remind viewers of who donald sterling was before this incident. >> donald sterling had for a long timeifted to los angeles but the clippers were considered the worst franchise in sports. he never won a championship. in 2013 there had the first chance at winning it with this incredible roster. doc rivers came to coach the team in l.a. >> tell us about your character. >> i play an assistant to donald sterling. when we beat her in the show, she has been working for him for a few years and it's an interesting dynamic with him and his wife. and then everything kind of blows up. >> tell us some of the themes from the series that drew you to it. >> she is a complicated character and i would put it to gina's talent as a writer. i think the scandal happened and she was reported on in a one-dimensional way and it took someone like gina to really see the value in vee is a character. i think there are many ways the show could've been made and i'm so glad this one takes the perspective of unpacking her as a human being. and as an actor, it's exciting to play someone that's complicated and is a full

yeah, i don't think donald sterling considered himself a racist. that's fairly obvious.ght he went by a certain set of rules that he didn't make up. how to refresh your memory. sterling's racially charged comments were caught on audio recordings that ultimately led him to sell the team he owned for decades, a team that consistently struggled on the court. the first two episodes dropped on hulu just after midnight. yeah, it's a heavy topic, but they did also bring the visor that v used to wear. you remember everybody started wearing those visors around, so i don't know where you have it. anyway, find the good. yeah c come on. yeah well, look, you might need a visor. today is going to be beating down. yeah. it's going to be really hot this afternoon. and we are under a microclimate weather alert due to not only the high heat advisory, but we're also going to have a higher fire danger. and we're looking at temperatures in the mid to upper 50s to start out, as you're heading out this morning, short sleeves and also shorts for today as well as the sunglasses. we're also deali

it details the saga of the los angeles clippers and the team's former owner donald sterling.ina, let's start with you. what led you to this particular topic. donald sterling widely perceived as the worst owner the nba has ever had. >> the sterling affair podcast was like this absurd, fascinating cast of characters just an unbelievable story. vabl. was like for people living and workingeo and trying to thrive d sort of achieve their goals under the power of this toxic, incompetent buffoon. >> just to remind viewers a little bit more of who donald sterling was before this incident. >> sure. donald sterling had, you know, for a long time been notoriously, you know, racist property owner in los angeles and had acquired the team in i think, 1980 and moved it to los angeles. the clippers for a long time were considered the worst franchise in sports. they had never wonfr a on championship. it was in 2013 that they really had their first chance of winning it with this incredible roster, with doc rivers coming to coach in l.a. >> talk about your character. >> i play an assistant to do

when he left, when he was forced out of the team in 2008, he sued the nba and donald sterling and andy roeser and he called donald sterling's attitude a plantation mentality so it was speaking to the power structures and not only the nba but professional sports. >> that's all the time we have today. thank you for watching. come back tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. eastern for a new look at the week's highlights. until then, enjoy your weekend. >>> good morning. it is saturday, june 22nd. i am alicia menendez with symone sanders-townsend and michael steele. >>> ahead of the supreme court, has donald trump already won his immunity case before it was decided? >>> biden on offense . the most pointed criticism yet. >>> inside project 2025, our deep dive into the conservative plan to reshape american government forever. >>> grab your coffee, settle in. welcome in to "the weekend". ♪ ♪ >>> this week, as my microphone tries to fall off, the supreme court did not release the decision on trump's presidential immunity claim, giving a boost to the ex- president's delay tactics and stalling the federal elect

ed o'neill plays donald sterling and cleopatra coleman is sterling's assistant and mistress who made recordings that got leaked. >> tapes came out and i thought, ooh, this is not good. you know, this may end badly. the script, it's just all about the script. >> it was just something i really relished. i was so it was so thrilling to play her, she's a very bold individual and it just was so much fun as a woman to take up a lot of space. >> clipped premieres today, streaming exclusively on hulu. just ahead, celebrating pride month all across the bay area, another city raises the rainbow flag. >> i'm spencer christian. the heat is on. we have a heat advisory in effect through thursday. i'll have a look at the accuweather seven day do you question the tradeoffs of treating? ubrelvy is another option. it works fast to eliminate migraine pain. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. allergic reactions to ubrelvy can happen. most common side effects were nausea and sleepiness. ask about ubrelvy. my dry eye's made me a burning, stinging, 5-times-a-day,... ...makeup smearing drops user. i

donald sterling." >> seth: sure. >> so, i had a lunch set up with her.staurant to have lunch, i was already forming my speech of why i'm not going to do it, you know. so, i get there, and she's such a nice woman and she's -- we're talking and she's saying, you know, "oh, you can do this. it's going to be great." and i said, "sure, i'll do it." [ laughter ] and again, it's like the dream. >> seth: yeah. >> you know, i'm thinking, "what did i just say?" >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] i like -- all of these stories are you just making a decision like immediately. >> like that! >> seth: yeah. >> it's true! >> seth: you should just start bringing your coin with you. >> well, it's like -- [ laughter ] it depends on what room i'm in. what person i am. >> seth: but yet, obviously, you -- i mean, you know, things have gone well. you should continue to trust your instincts. is there anything -- again, real person, is there something a little bit fun playing someone who's a bit villainous? >> you know, i hate to say it is, but it is. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] i mean

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. >> and importantly, shows passion all right, donald trump waking up this morning at trump national golf club in sterling, virginia, ahead of a rally planned this afternoon in chesapeake that he is hosting alongside is ally governor glenn youngkin of virginia. >> trump, of course, lost virginia in the last two election. cnn is a alayna treene, his life for us in strip curling virginia, alayna. good morning. it's wonderful to see you at what do you expect to see from former president trump today? and what are you hearing from his camp this morning? >> well, he's clearly going to be taking a victory lap. casey, at this rally later today. and you're right. i mean, you mentioned that virginia is a state that donald trump and his campaign privately and publicly. i've been saying they think that he can be competitive in. they think that the state is more purple, even though it gone more democratic and past elections. and when i talked to his advisers last night, they said they are feeling very much buoyed by donald trump's performance at the debate last night, and asked her what i'm heari

donald trump set to hold a rally today with a supporters in virginia, the republican governor, there are glenn youngkin's is also expected to be on hand and cnn's alayna treene isn't sterling, virginia where the former president of staying at his golf club or alayna, what's the reaction and how is the trump campaign? and i tried to keep this momentum going well, part of the way they're going to try to keep it going is with that rally later today, it's actually a few hours from where we are now. >> donald trump is currently in this club behind me, but then he will travel to chesapeake, virginia later today for 3pm rally had luck. when i talked to donald trump's campaign advisers, they said, you can absolutely expect him to take a victory lap tonight. we've also seen them a fundraising heavily off of last night's debates. debate, and trump's performance and really this is reflective of how donald trump's team is feeling. they are very happy with how the debate wet, including with trump's performance. and there's a few things i want to break down for you about that, jim. one is that the

then friday, he has as a rally in virginia, but luck and arlette touched on this a little bit, but donald trump and his team, they also do not know which version of donald trump is going to show up on the debate stage on thursday. i know from my conversations with trump's advisers that they have been arguing and trying to push him to walk away from some of the aggressive rhetoric we've seen him use in past debates, particularly that first debate with biden in 2020, where he barely let joe biden get a word and and we saw donald trump be impacted by that negatively in the polls following that debate. and so what they've been doing is really having these, i'm told more than a dozen policy discussions with lawmakers jurors potential vice presidential contenders, former trump administration officials with donald trump to hone in and sharpen his rhetoric on many of the topics that are, let laid out about the economy abortion, american democracy. and they really want donald trump to focus on specific policy issues, particularly those like the economy immigration, and crime, that they think he pu