$2.5 million fine and threatening to sue the nba. in short, donald sterling is not going away, no matter how badly the nba wants him to. plus, the fcc unveiled a controversial new proposal that could create a fast lane and a slow lane for the internet. if you err use the internet, you need to understand what's going on. also, florida and its stand your ground law are back in the news again as a florida mom jailed for firing a gun into a cleelg has a new day in court. we start with the fight that's brewing between donald sterling and the nba over control of the l.a. clippers. shortly before the clippers were bounced from the playoffs last night, two news organizations "sports illustrated" and "usa today" published reports suggesting that donald sterling may fight both the forced sale of his team and the $2.5 million fine imposed on him after the release of his infamous attend

regards on race. >> that he violated no article of the nba constitution and that no punishment is warranted. legally that may be an uphill climb. in part, because comments like this about magic johnson can almost certainly be used against sterling in a legal fight. >> i spend millions on giving away and helping minorities. does he do that? that's one problem i have. when they get successful, they will help their people, jews. some of the african-americans -- maybe i'll get in trouble again -- they don't want to help anybody.

>> jeff is usa today's nba reporter and one of two reporters who broke the story of donald sterling's plan to fight the nba and warren is the executive editor of the sports law blog and also a professor of sports law at boston college. i want to start with you, jeff, because it was your reporting. you were one of the two reporters who broke this idea that donald sterling is actually going to fight this in court. do you have any further details about the basis for this fight? none of us has read the end gate constitution, but he, i guess, is claiming he didn't even violate it. >> no, that's what he is claiming right now. he has a $1 billion team, and it's not going to be easy to pry that away from him, and i think

this is just the first step that he is setting up in which could be a long legal battle for the nba against donald sterling. >> yeah. in fact, jeff, this was a report as well. in the past donald sterling has fought the nba and actually kind of won. he was fined $25 million for moving the team. there was -- and then fined $100 million lawsuit from l.a. to san diego without permission from the league. he fought that with the same lawyer maxwell blecher. fought it, got that $25 million fine reduced to $6 million. he is litigious and also successful against the league. do you think that's why he thinks he can fight? >> one thing also donald sterling, one, doesn't mind being sued, and he also doesn't mind suing all the same. i believe that the nba was bracing for this as well. they were waiting for his next step. the nba, while they want to -- the word they've used before is expeditiously make this happen, i believe they also understand that this is going to take time,

and you just don't take a team from someone overnight. it starts with small steps, and i think they're continuing to build their case and donald sterling, on the other side, is trying to lay out his case for not taking the team away from him. >> and, warren, i want to talk to you about some of the nba side of this argument wrsht basis of their authority over these owners, over they are 30 owners, the key to the nba authority, according to the associated press, is article 13d of the league's constitution. that section says that whether sterling intended to or not an owner cannot fail or refuse to fulfill contractual only fwagss to the nba in such a way to affect the association or its members adversely, and there's plenty of evidence according to the times that his comments, revealed in a recorded conversation with a female companion. it led sponsors to withdraw support and created a racially charged image problem in the midst of the playoffs that even president barack obama remarked on. in your estimation, is that enough for the nba to get away with this and for the nba to

actually strip him of ownership? >> it certainly would. their argument has been and they've been consistent in arguing that they've got this authority and interpreting their own nba bilaws and constitution. they've given broad latitude by the court system to do so. they're gauged in making decisions. for the most part they've given legal authorities -- it's interesting the bilaws are claiming where they have this authority and whether or not the conduct engaged by donald sterling meets that threshold. unekwifically, the nba thinks it does. >> we're not talking about a first amendment issue. this is a private entity interpreting its own rules. don't those rules mean whatever the owners say they mean? >> to some extent they do. you know, he has given up control to abide by the bilaws and the system of justice that the nba has instituted by sign willing all the documents that the nba constitution has imposed

upon him. have there been efforts by the nba, and it will be an effort to find them. the lawyer is making an argument about due process. once again, it's an argument at this juncture because it's a private association and it's want a state act or and can impose that they've done so. there's another implied threat that we're seeing coming. not just from donald sterling, but also from his wife, shelly. her lawyer on tuesday told the "new york times" regarding this legal fight, and she's -- the lawyer said this. i want to know a lot of different things about the records of the nr ba and what information they have about the conduct or misconduct of other owners that was not acted upon. the nba is in as much risk as mr. sterling to have this whole thing aired publicly. it's in everybody's interest to avoid armageddon. based on your reporting, your knowledge of sterling and how he thinks and how he behaves, is it possible that one by the stem

cell researchings might be to use discovery, use a lawsuit to basically open everybody up just to say all the owners are now on the table. we will trash and burn the entire nba ownership in order to either keep the team or make the nba back down. >> that certainly is the suggestion she's making. let's not pretend that, you know, there's not something in some nba owner's closet, but with that said, nothing has come out previously about these owners. so to think that, you know, they're going to open something up that, you know, all of a sudden would be exposed, i have a hard time seeing that. owners in this day and age are vetted quite thoroughly by the nba. from my perspective and it's not a legal perspective, but it seems just to be a little bit of bluster to try to scare the nba and to backing down. what we've seen from the nba is they're not ready to back down at all, and i don't believe that they're going to. they've been firm and steadfast since day one on away they believe and what they want to do, and to that end i think they

would be even willing to go that distance. players may not want to play. sponsors may back out or television deals may be broken. there's clearly time that's certainly going to be of the essence in this case, but unequivocally, the nba owners are fefshent in their opinion that they've made the right step here. >> the saga continues. thank you so much warren and jeff. >> thank you. now a quick alert on the massive california wildfires that have been burning for three days. >> we thought that we had the

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marissa alexander may have to wait until at least next month to find out whether she'll get a new stand your ground hearing. alexandra, you'll recall, is the jacksonville, florida, mother of three who faces a possible 60 year sentence when she's retried in july. she was convicted in 2012 of three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for firing what she says was a warning shot near her now ex-husband and his two children during a domestic dispute. the jury deliberated for just 30 minutes before returning that guilty verdict. last year the conviction was thrown out and alexandra was released on bond to await a new trial. she was originally denied the stand your ground imunit defense, but her new lawyers are asking a judge to reconsider. during a hearing today they argue that the stand your ground law was incorrectly applied by prosecutors in the first trial. they also presented what they say is new evidence, including information that key witnesses have recanted their testimony and an alleged pattern of abuse

on the part of alexander's ex-husband that wasn't previously introduced, and expert testimony that they say the first legal team failed to present. prosecutors argue that there's no need for another stabbed your ground hearing because nothing has changed since the first trial, and there was some debate about the warning shot bill, the bill that was passed by the state legislature last month, but has yet to be signed by governor rick scott. if signed, the law could provide immunity for a person who fires a warning shot in self-defense, but it's unclear if the law could be retroactively applied to the alexander case. larry hannah is the court's reporter for the florida times union. he was in court this morning, and sena is a former prosecutor, and she's currently a civil and criminal rights attorney. >> you were in the courtroom. could you get a gauge on how compelling the question of whether or not this new bill, the warning shot bill, how compelling that argument seemed to be from your perspective from the judge. to the judge. >> interestingly, it was the judge who brought up the issue

of the warning shot bill first before the lawyers had, and he basically said we need to figure out how it's applied. he seems confused by it as well. he has clearly read the new law, but they have different views on that. it strengthened their argument, and the prosecution claimed it can't be retroactive and it can't be nothing to do with this ace. >> it sounds to me like those are the same things. we know in this case angela, the prosecutor, we've done previous reporting on the show that she owes pod the law. and the prosecutor's office did send power points and why the law doesn't apply to alexander, or shouldn't, and we do have a law that is in limbo. it was passed by the state senate and by the statehouse, so it could be go to governor rick scott's desk, but it has not. the law is in limbo and also how it would apply to this case. >> threshold question, joy. was it a warning shot? that needs to be litigated

separate and apart from whether the warning shot bill is in existence. let's say it passes in time for the new trial. >> or signed in time. >> signed for the new trial. the defense will argue that it should be the law at the time of the trial. the prosecution will say no, because at the time of the incident that law didn't apply. >> right. >> follow? make sense? >> they want to go by the law at the time of the incident occurring because that's more favorable to the prosecution. >> right. that is what initiated the 1020 life bill that gave marissa this 20 years exposure for the incident. >> 60 years now because -- >> 60 for each -- for each individual. exactly. that's the problem. they're making her punishment worse. in the courtroom it seems to me

that there was a much more vigorous case put on than was even put on in the first trial when marissa alexander was on trial with 20 years of her life on the line. new information introduced about witnesses potentially recanting information essentially about the domestic abuse. do you get the sense now that you have a defense that's far more engaged and how did the prosecutors respond to those peetsz pieces of information being presented today? >> the defense now is to a certain extent a dream team. there was originally a lawyer from jacksonville that didn't have a lot of support. angela has put two of her top prosecutors, rich and london on this. there are no lawyers from the first trial that are still prosecuting or defending this, and they have both prosecuted death penalty cases and prosecuted some of the most high profile cases in jacksonville. it's to a certain extent the a team for both sides now.

>> just quickly, you've bid on the story for quite a while. does this case seem to be attracting particular passion on the part of this prosecutor? people recall this is the prosecutor from the zimmerman trial and from the other trial, the lawed music trial, as they called it. jordan davis case as well. do you think -- is there a different sort of aspect to the prosecution this time? >> i think the prosecution is frustrated because they feel as though the case hasn't been reported correctly. they get very angry when they hear it as a warning shot case. they insist it was not a warning shot that she was aiming at her estranged husband, and they've sent a lot of emails out saying they want to correct the record about marissa alexander, and and i do think they've taken some of the criticism to heart. they don't think the criticism is fair. >> one of the things that the judge seemed concerned about was setting a precedent by ordering another stand your ground hearing. this is a case being litigated about warning shots, whether it is or not.

>> there was a new trial order. not a new harnk. not every single thing that happened before. to get a new stand your ground trial, one of the ways to get a new hearing, excuse me, is new evidence. new evidence. not evidence that was available at the time of previous hearing. when we're talking about expert testimony and that was available back then. that's not grounds for a new hearing. however, when we're talking about impeaching witnesses, so we have some of the witnesses testifying. they've recanted. they've changed their story. that may not be appropriate for hearing and it may be appropriate for trial. >> so see the difference? it's one standard for hearing, one standard for trial. to get a new hearing and -- that would be an appellate issue, which we're not there yet. >> where does this go from here? what's the next step in this whole process? >> the lawyers for both sides have until the end of the month to file more briefs arguing their side. the judge is likely to decide early in june if she gets a new stand your ground hearing. if she gets one, it will be late

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past few months. perhaps as a person that uses a computer or a smartphone or tablet or anything with wi-fi you have wondered whether you should care. well, you should. we figured they have given new events unfold this week in washington. now is a good time to bring you up to speed. get it? if not, hopefully you will in a minute. for starters, the term net or network neutrality is based on a principal that basic internet protocol should be nondiscriminatory. in short, the conat the particular time providers should treat all internet traffic egael. zarchlgts a cavat would essentially create a fast toll road for those who can afford it and a slower lane for those who can't. that has some active it'ses for the open internet really fired up. on thursday protests have

gathered outside as fcc board members voted on and weighed in on these new proposed rules for the road for access to high speed internet. >> we cannot have a two-tiered internet. with fast lanes that speed the traffic of the privileged and leave the rest of us lagging behind. >> the proposed net neutrality rules and legal theories will stiffle innovation and investment by private sector and provide no help to consumers and thrust the commission into a place it shouldn't be. >> the result of that debate, a 3-2 vote to advance the proposal into a public comments phase, which means the american people, you, get to weigh in before the rules are finalized. the question is what does all of this net neutrality mumjo jumbo mean for you? here to answer is aim ji, tech policy report for "read code." before we get started, we should mention that, of course, people get to the internet often by subscribing to a wireless provider like a sprint or verizon or from residential

broadband providers like bahhed broadband, who is the patient company of this network. we did inread reach out to comcast on this story, and they directed us to their home page. comcast remains committed to a free and open internet and is working with the fcc on appropriate rules for all players across the industry. okay. now, with that said, amy, explain to us what would change if the net neutrality rules that were voted on 3-2 actually went into effect. what would change for ordinary people? >> when they talk about fast lane, it's not like a fast lane that you would -- you can already buy faster services if you want. this would be more like face lane that an amazon or a google or a facebook or a netflix could buy to get traffic to your house faster. not all companies have the money to pay for that fast lane service. s smaller companies or start-ups wouldn't be able to pay this

kind of extra toll to get to your house faster. >> so meaning that, like, netflix could be more expensive, but the next netflix, the next thing you're going to binge watch couldn't get started because they can't pay for the faster service. sflo exactly. you know, even netflix, netflix isn't going to necessarily want to pay all that extra money itself. it's going to pass that extra cost on to you, the consumer. >> i want to take a step back because i think where this all started was a decision that the fcc made in the first place, right? in 1996 congress wroefr hauled the telecommunications law and the previous two new categories. there's telecommunication services, which is common carrier services like your phone and then there's subject to broad fcc regulations and then there are information services, which are any service that allows people to store, process, any public information on-line and those were actually exempt from most fcc regulations. essentially the fcc itself biforcated and koreaed this new

class of things, these communications organizations that it really couldn't regulate. september that really where this all began? >> there's still that doesn't apply, or at the time when the bush administration was -- republicans who are in charge of the fcc, they didn't want to have a lot of regulation on internet lines because they want the whole industry to kind of grow unregulate the because they thought it would speed things up. that's why the fcc is in the pickle it's in right now. they don't want the old rules to apply, but congress hasn't made much of an effort to pass new rules to give them authority. they don't really have a thot of authority to police internet lines right now.

>> cable companies like comcast and at&t freaked out and spent a lot of time and money sort of convincing lawmakers and regulators that was a really bad idea, and so the fcc basically dropped the entire proposal really quickly. i think the key now is, you know, are they going to do that again? are they actually going to sort of stand up to the phone and cable companies that are going to fight completely all out hands to the floor to try to kind of kill this whole idea? >> now, there have been some activism from on-line really bloggers, people who run smaller web sites, that fear that without net neutrality, without this open internet, you could theoretically have these multiple tiers also apply to the granular point of certain web sites based on their size, based on the traffic they're serving. also being charged multiple tiers. do you see that on the horizon?

>> right. i mean, you know, theoretically, i guess internet companies could do that right now. they really haven't. the fcc has this public comments period. they probably should use it if this care about this issue. thank you so much for read code's amy. appreciate it. >> coming up 60 years after the historic brown versus the board of education supreme court ruling, desegregating the schools, we give a report card on the progress that's been made. my colleague melissa harris perry will be here with some surprising answers. ameriprise asked people a simple question: in retirement, will you outlive your money?

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decades ago brave individuals from across the country sustained by the strength of their convictions, fuelled by their desire for change, and represented by lawyers from this eminent organization including visionary attorneys like authorize good marshall, robert carter and jack greenberg embark odd a dangerous, long, and grueling march that culminated on may 17th, 1954, of the united states supreme court. >> that was attorney general arab holder speaking to the naacp ahead of tomorrow's 60th anniversary of the supreme court's landmark brown versus the board of education decision, which ruled that segregation and public schools is unconstitutional. 60 years later how much progress have we actually made? in a proclamation marking the anniversary president obama acknowledges, "we have confined legalized segregation to the dust bin of history. yet, today the hope and promise of brown remains unfulfilled." he goes on to remind the country

"progress has never come easily, but even in the face of impossible odds, those that lot of their country can face it." tonight the president will meet with relatives of the plaintiffs and even two of the attorneys who argue that landmark case to thank them and to encourage them to keep fighting for future generations. indeed, 60 years after james, thorogood marshall and james wood stood on the steps against the doctrine of pratt bull butt equal, a new analysis of our nation's schools finds there's much more work to be done. joining me now to discuss the current state of the quality of education is the host of msnbc's melissa harris perry, and i should add an educator in her own right, my pal. melissa, it is kind of distressing when you look at the stats. they're kind of weird when you look at where the stats are worst. there's new information that talks about new york city. new york city public schools where more than half of all students have white student enrollment of more than 10%. new york state becomes the most

segregated school system in the country, and the south where people typically think about segregation, actually, statistically being, i guess, better off in terms of segregation? >> but barely. i think -- i mean, there's a lot of important lessons to draw from this. one, part of what happened after the end of legalized segregation or as the barriers begin to fall, very, very slowly it sometimes took ten, 15, 30 years in some places to get meaningful integration. what happened is families that could afford to vote with their feet to simply exit the public school system did. you end up with cities that are maybe half white residents but public school systems in those cities that areal 080% students of color because many of the white families have simply opted out. >> they just opt out. you think about chicago where michelle obama went to school in a school system that by the time all was said and done, was 96% african-american. you have, as you said, white flight out of schools. not just out of neighborhoods.

>> often actually not out of neighborhoods. especially as there's been the sexiness of moving back into the urban center. even as families have moved back into the urban center, sometimes the sort of highest quality communities are right there in what we think of as the inner city. yet, your schools don't become more integrated. why? because some parents opt out within the system to magnet schools or other kind of choice schools or they simply opt out of the system altogether into private schools. >> you also have even within the african-american community the sort of selecting out because now have you this thing called charter conceals, which can implant inside of an inner city community and even they draw the families of color who are trying to opt out of the system leaving public schools with what? with very little. >> it's tough. you and i are both parents sxwshgs so we know that when are you making a choice for your individual child, you can have political commitments and theological commitments, but your primary commitment as a parent is to make sure that the best educational opportunities are open for that kid. that said, i think we do need to start thinking of an integrated

classroom as a quality classroom. part of what happens is we use these measurements for the quality of the classroom and the quality of the school that don't account in any way for racial diversity, right? it's only test scores or number of kids who go to college, which are meaningful, but i think the other piece of it is to say you are not getting a full education. you are not being indicated as a human being or as an american citizen if you are learning in a single race classroom. >> at the same time you have at the supreme court level a complete retrenchment on issues of integration to the point where you have this decision in michigan saying states like individuals can just opt to decide they want no more affirmative action. imagine that kind of being put up for the vote during the time of brown v. board. >> people did vote. they just voted with their feet. they opted out of those schools. part of what we have to do in the faes of a decision like that is it's even more important, therefore, to determine that quality and slaul is associated with the diverse education because what happens is so many colleges in particular competing

with one another for best students, that if we think of that as valuable and the best students opt into schools that have that, then schools and states will make choices that make them competitive and that competitiveness ought to be also attached to diversity. if all we have at the marketplace, then we have to attach a value to that racial diversity in order to get the marketplace to provide it for us. >> i mean, there is this stereotype that this younger generation is sort of beyond race. right? >> ewe teaching college students, and they're coming to you. do you see a generation of people coming to college where you're teaching the students and experiencing who understand the gravity sort of of where we are in terms of segregation and desegregation who understand kind of the moment we're in in temz of the supreme court? do they really get that, or do they themselves think this is an argument about the past? >> i mean, i don't want to make big generational assumptions, and, you know, particularly the

millenials are dealing with all kinds of things, particularly around an economy that felt to them and feels to them very reasonably sort of insecure, and so a lot of what they're thinking about in their future whether they are white millenials or millenials of color are about their economic futures. that said, i think part of what i'm saying is college classrooms are one of the times where if students haven't had this opportunity in the k through 12 experience where they ought to be having experiences that provide some more diversity and what we know as even when cloejz as a matter of population are diverse, often the classrooms and the social interactions are not. it's really incumbent upon the institutions, again, to create a value for that and to push towards making spaces where that's possible. >> this often tends to wind up like a black-white conversation. we know if latino students who are the most segregated in temz of their experience in primary and post secondary -- and secondary. >> we also know if you go to pure merit measures, that actually white students will often lose out to asian students

and to immigrant students in general because we know there's this kind of return to quality with immigrant students, especially second generation because their parents come and instill a whole variety of values. again, we have to think about merit in the broader sense and that a diverse classroom is part of what is meritorious. it keeps us from being fully american and keeps us from being able to engablg in the world. >> i guess i can't risk asking you this question. can you imagine a unanimous court decision in 1954 saying separate but unequal is off the table, unconstitutional. we do seem to be sort of past the point where you can have that union nimty in the court in the service of diversity. can you imagine something like that on that board? now putting ow the spot with this -- >> but this is -- so this is the great story of the naacp, which we don't have time, clearly, but the naacp and the naacp ldf work together where you have a coordinated social movement that

begins to shift the ground underneath and to coordinate the legal strategy that begins to push from the top and so the answer is yes. i can imagine it. in order to imagine it, i have to imagine a world of social movement underneath and community people that are also engaged with that kind of legal strategy. we can't just wait for the court to do justice. >> yeah. i think that is it. they're not in isolation. they are part of society. >> melissa harris perry, who better to talk on this topic. what is coming up this weekend? >>. >> we're going to do a little beyonce and "new york times" and brown versus board of education. >> you had me at beyonce. >> host of the economist. hellsa harris-perry weekends from 10:00 to 12:00 on msnbc. you don't miss it anyway. coming up next, breaking developments out of washington where veterans affair secretary says he has accepted the resignation of the department's top health official dr. roberts brettsel and searched as

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today is the day that according to organizers some ten million americans will march on washington as part of operation american spring, beginning of tyranny house cleaning. a movement designed to overthrow the current government and replace it with one more to the liking of the far right. here's a look at the national mall. tens of millions of people have shown up to occupy the capital, and earlier today cameras caught about 300 people, organizing near the air and space museum. the protesters want to force the leadership of congress, both republican and democratic, along with president obama, vice president joe biden, and attorney general eric holder to resign. the patriots for america, the organizers of today's mass rally, have billed it as a peaceful, nonviolent, physically

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and who is called for the same revolution before. in december and january and again in february to no avail. >> he would lead a military coo against the u.s. government if necessary. it's also being live streamed today on before it's news.com. riley's group is associated with the militia movement, and it's not surprising they've planned a protest in bunkerville, mav nav, home to cliven bundy and his welfare militia. bubdy, of course, was way ahead of the curve on the whole not recognizing the legitimatety of the federal government thing. here he is in his latest comments to the media. >> we're want going to put up with a patsey government anymore. we're want going to do that no more. we're not fwog have them put down our coats.

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