then you start to associate that person with that scent as opposed to liking the person because of the scent. it is far more complicated. i don't know if we have time for this, but tristen white is the smell researcher, listen to how he put it. >> if you look into your nose, there are something like 400 different receptors, each detecting a different range or kind of molecule. and what's even stranger is we don't all have exactly the same 400 in our nose. and that's down to our genetics, it is highly variable. it might explain, for example, why we like a person or their perfume but not somebody else. it does explain, for example, why some people like cilantro in their guacamole and others don't. there is a reason for that. it is genetic. >> it is very individualized.

that's the point. there is no absolute favorite or best smell. it can change moment to moment and person to person. >> sanjay, thank you so much. that episode of his podcast is out today. you can listen to it wherever you find your podcasts. to learn more about smells and "cnn this morning" continues right now. all right. good morning, everyone. it is tuesday, december 6th. welcome to "cnn this morning." it is election day and there is a lot to get to on this election day because the polls have been open in georgia for about an hour now. voters are lining up to cast their ballot in the final contest of the midterm election cycle. it is warnock versus walker in the senate runoff and we're live at a polling place for you. as voters are going to the polls in georgia, in washington, some republicans are slowly beginning to condemn what former president trump said over the

weekend about terminating the constitution. but many still are remaining completely silent. ahead, we'll talk to john bolton, trump's former national security adviser and hear why he says he's considering a gop run in 2024. also this morning, tens of thousands of people in north carolina are still in the dark, literally and figuratively without power and with no knowledge of who attacked their power grid and why. we will be joined this hour by the governor of north carolina, he's with us in just a few minutes. but, first, listen to this. i have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. i have a dream today. >> that was nearly six decades ago and dr. martin luther king jr. delivering his famous i have a dream speech on the national mall, a dream that like we gjus

heard, people in america would be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. today, whether you're aware of it or not, part of that dream is being realized. here's why. there are two black men, finalists for the senate seat in georgia, it is a seat that not only matters, but would be the differencemaker for a president's agenda and the direction of this country. it should not go unnoticed they are competing in the home state of dr. martin luther king jr. and one of them holds the pulpit for the civil rights icon once preached. and today no matter who wins, voters will line up, they're going to cast their ballots for a man who happens to be black, based not on his race, but on how voters see his character. something that lived only in a dream just six decades ago. with that in mind, we head straight now to atlanta and cnn's jeff zeleny. today is important for the history of the country and the future and the people of georgia are playing a very pivotal role in that right now.

>> reporter: don, you're right. this race is steeped in history. the first time here that two black candidates are running in a runoff for the senate. georgia, one of two states in the country that require runoffs in the general election. that rule itself, of course, is also steeped in a different racial past, but the reality here today is voters are going to the polls and we have seen them streaming in at a pretty steady pace. there is not long lines because 1.8 million georgians have already voted because of how voting changed in america through early voting. but it is key for both sides to get their supporters out through turnout. that was their closing message yesterday. let's listen. >> the best thing i've ever done, including the heisman trophy, the best thing i've ever done is run for office right here. a vote for my opponent is a vote for joe biden. and a vote for chuck schumer. >> matter of fact, call your father and your mother, your

sister and your brother, call lottie, dottie and everybody, tell them it's time to vote. tell them that a vote is a kind of prayer for the world we desire, for ourselves and for our children. >> reporter: senator warnock there voicing confidence, but urging democrats to not be complacent today. don? >> and democrats have been urging people to get out and vote. they say 51 is better than 50. why are they urging people to get out and why do they want 51 instead of 50, jeff? >> reporter: well, don, look it gives democrats and certainly the white house some breathing room, if you will. of course, senator joe manchin has been at the center of most big policy debates. it could take some of that away. also in terms of committee assignments. up until now, for the last two years they have been divided equally, democrats and republicans. that slowed down the judicial nominations and other nominations from the white house. so a clear democratic majority,

even 51/49, makes all the difference in the world because democrats actually control the senate, it also changes the travel schedule potentially of vice president kamala harris. she's been often having to stay in washington, shuttling back and forth to the hill to be a tie breaking vote. if democrats win the seat today, if senator warnock wins, that means she does not have to be the tiebreaker so often. it really does matter. but that is also why republicans are turning out today because they're trying to be a bit of a check and balance if you will on the president's agenda. >> all right, jeff zeleny, right in the middle of it all, jeff, appreciate it, thank you very much. cnn's special coverage of the runoff election begins at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. the fbi, state and local law enforcement officials all this morning working together trying to track down who attacked part of north carolina's power grid this weekend. you'll remember gunfire left two power substations damaged on saturday. no suspects have been detained,

no motive has been determined that we know of. a local sheriff described the damage as intentional. listen. >> i will say this, the individual that done the damage knew exactly what they were doing to cause the damage and cause the outage they did. >> officials are racing to restore power, though outages could extend through thursday. joining us now is north carolina's governor roy cooper. thank you for your time. i'm so sorry this happened and got so many folks or families trying to get kids to school, you know, waking up in the dark, schools closed. you called this a critical attack. i wonder what you can tell us about the investigation into who targeted these substations. >> well, good morning. thank you very much. people in moore county, north carolina, are hurting this morning. this was a malicious, criminal attack on the entire community that plunged tens of thousands of people into darkness. our priorities now are health

and safety, getting the power back on as quickly as possible, and making sure that federal, state and local law enforcement find out who did this and why and bring them to justice. they had to cancel school now for two days in a row. businesses are losing money. we provided sheltering for people, working with local officials, mass feeding, bathroom facilities, lighting for street intersections. i was there yesterday and all of the traffic lights are out, so you worry about safety and making sure that people are okay. this is a retirement community so there are a lot of adult care homes that do not have power. we are providing generators and help to make sure that people are safe here. but, there is a deep concern in this community about who would do such a thing and why they would do it. i visited the substation

yesterday with duke energy officials. they are working around the clock to get the power back on. right now, thursday is the deadline that they believe that they can make. they're going to try to do it earlier, but they're having to bring in new equipment. and the state, local and federal law enforcement officials i met with them yesterday, they are working diligently, leaving no stone unturned to find out who did this. >> you say you went to one of the substations with duke power to look. what did you see? i certainly am having a hard time envisioning what does it look like when someone shoots at a substation. what did you see? >> well, there are thousands of these substations across the country. and i think what happened here is going to cause us to reassess protection and hardening of infrastructure. if someone with a firearm can do

this much damage and get power out to tens of thousands of people, then obviously we need to look at the different layers of infrastructure and hardening and make better decisions here. this was a specific act. the person or persons knew what they were doing and what it took to disable the substation. so, what we're going to have to do is to work with state and federal officials and i think this needs to be a national conversation about the level of security that we have at these substations across the country. >> can we talk about the motive here more? because investigators, they have said, and listen, we don't know what happened, it does have to be investigated, they say they have not been able to tie this back to what people have been talking about, this drag show that was taking place around the time the power went out. are they looking to see if there was any connection to that and to domestic terrorism when it comes to that?

>> absolutely they are looking at all of those. deeply disturbing to see the increase in hate speech and threats and violence against lgbtq people across this country. it is unacceptable. i expect federal, state and local law enforcement will investigate that potential and others, leaving no stone unturned. because we have to find out who did this and why and to bring them to justice. but then we also have to look to the future as it affects our critical infrastructure. when we look at all the money that is being lost by businesses here at christmas time, when we look at threats to people in nursing homes, having lost power, hospitals having to run off generators and not being able to do certain kinds of operations at this point, all of those are deep concerns here and we can't let this happen.

>> so i just want to be clear, in the aftermath of this, you still have not learned anything else about who could potentially be responsible so far, is that correct? >> so, the investigation is going on now. >> right. >> they're not revealing a lot of the details about the investigation and i certainly could not from what i know. but i do know that they are looking at everything and all the potential evidence to find out who did this. >> and the fbi had warned two weeks before this attack about potential -- increase in threats of going after infrastructure like this. had you heard about those warnings from the fbi? >> yes, indeed. and matter of fact, we have worked to organize and step up our protection of our infrastructure, particularly in the area of cybersecurity. we know that those attacks can be massive and could put down

power or water or other infrastructure for a lot of people across the country, so we have been working on that. clearly this is an area with the substations. many of them are in remote areas. you have to look at the various levels of security, they have federal regulations that they must abide by, but i think that each one of these substations may be somewhat unique depending on where it is and what the vulnerabilities are. so we have to have a serious national conversation about protecting our critical infrastructure because this is unacceptable to have this many people without power for this long. it was clear that they knew how to cause significant damage and that they could do it at this substation so we have to reassess the situation. >> governor, can i quickly ask you, are there cameras at the substations? >> that is something that is part of the investigation and they do not want to reveal at

this time. but i'll tell you, as you look forward, we need to make sure that there are various levels of security and look at more security for these substations and other critical infrastructure that we have. >> north carolina governor roy cooper, thank you and, again, good luck to all your teams trying to get the bottom of this and get the power back on. >> thanks, guys. >> this is indeed an attack from targeted and it is domestic terrorism, this is a whole new level here that we are reaching. police are still searching for a suspect and any clues into the stabbing deaths of four idaho college students and now investigators are looking into a new theory. plus this -- >> president trump says he wants to suspend the constitution, he goes from being maga to being rino. we're the constitution party. >> mitt romney, other republicans speaking out about the former president's call to

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constitution. trump in a post on his website truth social is blaming the media for using his exact words that despite his post suggesting the termination of the constitution remain online. on saturday, he wrote, quote, a massive fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the constitution. after days of silence, several top republicans have now condemned trump's comments. >> i must tell you that i think everyone that serves in public office, everyone that aspires to serve or serve again should make it clear we will support and defend the constitution of the united states. >> i disagree with the president. the constitution can be amended. the constitution can be interpreted. but the constitution can't be suspended. >> the republican party has long been the party of the

constitution. and so when president trump says he wants to suspend the constitution, he goes from being maga to being rino. we're the constitution party. >> and that came after they were asked by reporters to respond to trump's comments and while some have spoken out forcefully, like senators lisa murkowski, mike rounds, others are stayed silent. some like roger marshall say they don't think it is a relevant question they should be asked about. >> i don't know what president trump said about the constitution. i just don't think that's the issue. i don't think that's what you all should be talking about. >> senator minority leader mitch mcconnell is expected to address what trump said today, but joining us now is trump's national security adviser john bolton, also the ambassador to the united nations and good morning, ambassador. i've seen your response to this, what you've been saying about trump's calls to terminate the constitution. do you think it should be

disqualifying for a presidential candidate if they made comments like this? >> well, of course it is disqualifying. you know, the president takes an oath of office prescribed by the constitution itself that says he will to the best of his ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution. trump himself took that oath. and effectively he's now saying he didn't mean it. and if god, forbid, he were ever elected and took the oath again, we couldn't trust he would abide by those words. i think this is existential. and even beyond being a matter of high principle, which i think it is, as a matter of practical politics, that statement even as he failed to try and correct it over the weekend, that statement is a time bomb sitting on the desk of every republican member of the house and the senate, every republican candidate around the country. if we don't very clearly, very soon, unequivocally reject it, naming trump by name, this will come back to haunt us in november of 2024 in ways we can

only imagine. >> do you really expect republicans will do that, though? >> i expect that if enough people speak out that others will follow. i think across the country if you ask republicans and republican-leaning independents which is more important, donald trump or the constitution, they would overwhelmingly say approximating 100% would say the constitution. it is the failure of leaders to stand up and oppose this kind of rhetoric that empowers trump. and it will be an issue. there is no doubt about it. i think the november 8 congressional elections prove that point. donald trump is the best asset the democratic party has. >> do you wish that you had stood up sooner? >> look, i lasted for 17 months, i did the best that i could, i'm sure i made plenty of mistakes, but the only thing you can say is you got to try and do the best you could. i wrote what i hope is a pretty definitive account of my time

there, both for the general public to read now and for history to help judge from. >> let me read something you wrote in your book, because there was -- you did talk about it in your book. you have spoken about this before. and it says one highlight came, this is what you were talking about, the context here, that trump made the comments during a december 2018 dinner with xi jinping, in buenos aires, and it says one highlight came when xi said he wanted to work with trump for six more years, trump replayed that people were saying that the two-term constitutional limit on presidents should be repealed for him and then you went on to write that xi said the u.s. had too many elections because he didn't want to switch awayed no noddingly approved. he wanted to subvert the constitution so he could run again, run for as long as he wanted. that's a prime example of wanting to -- by the way, the term that -- i think the lawmakers are getting it wrong,

they're saying he wants to suspend the constitution. trump said he wanted to terminate the constitution, but go on, please. >> right, well, at least there he said amend the constitution, he's now given up any pretense and that's why i think that the comment about terminating the constitution is existential. there is simply no way to waffle on it and to say maybe trump won't be the nominee, maybe it is not an issue now, it is an issue. and the -- it is just unacceptable for a party and a constitutional system to accept as anything any kind of leader in that party, somebody who opposes the constitution that underlies it. and i think if we don't speak up and make that clear now, we're going to regret it. that's why i said i would contemplate getting into the 2024 race myself, if others don't step up to it. this is a matter of high principle, but it is also self-interest for the party, and it stuns me that so many people don't see that. >> you would say you would consider getting into it.

if you look -- whenever it is politically expedient, people will put out statements right away, right, and although there have been some in the republican party who are speaking out, not enough, and not clearly and not in a loud manner, and i'll just repeat, they're saying suspend the constitution. he said terminate the constitution. one lawmaker there saying that's not something we should be talking about. that's not for him to determine what we should be talking about at this moment. at what point will you decide you want to get in because i don't see a whole, you know, force of republicans who are going to come out and condemn donald trump for this, let alone anything, especially coming after what happened with the dinner at mar-a-lago with antisemites. >> a long list of objectionable behavior by trump. i don't have a specific timetable. i think people are in a position now, however, where the presidential -- the field of

presidential contenders is in co-ate. there is a chance to shape the field and the debate. and i'm very interested in doing that. i would like to get on to real issues like national security threats to the united states, and get donald trump behind us. but unless enough republicans are willing to stand up and do that, it is not going to happen. and, by the way, with all due respect, it won't be the media criticism of donald trump that takes him out, and it won't be criticism by the democrats. ultimately republicans have to do this. now is the time to do it. >> 100% on that. >> can i ask you about, before you go, those national security threats to the united states and to the world, while we have you, ambassador, and let's start with iran. i wonder if you agree with former secretary of state hillary clinton who said on cnn last week the u.s. should not in any way be negotiating with iran on anything right now. including on the nuclear agreement. you've been so clear about your position on iran, you wrote in

august that any negotiations encourage terrorist activities. sounds like you two are on the same page? >> well, hillary clinton sees the light. i'm delighted that's her position. that's the correct decision. i wish joe articulate it. >> on russia, i would like to play for you what antony blinken said about any potential quote, unquote off ramp for russia in the war on ukraine. let's play that and get your thoughts. >> one of the things you can imagine is the russians trying to find an off ramp that would be a phony off ramp. let's have a cease-fire, let's freeze things in place, get a frozen conflict, never negotiate about the territory that they have seized, and continue to hold, rest, refit, regroup, reattack. >> do you share the concern of the current secretary of state? >> sure. i wrote op-eds to that effect in august and september, predicting that's what putin would do.

and if he had been well advised, he would have done it back in september because he can't do it now. the only off ramp for russia in ukraine i think was very well articulated by the prime minister of finland, several weeks ago. she said how does this end? it ends when russian troops leave ukraine. that's how it ends. >> yeah. >> can i ask one more question before we let you go on you saying you're mulling a 2024 run. were you considering that before trump tweeted on saturday or trump said en saturday that the constitution should be terminated? >> no, you know, i looked at it very seriously in 2016. i went to the cattle shows in iowa and new hampshire. ultimately decided not to. and i didn't think i would in this cycle. but my point really is that the republican party has got to step up to the moment here and if i can help precipitate that, then i would seriously consider getting in. and i think somebody's got to do it. we can't go on like this. >> former ambassador, john bolton, thanks so much for your

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coach of a historically black university to coach a division one school. we'll talk to bomani jones about that moments away. and oxford dictionary has chosen the word of the year for 2022. is it lemon? is it poppy? is it collins? >> a lemon poppy collin. >> we'll tell you straight ahead. >> could be any one of those. turning the page to a serious and sad story we continue to follow on "cnn this morning," police are investigating the murder of four university of idaho students and they're looking into the possibility we learned this morning that one of those students had a stalker. they say there was a situation in october where it appeared a man was following caylee g goncalves. this would be significant because they have failed to have many, if any leads. >> reporter: throughout this investigation there has been

talk that she may have had a stalker. that october incident is no longer, they can say it is not related but they continue to look into the possibility. desperate family members are -- family members are desperate for answers right now. it has been more than three weeks since the murders of four university of idaho students and police are starting to receive toxicology reports on the victims' hair, fibers, blood and dna, according to law enforcement. all considered critical evidence from the crime scene. the case remains unsolved, police still have not found a murder weapon or named a suspect. frustrating at least one of the families of the victims. the father of kaylee out. >> i do not feel confident and that's why i pushed the envelope and say a little bit more. i hate to be that guy. but, you know, there is a job to do -- everybody has a job and role to play in this, this is my

role as a parent. >> reporter: he's saying he's trying to make sense of the information that police have given him. >> i can tell by my daughter's text messages, she didn't call 911, she wasn't saying anything along the lines she heard something or she was in fear, so, just putting the dots together. as far as the investigators, they're very tight lipped and they're keeping everything close to their vest. i understand that. >> reporter: but investigators saying they are trying to provide information while protecting the integrity of the investigation saying in a statement, we firmly believe speculation and unvetted information is a disservice to the victims, their families and our community. the stabbing deaths of these four students created turmoil at the university. and in the quiet community of moscow that hasn't recorded a single murder since 2015, on friday at a memorial service, ai local pastor read letters from twoviving roommates. >> this is from bethany.

they were truly all one of a kind. they all lit up any room they walked into and were gifts to this world. >> reporter: expressing the sentiments of so many others who have gathered to honor the victims. >> i just want you to know i will always love you and miss you forever. >> reporter: police did reiterate to me that information discussed this weekend has not been released by them. it is not released by investigators. they are still keeping things tight here in order to protect the integrity of this investigation. poppy? >> those parents all deserve answers. veronica, thank you. this morning, we have a big conference coming up. deion sanders is leaving jackson state to coach the colorado buffalos. it sparked criticism after many thought he was changing the landscape of sports at those colleges known as historically black colleges and universities. >> when i get here, it is going

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we're going to have one of the best coaching staffs assembled, some of the best scouts, some of the best kids that we're recruiting, commitments already coming under way as i speak. >> that is new university of colorado head football coach deion sanders, promising fans and his new players that he is going to bring the winning culture he established at jackson state and hbcu and mississippi to his new team. >> how about that? yeah. how about that? >> so, sanders is being criticized as a so-called sellout for leaving jackson after many envisioned him altering the landscape of sports at historically black colleges and universities. he did land top recruits, he

went 27-5 in three seasons and just won the school's second southwestern athletic conference title in two years. sanders will now try to replicate that success in more competitive league, a more competitive league with a colorado team that just went 1-11. joining us now, the perfect person to talk about that, bomani jones, third generation hbcu graduate who went to clark atlanta university, the host of "game theory" with bomani jones, which will kick off its second season on hbo and hbomax in january. a giant lead-in. this is -- i feel like we're talking about family business in front of everybody. you know what i'm talking about. it is a long tradition in the african american community about cuanyou go, whether you're not, and why can't deion sanders just choose to be with who he wants to be with? >> he can go take whatever job he wants. but when you come into the first job and sell the idea you're

going to be the savior of hbcus and raise the playing field, not just for jackson state, but for everybody else and do it because god told you to do it, he said that, he explicitly said that god sent him to do this, so when you leave, yeah, people are going to ask questions about what exactly it was. i don't go into the sellout place necessarily, but i do think -- he's the salesman from the simpsons. i went in, sold the big dream, you knew the dream he was selling was impossible, but he sold it and got people to believe it and then -- >> you know shannon sharpe and heard his comments. i want to play them for the audience. he has a rising tide lifts all boats. if he did it for jackson state, maybe that helped the entire hbcu. let's play this and i'll get your response to it. >> deion did something that very few coaches are able to do. he leveraged his relationships. no football team had more uniforms than jackson state

except the university of oregon. under armour, every single week they got new helmets, new unis. he did this, he took 150,000 of his salary and helped finish building the facilities. >> he did. >> he leveraged his relationship with american airlines, he brought eyes to hbcus, skip. nobody talking about hbcus, especially now. they're talking about -- they're on television. that's because of him. he gave you a blueprint. now follow the blueprint. >> he's saying basically, mission accomplished. what do you think? >> part of it. i love shannon to death. part of what i disagree with him is so much of that was single to deion sanders. he is the charismatic individual. just because deion could do it doesn't mean everybody else can do it. that's the first part. second thing, they'll play in the celebration bowl next week in atlanta against the champions of the meac. they played in that bowl game last year. south carolina state blew their doors off in that game. do you know the head coach of south carolina state?

can you name a single player? i can't. it brought attention to deion, to jackson state. you weren't going to bring attention to all these other schools in a time period that he was there. like, if he was really going to accomplish that, that's a ten-year program, at least. >> you're saying he had to stay. >> yeah. >> 60 minutes profiled him like a month or two ago and it was on that program he said i believe god called me collect and i had to accept the charges and then he said this, let's play it. >> a lot of folks sitting back on the twitter fingers and talk about what they're going to do. and i wanted to go do it. >> do what? >> change lives. change the perspective of hbcu football. make everyone step up to the plate and do what's right by these kids. >> didn't he do that at least by starting it? and now as shannon was saying, is it up to others to carry it forward? >> you can go find another deion sanders. that's the thing of this, if you're talking about

establishing something long-term, something that is sustainable, the idea he got it started, now you go do it, i don't -- >> aren't you making his blueprint argument? there are others who are in the nfl, former nfl players who are charismatic and who can step in to other hbcus. >> telling there ain't but one deion sanders, and now he's telling us go find somebody else to do what deion sanders does. what he did was something that college coaches do all the time, which is you have to sell people for your ten year plans when your plan is always one year at a time. that's the only way to pull that off. he came in and sold a long-term vision for what was going on at jackson state, but his goals and ambitions were always to be a power five head coach. my take has always been he went to jackson state primarily because he wanted to be a head coach, but didn't want to ever be anybody's assistant coach. he had to find somebody that would give him a job and make him a head coach so co-have that

on his resume and then take that to try to get the job he actually wanted. gentlem jackson state was the place that could do it. he did a lot of good work at jackson state. all the grand yoegsiose notions did it for deion, that's fine if you don't say you're trying to do it for somebody else. >> can't he do both? go to the program and have five years and have five losses like he did and bring the attention? maybe the next person won't be primetime, they won't be as charismatic as he is, but he still did bring attention to it and what i've seen from the athletic director and other people, they were grateful for him and talked about him going on and something he signaled because the financial disparity here. >> he's very good. i think the magnitude of the financial disparity is so much greater than anybody realizes. i think the magnitude of the financial disparity between hbcus and other fcs schools is bigger than people realize it is. so there is room to criticize him for the way that he has left and for the fact that his

initial rhetoric is not in line with his -- >> what would you have him do? >> i wouldn't have come in the first place and said god sent me here to fix hbcus and god decided in the middle of it he was supposed to leave. the thing i said, maybe got wants 10% of 5 million and not 375. he told a dream and then walked out on the dream. people have a right to be critical of that. i also would have taken the job he took at colorado. it is not a judgment of the fact that he took the job. but this is not in line with what he told us for all these years. >> but the reason i'm glad we're having this conversation, it does highlight those massive financial disparities. the question is not just do you have to hire a charismatic coach who brings attention to your program to fix it, what is the other way to fix it? >> the problem we have here is, if you watch, during the pandemic, when everybody had all their crypto money and different schools, they were, like, we have more billionaires donating to our schools. plural. billionaires, that's what makes this work really is those

donations and big television deals. that's where the money comes from. we got eight black billionaires in the united states and you can name six of them. right? you may not know it off the top of your head, all people you know. the initial capital that is necessary, that's the hard part. as a school like jackson state, in a city that has been choked off by state of mississippi for as long as anybody can remember, underfunded for as long as anybody can remember, the money they need and the things they need to be done, football is not the place where we're going to start with this in the first place. at some point we have to ask ourselves does it matter or not if the football team is great? does it matter. it can be done for all >> this is so weird for me because we used to talk about this sitting around the table as a kid, so this is weird to be having this conversation. >> at this table? >> at this table, about hbcus and the athletic program. >> we love having you.

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