Ballmer, former ceo of microsoft the price tag, 2 billion, handedly beating out bidders by at least 400 million. But the deal is no slam dunk. Ballmer has signed an agreement with Shelly Sterling. But the next play belongs to Donald Sterling. There is no sale, and he is not yet agree to sign off, period. Reporter his lawyer telling wolf blitzer before news of the agreement that while donald gave her permission to negotiate selling the team, he did not give her permission to actually sell the team. Not without reaching an accommodation with the nba which gives him some form of vindication. The money is not critical to him. Reporter the nba is pushing for a quick sale, trying to ward off a contentious meeting scheduled for this tuesday where owners will officially vote to force sterling out. The reaction overnight was quick, with Magic Johnson tweeting, quote, clipper fans, youll love Steve Ballmer as your owner. But either way, Donald Sterling will not leave empty handed. He originally bought the team for 12 million. Shelly sterling has just released a statement announcing that she is, quote, delighted that we are selling the team to steve who will be a terrific owner. Shelly sterling also said, we have worked for 33 years to build this clippers into a premier nba franchise. I am confident that steve will take the team to new levels of success. Chris . Rosa, who is we . Who is we, rosa . Thats the big question, if thats her and donald, he has to say yes. Hes the only one recognized by the nba as a franchise owner. So lets bring in mel robbins and attorney and host of deadly sins on investigation on discovery. I wonder if that applies in this case. Can Shelly Sterling sell this team without donald . Mel robbins . No. There you go, no, she cannot. Cant do it. Its held by a trust. Yes, done, fast this morning. She cant sell it without his authorization. So this is just pushing donald, is that what you see it as . Well, donald certainly could be the spoiler of this. If im shelly im not popping champagne corks any time soon because the nba recognizes donald as the controlling owner. Donald is the one that ultimately has the recognizing Decision Making power at this point. Kavinoky, it comes down to, for Donald Sterling, you cant kick me out of this league based on the fruit of the poisonous tree, nice phrase that lawyers love. This tape was illegally made. You cant use it. You support that statement for me. Why . Well, thats one of the arguments that hes raising and hes saying ultimately that this is all stemming from this illegal tape recording because in california its a twoparty consent state that meaning both parties need to consent to something being recorded and he didnt. And what hes going to do is hes going to marry this to the substantive due process argument saying that this is essentially fundamentally unfair. The problem i think hes going to run into is hold on, let mel robbins tell us what the problem is because the nba is saying this isnt a court of law. This is a basketball court. What does the difference make in this regard, mel . Well, the difference is, is really important here, chris. Its everything, in fact. And basically he signed up to be part of a private association and he agreed to their rules. And theres also an arbitration clause basically says, yeah, you can sue but youve also agreed to tell the judge to kick it back to us. So the rules of evidence about illegally obtained things, kavonoky, do they apply in the same way as a criminal trial, for instance . No, in a word, no, they dont. And theres even other arguments because everything in the constitution and by it is laws in the nba relates to the state laws of new york, which is only a oneparty recording state. So theres a good argument to be made that even though this happened in california if were applying new york law its a totally different ball game. Ultimately i think hes going to lose on that. So, mel, you were sleeping on kavinoky as just another pretty face and then whipped out the new york law. Wow. Wow you were not ready for that, mel robbins. I saw you get knocked side ways. No. Good show. Im stealing that. Do you think that legally Donald Sterling can do anything other than maybe slow this down a little bit . You know, at the end, the team is going to get sold. This is what i think is going on, chris and darren. I actually think what Donald Sterling wants is he wants that lifetime ban removed. What his attorney spoke about yesterday at length was vindication. We all kind of rolled our eyes but i think at the bottom line of all of this, Donald Sterling feels hurt. I know nobody is sympathetic to him but i think what he really wants is i think hes going to use the sale, the fact that everybody is exhausted and wants this to go away, to be able to put pressure on the nba to say, look, ill sign the deal, you can have your sale, just remove the lifetime ban, for crying out loud. Lets all admit im an old man, jealous, baited, i didnt mean it, im sorry. Please, after 33 years, ill agree to the sale. I think thats what he wants. Thats what i believe in my gut. Darren, if youre the nba, whats the downside to doing that . First of all, if youre the nba you want to keep the pressure on. One thing we know about the sterlings from a long, long history, chris, is that we can only rely on actions, not words. And there are some people that are deeply skeptical that all of this sale talk is just a set a benchmark for the market value of the clippers so that if they go to war and a sale is forced for some amount that is now less than the 2 billion, that the sterlings can sue and get treble damages three times whatever that shortfall is. So i think these guys may be perceived as more bonnie and clyde or thelma and louise on this. Everybody is sort of holding their breath. This reminds me of one of those slasher films where you think that the bad guy has been killed and everyone is safe and then jumps out from behind the curtain. This deal is not done for a long shot. The nba is going to keep the pressure on. Mel robbins, kavinoky comes with a new york law exclusion and then thelma and louise reference, strong showing. Ill tell you one thing i didnt hear you guys raise, 2 billion for the clippers . You dont even own the stadium. Theres not even crazy. What does that mean . Why are they paying so much for this franchise . Very interesting. I wonder if this whole debacle didnt raise the value in some perverse way. Kate, over to you. Ill take it now, chris. I go by john berman, thank you very much. The news right now. New developments in the investigation of the Santa Barbara rampage. The Sheriffs Office now says deputies who checked on Elliott Rodger three weeks before the killing spree knew he posted disturbing videos but never viewed them. Six ucsb students were killed last friday. 13 others were injured. Thousands of Russian Troops have withdrawn from the ukraine border. A move u. S. Has been demand for weeks. Hagel called it promising but russia is not where it needs to be until all of the troops are gone. 40,000 Russian Forces had been along the border since violence in prorussian separatists broke out. 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Finally by sunday it dies down. Finally a saving grace is out there. Northeast, its the weekend. We want a little bit of mild air. Its going to cool down. By sunday, it rebounds. Spotty showers will be out there on saturday as front pushes on through. Biggest dropout is towards boston. 70s are back. Dont worry. Just a little bit later. The other thing is theres the storm. Theres the back door cold front. Watch this one in the upper midwest and northern rockies. This does have a threat for severe weather. Billings and cheyenne on saturday. Sioux falls back down through amarillo. A small threat of tornadoes. Big thunderstorms and Straight Line winds. Rainy on saturday. Sunday, thats the good one. Sunday will be the nice day. Its the good one. Outdoor activity sunday. Coming up next on new day, va secretary Eric Shinseki is speak to Veterans Groups this morning. How will he address a scanned that is rocking the agency . Will he have a job by the end of the day . 20 billion man. 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His outrage is growing over deadly treatment delays at va hospitals that were first reported here by cnn. Shinseki is scheduled to speak to a Veterans Group in washington. In less than three hours. You can be sure hes expected to acknowledge at the very least a breach of trust. But now members of congress are calling for a criminal investigation to determine whether those treatment delays were covered up. So hospital officials could cash in on bigger bonuses. Lets go to the white house, get the very latest from athena jones. Good morning, kate. Today is the day that secretary shinseki is supposed to give the president the preliminary results of his investigation into the va system. And this comes as a growing number of Democratic Senators are calling for shinseki to resign. Speculate about personnel matters. Reporter the white house under mounting pressure to give embattled secretary Eric Shinseki the boot for mismanagement at the department of Veterans Affairs. Just last week the president praised him. Nobody cares more about our veterans. Reporter even as he demanded answers. I want to know the full scope of this problem. Thats why i ordered secretary shinseki to investigate. Reporter but by thursday press secretary jay carney was refusing to say whether the president had confidence in the secretary. Forward to the preliminary review, that he asked the secretary to provide to him. Reporter today is deadline day for that review. Shinseki has been under fire for big problems within the veterans medical care system. Allegations that include long wait times for appointments and secret waits lists, delays that may have killed dozens. And while the speaker of the house is still reserving judgment about whether shinseki should resign the question i ask myself is him resigning going to get us to the bottom of the problem . Is it going to help us find out whats really going on . And the answer i keep getting is no. Reporter more than a dozen republican senators and a growing number of democrats are calling for him to go. Including democrats facing tough reelection fights in the fall, like mary land drew of louisiana who tweeted thursday afternoon, shinseki served our nation with distinction but recent unacceptable actions under his watch regrettably means new leadership is needed. So well be waiting for that review from shinseki. In the meantime we expect the pressure on him and on the white house to keep growing. Chris, kate . Athena, thank you for the update. Lets break it down more with maggie haberman, its great to see you. Youve got two things. You have the president. Hes waiting to see this review, internal review from shinseki. Could come today. Then you have the growing really the flood gates have opened for people calming for shinseki to resign. Can these two things happen separate of each other . Can the mounting pressure have an impact on how the president reacts . Short answer is no. This is not sustainable over a per yoiod of weeks. This has gone from a drip drip of democrats last week to a total deluge. Fifth of the Senate Democrats saying he has to go. President obama does not like to fire people. This administration prides itself on sticking on staff when there are calls for heads to roll. This one is hard to see this can go on for weeks more while there might be additional review. When you say it is known that the president does not like to fire people. That is an admirable quality to not be quick to it kg off peoples heads but when it becomes maybe a little more apparent that this might not be the person that can bring about the change and reforms that are needed to fix this huge problem in this system, can it backfire on the president , this loyalty to employees . It certainly can. Theres also the difficulty here is youre dealing with somebody who has a lengthy military career who is respected by both sides of the aisle politically, who is not indicating in his own comments and well see what he says in a couple of hours but so far he has not shown any indication he will hand in his resignation. He is hanging on as best as i can tell. I think its going to take more information before the page turn on this. I do have a very hard time seeing the path for him staying on. Obama is getting hit with the no accountability stake though all over the place. Politics, accountability usually means firing somebody as opposed to firing yourself. Yes. Do you think that what may wind up hurting the secretary in this is that many of these revelations are coming out in the last few years, because the protection would be for him the va has been in trouble for a long time but this is coming in under his watch, technically. I think thats right. This is since 2010. There are huge numbers of incidents that were talking a and it systemic across the board. This is where it becomes very, very hard to argue this is not under one particular person. When you have the case of secretary sebelius with health care when obamacare rolled out you can understand why president obama did not want to throw her under the bus. Why . Because the Health Care Law needed to roll out in the white houses minds. It needed to get done and having a sacrificial lamb was not necessarily going to change that. The problems were different. This is also a different type of issue. There is a sacred quality to veterans. There is a sacred quality to the military. Which is why im surprised and i want to get your take on it, why im not many republicans are calling for him to resign but some in the Republican Leadership, john boehner, eric cantor, not calling for him to resign, more talking about the accountability stick, more putting it on president obama. Erin cantor telling politico which is this is a core competency question for the white house. Is that a political strategy for republicans because it may have a longerterm impact on the president if they can hurt him and associate him with the problem rather than just calling for shinseki to resign . Im just surprised theyre not jumping on him because they often do quickly jump and say, sebelius, resign, holder, resign. Its a rare show of partisan ship. You saw boehner and pelosi they they didnt want to see this happen. I agree the goal here is to keep the pressure and focus on the president. If this can be dealt with with the firing or dismissal of one person then that becomes easier to contain. The lunch between obama and hillary, do you think hillary gave him the advice, in the clinton days we would have gotten rid of this guy in five minutes why is this secret . I think there are a lot of lunches that are secret. This is revealed after an accidental tweet from a People Magazine reporter. There are no accidents. Accidental tweet. Who is interviewing Hillary Clinton for her new book and then this is how we found out about this lunch. What was interesting about this lunch is that so much of what has happened within the last couple of weeks in terms of how Hillary Clinton has had to respond or her allies have responded in terms of the latest benghazi hearing. Obama has been almost an after thought. This is an interesting reminder of, oh, here are these two. Lets roll play how this happens. Ask me anything. Are you going to run for president in 2016 . The other day i was at lunch with my friend barack, i didnt mean that, the president , oh no, i didnt mean that, i didnt say it. Who is maggie in this roll play . Im taking the picture for twitter. Maggie is everybody else. How does lunch with the president come out as an accident . Did i let that slip . If hillary has to be offended about anything, it is your im person impersonation of her. Maggie, arbiter of justice, bad. Thanks, maggie. Great to see you. Im a little ashamed about it now. Coming up on new day, Shelly Sterling says microsofts former ceo is going to be the new owner of the l. A. Clippers.