you know, and i wish she could be part of it, but like i said, i know she's proud of me >> on canvas back going campus in stores, connecticut elated as they celebrated the school six national title since 1999, it's been a quarter century of dust hominins. kate, the last two tournaments, uconn as beaten their opponents by an average of 20 points against non conference opponents de of a record of 33 and one, all of those wins by double-digits it says, well, when i asked code shirley this week, how he would describe the mental makeup of his team. he used the word relentless. there's only one program that was ever able to pull up a three-peat that was useful kelly, about half a century ago. now, uconn will get their chance >> i love it relentless, relentless, and by the way, i can read lips that uconn student was saying, junk, good well done he was

>> newsroom with jim acosta >> begins now >> good morning you were. >> alive in this unit newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington and we begin with breaking news out of michigan. the parents of oxford school shooter, ethan crumbley are in court face-to-face with their sons, victims ahead of their sentencing, james and jennifer crumbley were both found guilty of four counts. involuntary manslaughter after their teenage son brutally murdered four of his classmates back in 2021, they are the first parents to be held responsible for a school shooting committed by their child. you're looking at a picture is coming from inside the courtroom as we speak, cnn's jean casarez joins us now, gene tell us what's happening in court right now. and about this

prospect that we're gonna be seeing in just a few moments here of the parents of these victims coming face-to-face with ethan crumbley's parents. that is going to be an incredibly emotional moment that will be the emotional moment because the parents of the four students that ethan crumbley gun down an oxford high school in november of 22 21 that the parents were charged and convicted on themselves because of gross negligence. they will come forward and describe how their life have changed. they may address james and jennifer crumbley on what they did as parents to help cause all of this. but there has been contention in that courtroom this morning because the defense attorneys are already in this precedent setting sentencing because never before in this country have parents of a mass school shooter not only been charged and convicted of the homicides themselves but now for sentencing because the prosecution is arguing aggravating factors that were four students that were killed. there was an tend to kill more

students. there was the fact that there was an aspect of using that gun and intending to kill. but the defense is saying no, that's not correct here. there was a continuum of gross negligence that's what the jury convicted them on. we agree with that. but once that gun gotten the hand ends of ethan crumbley at that school and he pulled that trigger that those are independent acts. he decided to kill four. he decided that he wanted to kill as many as he could. he intended to do injury to others and that should not be put upon the parents and reflected in the sentencing so it's an argument but and we'll see what the judge does with this >> yeah. >> jeanne, i mean, i just wonder if in the control room can tell me something differently. if we should listen in at some moment, if you think it's important to listen and at some moment, let us know >> we do >> think that those victim impact statements are going to start within the next several minutes, but gene, what about a

authorities asking that there be a no contact order between james and jennifer and their son, and that that remains in place. it's sort of remarkable i guess what they're asking for here is that the members of this family that have been tried and convicted here can't talk to one another. >> this is fascinating. june, because this has become a constitutional issue this morning. because you're, you're watching them, they are seated together in that courtroom. this is the first time they've been in the courtroom together in months they haven't seen each other there has been a non-contact orders since 2021 when they were arrested. they can't write to each other. they can't write to their son. they cannot communicate in any way. and the pre-sentence investigation, the probation department recommended that that continue the defense is saying, wait a minute, this is a violation of your constitutional liberty to be a family, at least they should be able in prison to write to each other to see how each other is doing. and there

has been zero context of the judge wants the prosecution to respond to this. it was a recommendation from the probation department and then the judge will make that ruling, but once they're in the hands of the department of corrections, jim they're the ones that call the shots. they're the ones that will determine and the judge did say that she learned from the prison that james crumbley and ethan they are considered enemies at this point. and so that very likely there will be no contact and there'll be in separate penal institutions. but still that no contact could endure >> our gene and so many communities across this country have been affected by these mass shootings. and i imagine a lot of families who have been impacted by this outside of michigan are going to be paying attention to this because we're going to see those victim impact statement shortly or bring some of that too. you when it happens. in the meantime, jean casarez, thank you very much we're following several other developments in the legal cases swirling around donald trump and his efforts to delay them, special counsel

jack smith is calling on the supreme court to reject trump's sweeping claims of presidential immunity as of now that cases it's due to be argued before the high court in two weeks. and in new york, a state appeals court has shut down trump's latest efforts to delay his hush money trial. the court refused to chain venue, so jury-selection remains on track for monday that we could make trump the first former president to face a criminal trial. there's a lot to unpack. let me go to cnn's kara scannell do you work for forest kara? what about these efforts expected to delay monday's start of jury-selection might we see more of those? i imagine we'll see them throw everything but the kitchen sink at this between now and next monday think that's a fair bet jam. >> i mean, there's a blitz of activity >> over the past week with trump making several attempts both at the trial court level and now at the appellate level to try to delay and derail this trial. yesterday's motion. they wanted to postpone the trial so they could argue that there should be a change of venue saying that the new york market

has been saturated, prosecutors opposed that saying this is an international story and the importance here is focusing on jury selection and making sure that they see in unbiased, fair, and impartial jury, the judge quickly agreed with that and that that that effort is now done, but trump's team has several other efforts underway. they're trying to get the judge overseeing the trial to push off it because of the publicity argument that seems like a long shut now in light of yesterday's ruling, they're also trying to get the doj to recuse himself. and today, we are expecting some oral arguments as they appeal the gag order that was put in this case to stop the former president from making comments about the judge's daughter, a family member first of the prosecution team, any of the witnesses in this case, trump's team, is appealing that today we're expecting arguments, the details of that still remain fluid at this time, but think you're right, this is not expected to be the last effort by trump's team as they try to stop this trial from happening. now, just six days away, jim and care when the selection process gets

underway, what do we think the jurors are going to be asked >> so the focus of jury selection in this questionnaire is to find people who might have opinions about the former president or about the prosecution shin or the case, but who can be fair and impartial. they were up 42 questions that the judge has outlined that he will ask the jurors some of them are as basic as how long have you lived in new york? where do you live in the city? what do you do for a living? where do you get your news? others are more focused on donald trump and the specifics of this case to try to find anyone who might have a hidden in bias because that is most important to the judge. so he's going to ask questions of have you ever worked for the trump organization that trump campaign or the administration have you attended any pro trump rallies or anti-trump rallies? are you members of any fringe groups such as the proud boys or q and on or antifreeze, trying to find people on both possible sides here. one thing that the judge made clear is that he's not going to ask anyone about their party affiliation, who they donated

to who they voted for because he said the politics are not on trial here though. it's not whether or not you liked donald trump or don't like donald trump. it's about whether you can be fair and impartial and that is what the judge said. he will make very clear in controlling any follow-up questions that either side wants to ask. jim all right. kara scannell outside the courthouse in manhattan for us. thank you. now, to the backlash, over 400 your donald trump's latest stance on abortion is record on the issue has been somewhat of a moving target over the last 25 years. he has shifted as stands at least 13 times, saying he's quote, pro choice and 1999 pro life 2015. and in 2016, even urgent quote, some form of punishment for women who get abortions. now, trump is getting some backlash from anti-abortion advocates for saying on monday that the issue should be left up to the states as former vice president mike pence calls that a slap in the face. the president of a prominent anti-abortion group is slamming it as a total eclipse of reason and

republican senator lindsey graham says trump's position is a quote mistake that drew the ire of trump who accused as ally of doing a disservice to the party and playing into democrats hands do you guys ever learn? they never learn. the democrats want to make the election about abortion. it's a very controversial thing. but everybody wanted it back in the states. we took a great victory and guys like lindsey graham they make it controversial and it's not controversial. it goes back to the states were all lead legal scholars on both sides wanted >> all right, let's discuss with democratic strategist chuck roca and former republican congressman joe walsh. guys, thank you very much for being with me. this weren't shuffling. go to your you're here in the studio with me. trump has changed his position on this. a lot of times. just mentioned a few moments ago that has president biden telling supporters and chicago last night this quote, no one trusts donald trump on this issue how much of i mean,

how much of a winning issue is that going to be with suburban and independent voters? when we've seen time and again in states like kansas, ohio voters are coming out in droves on this. >> it's a really important issue. i think that's exactly why you're seeing this happen. this is why you see them all over the place. he's chasing this cat and he can't get it in the corner because he knows it's going to have a big impact in race after race that i'm working in in the suburbs. in the suburbs of philadelphia yeah milwaukee, and then these battleground states are where these suburban voters mainly democratic women who are married, republican man are gonna make the difference in this election. they care deeply about this. a lot, like a lot of democrats and republicans and independents in places like kansas. you just saw it get on the ballot in florida of all places, this is going to be a major centerpiece of the election. that's why can you see him doing exactly what it's doing now? yeah. i mean, it could put florida and play >> and joe i mean, trump has made a number of controversial statements about abortion, obviously for as dishonest as he is, he can be remarkably candid. here's what he said. a few years back on, whether

women should be punished for abortion >> do you believe in punishment for abortion? yes or no is a principal at the answer is that there has to be some form of punishment for the woman. yeah, it has to be some form ten ten years that i don't know that. why not? no, i don't. you take positions and everything else. i frankly, i do take positions and everything else. sounds familiar job and he was tap dancing all around those up until yesterday and then he said leave it up to the state's a lot of democrats are saying, hey, if he gets back into the white house, you have a republican congress. they put up a national abortion ban. you could take trump's statement yesterday, throw it out the window jim look again the headline here is what the headline has always been. donald trump has no core belief on abortion. trump has no core belief on any issue trump's only core belief is donald trump whatever will help donald trump, whatever will advance donald trump. so he didn't give a about abortion. what will

help get him elected? that's all he cares about. that's all these ever cared about. that's all he cared about jim during covid, he didn't care that americans were dying and getting sick. all he cared about was his reelection the same factor here >> and chuck, the biden campaign released pretty powerful add on this yesterday. let's take a look, talk about it >> this is the outfit she was going to maybe we're home from the hospital the blanket that she would footprints okay >> i mean, truck that that is a incredibly powerful spot and it

kinda goes back to what trump said to chris matthews about there being punishment for the woman. i mean, the reason why so many families are going through so much heartache right now over this issue. and some people have to travel to other states and their doctors don't want to do two reproductive karatay anymore in certain states because of the prospect of being legally punished, punished in court arrested, thrown in jail for providing reproductive care, and some of these states, this is something in politics that's very black and white. it's something that's literally taken away from a woman about their own body, their own safety, their own health you saw that very emotional and half of the electric will be women. and this is a very basic right that they should have about determining what happens with their own body. so when you talk to lots of mothers, lots of grandmothers, and young daughters out there that are having this conversation that women have a mux himself is the most powerful political and policy thing that you could be having with in a community that's why you see my intron to touch the emotion of it because it's real, it's not

just an issue. it's people's lives. it's their health care, it's little babies. i mean, i think that's the reason you see this yes. >> and joe, i didn't want to talk about this as well because i mean, trump is doubling down on these comments that he made about jewish americans who vote for democrats. i think we talked about this >> you know, he's doing it again. here's what he said. >> any. jewish person votes for biden does not love israel. and frankly it should be spoken to a lot of a tab. it's all jewish people by habit, and it's shaded, yes, they vote for the democrats and black people by habit, vote for the democrats. >> i know joe, we've talked about this so many times but it literally, any other politician in the history of america had just said that one thing right there they'd be gone >> if he >> just said that one, never mind. the trump over the weekend said joe biden did cocaine before the se of the union and over the weekend, he

said, if, you know, if we had if only we could have people coming in from denmark just individually, each one of those things if they had been said by any other politician in the history of the united states, they'd be gone in trump's says that one thing he's doubling down and he nothing, nothing will happen. there are no consequences jim, you're so right. anybody else any other i say this as a former candidate, you would be done the media, not you the media has done such a disservice in rushing by the hundreds of horrible things he says, every day, jim, this is his secret sauce. he throws so much hard me against the wall every day and we normalize it you nailed it. i mean, yes. over the weekend, he said the president of the united states was high on cocaine during the state of the union. nobody talked about that. we can't do this. >> there was eclipsed yeah.

>> it was >> yeah in shock. i mean, this this leads me to the next thing which i didn't want to get this in. we're kind of bounce around a lot, but rfk juniors, new york state director, had this to say about her top priority in november, it will close on this talk about it >> the only way for him for bobby to shake it up and to get rid of biden is if he's on the ballot in every state, including new york, whether you support bobby or trump. >> we >> all oppose biden my thoughts are that that's the number one priority in the country >> and the kennedy campaign is downplaying this. they're saying she's not involved in electoral strategy nationally >> in new york >> she was speaking as a private citizen in her statements have no way reflect the strategy of the kennedy camp i was recently recently at the kennedy library and massachusetts is just a remarkable place that it's just, it's anyway, i don't

want to go down that road too much, but it's unbelievable how it does seem as though kennedy's sole reason to be in this race, at least from the point of view, some of the people around bobby kennedy is to make sure biden doesn't win, to figure out a way to shave off a few votes in certain states. here are there to make sure biden does a way. i mean, it just seems transparent. it's becoming more transparent everyday are saying the quiet part out loud. and she said it out loud. it scared amount of death, but that's exactly what's happening here with all due respect to the kennedy family and the legacy of his father's in his uncles and raising legacy my god. yeah. right. and you know, i live in the shadows rfk stadium and the backside. i mean, he's everywhere around dc and in our politics, but saying the quiet part out loud is the big deal here with us needing every vote in every state could have a big impact. and it's a shame that we have people from our own party that had this long legacy trying to stand in the way of somebody good getting elected president. >> joe and i gotta go you talk to a lot of young voters and they, or they want to know more about rfk junior. they think

it's interesting. >> yeah. and but >> this is not like one of the kennedys is running for president. that's not what this is, right? >> that's not at all what this is. he's in to help trump and democrat said, and young people need to wake up if you don't want trump in the white house, your only vote as biden ignore kennedy all right checking joe thanks a lot still to come. congress, would marjorie taylor greene sharpening her attacks on the house speaker mike johnson, the scathing new letter pushing her gop colleagues to act that's sunday and ninth of space for stoma whole story with anderson cooper the james webb telescope. are we alone? >> followed by the two part >> finale of space shuttle columbia, both final flight sunday, starting at eight on cnn get your backyard ready for any occasion with the help of quality battery tools by still owe me it prove still dealers right now now say $50 on select

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and speaker mike johnson's job could be in >> jeopardy as johnson continues to work behind the scenes to thread the needle and find a ukraine aid package that can pass. he's facing threats from within his own party including continued attacks. republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene how dare he go on tv and say it's his top priority to fund ukraine for 60 billion >> i will not >> tolerate a speaker of the house that i voted for to sell us out i will not tolerate it >> and this morning, green is doubling down, sending a scathing indictment of johnson to her republican colleagues, accusing the speaker of jeopardizing their razor-thin majority in the house. let's discuss that and we're now a democratic congressman, raja krishnamoorthi of illinois, a memory for the house intelligence and oversight committees. i guess this is a little bit outside of your domain, congressman, because you are a democrat, but thank

you very much for being here. just the other day congresswoman green was saying that earthquakes in eclipses were strong signs from god telling us to repent why is anybody listening to what she has to say? >> i don't know and i think that somebody had mentioned that she's oftentimes parenting russian talking points on the floor of the house. i mean, this is crazy anytime that she talks is a moment when i think more democrats tend to do the opposite of what she wants and actually moderate and other senate interests republicans do the same >> but it does raise a larger issue as to what is going to happen to speaker johnson. do you think his job is safe at this point? would you back an effort to rescue him if marjorie taylor greene brings a motion to vacate to the house floor, look of speaker johnson brings ukraine aid to the floor and other aid packages to the floor. we're in does the right thing. >> and then marjorie >> taylor greene seeks to remove him or moves to remove

him. i think that democrats would join in a motion kill such a maneuver because he should not be punished for doing the right thing >> and how likely is that to occur? do you think that could actually happen? we might see that happen it could, although very interestingly among my republican colleagues, especially moderates and others they feel that there >> isn't a lot of support for her motion, and therefore, she may not make it. but all that being said, we should be prepared for anything and we've seen this movie before. and so we'll be i think not surprised if it happens. but i'm hoping that if he does the right thing he won't we won't be punished for doing that. >> and congressman justice morning israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said that, quote, no force in the world will stop israeli troops from entering rafah how do you

respond to that? >> well i'm hearing different signals, different messages from israel at this point on the one hand, they moved a lot of their troops out of southern gaza and i also heard that at the negotiating table, there's some hopeful signs. i think mr. golan their defense ministers signal that they might be close two getting to a deal for an immediate ceasefire, immediate halt to hostilities, and in return for hostages and more humanitarian aid. and if we can get to that that will be exactly what we need right now, because the conditions in gaza are deplorable. i'm also hoping that the katara is and others put tremendous pressure on hamas to also cease fire and make sure that the hostages get released. >> i mean, just last week the president was warning prime minister benjamin netanyahu that if, if he doesn't change course in gaza, that there might be some consequences when it comes to usa. but when prime

minister comes out and says that no force in the world will stop troops from invading rafah. does it sound like he got the message from the white house? >> i'm not sure. >> it's very hard for >> me to understand mr. netanyahu but what i do understand is that the president made it very clear to mr. netanyahu and others that first humanity it's hearing aid must be allowed to flow in much greater quantities into gaza. and secondly, they have to minimize harm to innocent civilians. and so some of the moves that have occurred over the last 48 hours have been in the right direction >> and finally on, on ukraine, the treasury secretary, janet yellen is wrapping up a visit china's xi is warned, china of significant consequences for chinese companies that are supporting russia's war in ukraine, a china's apparently defying that criticism. what's your sense of it right now does what should the us do about this? what should the administration be saying right now? >> i think she's saying exactly the right thing and i'm glad

that she's having this high level dialogue with the ccp i understand that she's also gone viral for some lover culinary or chinese cuisine moments. but on a more serious note, i think that she should continue to make it very clear to our ccp interlocutors are the people that she's meeting that chinese company he's that provide assistance to the russian war machine would likely be sanctioned in the united states and that might even include good technologies that up to this point, we have not talked about such as dual use technology. >> the majority of the >> semiconductors that the russian military uses in its missile missiles, and other technologies are now coming from china and that's of grave concern. >> all right. congressman krishnamoorthi. thank you very much for your time this morning. we really we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> all right. coming up, the real impact that the stalled ukraine aid bill is having on

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ukraine loses the war, other states will be attacked for more, on this retired lieutenant colonel alexander vindman joins me now from kyiv. kernel vindman great to see you as always. what do you make of what presidents zelenskyy had to say there? >> thanks, jim. i'm i definitely wanted to spend a little bit of time talking about the advantages that the russians have in the war. but let's start with the big picture. i think that, that president zelenskyy exactly right. it's not just about ukraine. it's not a war between russia and ukraine. it's actually part of assistance, systemic war the president didn't the prime minister of poland referred to this as we are already in a state of war with russia. we just haven't fired shots. >> we are in a >> political war. we are informational war, economic or in certain regards, a hybrid war. whether it's cyber attacks attacks on elections, information operations, were there already so the question is, when does this does russia get a brushback? because russia

lose and decide to lick its wounds and not provoked a military competition? or does this advance? and i think we're right now, we're headed towards an advancement and it's not just an advancement with regards to russia and ukraine, it's not just russia and nato, it's actually china, also, china's becoming much, much more aggressive this there's a reality to china providing a lot more military capability to russia they're seeing it. the ukrainians are seeing it on the ground more pouring in and so we're seeing a general kind of danger with china being involved in a rounding bolden that's why in part we have this confrontation in the middle east, right? our adversaries, and we need to do what we can to help when this battle because it's going to influence everything else. >> and current limit as you know, a trump has claimed he has a plan to end the war in ukraine just over the last couple of days, the washington post reported that trump has privately said that he would pressure ukraine and giving up some of its territory and exchange for peace. crimea and

the donbas region, according to the post, what's your reaction? schindler that so i wrote an article in my substack just recently about the fact that victory is within reach. it's us, it's the west providing your materials. court so like this, we don't have to have troops on the ground. having donald trump call the shots, having donald trump as president is a recipe for spillover donald trump's only role would be two, because we don't have any leverage right now. we don't we're not providing aid, so we can't pull back aid. what leverage does down trump's have to influence ukraine at all? what we would end up seeing is donald trump withdraw from europe in general, in russia probably all those restraints that we're seeing with regards to the baltics and poland, which start to ease and we can see those troops four into ukraine because the fact is that these countries would much rather fight on ukraine's territory stop russia there, then on their own. so there is no path it is an absurdity frankly

somebody who would say this would come sound like a fool. but donald trump makes these pronouncements that mean or nothing because there's no leverage, no influence to do this. and if anything, he would be advancing the interests of war and direct us involvement in the region because of his bad policies yeah. >> and i did want to ask i mean, it's not just trump who might play in a russia's hands republican congressman mike turner recently said to cnn that russian propaganda is being echoed by some within his own party. let's listen to a bit of that. >> we see directly coming from russia attempts to mask communications that are anti ukraine and pro russia messages, some of which we even here being uttered on the house floor. i mean, there are members of congress today who still incorrectly say that this conflict between russia and ukraine is over naibe, which of course it is not colonel him. and that is the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee saying that well, it's it's very

true. i this is topic i've tackled multiple times, whether it's the thread or the pretext of ukraine as corrupt has its deficiencies, but that it's entirely corrupt, or that ukraine is filled with nazis. these are russian themes that have permeated, have infiltrated the republican narrative to block support ukraine. i i make it a point to knock down these with, with logic and reason, but there isn't a logic a reason that's going to be able to penetrate these far-right republicans because for them, it's all about the pretext donald trump does not want support to ukraine those, those henchmen understand it and they're going to do what they can and what is the result? the result is that ukraine has been in a lot of ways the europeans have stepped up in a huge way, provided significant additional resources. but there is nothing that could plug the hole of a us absence. so ukrainians have had to do this more on their own than before. they have

limited budgets to implement the programs that they need to pay soldiers salaries and frankly, they don't have their artillery or the military material to attack letter defending is a little bit easier, but certainly not attack. the best they could do is blunt the russians attacks the problem is that the russians have settled on a recipe for success. they didn't have d of code what, what do they do? they used glide bombs, these massive 1,500 kilogram glide bombs launched from 70 kilometers way that glide to target and obliterate everything and then once everything is completely pulverized, the russians can move in and advance. they're doing this at kharkiv, ukraine's second largest city before the war is 1.5 million. there is no solution to this problem right now for the ukrainians because air defense missiles have a basically this applies. it's been eroded as ukraine defend itself i've 16s have taken way too long to get there. we need to pass this ukraine aid bill now, we need a resource to ukrainians to be able to defend themselves and

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now to discuss as rachel nickels and of headliners with rachel nicholls on showtime and paramount plus rachel great to see you again. at the beginning of that game, i thought purdue is gonna give uconn a run for their money. zach edey was looking good and it was just uconn is just too tough. they just where everybody down. >> yeah. i mean, they've been so dominant all season through the tournament. they came into the game with a point differential of 18 points per game. i mean, let's just bonkers so purdue, no one knew what to expect getting out to a hot start was really it's only shot, but it certainly wasn't getting guarantee anything can edit good. just overwhelms teams because not only are they incredibly deep and talented, it's just all the little things where it was here about and sports, right? they play like a team. they have great chemistry, they're really all out aggressive, defensively, and just there's no mistakes. there are very intelligent team. >> yeah. and i think that overwhelms other teams and even a group as good as purdue. it just was, they were too much like they'd been too much for every 13 and the entire

country. this eric. >> yeah, i'm kind of wondering about a three-peat. i mean, they just looked dominant out there. it's really amazing to watch and there's no doubt i mean, the sport really changed. i feel like this time around because of so much interest in the women's tournament. rachel, let's look at these latest ratings from the women's championship game between iowa and south carolina, viewership peaked at 24 million, drew an average are 18.7 million viewers caitlin clark, i mean this is, this is just a paradigm shift in the sport, isn't it? >> yeah. i mean, we've been building toward this women's sports of course, be becoming more popular, bigger tv contracts and sort of the perfect storm of increased interest along with caitlin clark, who is just so exceptional not only as a person in an ambassador for her sport, but just she can flat out ball and she hits the three-pointers that remind of steph curry the broadcast are broadcasting the final the other night had a great line when she was way back almost at the logo and he says, caitlin clark from the future, and

that's what it really like it it feels like not only is she going from such a distance that she's hitting these shots that she is bringing us into another era. it's just sort of a brilliant idea and that's what's happening now. only is the interest in college, women's basketball just absolutely skyrocketed. you're going to see that carryover into the wnba, the indiana fever, have the number one overall draft pick this summer. they are expected to nab, of course, caitlin clark and the las vegas aces who have up until now been really the most dominant and popular team the last few years knew there would be such interests when the aces team played caitlin fever team this coming summer, caitlin clark was still playing for iowa last week when the las vegas aces booked a 20,000 seat arena for their matchup later this summer, she has even gotten there yet she hasn't even been drafted and opponents are already knowing she's going to sell out buildings all over the country. >> i was going to say, i mean, you watch those games towards the end. i mean, they are selling out those arenas. the

fans are going crazy and she just looks like something. i mean i've never seen before. she is just a force amazing. >> wow, did this where did she come for me? it's just as it i might just blind to this as people have been following her career all the way up until this point, or is it something like that? something go off and she just became this amazing dominant talent in the last couple of years? >> she's been building toward this. and as i said, it's just a combination of a lot of different things that created this moment. you were just talking about the men's game, right? and we've had so many conversations about the idea that so many of these players are one and done. they go straight onto the nba after barely a year at college, you don't have the time before form rivalries, the things we love so much about sports in this ncw tournament, you don't have the time for stars to their mentor other players. and so you don't have these teams that made us so happy, maybe 20 years ago when we were watching this stuff. well, the women's still have all of that because especially of the name, image, and licensing money that is now coming into the sport for some of these women, it is more profitable well for them to stay in college longer than it

is to go to the wnba where they might get a salary. and i think that creates times were say, caitlin clark and angel reese of lsu. we were all waiting with bated breath to see what would happen when they face each other again, because they have that great game last year. so we're getting these moments and women's college basketball, you just don't get anymore in the menn sayyed, we're all conditioned to want them, right? we all want that magic march madness feeling. and these women are delivering over and over and over again. and it's of course now just caitlin clark, dawn staley, and that south carolina team, they stopped all through this season and they're great story too. >> it's so true. i was on the edge of my seat during every one of those games with caitlin clark, turning the end of all this uconn was, unless i was like, yeah. yeah, i'm sitting back. yeah. they're gonna they're one very different. >> right? yeah. >> totally. and it's great for this word, rachel nicholls, great to see you. thanks a lot. >> i regret back

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