Tonight donald trump grows more unhinged as the election draws closer. Now, he and his allies are trying to change the rules of the voting game after kickoff. Plus we'll kamala harris make a run for the board sure why her campaign is weighing a visit on a vulnerable issue. Also latest to prove that a simple google search can't even cure america's misinformation epidemic and why one rivalries, racial framing is a mirror to the presidential race and society live at the table. Scott jennings, bakari sellers erinperrine and jamelle oh, hill, with 42 days to go, americans with different perspectives aren't talking to each other. But here they do good evening. I'm abby phillip in new york. Let's get right to what america is talking about. The closer the election, the more unhinged donald trump is getting. Here is a sampling of just some of his posts in the last 48 hours. He baselessly says that the fbi is purposefully mishandling the second assassination attempt against him. He baselessly says democrats are rigging votes from americans overseas. He and his allies are actively working to change election laws in several states. He's making false claims about women. He's saying that if vice president harris is against catholics. He's still pushing debunked pet eating conspiracies and he posted then deleted a conspiracy about diddy, and harris. He's attacking jimmy kimmel, abc even oprah there's a lot going on here with trump. It seems like the weekend he's free, he's got a lot of time on his hands. Maybe he's golfing, but he has a lot to say and no character limits on truth, social with i mean, some of these posts are like giant paragraphs and they don't make a lot of sense you will no longer be thinking about abortion. He says to women, because it is now where it as always has, always had to be with the states i mean, that's just one of many things that he had to say this weekend. But almost none of it is to the point of what i think republicans want this election to be about presumptively well, i mean, it's stuff that's in the news. I mean, let's let's take the assassination issue with the fbi. I have real concerns about why they released this second assassins letter. I mean, i think a lot of republicans are like why, why is this guy's letter in his call for trump to be assassinated and his $150,000 whatever i, think there's legitimate gripe that he has. I mean, there's other shootings that have gone on this country and the people's manifesto is under lock and key and we can't find it. Somehow this letter is out. I think i think it's a real a real great the alleged assassin. He had a hearing today, so that's one of the reasons. I mean, i'm not even sure what's the point that trump is trying to make? what does that have to do? there? first, what does that institute with winning. Let me just think. He, this guy clearly said in his letter he wanted to assassinate trump and because he failed, he wants other people to do it. And i don't know about you, but it's a crazy environment there. Once you're crazy people out there seems to be a clarion call for this is where it's no3 scott and i will agree we're going to progressively got to start off i wish that the fbi and whomever the florida state law enforcement agency come together and figure out and get to the root of this assassination attempt on donald trump. We don't need to see this political violence has no place in it. You can say those things. We can also have a conversation about but the fact that you know, the mass shootings we see in the country and the attempts on president trump's life, all include ar 15s. And if you want to have a conversation about gun control when it comes to donald trump and assassination attempts. Let's do it. Let's have it here on abby phillips show. I don't think that's where you all want to go, but the other point is that yes, i think you're right. He's becoming unhinged he's tweeting like outwit tweet late at night after a couple of bottles of casamigos he is just sending out paragraph at the paragraph, i believe scott, that you would much rather him talk about the border immigration and things that matter to the american people than what he tweets about night in, night out. And i think that is what the american people don't want when they think about him as president of the united states he is the, he's emblematic of chaos. And that's what you see on truth, social, and he's once again claiming that democrats are going to cheat this time. He says that they're talking about how they're working so hard to get millions of votes from americans living overseas actually, they are getting ready to cheat. Heat. They want dilute the true vote of our beautiful military and their families. There's no evidence of this. I think that's correct, but there's also a really rigorous process, including when you are abroad to make sure that you can verify not only your voting status in the united states, but the state you live in. Those standards are really important not only to donald trump, but to republicans writ large when it comes to what they talk about, when it comes to election security as he tried to take it, as he tried to. Sow these seeds and not just a doubt, but to do what he did the last time does it say that the whole thing is rigged just because he says so, i think it's fair to ask questions and i think it's fair to be able to pursue the legal process in the united states if you have questions regarding the outcome of the election, the problem is when it goes be onto that, when it becomes more than that, there are legal avenues and means to be able to do anything when it comes to the election, to be able to question how it ended up. If it's whether it's the counting or or the timing the polls closed or how the ballots were received. There's 1 million different legal avenues. That's the only thing that should be pursued, which are the legal avenues to make sure that every legal vote you saying that they're cheating and they're saying they're getting ready let's let's be fair he's saying they're getting ready to cheat with no evidence of that whatsoever. But what is also happening is all across the country, we're seeing this battle starting to play out, the fight over how people well vote in georgia, in nebraska, in arizona republicans in those states, especially the ones that are aligned with trump, they are trying to change how the accounting works, change how ballots are going to be evaluated in georgia, they're changing how many times they have to hand and count the votes in that state. Hand cat know, i mean, what they're going to use a advocates like what are we doing here because you said it perfectly. All of this, all of this nonsense, because donald trump, over and over just keeps proven he's not a serious person. And even what he has a serious point, i agree with you is that it's not a good idea to probably published an assassin's letter because especially given that he's inviting other people to a call to violence but i can't even take that seriously because what all this other nonsense is about it. And so now what he is doing, his level setting, all he's doing is saying hey, they're trying to cheat, hey, they're trying to cheat which is so funny to me because in some of these same the last election in some of these same races where republicans won. So let me get this right. They're only trying to cheat when you lose. But when republicans when that's when the cheating doesn't happen. So i just i'm just trying to keep up. And so thankfully he's not on twitter. He's not on some of these other platforms that i follow because i find this constant barrage of just complete stupidity to be something that just wears you down, like at some point, i want him to present a hopeful vision for the country, right? to just say, hey, this is, this is what we can do here. This is how we can do things together. And that's the biggest difference that i see between him and kamala harris. Like i actually feel like there's hope out there. I listened to donald trump for five minutes. And it just makes me want to leave and move somewhere else because why would i subject myself to this? i love the hope argument because listen, everybody loves the field goods. Everybody loves the vibe. Everybody wants to feel that the country is heading in the better direction and right direction. Wrong direction is something that is pulled consistently in this country. But vibes don't win election. And you know what actually motivates motors the most? our negative tv ads when it comes to be able to drive, i'm telling you, voters tell focus groups all the time they hate negative tv ads, but that emotion, emotion is really what drives a lot of politics. Do i feel my family's going to be safer? do i feel like i'm going to get more in my paycheck. Do i feel that it makes sense those are to meet legitimate questions. Difference between that and trying to actually by are people to help me that one of whether or not they're eating your cats or dogs in their report, my 99 pound dog is still doing very well. Pumpkin today but him for a week georgia george, i talked to i've talked to a lot of operatives in georgia. I've been trying to figure out what's going on there. The board of elections removed the only elected official from the board of elections and it's now purely appointed. They have no legal authority to change the rules from what i'm hearing from georgia operatives if they want to try and force a full hand count, the ballots they don't have the means to it. The board of elections, should this be challenged in court, which there's a full anticipation. Let me also this likely wouldn't hold on. And so for them at this point, they don't see anything changing in a lot of counties already do the hand count after it runs through the machine anyways, i want to give a shout out to a republican while we're here in this kumbaya segment. But state senator mike mcdonald, he is a gop senator from the great city of omaha, nebraska. And he is someone who stood up and said, i guess time i was born probably appreciate this, but you can't change the rules in the fourth quarter. He's probably going to be the future mayor of omaha. I mean, somebody who was a democrat pratt had different issues on social issues. I understand it. Left the democratic party is now a republican, but at least he put democracy over. Why are you mad about that? because he didn't change the rules. I'm just waiting for you to know. I'm just say what it didn't change the waiting patiently, you gave me my wife's side i was wondering what's after labor this is sultry, great white but center mcdonald put he put country over party and we don't have enough of that to the point about changing the rules and all these other things and democracy matters. What say you can't change the rules in the fourth quarter, but you can change a candidate. Look, democrats been trying to change the rules all year. They tried to get trump thrown off the ballot earlier this year. That didn't work, then they changed their candidate well past the point he had already won the primary. I mean, look, both parties are constantly scraping and can i don't i don't particularly care what they do in nebraska. It doesn't sound like it's going to happen to me. But why is it offensive for one party to try to get an advantage while the other party has been trying to do can i debunk this notion that a lot of republicans, i come on this air and said that we have changed the rules are all of a sudden kamala harris yeah. I've been in a primary. I mean, that we, beat that horse deaths. We've gotten my beat him one more time. I'm sorry. I mean, president won the primary pelosi showed up and through with one more thing this is from trump actually tonight we were talking earlier about springfield. This is the story that, that he won't he won't let it go. And here's what he said tonight and pennsylvania do you think springfield will ever be the same? i don't think the fact is and i'll say it now you have to get them the hell out. You have to get them out. I'm sorry no, that's embarrassing. Really that's embarrassing. Dead him as a presidential candidate was say that, and it's more it's equally as embarrassing to the people there would pick up on that. Can. So as we're having this conversation about political language and how that's inciting people. I'm looking at this and it makes it that much harder for when the republicans especially want to have a conversation about political language when something happens to trump, but don't want to have a conversation about that. He effectively put a target on a fine communities back, a community that has done nothing but contributed. Do all the things that you say that you want legal immigrants or legal immigrants to do, they've done all these things. They work hard. They've contributed their held up as bastions of their community and to put that target on their back. Again, just to understand a serious person, you're talking about legal immigrants in this country i was watching a piece earlier tonight on cnn. They were evangelical christians, their interests, they've got families, they've got kids in school, they own businesses. They are working. They're paying taxes. Yeah. So why why why the send them back chance and then also why say you got to get them the hell out? yeah, they are here under a current legal process. I do think there's a legitimate debate to be had about that process versus the normal way that immigrants come into the country. That's because normal ways that immigrants have come into this case. But i think it's a legitimate policy debate about whether the executive branch should just grant this kind of status to large populations. And when you do drop large populations and the communities, there is a debate about the societal, cultural and governance impacts of it, but it's perfectly legitimate to be have that having been said, these people are here legally. And there's a difference between those people right now in the people that have come in here illegally by the millions during the bidenharris administration. So there is an appetite in the country to deal with illegal immigration. The people who've come here and trump right now is winning on that. And i think most americans see it his way when it comes to mass deportation, what he was doing tonight, i mean, what he was doing tonight was really dark and it had nothing to do with people coming across the border. The southern border. He wasn't making any kind of even remotely nuanced argument about that. But he's just saying they're not like us and them back he's not capable of doing that and the problem is that we are less than 50 days out from this election cycle and so the playbook has changed a little bit when he was running against joe biden. He was very disciplined. He was on message and now the playbook is back to the normal isms that donald trump uses. I mean, he uses xenophobia and racism as political currency. It's us versus them, be once your country could it become browner or not? i mean, we're not having a conversation about irish migrants were not having a congress that cranial, where ukrainian to be fair, he does say paddywagon and that is actually considered like an offense to the irs i haven't heard that in a long period of time. He and i have not. Done that even he's talking that i haven't heard him. I haven't heard him put a target on the back of those individuals. And so like let's also be clear here at rallies with democrats, you have heard them chant, lock him up about donald trump. This is a rhetoric problem on both sides. Know it is not even. Trying to do what about ism here? i'm not trying to say this, but that's what effectively did know what i said was this happens political discourse like this happens on both sides. I didn't say one was better than the other and i know, but let me just let me because i don't think i don't think that's out there. That's a level of intellectual dishonesty. Well, i think it's someone who's been to talk about what both sides are doing when it comes once the conversation when you have someone convicted of 34 felony counts, convicted of write in, someone says lock them up, and then the person on the stage says, no, we're not going to lock them up. We're going to vote them out, right? that's what kamala harris says. We're going to shift the language that's one thing. But when you had these, when you have these people who are of color, right? who were brown and black, who come from a country which has been decimated through natural disaster to political corruption, who are only coming here to contribute to this. American society. The way they do, and the people who they work for say they're good citizens. The people who they pay taxes to say they're good citizens, you're not then you bastardized them by saying that they are the least amount of human being by saying they eat our dogs and our cats. That is not the intellectual equivalents. And so yeah, i have a problem with lock them up chants at i rallies. I do. So does commonly hears. She puts her foot in the ground, also have a problem with him bastardizing black and brown people in st. Get them out the country because of something happens to a little brown boy or girl who was haitian and ohio that's on his hands and they have a bullet or a bullseye is probably the better term on their back. And it won't just happen to haitian immigrants in that city. That becomes then the wider scope of how people see haitian immigrants period, which is why it's a problem all right, guys, everyone stick around coming up next violent crime in the united states is down. That is despite trump using it to attack harris plus janet jackson, she repeatedly made some false claims about harris is race, but it's a too late to control the damage man, a hot dog is not a sandwich. It's meet between bread. 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Live tonight at 11 eastern on cnn harris campaign is considering a last minute trip to the border on friday during her trip to arizona, she's hoping to change the narrative that she's soft on immigration. A new poll shows that more than half of americans believe that trump would be better on the issue. A trip to the border, good idea about idea, good idea. Do it all. I mean, i don't, i don't have any objection to that. I think that at the end of the day, i think that people when they have a question about substantive policy, when it comes to immigration, i mean, there's only one person who is actually serious about passing immigration law. And what i have to remind people is like conjunction junction. You remember how a building in your function? and so like of course, she had a policy position on immigration. But senator lankford, i do believe, was a senator who put up one of the toughest immigration bills that we've seen. It went through conjunction junction in the united states house of representatives and senate. And the person that killed it was donald trump. Is what kamala harris wishes know it's like completely accurate that was never brought you that that was ever brought up in the house that there was only brought up. Why was it not brought up in the house? is the question because that focused more on the process to bring people into united states versus securing phone calls to the members of the united states as well hi okay. The bill, the bill address border security. It actually had a proposal to quoteunquote shut down the border when they hit a certain number, 2000 thousands of deaths as a republican idea that the white house adopted and republicans disagree with and addressed it. But i mean, it addressed both sides of it a lot of democrats hated it, but republicans hated it more. And here we are we argue about this bill all the time. We are where we are. We showed the poll. She's down on this issue, going to the border is not going to fix that. There's you all have seen the video. There's this amazing video of her from a couple of years ago out chanting down with mass deportation. Doug was right behind her chanting along. I mean, her views on this are so obvious. Going to rallies and chanting, running on it in 2019, 2020. We know where she is on immigration visavis donald trump going into the border is not going to change that. The american people are going to see him as tough on it tougher than she will ever want to be on it. They don't trust democrats on this issue because of the last threeandahalf years, the day one executive orders and then waiting until the shadow of an election to try to pay some lip service to it. It's not going to work. I don't i mean, it's got i don't disagree with some of the things you said about lip service or how it's going to play out. But i do want you to understand the simple fact is that kamala harris is the person who's actually saying that she will sign a piece of legislation. The republican party bastardized people such as marco rubio or the gang of eight. Have we not been here before that? they literally excommunicated from their party for trying to come together on comprehensive immigration this is going to be tougher. One of the things about this moment, i mean, the harris campaign has just been trying to float above it all, to float above the immigration arguments, float above some of the nittygritty details on some of his policy. But this shows that they realized they have to do there's something one of the other things that happened today though, is that we got some crimes statistics showing crime is down. Again, this was also going to be something that trump wanted to run on harris against. But the statistics are what they are. Yeah, i think you said in the last segment, even though you said vibes don't necessarily win election, i do think the vibes very much contribute to how people feel about issues where there be real or whether it be imagined and the reality is most people's minds, they feel like crime is out of control. Like i'll take my, my city where i'm from detroit vernon as an example when i was growing up, the level of crime in detroit and you try it was always in the top three as being one of the murders. Moses it's murder as cities in america, 6700 murders a year, easy. It's maybe half that now. Okay. And i realize though the population has decreased, and that's part of it. But the approach to safety is so much better than it used to be. But unfortunately, between social media and people passing around violent videos all the time, no matter what those statistics say, i still think it routes and people those mines, that crime is just i think i mean, what do you say for as a society today than we were when i was growing up. So we think to your point regarding social media, it's very easy to share a violent video that those things move very quickly across the internet. But these fbi statistics leave room for questions because there are a lot of cities, major cities like los angeles that are not providing that information. I'm sorry to interrupt you again, but i just because we looked this up just before the fbi address this today, those major cities now are reporting their crime statistics. So, but they don't 23 on these numbers when you go to the website, they're not there for hamas okay. Let me answer what you're saying. So now they do los angeles, new york, all the major cities, any city with over 1 million people. Those police departments report into these statistics in some past years, they reported them, but the fbi did not include them because of a reporting issue. But if you look in the report, they talk about the past trends they include that data now from those past two years, the trend is still going down, so crime is going down, but in a city like dc the most recent, the most recent crime data from dc, there have been 274 murders. It's up 35% robbery. We're looking at up 67% in on some of these major cities, crime is still an issue and people are still feeling and i was kind of a resident, so i understand what you're saying, but but overall, for the country and for most major cities, it started up two points. I actually think you're yet, like hammer meet nail, head, i think you're right. And i think scott's right. I think jimmy is right as well. I think that democrats for a long period of time, we put our head in the sand when it came to issues of crime all right. We talked about it in the way that you should being smart about crime, but we didn't necessarily address the way that people feel about it. Like my mom would always say that i don't want less police officers. That's why people chose joe biden in the 2020 primary because nobody wanted to defund the police, not democratic voters. They just want it better police, right? it wasn't about taking place police off the street, or defunding them. They just wanted they wanted me to be able to come home safely while police were out there patrolling neighborhoods. And so i think everybody at this table is correct that this is a serious issue that you can no longer put your head in the sand about but i think that there are different ways in which you go about doing it. Like for example, kamala harris being smart on crime, being a prosecutor, prosecuting and drug rings, human trafficking is one thing donald trump abusing the law and then saying he wants to give law enforcement particularly to black man watching this right? donald trump is somebody who says he wants to give immunity to law enforcement officers regardless of the act that they commit do you know how patently absurd that is? and so you have differences on policy. But the fact is, and it's a good question and i'm glad i think we all agree crime is a very serious issue. It's who do you want the challenge at serious issue? i think i think this is multifaceted. You agree? can agree. Know what we're well past that i was able harris has some holes in her record i mean, i think she tried to build violent people out of jail before she raised money for that. That's number one. Number two, she called for police to be taken out of schools. Number three, she is advocated in the past for decriminalizing illegal immigration. When people come across. And so she has a once again, we're back to the same conversation. What is her record? what are her public statements? what actions has she taken? and then what is she running towards in the shadow of an election, which just makes me suspect that she wants to be tough on her. Around. And i hear you and i hear you. And if i was kamala harris standing on stage beside scott jennings, what i would say is, you mentioned, but i've never i'm like, wait, you don't worry about what i would it simply say as you have to look at her record as district attorney, you have to look at her record as attorney general. This isn't someone who has it prosecuted these people in lock these people up, this is a serious candidate with a serious law enforcement record, an s4 shares in schools right now, we're at a point we have to have that because we have mental health issues. We also have a gun problem. And so until republicans you want to come to the table and talk about the fact that every single school shooting we've had that we talk about involves a semiautomatic or automatic rifle. And we should put a ban on those weapons. Then we don't really we can't meet in the middle but you want to hurt her past rhetoric would call into question how tough she wants to be. I mean, people are weighing this like here she was here, here she is like, what am i supposed to believe that it's the 25% of voters right now who were saying, i don't know where she stands until i can't make a decision because what they've seen before, what she's saying now, what her passes, whether it's on crime, the economy, immigration, whatever they've seen what you said before, they've seen where she's trying to say she is now and that's why they're saying i don't know which kamala harris to believe. All right. Guys, hang tight a lot more. 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Tell cnn tonight that they have no public comment on this disagreement joining us now and our fifth seed is kari champion, host of the naked podcast i didn't see this one coming i don't know about you, but i'm not expecting janet jackson to enter the chat quite with such huge platform, which is so disturbing because you think people, and i think when i say huge platform, janet jackson is an icon in many ways. And for me to see someone that i remember from childhood who near rated so many important moments of my life. And we actually had an opportunity to meet her at a girlfriend. It jamal and i had opportunity to meet her at her girlfriends bridal shower, and without one lovely late, not that she's not lovely, but it's so surprising that she and this day and age does not know that kamala harris is black and i don't know if that was personal. We're not i mean, i'm of two minds about this because she's a human being and human beings are subject to misinformation. And that's really what this is about. I told scott i would come to him on that's because this to the notion that hollywood celebrities sometimes back. Trump because trump was the one who he's not really black that i mean, i think some people thought that there was some strategy here to make this a wedge issue. When trump said, you know what, i was a lie, you know what i think about it. She's black and that's what she is. That's her identity. And she's allowed to be that and it doesn't matter what some hollywood celebrities has, doesn't matter what donald trump says. She gives me, but her identity and people had to leave. I don't understand why people keep talking about this. I mean, it's a settled matter, is it not is not donald trump's fault either. And so i have to push back on that framing because they there are corners of my barbershop every single day. It's been and whether or not she's black or i don't trust him liberty took i hear what you're saying. But trump's elevation of this we were having this conversation about her ethnicity and what she is wrongfully. So in the corners of black america for a long period of time, now, we have to disabuse that notion and extinguish it. And yes, trump does go so to the darkest corners of whatever conversation may be an elevated and he was ignorant for doing so. And his former president of the united states, you should not do that. And i'm glad you push back on it, but i can't say that this this conversation or janet jacksons conversation is because of donald trump, because i'm having these conversations particularly with black men every day, whether not commonly, here's their point. My friend called me yesterday and she a couple of today's ago when she was when this is before this was even an issue before janet jackson, who is even issues with their 18yearold nephews are freshman in college, and he was like, i just read that she's not she's not black ashy and i was i get the phone when he said it her height is it isn't it is a conversation that unfortunately we have had and we'd have for longtime as a people, whenever we get into this conversation of trying to divide who's black and always leads to an ignorant place. What the wrinkle words were janet jackson is what she said com layers his father was white man. She was like, haven't checked the news that was the is that what people believe is that her father actually hang on because i think that this is this is a distinction though, because there is kamala harris, his father's white, which is just not true. And then there's the conversation that you all are saying are happening in the corners of the black community? city, which is about what constitutes being black those particulars conversation in the first place period than one running for the president of the united states hundred percent black one knows what a black woman looks like, whatever he did not want to layer on wasn't white she still black ends another it's another layer to this is a combination. It's a conversation about, about what it means to be of mixed race in this country and for janet jackson to be that level of ignorance around it by this mixed race individuals. It's also concerning, but okay. But to be i don't want to defend janet there you go here's the thing. She believed that there was actually no blackness and kamala harris, which is so it's so incorrect. Whereas there are some black people who believe that because she is both indian and right, that she's not black and white and black enough, right by the way, this country is built on the black and white dynamic which is really disgusting and sad. And this is why this is even a conversation. This is even why we are talking about donald trump, a white man going up, a black, going up against a black woman and kamala harris. And we are fascinated with race in this country, so only country where we have to have this conversation over and over again based on what you're the color of your skin tone, how much melanin you have? i find it disappointing that someone of janet jackson's caliber who is black, who is black? i don't good to have the information the question that we came up with during our group chat was this. Do you report that after the reporter corrects her, do you report that because the report knows full well, what really is it an ap course? because on the record, because she doubled down, so i think because it was on the record, it was an honor. Their a very newsy bet. Of course, they're going to i think it was justified. It newsworthy because what you just said about that conversation about race in america and what it looks like. We're going to keep talking about that coming up next. How the black versus white undertones in the caitlin clark, angel reese rivalry are similar to the dynamics in this election and in our broader society, we're going to discuss it next. Tv on the edge sunday at nine on cnn ryan reynolds here for i guess, my hundreds mid commercial unlimited premium wireless for $15 a month. Me honestly, when i started this, i thought only have to be like for power there still people paying two or three we times that much. 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The yankees and the red sox, the lakers, celtics, and now we've got caitlin clark and angel reese, but what's different about this one? are the story lines and they seem to focus much more on racism and sexism. And the politics of their fan bases more than the basketball. Now, does that mirror our broader society? does it mirror this very presidential race? will kari is here and she raised that very question in her podcast. So you say that this is a mirror of what we're living in society. I feel like sports politics, and culture always intersect. I think the story of caitlin clark and angel reese, the rivalry which really isn't a bad rivalry or a true rivalry on the court is a good thing i understand that both of these young ladies and i'll and i'll related to the race in just one moment. Both of these young ladies are already defined and they already had to play roles before they even stepped on the court just based on where they come from, how they were raised, and how they conduct themselves. When we see angel reese doing the you can't see me ring finger to caitlin clark, the optics of this black girl really taunting this. Why girl was hard for all of america to see them like, how dare, how dare, but that is a rite of passage when you win, that's how you play sports you have the right to trashtalk. But the reason why this relationship, this rivalry is so compelling, is because it's what this country is built on as black and white and why don't people want to be interested in black and white? take a look at the race. One of the race get really interesting when a black woman entered the race. And then now we have all these conversations about whether or not kamala is black enough. Is she to black? was she doing things she wasn't supposed to be? there. All of these racial issues that are coming up that have nothing to do with the election. And that is exactly what's happening. I don't think people even know what caitlin clark's politics are, what they got well the way he passed i don't even think liking a post suggests that she let me just explain because i think if anybody missed it taylor swift and her post endorsing kamala harris and encouraging people to vote. Caitlin clark liked this post, which caused a huge uproar because i think people assumed that she was she's white. That she is conservative or republican. I don't know where it was, but it wasn't just that i think the issue is that there were a lot of people who called themselves fans of caitlin clark. And frankly, and i know you found this carry that the reason that they became so vocal about their fandom of her was because they were using her as a wedge and a weapon against the black elite and they coopted the narrative because the lead, the wnba is a lee of lgbtq do you like as you can, you just don't want to hurt a third of the league is and i'm glad you can't really market that to america. So here you have this woman from iowa who they think is hetero and living the life that she is supposed to live in accordingly and doing all the things that represents basketball, rejected all. We have to default they just be that caitlin clark is like one of the most talented she has got quite an issue that could you tell if she does amazing things and oh, well, people say all of a sudden i i'm now interested in something i wasn't before. Look at the attendance, look at the viewership, and then they watched the games and she's constantly being abuse. She was stabbed in the eye it's not gave another one thing i think we can all agree upon me. At least that this is a reflection in a microcosm of where the country is. There are really rarely too young women who are doing a better job than the adults in this correct. Then angel harassed and caitlin clark, they are standing like caitlyn clark. She had to say there and not what was it? she didn't get mvp she'd get something in there like all these cameras in her face and she's a young 20 something woman and she's like, it makes me want to be better. I want to be a better player. This is our the political leaders could learn more from these two women being able to say, oh, i think so. You know what i want to i want to one more layer to this discussion because caitlin clark does she burns my soul and i have to admit that whether the simple fact that yes martin luther king, and dawn staley and my household. But i will say this, caitlin clark has done an amazing job at handling the scrutiny in handling the press. And one of the layers that i will add on to this, in this a little bit different from the way we discuss race in american politics. Is that the man who discussed the wnba, specifically shannon sharpe and stephen a smith, just don't know about women's basketball and when you have that layer of antiintellectual debate that manifest itself within this discussion. It, but it makes it a cancer. And so yeah, we're having these debates and so it's not just scott talking about that she got scratched in the eye or what did you what you're having now? you're having aggression is about who was the best player in the wnba or wnba nba mvp voting, or who should be in the wnba finals. And you had these people who just don't know about it, but or inserting themselves in the conversation. It provides for more cancerous narrative than we deserve to add on to that. Because we also shouldn't mentioned that angel reese has had to be subjected to an incredible amount abuse of this right? now. I got to defend i think both of the camps have been especially nasty to both of these young players. And what they're doing is coopting their own issues in their beliefs and they're putting them on these young ladies. And that's when i said they were it was already decided that kaitlan was going to be americans, darling, and that angel reese is going to be a villain based on how she conducts herself and based on sunday in cox's it's a type that fits very conveniently into how society wants. Course is the same thing with larry bird and magic johnson. Thank you. What action is right? but it helps the sport you hold a competitor, you need story line come with the axis. That's what this country is built on. Young friend, it is worried about projection is right. Let's, were working at this as a projection of themselves and they support one side or the other. The wnba is having one of their most successful seasons, women's sport is on the ride rise, whether it's basketball or soccer. And there are two young women in this country. We're standing up and facing the monday like. They like each other. And you know, celebrate women sports, you live a, live at the intersection of unity and also piece because they do enjoy what dangerous out there. Everybody hogan, coming up next our panel's going to give us their night caps, including a couple of provocative takes on dudes in this election the alleged people in america were watching and then the next day our world change, murphy has been eb quail, has cao bones coming out episodes, it says to the world, it's okay to be gay. George bush does not care about black people i never thought something that i wrote with me to a culture ward. You didn't ship the ship back like this and you tv on the edge. 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Com today for up to 70% off designer brands, it has the designers that get your heart racing had inside a prices you every day, hurry. There'll be gone in a flash designer sales at up to 70% or so of gilt. Com today we are back and it's time for the news nightcap. You each have 30 seconds to say your piece. Bakari, europe. This is a natural segue shout out to my girl, asia wilson, who is, who is the wnba mvp, aka is a winning right now. So that may bode well for another aka going into the white house i know you all know that might not make sense, but let me believe what i want to believe they are related to that. I wanted to take this opportunity as a spokespersons for white dudes to address the white dudes for harris guys it's not great. The video they put out you ever seen the office were because in mike comes out so the guy narrating the white dudes for harris video sounds like what he thinks like a white dude might sound like, but he's not he's not actually doesn't know. Just like michael scott was never in prison. I just wanted to give them some advice. It's not working. The guy you put on cnn today lord have mercy. I just look, i'm not for harris, but i'm going to give some advice. Go back to the drawing board wide enough all, right. Speaking of calls on behalf of kamala harris, there was one that carrying out women today was athletes for kamala harris. And one thing that i have written about for the atlantic is what happened to all the athlete activism that we saw in 2020 after the unfortunate murders of george floyd and breonna taylor, ahmaud arbery, you had athletes out there on the frontlines. You had them picketing, you had them very engaged, very involved lebron james started more than a boat and now it's 2024 and i would argue this election is even more important than that last one. And they are crickets. It was great to be amongst them on the call. We have magic johnson, steve kerr, gregg popovich, but it would be great. You're saying if some younger athletes and a lot of steph curry, he had come out and endorsed her and again, source not greene. Who is not normal politically, yeah. Somebody who speaks up. He has also given his, you want to see more, but it needs to be a lot more to get other young people engaged in this shaken. All right. Aaron i my hot take is that dudes a battleground of the election. And it seems weird. But when you look at it, kamala is performing roughly about 30 points ahead of donald trump nationally when it comes to women in 2030 points, when you look at that, she's only just a few points ahead on men. She needs to heat what donald trump is able to do right now is bring in more male voters and it's clear that they're both doing not only with white dudes for harris or dudes for harris, but also you're seeing her put ads up on tv, on mlb games and nfl games. You're seeing donald trump do these podcasts. You're seeing him go to a bitcoin bar. There is a concerted effort because at the end of the day that that little demographic there of guys that could be the shift that makes this election. I think that's a very important point. Carrie, i want to talk about one day by the name of whoa, she gives that woes bombs. He just announced that he was leaving espn's adrian wojnarowski. He left $20 million on the table. He said time is not an endless supply. He wasn't spend time with his family. I don't know. Many people in our business and or this discipline that will leave $20 million on the table. He was burnt out