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I'm not sure how much of a difference that is. but they're sharing these pictures of women and what have you and these horrible e-mails on work e-mails, at least allen was. thank you, ken. i appreciate you joining. and good job on writing that story and breaking this. i want to bring in now cnn contributor bob costas. bob, good evening to you. he's resigning. my first question i want to get to you, though, ask you, the players, some of the players who he offended, jon gruden, actually stood by him. i wonder how those players feel now after all this trove of e-mails have been uncovered. >> yeah...

I am sorry. i never meant to hurt anyone." again, that is according to jon gruden himself. a statement, the breaking news now out that jon gruden is resigning adds the coach of the las vegas raiders. and othering things about these e-mails, he admits to using a racial trope in a 2011 e-mail describing nflpa executive director demaurice smith. he apologized to smith, claims he's not a racist, joked about an nfl owner performing oral sex on him. he sent sexist memes. and again, there is more. so let's discuss all of this now, the breaking news. ken belson is here. he covers the nfl for the "new ...

Past comments seem to contradict that. it's an awkward position to be in. i don't see how he could finesse out of this. maybe one comment, two comments. but there were many other e-mails. >> let me just go through some of them, okay? with you, ken, and get your response. he denounced the emergence of women as referees, the drafting of of gay players, the tolerance of players protesting during the playing of the national anthem. that's according to e-mails reviewed by the "new york times." his messages were sent to bruce allen. bruce allen was the former president of the washington football tea...

Racial intentions with those remarks at all. but yes, they can -- i'm not like that at all. but i apologize. i don't want to keep addressing it. >> so again, ken, i've heard that before. but when you say someone's lips are like michelin tires and so on, i mean, but go on. >> well, i mean, you can not intend to be offensive and still be offensive. they're not mutually exclusive. you can not know you're being racist or homophobic when you are saying things. so it's a level of awareness that's perhaps lacking in this case. the other thing is, you know, what he's saying is going against everything...

This is a pattern of behavior apparently. i defer to ken belson. he has reported the story. and quite honestly, i've been watching a lot of baseball tonight and i'm trying to play catch-up. so i don't want to venture into an area where i'm not on firm ground. but from what i've been able to determine and what i've heard on your show and what i read in ken's piece in the "new york times," there's a lot here and it can't be rationalized. >> listen, i saw the apology last night as i was watching the game, and yesterday gruden told the world that he doesn't have -- and the exact quote is, bob, "an...