♪ good monday morning, everyone. we're so glad you could join us it's november 21st. and we have horrific news to report, five people killed, 25 others injured at an lgbtq nightclub in colorado springs. we'll speak to a bartender in moments who found himself staring down that shooter. a stunning shakeup at disney overnight. bob iger is back at the company, can hes resurrect that empire. and flu and rsv surging across the country ahead of the holidays now leaders in the

medical community want the federal government to step in and declare an emergency. democrats warming to the idea of president biden running again unless it's against someone not named donald trump. we're learning more about the suspected gunman who murdered five people and injured dozens more at an lgbtq nightclub in colorado springs this morning. this video shows the gunman, 22-year-old, anderson lee aldrich, surrendering to law enforcement this is just a year ago in june of 2021, after allegedly making a bomb threat on his own mother. nick watt is live in colorado springs this morning. i believe you're outside the hospital because there's still so many people injured inside. >> reporter: that is right. there are at least 25 people injured, poppy. five dead. ten of the injured are in this hospital behind me, some of them in critical condition. gun shot wounds and more. last night i spoke to two people

who walked out of that club just a couple of minutes before the gunman walked in. and they said it was not busy. maybe 30, maybe 50 people max in there. so five dead, 25 injured amongst that. and those that weren't injured in body, obviously injured in mind during that traumatic, traumatic short burst of gun fire. apparently the gunman walked in just a little bit before midnight and opened fire with a long rifle almost immediately. guys? >> i know that the authorities have not released a full list of the victims, those murdered and those who are still fighting for their lives. we're slowly learning some of their names. i wonder if you heard from any of the victim's families? >> yes. the parents of one victims spoke to the denver post they said their son daniel aston was

killed in the club, he was a bartender there. they said he moved there to move closer to his parents and now he is dead. authorities are still not saying what they believed the motive is, but amongst the small lgbtq community here in colorado springs they have already made up their own minds that this was an act of hate against their community. there was a candle lit vigil last night that was supposed to be an interfaith service for the transgender day of remembrance and, of course, it became something else. it was an overflow crowd at a synagogue here remembering both trans people who have been killed and also the people killed in that club. and people were saying this is a reminder that our community is still under threat. there are, of course, a lot of heroes hoere as well. law enforcement was on the scene quickly. this man was detained. so the fire department was able to come in and treat people in the club very, very quickly

because the gunman had been detained. we hear from the mayor of colorado springs that two patrons of the club actually managed to subdue this gunman. he came in with this long rifle and had a handgun. and apparently according to the mayor, the one or two patrons used the gunman's handgun to subdue him. that could have saved a lot of lives. >> absolutely heroes. nick watt, thank you very much for the reporting. >> reporter: yep. you want to hear from this next person, his name is michael anderson, a bartender at club q and witnessed the horrific events saturday night. michael, appreciate you joining us. can you hear us? michael, can you hear us? i don't think we can hear michael. let's see if we can get him. michael if you can hear us just raise your hand. you can hear us now?

michael said that he was bar tending when all of this went down, he said he saw the guy, he was really dark, when he heard people yelling and screaming he didn't know what to do. it was hard to figure out what was going on. so michael you're there and you can hear me, correct? >> yes, i can hear you, don. >> thank you for joining. as with these things it's technical difficulties that happens. i won't say good morning to you because it's not a good morning to you. how are you holding up? >> i'm taking it minute by minute, hour by hour. this type of situation tends to come in waves, i found, with myself and other people that i talked to from that night. >> chaotic, can you take us inside if you don't mind reliving this? >> of course. of course. it -- i was working behind the bar on a seemingly normal

saturday night. and around 11:55 or so, i heard a few pops. popping sounds. and at first i thought it might have been one of the cadilackin fans that you see often at lgbtq clubs. when i looked up, i realized that was not the case. i saw the outline of a man holding a rifle at the entrance of the club just probably about 15 feet from me. and then, you know, took a moment to register what was happening, but once it hit me this was actually happening in real life to me and my friends, i ducked behind the bar. as i did that, glass began to spew everywhere, all around me. >> now i understand you knew daniel aston, who was killed in the club? >> yes. >> can you tell us about that. >> i've known daniel aston for a few years now. most recently -- he's always

been a friend to me, but he was my supervisor at club q. he was the bar supervisor and he was the best supervisor anybody could have asked for. he made me want to come into work and he made me want to, you know, just be a part of the positive culture we were trying to create there. and he was an amazing person. he was a light in my life. it's still surreal that we're even talking about him in the past tense like this. >> my colleagues are here as well. we all have so many questions for you. we're sorry -- i didn't say that. we're sorry about what happened. >> thank you, don. >> we're so sorry. like don said, it's tough to ask you about what happened and have you relive it, but it's important as you know to the investigation, to what investigators are looking at. did you hear the suspect say anything? i know there was music playing but it was loud but also quiet because people obviously were

witnessing this shooting, hiding from this person. did you hear him say anything as this was going on? >> i -- the closest i was to him where i could physically see a full body of a person was when he immediately came into the club. i was never close enough or it was never quiet enough for me to hear if he was saying anything at all. you know, i tried to be one of those people who were trying to hide from him. so i -- i tried to avoid seeing him. so i didn't hear anything, no. >> michael, thank you for being with us. i know that at one point as you were hiding you thought as you looked at that gun, looked right at the barrel of the gun, thought you were not going to make it and you did. and there were heroes around you, right, who took down the gunman. what can you tell us about that? >> yes. there was a moment in time where i feared i was not going to make it out of that club alive.

and i -- i had never prayed so sincerely and quickly in my life as i did in that moment. as i was anticipating that outcome and afraid for that outcome. it got quiet as i was praying and hoping, it got silent, the gun shots stopped. so we -- i stayed there for a minute, minute and a half, you know, i didn't know what to do. i couldn't see, i was hidden down in the corner. so i kept my head down but after about a minute and a half i decided i needed to get out of there. so i got up and when i went inside, i saw what i believe was probably the gunman lying on the ground getting beat up and kicked and yelled at by two very brave people who i still don't know the identity of those two people, but i hope i can find out one day, because i truly believe those two people saved

my life. >> our correspondent nick watt, poppy spoke to him moments before you came on. he says -- i don't want to get ahead of myself. but he said most people there have made up their minds. they believe it was a hate crime that was perpetrated against the lgbtq community. how are you feeling about that? >> i -- i have to agree that -- i mean, there are so many clubs -- you look at how many clubs are in colorado springs and how many gay clubs are in colorado springs, there's two. and then all the other clubs would be not a part of that statistic. i don't know what was wrong with this man. i don't know why he needed to act in this way. but he obviously had some feelings towards -- i don't know if it was transgender people, gays, lesbians, i don't know. club q is a safe place for everybody. everybody in the spectrum of the

rainbow. so i don't know who he was targeting but i feel it was something aimed directly at my community. yet again, another time in our country. >> michael, you be well, as well as you can be in this moment. thank you so much. >> we're so grateful for your time, michael. >> thank you. thank you for having me, don, i really appreciate your journalism. >> thank you so much. so, i mean, poppy we just talked about this moments ago. remember how we felt after pulse. >> ya. you were there, 49 people murdered. >> and echos of that as we try to figure out more about what happened with this suspect given that video we saw earlier of him being arrested after making threats against his own mother. >> we have to remember words matter. the words of our leaders and people who have the platform, they matter because it can affect things like this. we don't know the motive but every single word is very important.

every single action is very important. we're going to move ahead and discuss colorado's attorney general phil wiser is going to join cnn this morning. we're going to ask why the gunman was allowed to be out on the streets given his previous run in with the law. other big news this morning, a stunning shakeup at the highest ranks of disney. former disney ceo bob iger is back taking over again after a significant earnings drop last quarter. this is a major reversal for iger. listen to this, cara swisher talked to iger just a few months ago about why he left disney and if he'd ever come back. here's what he said. >> one of the things, cnbc polled ten media executives about their 2022 predictions and one was that they'll return to disney. >> as what? >> i don't know. >> a mickey mouse character.

there are rumors you could become disney's ceo again. >> that's ridiculous. >> ridiculous. >> i was ceo for a long time, you can't go home again. >> it's happened before. starbucks. >> i gave my name tag up, my id, office, email address it's gone. i think if i wanted to still run a company i'd run disney. no, i did that. >> he's doing it again. his successor, bob chapek is stepping down effective immediately. bob chapek's tenure included a fight with florida governor ron desantis, after the don't say gay bill and chapek faced issues with not speaking out to it quickly enough. >> a lot of these issues are not necessarily political. it's about right and wrong. i happen to feel, and i tweeted

an opinion about the don't say gay bill in florida. to me it wasn't politics it was right and wrong. that seemed wrong. it seemed potentially harmful to kids. >> so this is totally fascinating. i think uiger thought he was never going to come back. but like howard schultz at starbucks who came back three times when a company like this is in need it falls back to the top. and iger is clear in his leadership, not afraid to mark hard decisions. i think good leaders make hard decisions fast. >> but people have to want you back. >> people love iger. >> was there people saying we need you? >> the board, obviously. the board who re-upped chapek in june said we need new leadership. >> bob iger has been clear in his criticism of his

predecessor. it's not just the disney thing. we've seen price hikes. look at how quickly this happened. "the new york times" said they reached out to bob iger on thursday and asked him to consider returning to the company. >> you're a company like that, iconic american company in crisis, even if you don't want to come back, it's in your blood, it's a responsibility. i thought it interesting that reed hastings tweeted ugh, i was hoping iger would run for president, he's amazing. that says it all when it comes to all places. i'm reminded of iger writing in his book, be in the business of creating possibilities for greatness. >> the thing that happened in florida with desantis -- but bob iger was supportive, he said right is right and wrong is wrong. >> this is what i think back to the point about good leaders make hard decisions or make big

decisions, informed but you don't doddle -- >> be supportive of the lgbtq. >> that's right. bob iger came out before ceo bob chapek and said this is wrong. and disney waffled and employees rerol rev revolted. that was a turning point. >> it opened him up to criticism everywhere. he was criticized for being to slow, and then criticized for making disney woke. it went poorly on any tactic. >> it does. but it comes down to leaders have to decide what's not politics and what's right and wrong. >> and make decisions and say i don't care what the criticism is. >> that's right. >> we'll see. it's fascinating we'll see what happens with bob iger at the helm. this morning two pediatric groups are calling for an emergency declaration, saying it's needed because of the rapid rise in the respiratory illness known as rsv.

they write quote we need emergency funding support and flexibilities along the same lines of what was provided to respond to covid surges. joining us with more is elizabeth cohen. the question, is it a slippery slope of declaring certain things an emergency or something they do believe measures up and it needs the same kind of forceful response that we saw for the pandemic? >> kate kaitlan, the american academy of pediatrics and the hospital association say this is for real, they are not crying wolf. they say they are overwhelmed. think back to when covid was overwhelming hospitals with adults. they're basically saying this is the pediatric version of that and they really need help. let's looks at one of the major reasons hospitals are overreturn. it's rsv, that respiratory virus coming out in very high numbers early in the season. it is to the point now if you look so far this season, six out

of every 1,000 u.s. infants have been hospitalized with rsv. that is a huge number. six out of 1,000 infants have ended up in the hospital with rsv. i want to introduce you, kaitlan to one of them, her name is ira, and she is in baltimore, and she was doing well and then she got rsv symptoms, her parents rushed her to the hospital, she ended up being in the icu. she was intubated. and they couldn't handle her there at the hospital that she was at in baltimore. they had to ship her out. they couldn't find another hospital in maryland, they had to make calls to state after state, finally they found one single bed at children's national medical center in d.c. and they saved her life. but imagine if that one bed had not been found. kaitlan? >> can i ask -- i want to ask you a question, elizabeth. we have flu season now, we have covid. does it make the situation more dangerous? >> absolutely. when you've got flu and covid,

and staffing shortages, because people left health care during the pandemic. it is a terrible, terrible combination. let's look at flu in the u.s. right now. these states that are in red, they have high or very high levels of flu right now. that is extremely unusual for november. and then you have the rsv situation. extremely high numbers, so early in the season together, a perfect storm for overwhelmed hospitals. >> elizabeth cohen thank you for keeping all of us parents informed. we appreciate it very much. it's been more than a week since the bodies of four university of idaho students were found murdered in their off campus home. police still don't have a suspect, no weapon found. fear gripping the community at large. i want to get to camilla live for us this morning. what are you learning about the investigation here? >> reporter: good morning, don. look, so many questions and not

a lot of answers. throughout the weekend we saw a lot of movement at the crime scene. investigators going in and out of the house, around the back, searching the four cars parked here outside of the house. and yet, they're not giving us very many details. they clarified some of the information on the 911 call. that was placed on sunday at around noon. what they're saying is it was placed from the phone of one of the surviving roommates but they will not say who made that 911 call. authorities also saying now there were multiple friends now at the house by the time the police arrived on sunday. they went over the time line once again saying the four students were out saturday night, got home around 2:00 in the morning, were all stabbed multiple times and continue to say they believe this is targeted. but bottom line is, we're more than a week later and still no weapon and no suspect in this case. don? >> camilla, thank you very much, appreciate that. up next a closer look at the

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he has been tapped by attorney general merrick garland as special counsel to oversee two major justice department investigations involving former president trump. and so, the question many are asking right now, who is this man? his name is jack smith. who is he? live in washington this morning with some answers. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. former colleagues describe jack smith as someone who operates very quickly. someone who's really able to drill down on the important part of big cases which this certainly is. he's not someone who's going to waste any time over the side shows. they say he's going to be very aggressive here predicting things are going to speed up. >> i signed an order appointing jack smith to serve as special

counsel. >> reporter: the attorney general taking that remarkable step friday for two criminal investigations into former president trump. as special counsel jack smith will look into the retention of classified documents at trump's mar-a-lago resort and parts of the january 6th insurrection. >> such an appointment underscores the department's commitment to both independence and accountability, the extraordinary circumstances presented here demand it. >> reporter: in this case, the extraordinary circumstances were triggered by trump's decision to run for president in 2024. and president biden likely running as well. >> what they have done to their credit at the justice department is picked someone who basically checks every single box. in terms of a stellar legal resume. >> reporter: smith has served in prosecutorial rolls in 1994 when he started as an assistant da in new york. in 2010 he chaired the public

integrity section. but for the past four years he's been living out of the country, investigating war crimes as chief prosecutor for the special core in the hague. smith's experience may help him avoid accusations of partisanship which plagued the mueller probe. >> when we talk about the career nonpolitical prosecutor, jack smith appears to be the model of that notion. >> reporter: but trump is already taking swipes at the justice department. >> this horrendous abuse of power is the latest in a long series of witch hunts. >> reporter: and there's worry that the appointment of any special counsel could slow the entire process down. something smith pledges to avoid, writing the pace of the investigations will not pause or flag under my watch. >> he is going to have to get up to speed on this investigation. it's going to take him some time. he will have at least the initial call on do we indict or do we not? >> reporter: as far as what exactly makes a special counsel special, this is a lawyer that's

appointed from outside the government, they have more autonomy than u.s. attorneys with the goal, of course, being to provide the greatest possible level of impartiality. they have subpoena power and only removed for misconduct. they have the ability to build their own staff and budget. smith promising in a statement to conduct the investigations independently and in the best traditions of the doj. >> thank you very much, appreciate it. for perspective on this we want to bring in former attorney general alberto gonzalez, served as counsel to george w. bush. thank you for being here with us this morning. trying to break this down and make sense of it. i want to ask if you think that attorney general garland made the right call here which he said was in large part because of trump's announcement on tuesday night that he is going to be a candidate for president. >> in my mind there's no question he made the right call.

the world fundamentally changed with respect to how you approach cases with the announcement by president trump that he was going to run against the man who appointed merrick garland. and so, absolutely merrick garland did the right thing. and, you know, to hear trump rail against this as an abuse of power to me is kind of silly because this was -- this move was intended to protect his interest, protect his rights. to make it clear to the american people that this is about independence and accountability as to general garland said. so i think this was the right decision and came at the appropriate time. >> that's an important thing to highlight given trump's reaction. i talked to people in trump's orbit they said they knew this was likely going to happen if he did announce the run on tuesday night. so not unexpected for them. i do wonder, because jack smith has a complicated task ahead of him now, dealing with what he's overseeing. it's the mar-a-lago documents investigation but also aspects

of the january 6th investigation. how complicated is his role going to be looking at those two things? >> well, they're different and distinct, no question about it. he has the benefit of a lot of work has been done in part by the department of justice and the january 6th committee with respect to the january 6th investigation. so a lot of work has been done. it's a more complicated case in my judgment, the mar-a-lago case is much more straightforward. the question is whether or not did president trump improperly remove documents, in particular classified documents, and have him in possession in florida. to me it's more straightforward, much easier case to prosecute and present to a jury than perhaps a january 6th case. so clearly these are distinct cases. obviously there are complications in both. but this is a very experienced prosecutor and he'll be well supported, well staffed and by all accounts move these two

prosecutions faorward and hopefully have some action, some decision at some time in the near future. if you can also talk about "the new york times" piece it published over the weekend about an alleged leak in 2014 of the supreme court's decision on contraception. the hobby lobby case, well known. the majority opinion written by justice alito. this person who is an evangelical and anti-abortion activist. told the times they were told about it by a donor. now alito says that is, quote, completely false and he released a long statement to the times. i understand you wouldn't have inside knowledge about this. but i do wonder what questions this raises for you, especially following the leak of the dobbs decision earlier this year also written by alito. >> yeah. i think that the timing probably couldn't be worse.

there's already a great deal of concern about the legitimacy of the court, role of the court. so the timing is not very good. you need to be careful being a former justice in texas, careful about who you speak to with respect to any decision. even after the decision is ren rendered. sometimes you don't want to talk about the discussions that occur in conference, for example. so it's just -- it comes at a very bad time. the timing is interesting. i guess eight years after the fact, why is it -- why are we just now hearing about this? but the notion that perhaps alito may have been influenced by conversation with outside folks is troubling. the court already from my understanding is that the reputation is at a historic low. so this certainly doesn't help that. >> a follow-up to that. you were a former justice in texas. there is no written code of ethics for the supreme court justices at this point.

kaitlan pointed out there is a proposal of such pending in congress. is that needed at this point? >> i don't -- you know, whether it's needed or not, you have to ask yourself why isn't there one? if i'm on the court, i mean, every other judge is subject to a code of ethics. so why the court doesn't impose one on itself is really kind of interesting. what is the explanation for it? i think the standard explanation is well, our ethics are scrutinized through the confirmation process. well, you know, to a degree that's true. but obviously over a period of time, people's conduct may change. their values may change. and so, having a code of ethics to me sets a great example for the entire judiciary and would help reassure the people about the integrity and the independence of the justice system. >> if i can get back to something you mentioned, you talked about the legitimacy of

the court it is in peril. i wonder about the people sitting at home watching, how should they feel about this, especially at time when the legitimacy of the court is in peril. >> it's interesting. i think if you're a justice on the court, you have an obligation to interpret the constitution and the way that you deem is right and is fair. and understand that some people are going to be unhappy about it. i think where a lot of people have questions about the dobbs decision is that it was like a sl sledgehammer. bam. even though who wanted to overrule roe were all surprised by it. no one had an opportunity to prepare for it. and so, i think that, you know, one of the things i've always admired about chief justice roberts and this is the modern sandra day o'connor, maintain to the constitution and how it affects people's lives incrementally. i think that the reaction to

dobbs reflects the fact that people were so surprised and taken aback by the suddenness of that decision. >> a great point. that's why roberts wrote separately in the dobbs opinion to say here's what i would have done. we really appreciate your perspective on both of these really important developments. thank you attorney general gonzalez. >> thanks for having me. new cnn reporting. democrats are embracing the idea of president biden running again in 2024 but there's a big if. we'll explain. >> it goes back to the other guy. so that's part of it. plus parent activists angry about masking and race lessons. now sitting on school boards they were recently slamming. you'll hear from them. that's next. 'twas a wintry day, and at ihop quite soon hot cinnamon apples would be coaxed with a spoon on the fluffiest french toast with red currants on top we wish you a happy holiday, only at ihop.

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biden would be their best bet to beat trump in '24. that's assuming he's the nominee. that's according to conversations with 24 democratic elected officials and top operatives and white house aides. instead democrats are more worried about a nontrump opponent. asked about how they feel about biden's chances against florida governor ron desantis, could make a generational argument without trump's baggage, one said not great, another said, quote, uneasy. let's bring in isaac dovare. it's telling right because there's no guarantee that trump would be the nominee. >> reporter: no fwguarantee at all. you see the democrats getting a kick out of what trorepublicanse saying about his announcement, a lot of them are not interested. what they think is does that

mean we're going to get another republican, someone who would be younger, fresher than donald trump and what would that matchup look like and that leads to a lot of questions about where they should go. but when president biden and other people around him look at the results of the midterms, they say this is another stamp of approval from the voters, saying they like what joe biden is doing, they like who he is. you can see roy cooper, the governor of north carolina saying to me, it's not about favoritability ratings but democrats need to look at voters responding to what democrats did, what they got done you have people saying to me, they're still in a wait and see period. not ready to commit to joe biden running for re-election and saying that's a good idea. >> waiting to hear from biden himself on this. as you report, the other factor of the conversation is who the gop nominee is going to be. something that stuck out to me

over the weekend was nikki haley under trump said last year she was not going to run for president if her former boss ran. now we know he is going to be running. this is what she said over the weekend about how her mindset has changed. >> happy birthday, mr. president, but it's time for a younger generation to lead across the board. a lot of people have asked if i'm going to run for president. now that the midterms are over, i'll look at it in a serious way. and i'll have more to say soon. for now, i'll say this. i've won tough primaries and tough general elections. i've been the underdog every single time. when people under estimate me, it's always fun. but i've never lost an election and i'm not going to start now. >> a notable add there at the end, i've never lost an

election. >> reporter: yeah, look. on the one hand that's the kind of contrast that democrats would be worried about up against joe biden. on the other hand when you talk to people who are in the white house, around the president, talking to him, what they say is, look, every -- it wasn't donald trump who lost the elections in the midterms this month. it was a lot of republicans who they were able, as democrats, to link to donald trump and say they're just as extreme but they don't come with the charisma and appeal that donald trump has to his base. when they look at the situation, they say go ahead, nikki haley. maybe not specifically to her, but to any of these candidates, try to distance yourself from donald trump when nikki haley was trump's u.n. ambassador, when she has defended him at a number of a different points over the last few years, it'll hard to say she's different or any of these candidates who

have, that they're different from trump. >> isaac, thank you for that great reporting. with republicans set to take control of the house next year, gop leader, kevin mccarthy said investigating how the biden administration has dealt with parents and school boards, that's going to be a key priority for them. last year parent activists upset how issues like masking, rh critical race theories were upset. so that inspired them to run and win seats in school board elections. including april carny, who spoke to audie cornish why she wanted to run. here it is. >> we need to support our children to have their own opinion. >> unless a parent thinks it's inappropriate then they can make a phone call to a tip line, i didn't like the way that went down. >> that's a discussion to be had between the school board and the

parent. it needs to happen. it's uncomfortable but we need to be having discussions. i welcome parents' commentary. we have to be able to listen to one another so we can come together. it's the only way it's ever going to happen. >> joining us now cnn anchor and correspondent, host of "the assignment request audie cornish," audie cornish. we've been talking about election deniers running, people nervous about that, a lot of them lost. but you saw this coming when you saw all the ruckus around school board meetings last year and a lot of these guys won and there's consternation around that as well. >> this is interesting it's following the segment talking about ron desantis. this is core to his agenda. he has personally backed something like 30 school board members in florida, i think 24 ended up winning over the course of the year. in michigan, maine and some states where gubernatorial

candidates who were republicans actually lost, their candidates didn't do so well. it reflects the environment. but if you see a desantis run you're going to hear more and more about this. >> i wonder how democrats are responding to this. we've seen glen youngkin in virginia successfully use this as a big platform for him. it is something when you talk to parents they have very strong opinions on. so have democrats responded to it effectively? what does that look like on the other side? >> youngkin set up a tip line in the state so people could call in and say something is going on. they quietly shut it down because there weren't that many calls. he has maeds changes to allow for changes to the school history curriculum, et cetera. i'd say there are a couple of groups and packs that have tried to counter the conservative effort to try and recruit and train people. but the point of my story in a way is these are down, down,

down ballot races. they weren't hyper partisan and the infusion of cash and branding has changed the landscape. >> i kept looking at this as a parent of young children and kept thinking does this loudest parent win? what they're doing affect all the other kids in the class and students? >> absolutely. there's a long history of parents' rights movements, the most public one, the '70s and racial integration. it does affect what happens in the classroom. teachers are exhausted. they feel the stress of the culture war bearing down on them. and there has been substantial learning loss that we've learned about nationwide. i think that that is, in part, something that we all have in common, regardless of your kind of political affiliation, people are concerned about what was lost during the pandemic and they have different ideas about how you should focus in the classroom over the next few years.

>> i want to hear. i want to listen to your podcast. >> that's great. >> it is great. >> you can listen to audie's new podcast. it's on spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. make sure you listen it's a thoughtful conversation. also today the world cup is now under way. team usa is set to take on wales in the opening match this afternoon. the host country lost its match yesterday. and we're here to talk about the biggest headlines coming out of qatar. >> did you see "the new york times"? they did an interactive e storys it qatar? (woman 1) i just switched to verizon business unlimited. it's just right for my little business. unlimited premium data. unlimited hotspot data. (woman 2) you know it's from the most reliable 5g network in america? (vo) when it comes to your business, not all bars are created equ.

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let's go shock 'em all. >> that was president biden trying to pump up team usa ahead of their match against wales. it happens at 2:00 p.m. eastern today. it's going to be the first world cup match for the united states men's team in eight years. this year's tournament has come under human rights issues in qatar as well as comments made about the lgbtq community. joining us is someone who knows a thing or two or four about world cups, demarcus beasley. he's an mls ambassador to this year's fifa world cup. he's going to contributing to fox sports coverage of the event. you're busy. we're glad to have you onset. >> can use this scarf. i came from houston. the weather is a little different. >> what is going to happen at 2:00 today? >> it's going to be tough. i'm optimistic. i think they win this game.

when you have your first game, you have 25 players that are new to the world cup. it's going to be a couple of nerves, but i think they win and get three points. >> it was the quarterfinals in 2004. >> 2002. >> you played in that game. >> yes. >> what was it like? >> i got named to the team at 19 years old, actually turned 20 on the plane. >> are you serious? >> i'm serious. >> i'm twice as old as you. >> poppy. >> old woman over here. >> it was in korea, japan. we got past mexico into the quarterfinal. unlucky against germany, lost 1-0. what a great experience representing your country at the highest level of our sport. it was fun. >> you wrote this great piece about your life and your experience and you talked about

growing up in ft. wayne, indiana. you said you rarely see black players in the midwest. you said the first time i had a black coach was when i joined the chicago fire, reflecting on how many barriers you broke. >> i grew up, from indiana. my dad was basically my mentor, my coach. he played basketball, he played football. so there wasn't any soccer in our family, no background, and around my city, my state. when you're young, you don't think about that. you don't look at color. you're a kid. you want to run around and play. my brother and i were decent. so my first -- we were decent. yeah, my first black coach was when i joined the chicago fire, my first professional team. he's still a good friend of mine to this day. >> there's a lot of heat around where it is and what's happening and human rights and lgbtq rights. how do you feel about that? >> i really feel happy that the

players are speaking out and not letting it sit in them while they play. way want a world cup to be about everyone. the way they have shown -- stick together in different parts, england, usa -- usa has the be the change platform that they started after george floyd's death. just to be able to have a platform to be able to speak out and really show support of what they are advocates for. >> would you speak out if you were playing now? >> would i personally? >> yeah. >> i think as a group it's something that we would talk about. individually -- you don't want to make it about yourself and one person. so i think as a group and as a team you will talk about it and say, okay, this is the best way we can kind of tackle this human rights issue. >> do you think they should

serve beer? >> i'm not a beer drinker, but it is the world cup. beer is the world cup, world cup is the beer. if that's what their rules are that you can't have beer in the stadium, i think people will be okay without drinking for a couple hours. >> problem solved. >> where are you watching today? >> i will be in smithfield hall watching the watch party with the usa team. >> we're so excited you're here. we have to snap a pic for my nephew kyle. he's a huge fan. >> i say demarcus, you say beasley. demarcus. >> beasley. >> stunning news overnight in the world of business, a huge the world of business, a huge shakeup at disney. we'll tell you who is back on top. supporting 6 key i indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp. neuriva: thihink bigger. vo: palantir software.

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