set up at the state level. but some critics see these bureaucratic barriers as confirmation that these incentive programs are falling flat. still, many argue, that every vaccine helps. >> i definitely think it will be well worth the effort getting as many people vaccinated. and if you can incentivize people to do that with a free joint, that a few people come out, when i think we did our part. >> that was nbc news is simone reporting. it's the top of the hour and i'm zerlina. right now president biden taking big steps on the world stage he met earlier with the french president, but is it enough to show america's biggest allies that democracies here to stay. we'll dig into that in just a few moments. plus -- ♪ ♪ ♪ king joan moon is calling k-pop a vicious cancer.

we'll dive into all of that happening, that's happening in the world of popular culture and social media with the comedian and a panel of experts. also, inhumane coaching, unrealistic pressures, some gymnast are blowing up everything we know about the world of gymnastics chelsea memmel, the seventh most decorated female gymnast in the entire history of the united states joins me just ahead. welcome to the week. president biden's european vacation continues today in the uk. ♪ ♪ ♪

chill vibes. today was day two of the g7. the focus was on global infrastructure. combatting china's growing influence and pandemic recovery and prevention, president biden continued his one-on-one meetings with nato world leaders. during his sit down with emmanuel macron, the message was clear. america is back. >> the united states have said before we're back, the u.s. is back. we feel very strongly about the cohesion of nato and i for one think that the european union is an incredibly strong and vibrant entity. >> we have to deal with this pandemic and the covid-19. we have to face a lot of changes a lot of crisis, climate change. for all these issues what we need is cooperation i think it is great to have the u.s.

president part of the club and very willing to cooperate. i think that would you demonstrate is that leadership is partnership. >> leadership is partnership. that sounds a whole lot different from what we saw from international trips under the last administration. let's take a look at some of the highlights. at the 2018 g7 in canada, we were blessed with this incredible picture. trump sitting arms crossed surrounded by g7 leaders glaring down at him. and in 2017, who could forget this moment, donald trump appearing to push himself past the prime minister of montenegro during a tour of nato's new headquarters. and last but not least, at the nato gathering in 2019, canadian prime minister, justin trudeau, british prime minister boris johnson and macron were caught on a hot mic gossiping about trump. the moment was even spoofs on

saturday night live. >> did you see him speak for 45 minutes the other day? he was just supposed to be for a photo. >> i felt like he might try to distract the photographer to? >> he's not good-looking like us 30? >> is this retaken? >> sorry, actually it is. >> we wou to see you talking to at the same time, but we promise the seat to a friend. >> but i'm boris his friend, right boris? >> don't make this harder than it is. >> as much as the world leaders seem to be getting along this time around the white house confirmed today that biden will be holding a solo news conference following his summit in switzerland with vladimir putin, which takes place on wednesday. the goal is to draw a stark contrast to trump's chummy relationship with the russian president. it's time to discuss all of this with my panel. i'm excited for this panel. so excited for this panel all

we. joining me now is brittney cooper, and author she is a professor of women and gender studies i records university. liz is a columnist for msnbc and author of for the love of men from toxic to more mindful masculinity. and the host of the podcast back to school. he is has a new comedy tour and things are looking bright a new special on peacock called pandemic peacock. all right, malls i'm gonna start with you. we lived through four years of president trump and that was the president that literally pushed a prime minister of montenegro out of the way to get in front of a group voter. in your view, was this just a return to some sort of normalcy? >> this week, this year it's been so nice to wake up and not have 50 tweets about rosie o'donnell, or whatever he's

going after -- i look at the news and it says the world is falling apart and i go to thank god we can finally talk about it, and not deal with some made-up crap. i'm telling you, part of what is happening this week is not so much would president biden is doing, but what we are not seeing former president trump to, which is push that guy out of the way, who pushes the president of montenegro out of the way and then his look afterward, who does that? you know it was like, it was like for four years or mom started dating some jerk nincompoop who nobody liked and everybody was saying, we hate this guy and we wanted him away, we want him out of our lives, and finally, he's gone and she's dating an accountant, and we're so happy to see the accountant. i love joe biden, the accountant. i'm really happy and i mean,

god, it's so nice. it's nice to not have to be worried about -- i feel like finally were in good hands. i'll be honest with you, the only time i used to like trump was when he was out of the country, because i kind of felt like oh, you know, now we're safe. but i feel like we're in good hands with biden and he's getting us back into the paris accord, he's getting us back into nato. we're back, we are back and it is nice to see, sorry i'm renting, i'm so excited. what a great shot of the beach. sorry, he didn't shake across hand for 90 seconds. trump, remember he was doing this for 92nd -- >> that will never not, maz, that will never not be weird that handshake will go down in history as one of the weirdest things. liz, i feel similar to maz about waking up and not having

25 tweets overnight that create national incidents. when you create the g7 summit over the last four years to the one we're seeing this week, that memorable photo that i mentioned the image of donald trump, you know, arms crossed with all the serious leaders looking at him and wanting to yell at him -- the optics are obviously different. are the policy issues different? >> the reason why we know we're in good hands is because we're in foreign hands, all of us have actual time to think about our lives and our families and our loved ones instead of being on twitter. i totally relate, and even seeing some of those images i have a physical reaction to i, started sweating. but we're all safe, i mean we're not all of safe but we are safer. and there is something very soothing about seeing someone

who is not trying to destroy our relationships, he's trying to build relationships. and in many cases rebuild the relationships that were broken. some of the first thing that donald trump did when he was brought into office is really sever those bonds, the paris agreement, i mean, we mentioned so many of them, nato. even till the end of this pandemic, the w.h.o., the world health organization, trying to dismantle americas leadership and that destabilizes the entire ecosystem. i can tell you, as your resident canadian, the relationship between canada and the united states, you know, you spoke about some of these handshakes. the interactions between justin trudeau and donald trump were very crunchy, and extremely weird. and now, one of the first interactions that joe biden and prime minister justin trudeau had was joe biden talking about meeting justin trudeau's dad

when justin trudeau's dad was the prime minister of canada. there is a level of also experience there that donald trump, obviously, was showing up to the party having to move people out of the way to prove that he knows what he's doing which was actually hiding the inexperience that was deep inside. we >> it's a great point that liz brings up professor cooper, about how president biden is coming in having to rebuild relationships that were basically undone by the previous president. speak to the role president biden has in this moment, and how do you think his approach to trying to rebuild these relationships is going so far? obviously the optics are very different, but other countries, i think rightfully, are concerned that this might not be a long-lasting situation. they're worried about the continuity with trump looming for 2024. >> all the sweet smell of

politics. i do think and i'm really relieved to see this biden charm offensive. we have to do a lot of mea culpas. one of the things that we really have to come to understand in this country is that with more power comes more responsibility. the trump administration had an abdication of responsibility not only to american citizens but to commitments we made around the world, biden knows that and i appreciate that he has the stance of humility. i think there are two sorts of things that are also going on though, we know historically that isolation is protection of policy, the u.s. don't ultimately work well for us. i do think biden has to figure that out. he has been america first particularly about the pandemic, and he's gotten some knots globally from that, and so now he's starting to shimmy out of it, he's going to have to shift even more. but we're also in domestic

terminal here, the world is watching and they -- because they've always use them against us in the 20th century russia did this as well because the u.s. was so terrible and civil rights. we're still terrible on civil rights and so i think that part of the thing that joe biden has to find the balance between is that we know he's a master of american foreign policy, he is in his digs when he is doing this kind of work, but he has a level of domestic terminal that we haven't seen a president have in his lifetime, and winning the domestic battle around racism and civil rights, and the vote so that he can actually be reelected are going to be key to his ability to shore up this type of international image that he's trying to uphold. >> professor cooper one of the things that stood up for me that wasn't about the president was about the first lady, doctor jill biden, because she's on the strip as well and she wore a jacket with the word love on the back. i immediately taught about

melania's jacket that said, i really don't care when she went to the border to meet with children separated from their parents. in your view, what kind of message does this send that you have doctor biden have a jacket that says love in contrast to the former first lady? >> i mean look, can we just banish melania? alongside trump i think we used to think malonga -- we would say blink once if you were in danger? and then what we learned is that she lacked empathy in the same way he did. we were just at a place where we are impressed to have people who are decent and recognize that being concerned about the problems of the world is something that we're concerned about, that's not taking away from doctor biden, i really like her i think she built a career as an educator and that's what we want educators, and first ladies to be and do,

but ultimately, i think that we need to see melania and donald trump as other piece and they have lack of empathy. and i think we need to rid ourselves of the plight that they represented for the country. >> professor cooper, maz jobrani and liz plank. stick around, we're bringing you back and when we come back, social media brings out the best and the worst in us. we'll talk about why it may be time to reassess the relationship with sites like twitter. plus -- ♪ ♪ ♪ here's a big secret, that's one of my favorite new songs, well why does king john moon wants music like this band? but first richard louis here with the headlines, hey richard. >> hey zerlina, very good saturday some of the stories

we're watching for you this hour one suspect is in custody tonight after a mass shooting in austin, texas early saturday morning. that incident less 14 people wounded, no deaths reported, a second suspect remains at large. delta airline flight from los angeles to atlanta on friday was forced to divert its paths because a passenger who happen to be an off duty delta flight attendant as well, other passengers were caught on to help crew mentors subdued this man after he threatened to bring the plane down. the plane landed safely in oklahoma city. vice president kamala harris became the first sitting vice president to march in a pride event, she in the first husband made a surprise appearance at the capitol pride rally in washington d.c., saturday. harris told a crowd quote, we need to make sure that our transgender community and our youth are all protected. more of the week, right after the break. the break.

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go a week without hearing about so called cancel culture, this week it was queen elizabeth when a group of oxford university students voted to remove a photo of the reigning monarch from their common room. before that it was chrissy teigen who was criticized after it surfaced she bullied a reality star who was in an abusive relationship of several years ago. so who isn't going to be next week for, now some wise words to live by. each day on twitter there is one main character and the goal is to never be it. my panel is back to discuss professor cooper, i want to start with you, how bad is it on the social media sites like twitter right now, just in terms of how messy it all is? >> it's pretty terrible. i have battle scars and so i do get it, i get that it becomes easy to become the target of peoples frustration. but i think we need to ten towards the structural analysis which is that we have lived so

long where folks with power have been allowed to pick on people with less powerless accountability, and one of the things that has happened in social media has -- we are able to say that hurt or youshan of done that. i think that we do have to figure out what it means to have a policy of grace with people. but when i'm telling my style students was to do i say to them everything you say on the internet stays forever, and you will have to be accountable for it, so you have to think about this stuff. i do think that we have to find the balance, and i also see a stark difference between calling out white supremacy, sexism, homophobia big systems as opposed to somebody was a mean girl 15 years ago, they should be accountable for that inter personally, i am not so sure that what happens is riding on social media is akin to what we would call justices though. >> right, and liz, professor cooper makes a good point. these sites have democratized

the way in which we can communicate with one another, right? if you are traditionally marginalized person, twitter allows you to speak directly to the people in positions of power. but does it also encourage us to be meaner for more retweets? >> yeah. i have so many thoughts. when we blame somebody for being a mean girl in means i don't have to see how maybe i was a mean girls, right? the idea that chrissy teigen is being quote unquote canceled, whatever that means, for things that we all did at that time and things that we have done too many women and in this case girls who are victims of abuse, victims of harassment. just look at how we treated monica lewinsky. it wasn't just marine doubt in the column of the new york times, it wasn't just certain late night comments that made jokes, it was everybody. so i think so much of kenneth

eastwards talking about how and we only focus on the individual we tend to forget the collective responsibility and the collective accountability, so getting rid of chrissy teigen, whatever that means, does not get rid of whatever systems of oppression's are upholding the way that we treat young girls and that we blame young girls for men's abuses against them. >> and one of the things i think about too, maz, is the fact that we might be canceling the wrong things. for all intents and purposes i don't feel like chrissy teigen should be high up on the list of priorities for things that need to be canceled. but i would suggest maybe let's just not one idea, plantation weddings, cancel that, we don't need that. speak to the ways in which we focus on the dr. seuss us of the world and we ignore the blatantly massage an is tick racist things that probably

should be canceled. >> first of all i think my general rule of thumb is to punch up, that is why when i see somebody like liz was saying, everybody is piling on monica lewinsky, i say, i know that what it was is what it was but at the same time i'm thinking about her as somebody who was in the situation, but i'm not gonna jump on this. but i will jump on less say ted cruz, there is an argument to make that's punching down as well, but that's just because he's ted cruz. the point is, i tried to always, rule of thumb, punch up. with that said, if it's reveal that years ago somebody said something or did something and they're willing to apologize for it, let's be open to taking that apology and growing the same way for example michael vic did with the dog fighting and then went about apologizing about it. here we are now with the chrissy teigen issue. the other thing is this whole

term cancel culture is something that the right hijacked, i have a lot of people on the right who say cancel culture, cancel culture. dude, for the longest time as a standup comedian when i would say something that the right did not like they would let me hear it, so during the iraq war remember doing jokes about george bush and how the iraq war was a farce, and there were people in the clubs and you can't make fun of our commander in chief in a time of war. i thought the whole point of going to iraq was to uphold a democracy, and are you telling me that i can make fun of our president? so many times people would be upset of me making fun of donald trump, you can't make fun of him, i thought the whole point of this country was stable to make fun of him. he didn't go to the correspondent letter because he didn't want to be made fun of. so it was originated by the right, and janet jackson

dancing at the super bowl, nipple falls out, they write letters and she leaves the country. it's been going on, with all that said i think that yes, if there are things to cancel it is the bigger things, like you just said these plantation weddings, etc. and i tell all my standup comedian friends who pile into this world of cancel culture, i say hey, maybe you need to step back and look at the language that you're using and be willing to learn and move forward because the world is moving forward. we need to make progress with the world. there are certain words that i can't use now that ten or 20 years ago it was upset did, but we need to listen, unless you want to be outdated and just being a fossil, you better step up and listen to what is being said and make that change and be open to saying hey, i said that a long time ago, i'm sorry, and let's move on. >> i agree with that. i think that for a longer time

people are trying to say like that is just political correctness when your critiqued forcing something that used to be okay but now it is offensive. the rule is just don't be a jerk, very simple. i don't want to be a jerk so i don't say things that people tell me are harmful, it's very easy. professor britney cooper, maz jobrani and liz plank, you're sticking around because we're still gonna talk about k-pop very shortly. but coming of pride month is here and it is raining fellas, we'll talk about why the script is being flipped on the men in music videos when we come back. ♪ ♪ ♪

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>> that was global music sensation bts performing their english language single, better. they're celebrating their eighth anniversary and the cultural impact of the group and keep up in general cannot be overstated. this week, even north korean dictator kim john own weighed in. the new york times reported came called keep up quote, a vicious cancer that if left unchecked would make north korea quote, crumble like a damp wall. don't forget a year ago, k-pop stance took credit for messing with trump's first post pandemic campaign rally in tulsa. they along with some teens on tiktok claim they registered hundreds of thousands of tickets as a prank. our panel is back with us. britney cooper, liz. liz, i was thanks to you about this. because i am obsessed with k-pop. the fact that i'm doing this segment on msnbc is full circle. >> you're so excited.

>> k-pop is a cultural phenomenon. but it's also a real actor in politics. speak to how bts and k-pop fans broadly have injected themselves into important political moments like that trump rally we saw. and also against the slate of aapi eight crimes we've seen during this pandemic. >> when you are scaring dictators, it's a sign you're doing something probably right. and you're being very effective in the way that you're organizing. not only have a, yes, stirred up to the north korean dictator. in the way as you mention, standing up to trump and organizing really creative ways using tiktok, all kinds of different memes on the internet. they also had the all hashtag all lives matter. hashtag with k-pop. they've been very creative, very effective. like most things that are particularly loved by teenage girls, we really undervalue it.

it's worth mentioning there a lot of men who also enjoy k-pop. of course, but it is primarily teenage girls and women. so it glides under the radar and i find it so fascinating that to see these very powerful men be really rattled by the power of women. and the way that they can organize. and women have always done that, by the way, throughout history. we really can organize in powerful ways and change history. >> yes, that's so interesting, maz. because you have the north to korean dictator actually on the record saying that k-pop is a threat to the national security of north korea. like this is a real thing. speak to how pop culture and just culture, music, has this incredible ability to break through even the most closed

borders. and maybe he should be worried. >> well this is historically happened. the ussr, they were stopping rock and roll. iran has famously banned western haircuts. donald trump didn't like american comedy. i think pop -- dictators don't like pop culture. i think i'm kim jong-un is missing an opportunity here. because what he's going to do is alienate any young people who are watching this. they're gonna find to watch this. the world we're living in right now, you cannot block people in your country from getting access to whatever they want to get access to. i think he should join the k-pop movement. his name is right there it could be kim pop moon. and he should be doing kid cape -- hip-hop videos to deliver his message to the kids. do you know how popular he would become if he just started

embracing k-pop? as opposed to trying to ban. come on, kim? listen >> i'm waiting for him to hate the -- there are dances he could do that would speak to this audience right away, without any words. let's look at another video that came out this week. it's getting a lot of attention. this one is from -- it's called it's raining fellas. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> professor, women are usually the ones that are objectified in pop music and videos. but this video he flips that. speak to the power of these images as a subversive message of sorts about the way in which objectification is harmful. especially when women who are being objectified don't have control or any sense of bodily

autonomy. >> as early, now i'm going to go in a different direction and say we need more of this suburbs is music. right? we need this subversive imagery. it expands our possibilities for how we understand masculinity to be represented. is queer joy. on massive, unapologetic display. it's been a long time for us to say that and to be able to enjoy and revel in this. i think that this is real cool. it's a bump. you can move to it. that outfits are dope. the choreography is dope. part of the thing that i think we are recognizing both in a domestic and global weight is that pop culture is disruptive. it unsettles us. it also shows us the political potentialities of joy. right? i was going to say to maz, don't give kim jong-un the idea -- for [laughs]

keep up, every teen girl in my life loves keep up. so keep on doing what they are doing. the thing i think about it all honestly, i have a little bit of a baby heater inside because i'm like this is black r&b. long global. in a world where people are trying to listen to boy bands, black boy bone spans in the u.s. city. that's cool, i like me a k-pop band. but the boys are doing their thing. and i love it. it's also showing us that these borders are porous. and that whatever isolation this foolishness any of these countries might try to engage in geopolitically, culture always wins the battle. and that's why kim jong-un and other political leaders have always seen it as a turf for war. >> the influence of our and be and black music is undeniable. it's clear that many of these artists and the producers grew up listening to michael jackson

and janet jackson. also the nineties buoy groups. maz, last question. i'm one of those people that believe that pop culture can give us an entry point into discussions about serious topics, like racism, sexism, the xenophobia. do you think these kinds of pop culture moments have a real impact? can a music video change the way people think about an issue or even how they treat one another? >> absolutely. i was showing the it's reading fellas videos to my 12 year old son. and first of all, it's at the catches tonight. been walking around l.a. all day singing it's reading fellow. get your umbrellas. people are looking at me like, what's going on, it's sunny out. i don't know man. it's raining fellas. so i started a conversation with me and my 12-year-old son about the lgbtq and the song and the video. it's an amazing video. so absolutely! this is art at its best. let's bring these, push these

out there. let's talk about it. let's embrace it. and listen, if kim john ellen and the north korean dictatorship false because of k-pop, i'm coming to professor and we're gonna have a little party. we're going to do our own little tiktok video. [laughs] >> amazing,. professor britney cooper, easy maz jobrani and liz plank. thank you so much for taking the time tonight. that was a lot of fun. coming up, what if everything we knew about gymnastics is wrong. those are words from gymnast and mom of two, chelsea mammal. . but next ransomware attacks are hitting businesses, cities and even schools. can they be stopped? that's after this break.

>> nbc news first reported yesterday that the team stir labor union was hit by a ransomware attack in 2019, and told to pay a ransom. but despite advice from the fbi they refuse, this comes after we learned the world's largest beef supplier recently paid millions to ransomware hackers who breached its computer networks. here's nbc's tom costello. >> meatpacker jbs just the latest company to pay a ransom. $11 million in bitcoin, after cybercriminals knocked out plans to process 20% of

americas meat supply, to pay or not to pay is the dilemma all ransomware targets face. the small school district in california was attack last fall, teacher payroll, grades and lesson plans locked up for nearly two weeks as hackers demanded big money. >> there is no school district that is in a position, we don't operate with lush funds. >> which school system strapped for cash in little money for cybersecurity, students personal information can be vulnerable. ibm security x force calculus at 1700 schools and colleges were hit by ransomware attacks last year, even more this year. >> they don't have the expertise to respond to these types of incidents but they're getting targeted, again and again. >> the company recently awarded six school districts half 1 million dollars each to beef up their cybersecurity defenses. 7800 applied. meanwhile cities large and smaller also under daily attack. here in new orleans it took nine months last year for the

city to recover from a ransomware attack, for while it put police, fire in public works back on pen and paper. fortunately the mayor says critical financial data was protected in the cloud. did you consider paying the ransom? >> no, we did not consider paying the ransom because we were able to stop it in its tracks. we were able to beat back the compromise. >> but many cities, businesses, hospitals and school districts have paid. superintendent can't say what his school distributed to regain control of their computers and lesson plans. >> you're talking about 5 to 12 year old and shutting down their learning. >> but tonight cyber pearls are urging the country to double down on security, change all of your passwords regularly, use multi step off and defecation. back up your computers off line or to the cloud. never skip a security update, hire a cybersecurity staff if you can. and remind employees and family members, never click on suspect

emails or links. >> that was nbc's tom costello's reporting. up next i am no stranger to the world of gymnastics or it's stigma against older athletes, now the seventh most decorated gymnast in american history is doing everything she can to fix it. chelsea memmel joins me next. joins me next

>> life. it can sometimes feel like a balance beam. and i know a thing or two about that and not just the mental gymnastics sometimes seen on cable news, that is me i was a competitive gymnast as a kid. this week that arena saw a comeback story nearly a decade in the making. this is chelsea memmel she is the seventh most decorated female gymnast in the entire history of our country. memmel was a 2005 world all around champion, and a member of the 2008 olympic silver metal will 19. she retired from the sport at the age of 24, but now the 32-year-old mother of two is back and last week and she competed that the u.s. gymnastics championship for the first time in ten years. although memmel fell to qualify for the olympic team, her return has inspired many and

forced the sport to confront its stigma towards older athletes and chelsea memmel joins me now. thank you so much for taking the time out. >> thank you for having me. >> i am so excited for this. i was so happy to see you at nationals. i've gone deep into your youtube page, it's so inspiring. what's brought you back to the sport? how did it feel to can feet at that level for the first time in a decade? >> it was insane, honestly, to compete again. the nerves were incredible. it was just so different this time around. what brought me back is just wanting to be in shape and i started doing that and i said i would just start flipping, and do more and more gymnastics and enjoy myself falling in love with it all over again and that led to being out on the competition floor.

>> it's so cool to watch that development on your youtube page. you're like maybe i should try this, maybe i should try that. i love this because i did gymnastics at a time, back in the 90s, when the conventional wisdom was that you peek at 16 and that you can be like two big, or too tall, and that is something that is really changing currently. you, i think, are leading the way on that. speak to this idea that there is no limit. gymnastics right now you need to be strong, you need to have that explosive strength, and so age, that's not really relevant anymore like it was before. >> it shouldn't be, and i've discovered a whole new world and community of adult gymnastics and they are just nothing but supportive of gymnastics as a whole and everybody who wants to try the sport. if you did it in your youth or if you didn't. it's amazing.

i don't know why there's been the stigma around gymnastics that you have to be tiny and little and young to do it. but it's so much fun, especially when you're in a sport like this, it sticks with you for life, i think. i want more gyms and more people across the country to just accept it and allow adults to do gymnastics and just have fun with it. >> i am so inspired by this, after watching your youtube channel i bought crips. i haven't done gymnastics in over 20 years, but i bought grips because i'm like, you know what's, i'm gonna see what happens. i'm gonna try to do a giant again. i dream about it, i really do. so research has shown that whether gymnast can or will stay in the sports has everything to do with how they are treated when they are training. and that's another thing i've noticed, your training is very laid back, your dad is your

coach and there's not this very strict, drill sergeant feeling to your practices. speak to this idea of that, the old model of training at this elite level is changing and people are learning to have fun with gymnastics again. >> i do, i really do think it needs to change. it does need to be more about fun and just open communication. developing these younger athletes, helping them develop as athletes and people, and not just like you will be this gymnast and follow anything that i say, but to help develop meant -- help developed him as great human beings, it's going to make their gymnastics better. it's going to make them enjoy their journeys. that is something, some people forget -- the people who walked into your gyms is because they want to try gymnastics and they will stay because they fall in love with it. you can be the reason, that

coach can be the reason or not that they stick with it or hate the sport or whatever. it's just trying to remember that it's their journey and you're just trying to help them along the way and just encourage them and nurture that relationship with the sport. >> absolutely, my mom always says enjoy the journey and that is so true. chellsie memmel, thank you so much for being here, congratulations on everything and good luck. that is all for me tonight, thanks for making time for us. the week will be back tomorrow at nine eastern. you can catch my show monday to friday at 6 pm eastern on peacock streaming channel the choice. hope to see you then, goodnight. odnight. if you're 55 and up, t-mobile has plans built just for you. switch now and get 2 unlimited lines and 2 free smartphones. and now get netflix on us. it's all included with 2 lines for only $70 bucks! only at t-mobile. >> as we hit a new hour, new

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