting them instead of the American flag'

Jonathan Ernst/Reuters White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, grilled Monday over President Donald Trump's assertion that NFL players should be "fired" for protesting during the national anthem, suggested that athletes should protest "officers on the field that are protecting them instead of the American flag." Many of the questions Sanders received during the press briefing focused on Trump's remarks from a Friday-night Alabama rally, during which he suggested that NFL coaches migh...