As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it moved to the west side tennis center, which is where in 1957, Althea Gibson, the first black person, woman
As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it moved to the west side tennis center, which is where in 1957, Althea Gibson, the first black person, woman
I wanted to take a moment and share a little bit about the International Hall of fame and our mission. As many of you know, we are a nonprofit but were dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history of tennis and its greatest champions to inspire fans globally. In addition to presenting the ultimate in tennis induction into the International Tennis hall of fame, we also how is the largest collection of tennis artifacts in museum, which hopefully many of you saw as you came through this evening . Were home to the atp in both this hall of fame opened in july we run a year round tennis club. We have a National Junior tennis and learning chapter for 50 plus at risk youth here in local community. And that all resides in our seven acre property that is National Historic landmark, the building that youre all sitting in was built in 1881 and the grounds out your right were home to the very u. S. National lawn tennis championship as that event grew to be too large here for newport, it move
They havent told us about any potential motive for the alleged attack saturday, havent said if they believe anyone was working with the suspect, james fields, and we have not heard whether mr. Fields has actually cooperated with authorities. We do know from Justice Department sources they believe there may be enough evidence to be suspicious of him possibly wanting to send some kind of broader message rather than just harm the individuals who he allegedly hit saturday. Some details on motive, whether he is cooperating, whether others were working with him may be forthcoming in a few minutes from the chief of police. All right, brian todd in charlottesville. Well come back to you as soon as the press conference begins. We expect that any second. Lets go to cnns sara murray at the white house. Sara, the president today came out earlier and did finally condemn by name White Supremacists, the Klu Klux Klan, nazis. Why not do that on saturday . Why wait until today . Why does the president
the constitution and defending voters that they went into arizona and california and said, we re the better party. well, he could have called out his own side, democrats, when they used improper language during the health care debate, and there was some used. that s true. it doesn t matter. the point is either you re a leader or you re not. and it s at moments like this that is it is discovered. and i m not seeing a lot of republicans from that. i m not seeing a lot talking about it either. i can say this. if tom tancredo, who i ll admit has said some things offensive to me on illegal immigration, if tom tancredo can come out and say this is un-american, that should provide cover for a lot of republicans to follow tom tancredo s lead. if you need coverage on this. i think so i guess frank rich won t have to change the cartoon. stop. of the republican in the klan hoodsman that says gop. or maybe country club white country club.