Michael Bennett offers to sit down with Trump to discuss protest issues

Michael Bennett sent a firm volley into the court of President Donald Trump on Monday, offering to meet with him to work through issues raised as a result of Trump's comments surrounding national anthem protests in the NFL.

Bennett joined Anderson Cooper 360 on Monday to discuss various points regarding his social activism, and was not the least bit shy to express his interest in meeting with Trump face-to-face.

"I would love to sit down with the president and talk about these issues and be able to find a way to fix them, or be able to find a way to have the voice of the people, the people that don't have the voice that they're not listening to," Bennett said.

"I can't sit here and say that he's not my president, he's not that, because at the end of the day he is the President of the United States and for him to say it's a privilege and we shouldn't speak on what we believe in because we're making money, I mean he was a rich man too, and all of a sudden he's speaking on what he believes in, and he still stood up for what he believes in and he's the President of the United States, so what makes him different from us?"

Bennett was also asked about his relationship with Colin Kaepernick, and the Seattle Seahawks defensive end lamented how the same sort of unified support was not shown for Kaepernick.

"I wish we could have, that unity that we showed for this weekend, I wish we could have showed that unity for him this year when he was out of the league," Bennett said. "I wish we could have brought together as a group of collective people and players to stick up for our brother when he went through something like this."