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>> it's tuesday, april 9 right now on cnn this morning, delay denied donald trump going on trial in six days after a legal setback in new york an idaho teenager under arrest accused of plotting to attack a church with guns, knives, and fire. and one member of congress threatening to take down the house speaker over aid to ukraine all right 6:00 >> a.m. here in the east alive. look at new york city. it's a beautiful shots on coming up. good morning, everyone on kasie hunt >> it's wonderful to have you with us six days and counting before donald trump's criminal hush money trial gets underway in new york a state appeals court rejecting the former president's latest delay tactic, which was a request for a venue change. jury selection now set to begin on monday, and cnn has a copy of the questions that potential jurors will be asked. such as where they get

their news, whether they are relative or friends ever worked for trump company, whether they've attended a trump rally or whether they've supported q. and on the proud boys or antifungals and developing overnight special counsel jack filing briefs with the supreme court urging the justices to reject trump's claims of absolute immunity state and to deny the former president any opportunity to delay his federal election subversion trial. smith telling the court in a filing, quote, the >> from that bowers and mobile leaky form communications director for leanne i want to start with this jury questionnaire. i thought in particular the question about whether you have been a member of any of these particular

groups? was quite something. q. and on the proud boys and t4, they mentioned a couple of others, the bu glue boys. why do you think that that is in there and how do you think we see it pop up next week? >> well, it seems by the questions that what they're trying to gather, people who are not overly biased in favor of the former president. and so i thought the quiet, i thought that was the question again. >> i mean, and t4 yeah, again, >> yes, that is true. yeah >> that was the question that stood out to >> me to the fact that they wanted to make sure that stacked one way or another against the former president. >> but it was also >> interesting that they care about what news they read >> also, this probably gonna >> be questions about what they do for a living. those sorts of things too. but this trial is coming very quickly. i know there's been and lots of delays and all of these cases, but this is happening very soon in the presence going to be

once again consumed by as legal cases. >> yeah. matt mauer as sort of the republican at the table. i mean, what stood out to you in terms of what they want to know here and also big picture, i mean, the idea that we're headed for this jury selection process starting on monday the first time a former president it was ever gone on trial. what is the impact of that? >> what stone to me as from are these these questions will not only decide who may not have partiality, but also then when you're either a prosecutor or defense lawyer, you're looking for predictability sometimes do i remember having lawyer sometimes tell me if you want to avoid jury selection where oh, tai can figure out if you're liberal liberal professor, if you're some sort of conservative business guy, like a bow ties predictability so a lot of these questions help shape a lot of those answers. and so i'd say on that piece on the second piece, i think what it shows is we got to remember out of all the four different jurisdictions right now, are those cases? politically and legally moos folks would say this is the weakest case, right? they, they look at the documents case.

they think there's a lot of evidence there. they look at january 6 case, and i think that's really for the nation when you're talking about literally a hush money case which occurred before donald trump ever became president. most american see this is political. so from the political impact i don't think it's going to change much. we're could change something is that this is the only case that's actually moving forward on schedule right now. if there's a conviction which is a big f raven, you have a hung jury. there's a very good chance doctrine guilty. but if he was convicted, that will have an impact logistically you have travel restrictions when you become convicted, you have you have to check in with the court before you do travel. it does logistically become more complicated if it happens, which i still think as big if no, what do you think about this? the big question i keep always asking obviously is it worked for him to play the victim in the republican primary? i mean, ron desantis is out there saying, oh yeah, i had a shot until donald trump got indicted. but now we're heading into a general election to matt's point, this case was always kind of viewed as the one that was least likely to

significantly impact trump from a political perspective. that's it is still a criminal trial. that's right. >> and i think the >> biggest political impact this could have over anything else? is remind people who haven't really been thinking about donald trump for a few years what it's like to have donald trump in your life, fair, 0.3 single day every single day, the media is going to be covering this trial. they're going to see him sitting in that defendants share and it's going to be a reminder of the chaos that swirled around his presidency the chaos that drove a lot of independent voters to joe biden. remember in 2020, people were just exhausted, right? and so will it remind them of that sense of exhaustion? as we now enter into this new phase of the campaign. and they start seeing donald trump, the defendant, as opposed to donald trump's bluster. >> that's biden campaign's entire campaign strategy, right? as people, they hope

that people are reminded of the chaos of donald trump when it becomes a binary choice >> indeed, the there aspect of course is this question about immunity, which jack smith had these filings overnight i just want to remind you, have what we heard from the arguments around immunity from the dc circuit because this was one of the scenarios they threw out. listen could a president who ordered seal team six to assassinate a political rival who was not impeached. he be subject to criminal prosecution if he were impeached and convicted first answer. your answer is my answer is qualified. yes >> i mean, mountain hours >> this is it seems like a really tough argument here. what do you see the supreme court at doing here? we're talking to a lawyer, joey jackson is like, well, they got to make a kind of a black and white, a bright line argument on this. he said because of questions like this, the president, former president is basically arguing law, didn't apply to me when i was president. >> and look, i think in this

specific case and golf qualifications, i'm not a lawyer, but with that said, they are going to have to at some point though, this is going to have a big impact on presidential powers this guy have a big impact on how the court views the role of the president and the executive moving forward constitutionally . and so for that reason, i don't think it's gonna be just black and white because they are going to put some nuance to say, you know what, if you can't claim immunity here, one can a president make certain decisions that are in the nation's interests without being prosecuted. when can they maybe conduct a attack of abroad or something like that? that's america's best national security interests. and when does that kind of play into come into factor on all those things in the presidential powers cause i think he's gonna be the big piece that they have to actually talk about all this. >> again, i think i do think that the seal team six example illustrates the limitations what you're talking about. >> it. >> i mean, we've talked about obama and drone strikes. there have another questions around this very complicated for complicated issue because we're gonna be talking a lot about it between now and november. >> all right. up next to your why are house republicans are threatening to file a contempt

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joan and house oversight committee chaijamecomer, in service of legima ionay investigatory fution trends. but to serve polical depart claimofhe commite'alreadve the th request it. our panelis back, leanne, what igoing on he? becae this impeachment inquiry has been on the rocks for a long time ready. the early d't reallye wh flaput . what's this latest >>h, that's absolutely right. they don't really have anything in their impeachment inquiry into president biden republicans kn that james comer has mostly admitted that and so this is just another attempt to keep any sort of idea in the. news, in the ether that president biden is hiding something that he is potentially corrupt, whatever we're, however, republicans

want to paint him. and so this is another attempted that effort really, despite the fact that we all know and republicans know that impeachment isn't going to go nowhere >> i mean, it also seems like this is a push to keep the hur report in the news, right? >> that's right. i mean, this is surely political >> it >> is no, they don't need it they don't need the audio tape for anything. what this is >> the letter basically says like we gave you get everything that was said here. that's exactly right. and as leanne said, they ran smack dab into a brick wall in terms of chasing this down. so in terms of the impeachment, and so they do need to keep this up in their mind. now, will that work? we were talking in the last segment about how people view things politically. remember, house republicans, or maybe one of the few institutions that house, that is less popular than either donald trump or joe biden right now in american

bipartisan mrsa, many parties, i >> mean, it just the institution and the republican leadership in this case they're not getting any traction with voters other than their own base. so this continued effort, i think continues to be a base play to keep their folks energized. but i don't think it's going to help them politically and making a broader case to the american people. >> yeah, i mean, is that how you see it match i mean, the reality is like if this was politically great for the people that actually make the very small handful of people that make up the very tiny house republican majority, right? like, you don't really have the votes to go forward with impeachment for that reason, right? well, are this is also keeps >> the limelight and case another shoe drops. i mean, look, i worked with the trump campaign in 2016. i remember being on the ground and i believe it is alban lewiston, maine right before donald trump did rally the day that jim comey reopen the investigation because the anthony wiener laptop, you have no idea where these are independent. let's go, no idea how the story is going to play out as bits of

information come out. if a tape were released was there maybe something that was missing from the transcript? was there maybe a something that was read? and how it's considered when it's read, but maybe came across differently when it was said, those are all things that they're looking for in order to try to find out. and that is going to keep this in the news and they're going to keep it in the news because look, the truth is that joe biden's lowest approval rating occurred the month-and-a-half ago or so as a result, not impartially as a result because what came out from her investigation and let's be real, why are they want audio what happens to the audio once house republicans get hold of it? what are they doing? they're campaigning for reelection or campaigning for former president donald trump. hearing what president biden has to say and how he says it much different from just reading it on a piece of paper up next here, new us intelligence, suggesting around maybe poised to launch an attack against israel. we're going to talk to former defense secretary mark esper for about that. >> plus the uconn men's basketball >> team celebrating back-to-back national championships >> cnn central. today. and

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of these areas you see here, not just the red area, but also the yellow and green have the potential for flooding today. now, when we take a look at the next few days, it's also going to continue, but you start to see it shift a little bit further eastward. wednesday that concern is still also over the southeast, but that target point begins to move a little closer into alabama. then by thursday it's pretty much nearly a concern across the east coast. we also have the potential for severe thunderstorms. we're talking damaging winds, the potential for tornadoes, and very large hail as we go through the day to day >> all right. allison chinchar forrest. allison. thank you very much. >> coming up next here. donald trump's position on abortion upsetting both democrats and anti abortion. republicans plus democratic congressman mike quigley. joins us to discuss the fight over ukraine aid on capitol hill >> with jake tapper to the it four on cnn >> home home yes,

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that we've had an arrest of four isis affiliation here in the especially in the wake of that attack we saw in russia that was attributed to isis k. i realize you haven't been briefed on this specific attack. act but you can you help us understand what this means in context >> sure. i'm okay. i served eight years on the house permanent select committee on intelligence, and i guess what you learn every week is eternal vigilance must be there. >> those those threats internationally inspired, but domestically drawn out are very real threat. in july and then august, we're going to have to conventions that show that our country can operate as a democracy and we had to fight very hard to get the security money for that $75 million each. americans need to be reminded that domestic and international threats exist, and we must be vigilant congressman. let's talk about your trip

>> to ukraine you just returned after meeting with president zelenskyy and he has been warning that ukraine will lose the war if congress doesn't se help and do it relatively quickly, what did you hear from him and how confident are you that you and your colleagues can deliver for m? >> sure. >> look, i've met president zelenskyy six times since the war started, three times in ukraine he always begins with an extraordinary level of gratitude to the united states and the american people. then a very clear-eyed assessment of the battlefield situation you. know, he has a limited amount of sources, resources, he can draw upon they're doing all the dine here. but putin will send infinite, seemingly infinite number of his own people treating them like cannon fodder. so their democracy, democracy in eastern europe is at risk here there's. a, very real risk that if we don't get this done, that will be in

danger. i'd like to think this is certain to get done, but it's really up to speaker johnson. the fact is about half the republicans support this measure in the house. and the vast majority of democrats, if it was on the floor, it would pass would you personally be willing to help speaker mike johnson retain his job in the face of a challenge from marjorie taylor greene >> if he puts aid to ukraine on the house floor i think what has to happen is discussions between the leadership i think speaker mccarthy would still be speaker mccarthy if he had been willing to have those discussions. i don't know exactly procedurally how it would be done, but if we're going to do a supplemental that rebuilds infrastructure including the bridge in baltimore. and funds ukraine anisel and oer entits apprriately. i think a deal

n be done. icould be in attendance problem on the democratic side. i certainly have no sympathy and support for maorie taylor greenend the extremfar right. >> in the end, >> partisanship aside, we have to function as a government i talked with fiona hill yesterday and her message is always, are political dysfunction is a national security threat. we have to show that we can work together congressman, a couple of your republican colleagues, including congressman turner over the weekend with my colleague, jake tapper, have said that they see >> russian propaganda coming into republican talking points. do you agree with that? and if so, how do you combat that? >> you can see these talking points in russian tv. we have no pity for him well done republicans are standing firm. that's good for us. this is right off russian tv after we

voted down a measure. and again, i rct repntative tuer respect the 100 or so republicans who support ukrainian aid, but i'm very concerned for my country that a very small number of extremist are able to wag the body politic, the dog the tail wagging the dog in the expression we use for people who are apologists for putin sort of useful idiots. and they're usefutwo potent, but they're dangerous to our national and iernational security allight, congressman mike quigley, coressman, i relyn here early in the morning. thanks vermuch >>lad to do it. thank you >> all right >> let's turn out of donald trump drawinthe ire ofoth democrats ananti-abortion conservatives after announcing yestery that abortion rights, in his view, should be left to the ates his former vice president mike pence calling the decision a quote slap in the face to anti-abortion

voters who backed him in 2016 and 2020 trump also sparring with south carolina senator lindsey graham in a series of posts after gram publicly disagreed with the former president's stance trump accusing gram of doing a great disservice to the republican party. some anti-abortion voters suggested their support for trump might be at stake >> do you think that is enough for people to opt against donald trump as a result of this answer blamed. so if pro lifers, if this is our issue, there should be consequences. as i said perhaps this should cost donald trump, the pro-life vote. if this is your number one issue, what i do say is that those consequences for should be loudi do lash characterize this as a betrayal >> all right. my panel is back with us, so i gotta be honest. matt, i don't see the anti-abortion, right penalizing donald trump who is responsible

for overcome during roe versus wade over that. and it seems like donald trump knows this. i mean, he put this statement out, the de of a total solar eclipse across the united states and the night of the ncw a champion? yes. no. i mean, look, the truth is that america is american voters position on abortion as much more nuanced are political discourses around the issue. and to look at majority of americans they believe in in some restrictions on abortion, but most believed that should be legal. and so then it gets breaks up even more when you asked her be a state issue or federal issues. so what donald trump has done is put himself firmly in the middle of the american electorate on this issue. and by doing so, is now giving himself an opportunity to potentially paint present bite has an extremist on the issue. if he's he's talking about late term abortions and also what a lot of his support joe biden supporters are going to want to hear. >> so look, this is the tactic that republicans used to paint democrats as extremist in supporting lee term abortion when roe versus wade stood because in that case there were no restrictions that were placed on abortion. and so in

theory that was the reality. the reality now with rho fallen is that we're going to get ads like this one from the biden campaign, which clearly was saving this to put out when donald trump made the statement, watch this ad she was going to maybe we're home from the hospital all >> this is the blink at that she would >> donald trump did this. it says, yeah, i'm >> looking at say, it's out in your heart goes out for that fily but the challenge is that joe biden obviously was going to run that ad regardless what donald trump said yesterday, that's the politics

of this. he was always going to run that ad. and if you look at all also, let me just pause this point. so the democratic, democratic party largely and planned parenthood in particular, it's gone out and said that any republicans, sports, any any restriction, even saying bending in the third trimester or wants it ban, you saw them new hampshire where i'm from where they said chris sununu, i am republican. was actually said they want to ban abortion. he didn't he put a third trimester restriction. that's gonna be the rhetoric that comes >> carlos, i understand. your point in that. like this is kind of how our political discourse unfolds. sometimes i'm not saying that every person or every actor always is completely above board in the way they make their arguments. but the reality is that states are limiting abortion in such an agreement passive way, that ad is about a woman who very much wanted to have a baby. i mean, like i think leanne and i were both struggling a little bit because i mean the emotion around losing a very wanted or child and not being able that she now that woman may not be able to have a child because she was denied care because

their doctors were afraid of being in criminalized. leanne, i feel like this is the thing about the way this is played out, that while maybe republicans, republicans honestly before roe fell, were able to more successfully make a political argument that democrats were extreme. the reverse is now true >> yeah, the extremist argument coming from republicans just doesn't land and the exact same same way that it did a couple of years ago before roe felled fell. and what voters aren't buying it at this point when voters rights are restricted, they're not thinking about late term abortions or whether that's accurate or not. the argument from republicans, they're thinking my rights have been taken away now. and that's what you have seen in elections in 2022 and 2023. and that's what bet, but democrats are betting on will happen in elections in 2024. >> really, just, really, really tough stuff. all right >> coming up next here, we are waiting for the release of bodycam footage after a fatal

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inevitable that it actually is and what do you think it might look like? >> it is inevitable. this is a culture, the iranian culture that goes an eye for an eye, just like they did when the united states, when i was at the pentagon attack, soleimani, they responded within five days. so they're going to attack back i would've expected they would want to do it by themselves rather than through proxies. and i would expect that it would do they would go after a like targets. so some type of senior israeli official maybe a consular building if they could do that although the opportunities to do so are limited in that region of the world. so it's, it'll be interesting to see how they go about this i don't think they will go after united states targets because i think at the end of the day, they want to make sure that the united states washington is there to restrain israel in case this thing starts to escalate. >> so you are skeptical that us targets will be part of this? yeah. i think i think it's possible, but i think it's unlikely that they'll attk american targe. >> what what canou tell us? i realize it may be limited, but

what canou telus about what thpentagon would be doin rit now preparation f sothing like thi first of all, we'd be reaching out to our allies and partners inhe region because of course, we have troops in moscountries on the saudi arabian peninsula, and then we'd be putting our forces in a protective posture, making sure that our security isht, that we have ample air defenses in case it comes and likely wilthrough an air attack, either drones or a cruise missile or something like that if it's a rainy and government. and then of course we'd be thinking, what are our options if there's, if this happens and the president wants to do something or we need to do something. what type of options should we tee up for the president? get involve moving some us forces around in the region to be prepared to do that >> on the question of israel and the war in gaza. we've seen the israelis make some interesting tactical military decisions lately, we see crews witnessed tanks coming out of israel. and there were initial descriptions of this as being a potential israeli withdrawal all than there was some pushback on that. and then overnight we heard the prime

minister say that there is a date for them to invade rafah. were you surprised to hear him say that? i mean tactically, what do you think he's doing? and is it more about politics and military tactics? >> well, two things i was surprised that their withdrawing troops from khan yunis, where it was because when you conduct military operations operations on urban terrain, which is how we call it in the defense department. you always want to leave troops behind because otherwise the enemy comes in behind you and then starts conducting a counter-insurgency. your taxi from behind. we saw this a few weeks ago and our sheep aware hundreds of hamas militants made their way back up to the hospital and start attacking israeli so that's surprised me, number one. but secondly, for netanyahu to announce, again attack and he's been saying this for 456 weeks now. so i think this is more of a domestic play because on one hand, he knows he's negotiating in cairo with hamas. they think a deal is getting closer and closer. i'm very skeptical and so maybe this is something to throw out to the folks on his right to say no, no, no, we're still going in and we're going to still take out hamas, which i think he needs to do by the way. but i think this is a lot of domestic politics right

here. >> i think that makes a lot of sense when i watched that clip this morning, if that this is a political video, more than anything else. let's talk about ukraine. we just had congressman quigley on. he was back from his visit with zelenskyy, essentially warning us that if congress doesn't get aid to ukraine out the door, it's going to mean that the do you think the implications e if congress doesn't act? >> well, eventually that right now, zelenskyy is trading terrain for time. i hoping that the united states congress will pass something this week, next week, whenever because if it doesn't happen, he will run out of ammunition and once the united states falters, you could look at several european countries, nato allies, faltering as well. and then it's only a matter of time. may we expect that moscow's going to conduct another counter offensive in this spring or summer. he'll push back further and then the question is putins probably weighing out, well, maybe he should wait till november if, if donald trump wins the presidency and comes in in january 2025, trump has promised to get rid of all ukrainian support. so things are looking a lot better for vladimir putin today than they

did what eight months ago when prigozhin was leading up military convoy to moscow so time is not on zelenskyy side. >> what do you make of these claims from some republican members of congress? congress that there are russian talking points showing up on the floor of the house. and what are the national security implications of that? >> they look very troubling, not surprising they, the russians have wanted, have had an influence campaign against united states for years. so his china, by the way. and so to see this though in the hands of lawmakers are being used as congressman call. and turner said it's really disturbing during the cold war, we wouldn't have never seen lawmakers using talking points from pravda. but here we are, what, 40, 50 years later. and it's really troubling. >> it's a remarkable statement. you mentioned china re in washington to me with the president that is in no small part about china. what are you watching for? sure. now look at everybody's focus stone gaza and everything else is happening in europe. but this is a big meeting because shiga, the prime minister of japan, is coming to town who have a state dinner on

wednesday, thursday. he goes before a joint session of congress. he'll probably talk about the importance of ukraine being funded in order to push back against an aggressive autocracy, which is what he season china by the way, facing him and they're also going to talk about china building a joint operational capability with the united states or command in japan to deal with china at the same time, he's doubled his defense spending. he's building counter-strike weapon remarkable for japan. these are things unheard of ten years ago coming out of japan. so it's a big visit. the deserves more tension. yeah. finally, i want to ask you, there was an amicus brief filed with the supreme court from a group of generals and admirals. and this is in the question of presidential immunity. and former president donald trump, they argue this quote presidential immunity from criminal prosecution would threaten the military's role in american society. our nation's constitutional were and our national security under the theory, the president could with impunity direct his national security appointees to, in turn direct military members of the military to execute plainly unlawful orders

placing those in the chain of command in an untenable position and irreparably harming the trust, fundamental to civil, military relations. this seems to recall the question that was the dc circuit had about whether seal team six could be ordered to take out a political rival. do you agree with this? >> well, i have to read it. it's it's hard to listening, kind of translate that. first of all, my view is i would prefer her to see retired admirals and generals not get involved in these issues, but look, the president doesn't have immunity on these types of issues. that's well-documented . and well-known and shouldn't by the way, and the hypothetical seal team six being used to take out, it's just ridiculous. so look the president, my view doesn't have that type of immunity. >> that means >> that their team argued that he could potentially do it. >> it's just absurd, right? >> there's no >> military official would ever consider that so it's just it's not even worth kind of talking about. it's just ridiculous. >> fair enough, mr. secretary, i'm so grateful for your time. thank you very much for being here. i really appreciate it. >> all right. 52 minutes past

the hour. here's your morning roundup. the parents of michigan school shooter, ethan crumbley, are scheduled to be sentenced today on involuntary manslaughter charges. jennifer and james crumbley each face up to 15 years behind bars bodycam video of a fatal chicago police involved shooting is set to be released today. official say dexter reid was killed last month after five officers pulled his vehicle over for a traffic stop. the european court of human rights ruled against the swiss government and a landmark climate cakes, the corp the court ruled in favor of 2000 elderly swiss women who argued that he waves fueled by climate change are undermining their health and quality of life >> a >> record number of viewers watched sunday's ncaa women's basketball final, the matchup between south carolina and iowa, registering 18.7 million viewers, shattering the women's college basketball ratings record here's iowa's star, caitlin clark, the goat after her final game

>> when i think about women's basketball going forward obviously it's just going to continue to grow, whether it's at the wnba level, whether it's at the college level, like everybody sees that everybody knows. everybody sees the viewership numbers. when you're given an retune, women's sports, just kind of thrives >> not a panels back and extra senior media reporter sara fischer, also joins us >> i >> so i've got women on this half of the table, guys. i'm sorry. >> i would i would love it if you jumped in to but sarah mean these numbers for women's basketball are just so incredibly high. and one of the things i was reading about this, but i have really been and loving it. but there was this apparently this idea that while women wouldn't rate this way. so there was no promotion. but now they've figured out that, well, actually if you promote these, these women, the way you promote the men, this is what happened. >> yes, it's definitely a chicken and the egg when it comes to women's sports, right? same thing with media rights. the wnba is negotiating right now. now for media rights, they're hoping to double how much they make per year right now. they're getting about 50 million. they want to

get 100, but it speaks to your point if you make the investment upfront, right? give them good distribution, give them good marketing. the viewership will come and by the way, it's not just on tv. we solve for the first time tickets sold out for this tournament for the women, they're going to show up in person and endurance oh my good friend tells me all the time this is not this moment. it is the moment for women's sports and it's going to be this moment for a long time. >> well, how does the wnba compared to the nba >> oh, good question. i mean, it's a very fraction of what they get for the media rights. and obviously from the promotion itself. but we're expecting these rights to come together in a package. so the is there an up for negotiation this year. there'll be renewed in 2025. >> i mean, >> if we can get to a point where they are doubled, so we get to 100 million. that would be landmark if you think about it for soccer. soccer, just passed a new deal, 240 million across four years. so this would be bigger than women's soccer. >> but i mean, a tiny fraction of mental yeah, yeah what do you see in this? i think you have a daughter. yeah. yeah, i do. and we're a big college basketball family. we go to games all the time. i took my

daughter maybe five, six years ago to our first women's game played in a very different venue. the men were playing in a big arena, the women were playing in a small, smaller gym. we were seated in bleachers as opposed so arenas. and i remember her looking around saying this is different and it's not fair. >> yeah. what we are seeing today with >> the width because of the focus on women's basketball and the emphasis on it. and more and more people tuning in i think you are going to start to see some of those inequities, maybe not level out, but we are starting to close that gap. and i could not be more thrilled about that. >> can i just follow up on something one of the reasons this gap is getting close is the women themselves are really good at promoting themselves. so now because of nil name, image, and likeness, you have college star ours who are female, who are crushing on social media far more than their male counterparts. that's leading to more brand

sponsorship deals. that's leading to more fans. there putting the work in their own handand they'reaking it happen. yeah. >> you or your college athlete >> yeah. yeah. >> i mean, what does this mean to you? i mean, it's just absolutely huge >> when >> everyone talks about filling out their brackets for the nc2 a tournament, they're always men bracket and i've been pushing every single year only if we do a women's bracket two. >> but >> men sport, i mean, of course there's been titled nine, which is tried to give women's sports and more parody is men's sports as far as money is concerned but they've always been behind men's sports. and as college athlete, i actually felt that very much as a swimmer and but now we are seeing a couple of decades later that women are finally getting there do and they deserve it. they're just as amazing athletes doing just as much work as the man, if not more. yeah. >> caitlin clark sarah, i mean, how much is this about her, the person >> it's a good question. so when you take a look at the ratings, we had two games on

friday night, one with caitlin clark, one without the one with caitlin clark had about double the viewership, but the one without her still do 7 million viewers. i mean, that's bigger than most award shows these days. so it gives you a sense of how big the momentum is it's even without caitlin clark. the question becomes, what happens when she and i you should tell her and others move to the wnba. does the momentum stick with the nc doublet? i would argue, yes, because not only are the viewership numbers huge, but a lot of people who drove those numbers, if you think about south carolina's team, are freshmen. >> and >> so we'd be a lot of the big star power is going to continue on and i think that the ncw, ncw has a bright future without caitlin clark, wnba has a bright future with her. >> yeah. no, i love it. all right. >> i'll leave you with this. >> granulations. love was in the air during yesterday's solar eclipse as hundreds of couples across the country decided it was the moment to tie the knot about 70 couples

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