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front row to history, the 9/11 classroom, this sunday. we're visiting that horrific day through the lens of the 2nd grade students, their teacher and white house aides who were in the florida classroom with president bush the moment he learned about the second plane hitting the world trade center. let's hand things over for michael smerconish, who's in for chris cuomo. >> i'm michael smerconish, in for chris cuomo. who would have thought they would make the abortion restriction look legal. enacting a law that bans abortion after just six weeks, a time period so early that many women don't yet know they're pregnant. it contains no exceptions for rape or incest and incentivizes citizens to sue abortion providers. the supreme court has allowed this legislation to stand for now, even though it's a glaring affront to roe v. wade, some say
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a precursor to jooverturning it. a far cry from mississippi's 15 week restriction and texas is a full 18 weeks before the current standard. president biden called the texas law un-american today in his first on camera words about it, and is looking for ways for his justice department to limit it. >> the most pernicious thing about the texas law, it sort of creates a vigilante system where people get rewards to go out to -- anyway, and it just seems, i know this sounds ridiculous, almost un-american, i was told that there are possibilities within the existing law to have the justice department look and see whether there are things that can be done that can limit the independent action of individuals in enforcing a state
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law. >> the senate judiciary committee now plans to hold a hearing examining not only the law but also the high court's decision to allow it to take effect. in a scathing rebuke today, democratic chair dick durbin argued the court allowed it to see the light of day without public deliberation and transparency. we must examine the constitutional impact of allowing the law to take effect but the conservative effect's abuse of the shadow docket. a term to describe the use of emergency orders without oral arguments. this was a 5-4 opinion. conservative chief justice john roberts dissented alongside the three liberal members of the court. speaker pelosi now promising a vote to codify roe v. wade as federal law in case it's ever overturned. would democrats ever be able to get that through in a 50/50 senate, not without a 60 vote threshold, not unless they eliminated the filibuster, and
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we know senators manchin and sinema have been unswayed on that so far. in the meantime, the texas law will stand while the battle over its legally continues, pointed out by amy ho, at scotus blog, what makes it so vexing to opponents is the way it was crafted to make it harder to challenge in court, particularly before it went into effect the texas law does not rely on government officials to enforce the ban. instead it deputizes private individuals to bring lawsuits against anyone who either provides or aids or abets an abortion, and it establishes an award of $10,000 for a successful lawsuit. and so there will probably not be a final ruling on texas until the court is called upon to rule after a private citizen sues someone for violating the abortion ban only to have the defendant cite the roe decision. think empowering dog the bounty
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hunter to enforce a state's law and where that kind of precedent could lead beyond the abortion realm. at risk for lawsuits, drivers who could take a woman to a clinic for an abortion in texas. but listen to this, lyft's ceo says his company has created a driver legal defense fund to cover 100% of legal fees for any driver sued under this law while driving with lyft. he calls texas's senate bill 8 an attack on women's access to health care and on their right to choose, and liyft will donat $1 million to planned parenthood to ensure that transportation is never a barrier to health care access. he also says we encourage other companies to join us and already they are. uber's ceo says drivers shouldn't be put at risk for getting people where they want to go. team uber is in too, and will cover legal fees in the same way. thanks for the push. reaction now from our first guest, nancy northam is the president of the center for reproductive rights, a group
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devoted to protecting a woman's right to choose. welcome to prime time. are we yet seeing this impact at a granular level, meaning at the clinics themselves in texas? >> oh, yes. it has been a devastating two days since the supreme court turned its back on women, pregnant people, the constitution, the rule of law, and of course, it's, you know, clinics, they're open, so i want people in texas to know they should call their clinics. they're open, but they're complying, which means they can only provide abortions earlier than six weeks, and you know, the people who are hurt hardest by this law are those who already have barriers to accessing access to health care, so that is black, indigenous, people of color, people in rural communities, undocumented immigrants, you know, there are internal check points in texas even with the means to leave their areas, they can get stopped by nthat, not be able t
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leave the state, already we are seeing these really difficult impacts in texas, and that is why we're looking at every legal means to challenge it. it was a welcome announcement by speaker pelosi that she's going to hold a vote on the women's health protection act, which would address the texas law at the more than, you know, hundreds of laws that have been passed in recent years blocking access to abortion sfervices an to hear president biden with a whole of government response, and the vice president, and secretary of hhs and the attorney general, so we now have people very engaged and the american public is engaged. they are sending money to the abortion funds, they're supporting the clinics and so this is not going to be something that anyone's just going to wait until the court of appeals steps in and people acting now. >> i need to get your quick reaction to what makes this so unique. it's not just the six weeks, it's not just the lack of an exception for rape or incest. it is this, i call it the bounty
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hunte hunter aspect of it. where might that lead in a way that concerns you? >> absolutely. i mean, what texas has done is to off load, you know, it's, you know, responsibilities to protect the institution, and empower individuals to be bounty hunters. the $10,000 is a minimum. a court could impose more fees, but also attorneys fees, on the people who are sued. and this was not going to be limited to abortion with the court to hold it up. it means that any constitutional individual right could be on the chopping block. texas could deny people the right to vote and say we're just going to empower private individuals to do this or the right of kids to get education. a whole host of individual rights and so, you know, this is a -- >> and be careful. i would say to red state folks, be careful what you wish for because there could be a corollary in a blue state where similarly something that's an affront to conservatives would be rewarded with litigation.
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i wish i had more time. i've got to run, but nancy northam, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. from the legal now to the political, the texas law seems to be a win for republicans right now, but will it be for the long run? i want to bring in ashley allison, and charlie dent. you know, charlie, i didn't recognize, you come from this pedigree of republicans who will stand up and oppose their party on the abortion issue. i never knew that mary dent crisp, i should say, was an aunt of yours. please explain what happened in 1980. >> she was my father's sister. she was cochair of the republican national committee at the time, and leading republican from arizona, grew up in pennsylvania, but she objected to the party's position to turn its back on what was then the equal rights amendment and also women's reproductive rights and
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at the 1980 republican convention in detroit, she resigned and walked out over the whole issue. she warned at the time this was going to cost republicans a lot of women voters, and there would be deep political consequences, and she was right. there's been a gender gap ever since in laws like this one we have just seen passed in texas will further widen that gender gap and turn it into a massive canyon. >> right. but i have to point out, i mean, what you're saying is that your aunt objected to the gop going full on pro-life in the platform in 1980, but ashley, i'll direct this to you, ronald reagan then won in a landslide, so maybe this is not all doom and gloom for the gop. >> well, i think it's important to realize that from reagan to bush to clinton, people's views on abortion have drastically shifted. if you look back to 2000 and 2004, george w. bush really ran
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on abortion as an issue that really actually pulled some democrats, moderate afr african-americans, moderate democrats to vote for him. there is a whole host of issues we could discuss about that election. from that point on until present day, the overwhelming majority, even republican and particularly republican women support a woman's right to choose. they see it as a form of health care, as reproductive rights. i do think there's a part of the republican base that is pro life and will never want a woman to have a right to choose over her reproductive health. women are half of this country, and over 60% of people believe that the texas law is not a good law. people aren't necessarily paying attention to how the supreme court did it, but i do think if this becomes an issue in 2022, it is an issue democrats should run on and should not be afraid of, it is our body, our choice. >> well, charlie, to ashley's point, here's the latest polling
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day. quinnipiac from texas, 49%, we'll put it on the screen, oppose this law. when you then look nationwide, and it's an nbc survey, 54% believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. that would suggest that it's the democratic party that has a winning hand on this texas issue. but wherein lies the passion, who's really going to come out to vote because of an issue like this? >> well, i think where this law going to hurt the gop is with educated suburban women. michael you're from the suburban philadelphia area, you know what i'm talking about. republicans have been just -- have been just hemorrhaging voters in the suburbs, and an issue like this will further compound the problem, so sure, this law may help some republicans in some ruby red districts but in the swing districts that republicans need to win back, this issue is a major setback.
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i mean, no exceptions for rape or incest. it practically bans abortion, at six weeks, the bounty provision, the snitch provision, there's kind of an eerily orwellian feature to this thing. it just doesn't, you know, most people who aren't obsessed with this issue are going to look at this, like the terry schiavo issue, why are they doing this, that denies common sense and are offensive to many people's sensibilities. whether you're for abortion or not. >> it remains to be seen. historically, i think that republicans have cared more about the courts. look at donald trump's influence. three justices on the supreme court or this would not have gone the way that it did. i wish i had more time for asa ashley allison and charlie dent. have a great weekend, and thank you both for being here .
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>> thank you, michael. there are some survivors of 9/11 that didn't want president biden to visit the site until they got more answers on who was behind the attack. a major update. president biden has moved to declassify certain documents, so we have brought back a 9/11 family member to get his take next.
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ahead of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, today the president issued a new executive order that directs the justice department and other federal agencies to review and possibly declassify documents related to the fbi's investigation of the attacks. the order requires the attorney general to release any declassified documents publicly over the next six months. this comes of course after a wave of pressure from 9/11 family members. more than 1,600 signed a letter last month calling on president biden to refrain from going to ground zero this year if he
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didn't first release more records. why? well, the victims' families believe these documents will implication saudi officials in the attack. you may recall brett's eglesone talked to me about what these documents would mean to him. his father bruce died at the world trade center. >> we need the president to be our hero, be our champion, mr. president, this is a direct appeal to you. help us in this fight. stand by our side. allow us to have the justice and closure that we deserve. >> brett eagleson joins me now. brett, are you satisfied today? >> thank you again for having me on, and i think i'm going to withhold those sentiments until we have documents in hand, fully unredacted. i think that the president made a great first step today. this is a historic moment and a historic first step, but the job is not done, and i hope the
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president can appreciate and realize that we have been beaten up and battered for 20 years. we have been lied to by former sitting presidents, and we are still apprehensive, we're apprehensive by the fact that the people that are cast with reviewing these documents are the same people that have been covering these documents up. so our ask tonight is that we would love for the author of the april 4th, 2016, fbi review to lead this effort, but i think this is a great first step, michael, and i think more to come, but the proof will be in the pudding, but i'm excited to see what happens next. but we need the president to hold strong, do not let the bureaucracy snow him. do not trust the fbi. it's the same people that have been throwing us under the bus for 20 years that are now leading this declassification review. >> brett, is he welcome next weekend? >> you know, again, i'm going to withhold those sentiments. i think this is a great first
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step, but let's see what happens. i believe that he has a few days, according to the executive order, to produce the documents, so at the end of the day, we will have a celebratory ceremony if documents are starting to be produced next week. i'm hesitant to ask that question, merely by the fact that we have been screwed over for 20 years by our own government. i am hopeful. >> if all the information that you want released is released, what is it, and just give me the bottom line that you think it will show. >> for example, i want to point out a breaking news story just last week, we had katherine harris from cbs report that a pilot was approached about a diagram found to be in possession of a saudi government employee. the diagram showed how to fly a plane into a building. that's just scratching the surface of this information. there are smoking guns that need to be released and the american public needs to know, so this
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information needs to come out, and there is no reason for this classification 20 years on, and again, we are cautiously optimistic. and this is the first time, and the president deserves credit where credit is due, this is the strongest statement we have ever had by a sitting u.s. president to support us, so we're very hopeful. >> i hope you get everything you want to see. i think you're entitled to it, and i as a journalist, i want to read it and give it the light of day. thanks for coming back. we really appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> okay. brett eagleson, and by the way, a related programming note, a classroom of 2nd graders, a president and a moment that forever unites them 20 years later. find out what happened to the kids in the 9/11 classroom at sunday night at 10 eastern here on cnn. to our covid night next, new polling shows vaccine hesitancy in america is going down
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overall, not as much in the sports world. why are some of the best athletes still holding off on protecting their bodies from a killer virus. we turn to sports broadcasting legend bob costas next. men put their skin through a lot. day-in, day-out. that's why dove men body wash is new and improved with skin-strengthening nutrients and moisturizers... ...that help rebuild your skin with every shower.
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vaccine hesitancy also rocking the sports world, and big leagues are all making decisions about how to handle it. for example, in tennis, only about 50% of players are vaccinated, according to major associations. the u.s. open does not have a vaccine mandate for competitors. major league baseball leaving it up to the teams whether to mandate vaccines. that's bringing mixed results. some have several unvaccinated players on the field. others have fired employees who refused the shot. the nfl made a deal with the players association not to mandate vaccines and as a result a head coach is under investigation, accused of
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cutting anti-vaxx players. bob costas is here to sort it all out for us. bob, do you think there's something unique to these athletes or do you think if we drill down on other professions, carpenters, architects, who knows, we would find the same propensity of anti-vaxxing? >> i think what we should say, despite the fact that many of us are disappointed that it's not closer to 100%, and you get some of the ignorant attitudes from athletes that you hear elsewhere overall, among the leagues, not talking about tennis now where the most prominent player, nonovak djokovic is among the vaccine resistant, as he goes for the grand slam, but among the leaked, nba, nfl, major league baseball, the rate of vaccination is actually higher than the population at large. overall, it's around 93 to 99%, and the nfl is one example. >> carson wentz earlier today
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had the following to say on this issue. >> i respect everybody else's decision, i ask that everybody does the same for me. i know that's not the world we live in. not everyone is going to equally view things the same. no one knows what's going on in someone else's household, it's a personal decision. that's where i'm at on it. >> he also spoke of doing his own research, of doing a lot of research. what thoughts do you have? >> my thought is this, let's ignore every credible organization, every credible individual, the overwhelming near unanimous scientific consensus that the vaccines are not only effective beut that thy are safe and and let's go looking on the internet or on some partisan cable outlet that trucks in, traffics rather in fear and resentment, and doesn't want to tell their audience
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anything they don't want their audience to hear. let's trust that. it's a personal decision. it's a personal decision to smoke, but that doesn't mean you can come into any restaurant and light up. it's a personal decision, i would hope if you have a license to do so, to carry a gun, but even the most absolutist nra person doesn't think they can carry a gun on to an airplane. this stuff begins to get to a point where it's not a matter of a personal opinion. you're not required to respect opinions that put others in danger. jerry jones, who i would say is not a left wing guy, the owner of the dallas cowboys, says in sports, we always talk about we. why are all of these people more concerned now with i? this is a team thing. and teams that lose players either because they're a close contact of someone who tests pods or the players himself tests positive, those teams are placed at a competitive disadvantage. we have seen it during the course of the season during
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baseball. sean mcdermott, the coach of the buffalo bills has come out and said it, we're about 80% vaccinated but it's not enough. what if we can't practice. what if we can't field the guys we want to field, we're at a competitive disadvantage. >> do you think that they are young and perceive themselves to be invincible and that they're more concerned about side effects for 48 hours than a virus that they're convinced they'd beat if they got it? >> yeah, i think that probably has a good deal to do with it. younger people tend to think of themselves as invisible. i have heard some athletes say i'll worry about covid when i get it. or i'll take the vaccine if i get it. they don't get it. they don't get it up here. they may get covid. you know, and some of this is a result of a proliferation of outlets where people don't get alternative points of view that are informed but where they can go and suit themselves seeking
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out misinformation. that's as much of an epidemic as the covid virus itself. >> final question, is it a political thing, is there a maga streak that runs through these elite athletes? >> to some stextent, there is a maga streak, among african-american athletes, as we know, there is some understandable mistrust in the african-american community, which has historical roots because of the tuskegee experiment and other times when government entities abused african-americans, an extreme injustice, and some of that mistrust has carried down through the generations, which is why it would be extremely helpful if more african-american athletes who have been vaccinated would come out publicly and say so and advocate for it. and by the way, every time you hear an athlete, and i'm not going to call out anybody by name, every time you hear an ath
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eat say -- athlete say it's a personal decision, that means they haven't been vaccinated. >> i interpret it the same way. bob, it's been too long. good to see you. thanks for being here. >> thanks, michael. have a good long weekend. rfk was assassinated more than 50 years ago, his death may have changed the course of american history. soon his murderer could be set free leaving many stunned and outraged, including some, though not all members of the kennedy family. why other kennedys support parole. that's next. hey lily, i need a new wireless plan for my business, but all my employees need something different. oh, we can help with that. okay, imagine this... your mover, rob, he's on the scene and needs a plan with a mobile hotspot.
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board 16 times. this is the closest he's ever gotten to freedom. sirhan's actions may have forever changed the course of history. at the time of his death, rfk was considered a favorite for the 1968 democratic presidential nomination. our natasha chen looks at how history could be rewritten again. >> senator kennedy has been shot. is that possible? >> reporter: the possible release of the man who assassinated robert kennedy is dividing the family of the former candidate and u.s. senator. in june of 1968, kennedy's ten children lost their father when sirhan sirhan shot him in the hallway of the ambassador hotel in los angeles. his 11th child rory kennedy wasn't born until later that year, now responding to a california parole board panel's recommendation last week to grant parole to her father's assassin, she wrote an op-ed in
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the "new york times" asking how having committed one of the notorious assassinations of the latter part of the 20th century can you be rehabilitated when you won't acknowledge your role in the crime itself. five of rory's siblings oppose parole. 24 years old at the time, sirhan, a palestinian was said to be outraged with kennedy's proposal to send military planes to israel. he was convicted and sentenced to death. his sentence was commuted to life with the possibility of parole after california did away with the death penalty in 1972. at a parole hearing in 2011, sirhan's memory of events was hazy. >> the shooting of the gun, how long did you have the gun? >> i don't remember that. i'm not aware that i took it in. i'm not aware that i fired with it. but i was confronted with it later on, and i had to take responsibility for that. and i do. >> reporter: responsibility for a killing that shaped the course of an already turbulent political era, just two months
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after the assassination of dr. martin luther king jr., and nearly five years after the assassination of his own brother, president john f. kennedy. >> how do you feel about what you did? >> it's the most horrible thing that any human being can do to another. >> reporter: two of robert kennedy's children support his release. douglas kennedy who attended last week's parole hearing, and robert f. kennedy jr. who wrote a letter saying in part while nobody can speak definitively on behalf of my father, i firmly believe that based on his own consuming commitment to fairness and justice that he would strongly encourage this board to release mr. sirhan because of mr. sirhan's impressive record of rehabilitation. sirhan had been denied parole 15 times but last week, prosecutors did not oppose a release because they were not in the room. that's because the los angeles county district attorney, george gascon who was elected in late 2020 directed his prosecutors to stop attending parole hearings.
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his office says this allows the parole board to make an objective decision, not just based on the facts of the crime but also on how the person has behaved in the years since committing it. a point of debate among the kennedys watching the 120 review period to see what the full board decides and whether governor gavin newsom weighs in after that. natasha chen, cnn, los angeles. >> unbelievable story. i want to bring in a reporter for the "washington post," tom jackman, he's been focusing extensively on this story. tom, i should point out, rfk jr. doesn't just want sirhan sirhan paroled, he thinks he didn't kill his father, right? >> he does. now, the question is that relevant to parole? is actual innocence relevant, and a lot of people would say no. just as a lot of people would say the fact that he killed one of the most important people of the 20th century is irrelevant. that he, you know, should be judged strictly on how he's
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behaved in prison, whether or not he's been rehabilitated, whether he's remorseful, whether he's got a plan for his release, all the sort of minutiae of parole, but you're right, robert f. kennedy jr. believes along with a lot of people that because his father was shot in the back of the head and sirhan was in front of him, that sirhan did not fire the fatal shots. but he and others, including paul schrade who was standing behind bob by kennedy and got hit by a bullet that went like that, mess up my hair, that sirhan fired shots that did wound people behind kennedy but not the shots that killed kennedy. >> do you think the outcome of the recent hearing is more on account of the l.a. county d.a. not showing up? did that matter? is that what this is all about? is that what's driving this? >> so there's two people in the parole board. they have a two-person panel
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that hears and they specifically said, one of them did, that that did not impact our decision. we understand hthat the outlook of prosecutors in general, we have heard them in the past. the lapd, the los angeles police wrote a letter saying we don't want that guy out, and represented to the parole board that they were speaking for the kennedy family. that caused robert kennedy jr. last friday during the hearing to send in a letter saying, that letter from the los angeles police does not represent all of the family, and so he was not there. he had agreed not to sort of take an active stance because most of the family doesn't agree with him. >> ethel kennedy, the widow, still with us. has she weighed in? i mean, it seems like all the kids have weighed in, has the widow weighed? ? >> she hasn't spoken publicly but in the "new york times" op-ed that rory kennedy wrote, she said my mother approves what
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i'm about to say in the article, my mother approves of our opposition to parole. i haven't heard from her directly, i don't know any reporter that has, but rory says her mother also opposes it. >> what now? there are still several steps that must occur, including the governor, gavin newsom, governor elder, i say that and people will be upset with me, just making a little joke, who knows what happens, but where does this go from here? >> so, from that two-person panel which recommends parole, it goes to the full, i think it's 17 members of the parole board who have 120 days, four months to review this. so that takes us to the end of the year that it will stel be in the -- still be in the parole board's bali wick. and then after that, whatever they do, they can say -- they can reject it and say no parole, but it still goes to the governor who can then reverse that. at the end of, i guess it would be at the end of december, the
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parole board will make a decision and then that goes to the governor, whether it's newsome or elder or somebody else, and that would be in january. >> okay. and quickly, if you're able, what's the issue, theoretically, what are those parole board members supposed to be asking themselves as they look at sirhan sirhan? >> they're supposed to be asking themselves, has he shown remorse, has he been rehabilitated in prison? has he demonstrated that he is not a danger to society, that's the big one, you know, this guy is convicted of murder one. is he going to go out and commit more violence, and they seem convinced that at age 77, after being in there for 53 years, that he's not a danger to society. that was their main, you know, feature in terms of deciding that he was suitable for release. >> incredible. tom, great job.
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more than the men's team. the women are appealing as the legal battle enters its next chapter, the all new cnn film "lfg" brings you a look behind the scenes of the grit and determination the women bring to the game on and off the field. >> a lawsuit is something no professional athlete wants to have. it's so much work. it takes you away from your sport. it's very stressful. >> this is the same sentiment that's been happening for, you know, years and years, decades and decades through many different negotiations. something needs to completely collapse and crumble, and we need to build it up. >> states. >> that's great, guys, thank you for doing this. >> there is a lot of phone calls, a lot of text messages, a lot of emails strikeategizing a keepingdiscriminated peoples do
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have the luxury of [ bleep ]ing around frankly so our players have to inform what the lawsuit is. figuring out all the inequalities going through the contracts and other contracts, it's hours and hours and hours and hours of our time. >> joining us now, the directors of lfg andrea nicks fine and sean fine. andrea, i'll start with you. they're the best in the world and yet, there is a david versus goliath element to this. how come? >> i think it kind of goes back to despite being like the most global icons of women in athletics, arguably known around the world for being the best as what they do and right before they step on the world stage to compete in the world cup do they drop a lawsuit about their value? so we thought there had to be a story in there and there did. there is a long root of this
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story, this team, the collected, the u.s. women's national soccer team has been fighting this fight for decades we found out and it's a story that had never been told. >> sean, is that story line diminished by the fact as i mentioned in the introduction a federal judge said wait a minute, i can't go along with this and as a matter of fact, you're doing better than the men are? >> no, i don't think it's diminished at all. it what they're fighting for and against against. they have been fighting for over two decades and will keep fighting and trying to get what they feel is equally deserved, which is equal pay and that's what they're fighting for. so the other part is, like, what that judge, i think, and what megan says gracefully in our film got wrong and what they feel the judge got wrong is that yes, they are making more but they're having to win so many more games than the men's team and they're winning top level games. they're winning world cups.
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they're winning huge tournaments. they are making a little more but that's from winning all the games and being the best in the world while the men have not even won a world cup or been to a lot of tournaments that they have won and they're making a all most as much. so it's what they're fighting for and i think they will keep fighting. >> andrea, was it a struggle for you to tell both sides of this story? i ask because the soccer federation says it's not fair. "the washington post" said they failed, meaning the two need to explain both sides of a complicated issue. i know you're aware to the criticism. please, speak to it. >> we're aware of it and i think that it doesn't bother us because i think the majority of the reviews and the majority of people that know anything about this case realize it's a much more complicated story, which is why we wanted the women to delve into it and share theirs. i think in the end of the day, we stepped out with an open
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heart, open mind about really wanting to tell this story and meet it where its at and we were clearly and quickly given a strong message from the u.s. soccer fed ceration they were n interested in a story about equal pay. we needed to tell the story of the people we're willing to speak with us and that was the players themselves and we wanted them to tell the story in their own words. we asked u.s. soccer to participate and they declined so we worked with them in background research and made sure we wanted to bring the public messaging forward. that was their choice and we made the film that we feel is very fair and every fact and figure is from court documents and statements and we feel really good about it. >> sean, lfg, if it were my sirus xm radio show i'd say it four times. it cnn. i'm being respectful. what's that in reference to?
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>> it's let f-ing go which is the battle cry that the women give in the locker room before they take the field. it's kind of their motto, and, you know, we -- because it's their story they're telling in their words, we felt -- actually andrea felt that was an appropriate title and feeling of the entire film. >> so what is the next step, andrea, if you can take it in 30 seconds and tell me naturaltive to -- not relative to the film, where does it end up? >> they will go the distance. if we learned anything, the fights and appeal, they will continue this fight and can settle any time with u.s. soccer. as of now, they will go the full distance and perhaps see the inside of a courtroom. >> andrea, sean, thanks and best wishes with the film.
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thanks so much for watching. "don lemon tonight" with laura coats sitting in starts right now. laura? >> hey, michael smerconish. listen to you tomorrow. can't wait to hear you. nice to see you. >> thanks for that. okay. this is "don lemon tonight ". i'm laura coats. we have breaking news. a judge handed a narrow vehicto to abortion advocates tonight. a judge blocked the anti abortion group called texas right to life from suing abortion providers that are employed by planned parenthood unde
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