at this hour, president biden and world leaders are kicking off the g-7 summit in hiroshima, japan, site of the wo world's first atomic bomb attack. crucial issues are on the table including how to arm ukraine in its war against russia. the gathering comes under the shadow of a looming debt crisis in the united states that could potentially send the global economy into a tail spin. that is where we are right now, thank you so much for joining us. "cnn tonight" with alisyn camerota starts right now. hey, alisyn. >> yes, it does, thank you very much. great to see you. good evening, everyone, i'm alisyn camerota, welcome to "cnn tonight." senator dianne feinstein has been sicker than we thought. we're learning she also had encephalitis meaning brain inflammation. the 89-year-old senator has been away from work for months. all of this raises questions about how old is too old to

serve in congress. our panel will share their thoughts on that special number. plus, the case of the ex-buffalo bill player, matt awry sa, a rookie who was cut from the team after ugly accusations went public. now prosecutors have declined to press criminal charges against him. was his career ended prematurely. and the lawsuit by parents and authors against a florida school district that's been removing books from shelves, freedom of speech versus parents' rights. which one will win. let's begin with dianne feinstein and questions about her fitness for office. she was out of work for a month fighting a bout of shingles. today we learned she suffered from inflammation of the brain, something she denied to cnn earlier today. she described it as a really bad flu. her staff also confirmed today that she's suffering from a rare neurological disorder called ramsey hunt syndrome, which causes facial paralysis.

the pictures of her back at work show a more frail senator than we're used to seeing, and her senate colleagues are side stepping questions about her hea health, her age and her fitness to serve. >> do you have confidence that she can continue to do this rigorous job? >> we're all human, and we all have health issues, and right now she is performing as a united states senator doing her job. >> are you worried about her abilities to do her job? >> i can't answer that. well, let me -- because i don't know. i have confidence in her judgment and her family's judgment, and her staff's judgment. >> okay, let's bring in my panel. we have the reality checker himself, john avlon, also former boston tv reporter and republican new hampshire congressional candidate, gail huff brown. coleman hughes, host of

conversations with coleman podcast and the thoughtful and delightful niemts"new york time reporter emma goldberg. senator kennedy said i have faith in her family and staff. why are her family and staff letting her continue to work when she is so clearly infirm? >> i think that's the right question and the senators were dodging out of deference. the senate obviously -- the senate is, you know, having people in their 80s is not unusual the. more than the average workplace, but what dianne feinstein is displaying is something far more troubling. here's a distinguished public ser servant, someone who is the mayor of san francisco, but she does not seem to have a clear grasp on where she is or where she has been. i don't think, you know, it's not a stretch to say that doesn't serve the people of california well, and i think there's some political considerations around the reluctant to name an appointment. she would have to resign. it might have an impact on the primary. that's a secondary concern it seems to me. this is a really extreme example

of what happens when people stay in the game far too long when for their health and dignity they should be able to enjoy life not in this position of responsibility. >> i'm wondering if she was pushed back in. i mean, if she was pushed to come back long before she was ready, encephalitis can be a long lasting illness. >> who would have pressured her? >> i don't know, chuck schumer. maybe other members who absolutely -- >> the judicial committee. >> you know, she's key in the judiciary committee. the president's having a difficult time getting his nominees through. it's important to get somebody in there that can provide a vote for the democrats and help to push through some of those nominees! coleman, how old is too old to serve in congress? >> so to your point, the word senate and senile come from the same latin root. >> is that right? >> it literally means old man. so this idea that the elderly

who should lead us have very deep root, and there's something to it, which is that you have experience. you have wisdom. but there's a limit, right? and i think, you know, a good question to ask is what does the market think is the best for leadership? so like the average ceo of a fortune 500 company i looked up, 57. the median age for a coach, manager, is about 50, 52. the market seems to think the 50s are prime time for a leader because you've got the experience. you've got decades of wisdom, but you also still have the mental acuity, right? but in politics there's this wait your turn mentality, where if you run for office too young, everyone else in the world of politics looks down on you like you're skipping the line, and so we end up with leaders that are just not in their prime and this is what we're seeing. >> so interesting that you say that, coleman. let's look at how old in terms

of the current congress, okay, which is a quite old congress, in terms of this is how many are 75 years or older. let me put up the list. there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, that are 75 or older, as our youngest member of the panel, what are your thoughts on this? >> maybe we need to transition from cenex to genx. over 60% of congress is made up of boomers and the silent generation. who has the greatest stake in some of the public policy issues that are on the table? i mean, think about who's going to be living on this planet that's wreck ed by climate change. who's going to be feeling the ramifications of artificial intelligence and social media. i think young people have a lot of both particular insight and

particular energy when it comes to thinking about how to innovate and regulate some of the most urgent issues that are facing us. i think one of the motivating issues is that we're all seeing the images that are coming out of feinstein's return, i saw an exchange between reporters at the l.a. times who were asking her about her return. she seemed to indicate she hadn't even thought she'd been gone. i think there are really questions about mental acuity and physical fitness, but also ability who can bring the energy and the imagination that's needed to govern on some of the fast moving issues that are going to affect gen z and millennials. >> there's a lot of different ways to be 75, a lot of different ways to be 80. when you have someone in a position of real power representing, you know, the most populous state in the nation having a hard time locating herself, saying she was not, in fact, out of work.

look, that's just cruel. that's unkind. it is not respecting the dignity of the service she has given to date. as long as somebody is crisp and clear, at some point there's diminishing returns, but we should be focusing more on less people being in office for decades, that itself -- >> i'm all for term limits. i think that we need term limits. >> for how long to be a senator? >> for senate? two. two terms. >> you think 12 years? >> yep. and for congress, three. >> and does that -- would you -- you'd rather stee that than an age limit? >> i would rather see term limits. i think that would automatically help to keep, you know, people from spending. >> i think both that may be too limited a time, but i think also that would create -- the power would all be in the staff. that would create then a permanent government in the part of the staff if there's that high of turnover. >> i don't think so. >> lots of places and jobs have

mandatory retirement a ages. countries in europe do it differently. you can't be president before, what, you're 35. no one seems uncomfortable with there being an age limit on the younger side for some reason, but the notion there could be an age limit on the older side, somehow people lose their minds. i think that would be a pretty equitable and wise way to deal with the issue. >> i think you would also face some discrimination, though. >> i don't think it should be 75. 75 is way too young. 80 maybe. >> ageism is real too. to your point, an 80-year-old in one person could be very different from an 80-year-old in another person. my mother is 85,4, and she's younger than me. >> how does that happen? how does that work? >> so last then, what's going to happen with dianne feinstein? what's going to happen here? what's going to happen next? >> i think that's what a lot of people are wondering. i think people are also think a ing about this as an indication of what comes next.

how do we incentivize young people to run for office. when young people look at congress and the visual they have resembles their grandparents, i don't know that that's the most motivating image. >> i thank you all very much for all of that. >> you clearly haven't seen my grandparents. next, walgreen's will pay san francisco nearly $230 million for its role in the city's opioid epidemic. but can they use that money to fix what the mayor calls brazen open air drug dealing? we'll discuss that. ahhh! icy hot pro starts working instantly. with two max-strength in relievers, so you can rise from pain like a pro. icy hot pro.

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all right, the city of san francisco has reached a $230 million settlement with walgreen's for its role in the distribution of opioids. a federal judge ruled that the pharmacy chain could be held liable for contributing to the city's opioid epidemic. joining us now is david chew, the san francisco city attorney. thank you so much for being here. can you just explain why walgreen's? because i think we're all familiar with the role that purdue pharma had, the role that unscrupulous doctors had, but isn't walgreen's, isn't a pharmacy just following doctor's orders when they fill your prescription? >> well, you know, one would think, but there were many companies that were involved in creating this opioid crisis, what we discovered as we brought this lawsuit against walgreen's and others is that walgreen's played a significant role in pushing patients to consume the

prescription opioids that they got addicted to. they pressured their pharmacist to fill, fill, fill their prescriptions, and that came from corporate hierarchy. they were chasing billions of dollars of profit over safety, and in that time period, they were not in compliance with federal law. so this is why they absolutely have played a role in this opioid crisis that we see playing out on our streets every day. >> i know this is a moot point because the city won, and walgreen's has to pay. but here is walgreen's statement. they say walgreen's disputes liability, and there is no admission of fault in the settlement agreement. we never manufactured or marketed opioids, nor did we distribute them to pill mills and internet pharmacies. did you want them to admit fault in this? >> i think the fact that they have agreed to pay our city $230 million says what it needs to say. it's the largest single award for any city in the country by

one single opioid defendant. it came after a trial where a federal judge in his opinion documented exactly what walgreen's did in violating lawsuit and being part of the cycle of addiction. the fact of the matter is we see the suffering on our streets every day all across america. it's easy to blame the folks who are right in front of us. it's important to remember this were some of the most profitable companies in the world that engineered this health crisis and cycle of addiction. >> in terms of the rampant drug use that people have seen on the streets of san francisco. how much can you attribute to walgre walgreen's? mayor london breed wrote a letter, she said she was most concerned about drug dealers on the streets becoming aggressive with police, ambassador, and violence and shootings surrounding brazen open air drug dealing scenes. that sounds like it's beyond

walgreen's. >> well, certainly drug dealers play a very significant role in this in providing the supply of drugs, but the demand i would suggest was really cultivated by the opioid industry, and i'll explain why. so when we talk about the cycle of addiction, there's a direct connection between the addictions we're seeing on our streets today and what happened some years ago, in the 1990s when companies created very dangerous and addictive prescription opioids. they manufactured this crisis of undiagnosed pain. they marketed these products as safe. they were lying. there were millions of americans, an entire generation that got addicted to prescription opioids. they abused them, and then they shifted to street drugs like heroin and fentanyl. in the trial we admitted evidence that 70 to 80% of the heroin users on our streets began their addictions with prescription opioids sk, and ths

exactly what walgreen's was pushing. at the trail, it came out that walgreen's had 1.2 million prescriptions just in our city alone that should have been red flagged under the law, but they looked the other way to chase their profits, and as a result addicted members of our community, our brothers and sisters, our fathers and mothers to this, and that is what is causing the suffering on our streets, the addicts on our streets who are consuming heroin and fentanyl today. >> and last, i've read that the city of san francisco estimates it could cost $8.1 billion to abate the crisis. how will 230 million spread over 14 years solve that? >> well, i should mention we have actually at this time a total of over $350 million of settlements from a variety of companies, but i'll also say this, there is no amount of money that will bring back the lives that we have lost. we have all experienced these tragedies. we mourn every day for those we

have lost. but this is money, hundreds of millions of dollars that will help to address the suffering that we're seeing and hopefully help us to turn the corner of this opioid cry isis. >> thank you very much for the information. we really appreciate it. we're back now with john av avlon, gail huff brown, coleman hughes and emma goldberg. >> coleman, your thoughts? >> i have a family member who's had surgeries and been prescribed oxycontin once in 2020, once in 2022, and actually in 2019. in 2019 she got oxycontin and after just a few days went off of it and had withdrawal symptoms, right? and the doctor, the surgeon, nobody warned her that this was going to happen, and it happened that fast. cut to last year, had a similar surgery, got less oxy this time and when i was picking it up at the pharmacy, the pharmacist had

a whole protocol. i couldn't get it immediately. there had to be a double and triple check. it seems like things are changing in the right direction, and this lawsuit is a part of that. what really disturbs me is not that big pharma didn't do its due diligence. i think no one's surprised by that. what really disturbs me is the fact finding in this lawsuit suggests that a lot of doctors are over prescribing drugs because they are somehow getting kickbacks, not just like 1% of doctors, like he said 1.2 million, right? so you do the math. that had to be a lot of doctors that are essentially corrupt. how do you trust your doctor after a feiginding like this? >> gail, this was in san francisco, you're in new hampshire, no stranger to this? >> no stranger at all. in fact, new hampshire got 3 # $10 million over 18 years and i will say the money does help. there's no question about it. >> what do they apply to? re rehabs? >> the money goes to programs, to rehab.

it goes to communities because the people shouldering this are the firefighters, the emts. i interviewed a firefighter in culbrook, new hampshire whor ha been to the same house over a dozen times to resuscitate with narcan, the same woman who ultimately died of a drug overdose, opioid related. it's tragic. these are the people seeing it day in and day out. a lot of money goes to helping these communities that hire more people, that have to buy the narcan and be able to help. but it's a desperate problem, but i'll tell you, money isn't the only solution. you have to have family support. you have to have people around you. i think a lot of these people, they just don't have that support system, and they end up in rehab for a month, and then they're back out, two months later they're back at it again. >> i think san francisco in some ways has become the poster child for that kind of civic chaos

that gets created in the wake of the combination of drug addiction, hopelessness, homelessness, and creating civic disorder. i do think there's a real question about where this money is going to go in the case of san francisco. it's not going to make a dent in the larger issue. throwing money at problems unless it's targeted, it just gets absorbed back in the kau fers. there are a lot of mu ninicipal costs. >> the firefighters. >> er docs and everything else. if it's just going to get reabsorbed into the budget, it's not going to make a dent dealing with the underlying problem. >> i do think every dollar towards these problems is enormously helpful, especially because when you're looking at a crisis of this magnitude, it's so challenging to even conceive of what does accountability look like? like there's so many individuals and so many corporations and groups that contributed to this crisis being at the scale that

it is today, and so i think any moment in any situation we can get some form of accountability and some money on the table towards the services people desperately need, especially in a place like san francisco. i mean, even since the start of this year, 268 people have died of accidental overdoses. that's 72 more than the year before that, so this problem is actually continuing to grow larger, and i think any moment that we have where we can, you know, have some form of accountability and some dollars behind that is a step in the right direction. >> i think it's a question of how it's targeted, what it's being used for and the assumption it's going to go directly towards solving that problem is an assumption. i've not been able to find documentation. we know there are cases where large dollar amounts are given to larger civic problems. they don't tend to make a dent in it. is it going to be targeted or not? >> i would say what's the alternative, that the money, you know, is distributed. >> here's an idea, refund the police. san francisco has had one of the

records in the past three years in terms of soft on crime, mass retirements, police force shrinking, people getting their housebroken into over and over and over again and the police don't come. refund the police. >> i like that. >> that would be targeted. >> on that note, thank you all very much. okay, so what happens when accusations and judgments happen in the court of public opinion well before a court of law? john is here to take a look at this case right after this. you need to deliver new apps fast

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tonight we want to explore the case of ex-buffalo bill matt araza and what happens when an ugly accusation is tried in the court of public opinion versus a court of law. john avlon is here with a segment we call upon further review. john, tell us what we need to know. >> it should go without saying that all accusations of sexual assault need to be taken seriously, but being convicted in the court of public opinion is not the same thing as being convicted in a court of law and

that's especially true if charges are never filed because investigations exonerate the accused but that information is not fully released to the public, and that's what seems to have happened in the case of buffalo bills punter matt awriz. the incident in question occurred in 2021 when he was still an undergraduate at san diego state university where he'd broken an ncaa record capped by an 86 yard punt. before he ever played a regular season game for the bills, a civil lawsuit alleged that he participated in a brutal gang rape of a 17-year-old girl at an off campus party. the details were awful, and though ariza denied it at the time, the bills cut ties with him almost immediately. the accusations received extensive coverage from leading sports reporters and mainstream outlets and in some cases they seemed to assume his guilt. but after 124-day investigation, local prosecutors announced in

december that they would not file criminal charges. the decision was based on an investigation that included more than 35 taped witness interviews, ten search warrants, turned over four terabytes of digital information including videos from the party and tracking data. in addition, cnn has obtained a 200 plus page transcript of a conversation between the d.a.'s office, the accuser and her attorney, in which the deputy d.a. lays out the evidence and explains why criminal charges weren't being filed. bottom line, the d.a. concluded that ariza had left the party before the alleged sexual assault took place. now, the attorney for the young woman says that a civil case is still going forward stating our case alleges more than gang rape. it also alleges statutory rape and rape by intoxication based on sex ariza admits he had with my client before the gang rape occurred. whether he left before the gang rape occurred hardly vindicates.

ariza says any alleged was consensual. he says this experience woke hem up to the reality of how quickly your life can change. he still hopes that some team will sign him. mary katherine ham, a former cnn contributor wrote, quote, in 2023 where does matt ariza go to get his reputation and career back. should he be treated as toxic because of the accusation when he hasn't been charged, let alone convicted or should he be given a second chance? whenever allegations of sexual assault occur, those women should be heard and the allegations fully investigated. but that does not mean we should skip over due process or ignore relevant facts. truth is the goal of both the justice system and journalism. it can be an elusive goal. sometimes there's a rush to judgment based on initial information, but when the facts come in, the principles of

justice and journalism require that the truth be spoken at least as loudly as the initial accusations. that's just the right thing to do upon further review. >> thank you so much for that. thank you for doing such a deep dive into all of the transcript and the background and the research on that. emma, let's talk about that very thought provoking question. what does happen to matt ariza and his reputation and his future in the absence of a charge or a kconviction? >> i think that's an important question. i also first of all in all of the reading i've done about this case what sticks with me first and foremost is how unbelievably challenging, heartbreaking, just wrechlking it is for a woman to come forward and report sexual misconduct, sexual assault, any kind of untoward sexual behavior. it's just one of the most challenging situations i think any woman can go through. i saw this on my college campus when we were, you know, trying to change our process for

reporting sexual assault. and i spoke with so many classmates who were going through the process. the kind of factors that people run through their mind about disclosing things to their family, their friends, you know, facing the accuser. it's just not a decision anybody takes lightly and that was really one of the things that was running through my head as i saw the decision not to go forward with the criminal charges. it's one of the most challenging situations any woman can go through. we've all seen this play out in the #metoo movement over the last few years. i think we've been reminded time and again this isn't a decision anyone takes lightly and that is the foremost issue people should be holding in their mind. >> i'm glad you pointed that out and bring it up on college campuses. this is an epidemic on college cam campuses. this happens a lot because the rules are sort of squishy on college campuses. the colleges often sweet this stuff under the carpet. >> they waited seven months to

carry out an investigation in this case, seven months. the community was never notified. people on campus, and i am aware it happened off campus, the incident, but oftentimes even in those cases the community will be notified because it involved students. but the -- san diego state, they did nothing to notify people, to pursue an investigation, to do anything to uncover what exactly had happened. i'm the mother of two daughters, and you know, when you read some of the details of this case, it is horrifying. i don't know where she goes to get her dignity back. i think he's going to have to wait until this plays out in the courts and lawsuit. >> civilly. >> right, civilly, in the lawsuit before he's able to sort of resurrect his career. >> look, i don't think public opinion should get ahead of the justice system. i think we know from organizations like the innocence project that there are just they alone have exonerated hundreds

and hundreds of men falsely accused of rape from prison proven innocent because of dna testing technology that wasn't available when they went into prison. and i believe the reason -- >> this isn't a false s accusation. the police agree something horrible happened to bring tha. the reason we have a criminal justice system because the court of public opinion is a horrible way of dealing with situations. we create a legal system to have procedures where all evidence admitted. that is a better way of actually getting real justice. it's always tempting to get ahead of that process, but i think we always should restrain ourselves and wait for that to play out. >> what gail was saying, sometimes that is sluggish. the process of the campus doing their due diligence or even the police, it takes a long time, and so are you saying that the buffalo bills shouldn't have let him go? >> no, i don't think -- they

should have stuck by him until the legal process took its course. look, the reason we have a legal system is because anyone can accuse anyone of anything, right? and then what we know from cases like the central park five, you know, these famous cases, it's always better to let the system play out than jumping to one's first emotional reaction. >> the court of public opinion can't throw anyone in prison. i would argue -- >> thank god it can't. >> it's important to look at the -- i mean, we are still -- the judicial system is still doing its job, and i would just remember that the rate of people coming forward with false accusations of sexual assault is so low. it really, really rarely happens when you think about just how consequential that decision is, how emotional and how fraught. >> it is. but i think to coleman's point, the due process and the investigations need to occur. this is a heart wrenching story on every level, and this is not

anything analogous to the duke lacrosse or whatever examples people want to put forward from the past. >> do you think the buffalo bills should have let him go? >> i think it's understandable why they reacted that way, but i don't -- i think he should get a second chance if he's exonerated going forward. he's been exonerated from criminal charges in an incredibly thorough investigation, and you can't just dismiss that, even if that may be your impulse. the civil trial that will apparently go forward has lower thresholds, and that's a separate consideration. but this seems like a tragedy for everyone involved. but the major issue i think that i was trying to get at is when the accusations get widespread coverage and the investigation does not reach those conclusions of the accusation, then that deserves equal amplification to the extent that's possible. >> and i agree, and the media has to take some responsibility there too.

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parents, author,s and penn america filed the suit against the escambia county school district. the suit argues that school officials violated the first amendment in restricting access to books. here with me now is pen america's ceo suzanne nosel. thanks so much for being here. tell us the grounds for this lawsuit. >> sure, this case is emblematic of what we are seeing in a pattern across the country. we have hundreds of books that have been challenged by a single individual, one person launching a kind of summary challenge, clearly not even having read these books, and that initiates a process whereby in escambia county, there's a review committee that reads the book, that deliberates over whether the book should be on the classroom shelves, and there are case after case where that committee agreed that the book had value, that this was something children should have access to, that kids could benefit from these stories, but nonetheless, the school board overrode their decision, took

the books off the shelves and is denying kids their freedom to read, and so it's part of a pattern we're seeing across the country, and we wanted to take action and challenge this. we're challenging it under the first and 14th amendments. >> can you tell us some of the titles of these books that students have lost access to? are these books we would know? are they generally new books? are they generally books about transgender students? is there a way to categorize them? >> it's a long list. there are authors like toni morrison on the list, like judy blume. there are books like entango makes three, which is the story of two penguins in the central park zoo, two male penguins that come together to raise an orphan baby penguin, and we do see a clear trend and it's part of our case is that these books overwhelmingly are by and about authors of color and lgbtq narratives. so it shows clear intent on the part of this district to exclude

certain stories, to target particular populations and essentially erase them from these libraries. >> what do you say to parents who say that they want to have -- this is about parental rights. they want to have control oaf what their children are exposed to? >> you can have control over what books kids bring home, but what this is is taking the opinion of a single -- it's not even a parent when it comes to most of these challenges. it's actually a teacher in the school, and having that person essentially dictate what 37,000 kids in a school district can and can't read. that is a matter of parental rights. it's the rights of all these other parents that are really in jeopardy here. >> what do you want out of the escambia school district? what are you fighting for here? >> sure, we want to affirm the principle that book banning violates the first amendment, that book banning when it targets people of color -- we

want the books put back on shelves. we want to vindicate kids freedom to read. the idea that books are dangerous, that kids in american public schools are being taught that books are going to imperil them or corrupt them, that is not how we educate a democratic citizenry, and we really think it's important that the court affirm those principles. >> while i have you, i want to ask you about salman rushdie, he has made his first public in person appearance since being attacked, and he was presented with the courage award at the annual literary gala at pen america. tell us about that, what did he say? >> well, it was very moving, alisyn, salman has been very close to pen america for decades. when he was attacked last summer, it was devastating. many months went by. we didn't know if we'd see him again, what kind of condition he would be in. so he came tonight to greet everyone. he gave a powerful message about his commitment to the organization. we gave him award for courage.

he said the real courage is not me but it's those who leapt to the stage when he was attacked and saved his life and pinned down his attacker and he impimp implored all of us to not give in to terror, to those who would strike fear, to those who seek to intimidate, and to stand up and continue to seek our truth. it was an enormously powerful moment for all of our supporters and free speech defenders around the world. >> thank you for your time tonight in explaining to us what's happening. >> thanks so much, alisyn. okay. charles barkley going off on john morant, the nba player suspended for a second time for appearing to flash a gun. you're going to want to hear this. we'll play it for you next. that's why you choose vmware. with flexible multi-cloud services that enable digital innovation and enenterprise control, vmvmware helps you keep your cloud options open.

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charles barkley, never one to hold back his opinions, is criticizing memphis grizzlies star ja morant and the people defending him over his latest gun incident. an instagram live video on sunday showed morant, a rising star in the nba, flashing a gun. the grizzlies then suspended him from all team activities, pending a review of the incident. here is barkley's message to morant. >> when you are making 100 million dollars a year to play sports your life changes. there are certain rules and regulations that you have to live by, plain and simple. you cannot do stupid stuff, that is the trade-off. if you want to do all that stuff and give all that money back, more power to. you can make that stands, you know, what i want to do it i want to do. i want to flash my gun and make

videos. okay, that is fine, but you cannot make money on the nba doing that stuff. i just hope that he grows up and realizes -- first of, you are not a thug or a criminal. you are a guy making 100 million dollars -- >> to hundred. >> 200 million to dribble a stupid basketball. >> 100 million, 200. details. in march rant was suspended by the league after another video was shown holding a gun at a colorado knife club. colin, ersatz? >> more important in the amount of money they make is that when you're in the nba you are a role model to hundreds of thousands and millions of kids all around the world. i know when i was a kid i very much looked up to basketball players and to set that kind of an example for them, that is what is most telling about

this. i do hope that he grows, i hope that he will, and if he does he should have the chance to come back. but for now, he does have to face consequences. >> here's what he said, john, i know i've disappointed a lot of people who supported me. this is a journey, and i recognize that there is more work to do. my words may not mean much right now but i take full responsibility for my actions, i'm committed to continuing to work on myself. >> so, it is legal to have a gun. why can't he have? one >> that is actually what drills barclay's getting out. just because you can, does not mean that you should. and with great power and privilege comes great responsibility. the guy has a contract that is just under $200 million. and, because he is in a position where his role model, whether he wants to be one or not, it means that you give up a certain liberties, yes we have a constitutional right to carry a firearm, flashed around, but it is not consistent with the responsibilities that he has as a role model.

maybe that is the journey is talking about. and you can point out politicians do this too much, they brandished their guns and such a bad example, to. fair enough. but you've got to start somewhere, so john morant, if you want to take that note that barkley is saying, you do not flush your firearm. >> john, coleman, thank you both very much. coming up, some of our top reporters are here to talk about the stories they are working on for tomorrow, including the feud between ron desantis and disney. we are with them, next. ike to move it, move it ♪ ♪ you like to... move it ♪ we're reinventing ouour networ. ♪ ♪ ♪ fast. reliable. perfectly orchestrated. the united states postal service.

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tuning in to this hour we bring you tomorrow's news tonight. we have got our great lineup of reporters here to with me tonight. jeremy deal island, -- miguel marquez, and sara fischer, great to have all of you here on the couch. so we begin with the body camera footage of yet another mass shooting in america, this one in new mexico. the video you are about to see is of course disturbing, you are going to hear a lot of gunfire, and this shows the moment a police sergeant in northern new mexico is shot after responding to the scene. [sound of gunfire] >> i'm shot. [sound of gunfire] >> this happened monday in farmington after an 18 year old high schooler shot nine people in his neighborhood, killing three of them.

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