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Protect and defend your legacy here. give you the last word. >> i want to protect my legacy. i train great horses. i have trained the best horses run through there. my record proves it. this is horrible what has happened. we would never, you know, this horse never got that medication. that's -- also owe an injustice to the horse. he ran hard and deserved to win that race and it kills me because these horses are like my children. for something that happens to them like that is horrible. but we have to deal with it and hopefully it will get resolved. i feel pretty good it will get resolved. >> b...

Racing has a problem, bob baffert is not the problem. >> bill: this isn't something you bury in the diet of the horse. this has to be injected into the joints. it is a steroid. anti-inflammatory. it would mask essentially the amount of physical exertion the horse is exhibiting on the track and help the horse to run faster. you have had five forces from the baffert barn in the last year to fail a drug test. what would explain that? >> they were all resolved. they were all contamination. we have to fight this. for some reason that's a problem right there. and people in the public don't understan...

Tests are run? >> charles, i think we need to prepare for what are potential explanations. was there a shot given that may be baffert didn't know about. was it given at a time before he thought maybe that the drug would still in the horse's system. he has all of these wins. i've been talking to a lot of people in sports and horse racing about this topic. i say bring up people like barry bonds. people say why would baffert need to do this. why did barry bonds need to do what he did? why did lance armstrong do what le did? these are questions. why the biggest race in the world, the integrity of ...

Because it touched a nerve that folks are really frightened in what's happening in the school districts. i want to encourage them to overcome your fears and please speak up. >> i reached out to the fairfax county public school system and haven't heard back. if we do we'll pass it along. >> dana: talking about all this last week. debrief out of control chinese rocket came down in the ocean. nasa is still slamming china as reckless. the international community, can they hold china accountable? a kentucky derby stunner as winner medina spirit fails a drug test. what will it mean for the horse, it...

Sometimes you never find out and it is just a tragedy what has happened in this race. >> dana: do you think that the result was maybe a false positive? >> well, we're hoping. we'll do dna testing. sometimes they can be -- they have the wrong test or whatever. but, you know, dana, what's happening is they are testing at these -- pico gram levels. it is like a salt grain in an olympic size pool. she had 25 pike owe grams. it's a legal drug. a few years ago this would have never been called. in california they would never call this a positive. they shouldn't have called it a positive. we're livin...