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Men and women soccer players share a workplace of green grass, real or fake, and yet there is a real disparity in how the green gets handed out. the women are suing the u.s. soccer federation for better pay and better treatment. the bonus money is a fraction of what the men get. and, yes, on top of the pay equity issue, like everything else in 2019, the team and the president and the sport have all become intertwined in politics, but let us just for one night perhaps leave that aside. let's focus on the victory. let's feel good for team usa. these tremendous athletes and their upcoming honor b...

Workplace, look no further. men and women soccer players share a workplace of green grass, real or fake, and yet there is a real disparity in how the green gets handed out. the women are suing the u.s. soccer federation for better pay and better treatment. the bonus money is a fraction of what the men get. and, yes, on top of the pay equity issue, like everything else in 2019, the team and the president and the sport have all become intertwined in politics, but let us just for one night perhaps leave that aside. let's focus on the victory. let's feel good for team usa. these tremendous athlete...

It's argument is difficult, especially now with this unbelievable interest in this team and the terrific performance that they had on the field of play. >> i want to move past the pay equity issue. i want to point out how large the disparity is. according to "the new york times" each player will earn $250,000 for winning today's world cup victory. if the u.s. men's team had won their world cup players would earn about $1.1 million each. that really spells out how far apart the pay is right now. let me move to president trump's reaction. he congratulated the team on their win. he is taking this...

And then the lightning round? >> we got so excited. yes, of course. one more thing. >> on the earlier point i want to emphasize, also, the pay equity issue, the issue about women's right to choose, it's about women's value, it's about the value of women. if you want to find a line of symmet symmetry, it's about giving women their value which is about their ability to make decisions about their own body, it's about their right to be paid equally for equal work. lightning round. i'm ready. >> hit it. if you could have anyone living or dead as your perfect running mate, who would it be? >> oh! oh...

Afterwards. but serena williams is the highest paid female athlete last year. just to compare serena, she comes in at number 39 if she was on the men's list. she bumps andy murray which is ironic there. men's sport pulls in more revenue. is there an argue why women of color get paid so much less? >> you know what is interesting is this pay equity issue that we're dealing with, it's not just in sports or it's not just low income. >> it's in housekeeping and cleaning. >> it's in law. it's in law. >> it's in law. >> it's in medicine. in the tech industry, in television. it's in a lot of industrie...