ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) "Our policy is that you stand at the anthem.

Toe on the line," Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said during a press conference in Oxnard, California on Wednesday (July 25).

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President Donald Trump said on Friday that National Football League (NFL) players who do not stand for the national anthem should be suspended for the season without pay.

The comments come a day after the NFL and the union representing its players said they were working on a resolution to the league's national anthem policy.

The policy, which was announced in May, followed Trump's denunciation of pregame protests which were intended to call attention to what critics say is often brutal treatment of minorities by U.S. law enforcement.

Trump and others have blasted the gesture as a sign of disrespect to the U.S. flag and the military.