[applause] and those stories are championed by reporters and outlets that many of them have now folded. if we can figure out a way to pay local reporters, and as a country, we're only left with that many more blind spots charlotte to where the bulls happening. [applause] you hear about all these newsrooms getting cuts, that's in every article being sent to me the last few months. the newsroom is getting cut, you're cutting people, you're cutting budgets, but you never hear about the multi million dollar executives would using their salaries. how do we fix this? i don't know. i am a comedian. it's not my job to have the solution, y'all. but local reporting is very important. my mother is here tonight. [applause]

and she is furious right now because that i'm on camera, but my mother was amongst a group of black student protesters fighting for equality in the 60s at delta state university. and that was a dangerous time. but those types of incidents that were covered by local reporters and some of the shame that came from the national embarrassment of treating people inhumanely this part of the pressure that helped to create that type of change. but what would become of my mother knows that they weren't telling their story. [applause] and now, it's no different. but thankfully, my mother story was told. she got it completed degree of delta state, continued on the florida, and then got another degree. and then for the last 45 years, has worked at an historically black college as an educator and administrator. [applause]

and those are many black colleges, you've got a -- you wanted a black college. to my mom, i say thank you for everything you've done for me. and for everything, the countless students in birmingham who had the opportunity to see a college degree, and to see an opportunity to grow, you know? [applause] my mother's journey may not have even begun if not for brave journalists, who shows the quantico's in history in realtime. and i don't know how to ever repay my mom for which is done to me and which is done for so many people in alabama. i just know mama, if a white billionaire calls you an offer to buy you a house, please, sell it.

because that might become an nft. thank you so much for the correspondents association. thank you so much. thank y'all so much. goodnight. [applause] >> and with that, we are continuing our coverage of the white house correspondents dinner. you just heard there both president joe biden and roy wood jr. concluding their remarks for the evening, wide ranging speech by both were roy and president biden. and as expected, comments laced with humor, digs at members of the media, but overall, very important messages about the role the media plays in our democracy, as you heard there, towards the end of his comments. roy wood jr. really emphasizing the importance of making journalism accessible, and reminding all of us the

importance of local journalism in this country. we've got a lot to unpack here. let's bring back our panel for their final thoughts on this evening. with me, josh johnson, danielle moodie, david late, and dana white ella. david, i come to you first. give me your big takeaways, these two big speeches, contrast, styles both funny but substantive in their message. >> well, i thought the jokes were well within, i thought both the president and roy wood jr. did a good job. to me, though, the biggest thing that stuck out was that in a strange way that was kind of biden's reelection kickoff speech. and in particular, he went straight at the subject of his own age in a way that i don't think i've heard him talk about before. also, roy wood jr. kind of created an interesting structure when he said the president wakes up from a nap, he gets stuff done. a less funny version of that is pretty much gonna be the biden reelection slogan, right? he is older, but he gets things

done. so, i actually thought that both biden's, his ability to joke about his own age, to laugh at jokes about his own age, and i think the way that he framed it, even though it was a funny context, i think the white house was very strategic about that. i think they are dead serious about reminding journalists, hey, this guy, you know, he knows how to approach this, and he can go at these issues head on. so, i think we may look back on tonight, not just for the jokes, but also in a strange way, as the opening salvo of the biden 2024 campaign. >> a very interesting take their, i completely see why you think that, because it does make sense when you think about that way the messaging was framed. danielle, i thought one of the more powerful moments from the president was when he talked about truth and the importance of truth. i think he said it forcefully. i think he said it clearly. truth matters. you know, he is talking about the lies for profit that are running through the veins of

this country, that are toxic and counterproductive to our democracy. but i thought it was one of the presidents finer moments. >> i mean, i thought that president biden did an amazing job tonight. i don't think i -- just said on twitter, i've never seen him stronger. i thought that everything he talked about, the way that he shouted out the black price, and all that the black press has done in this country, to shine a light on the atrocities that the black community has experienced, and domestic terrorism. so, i think that he absolutely thread a needle to signal to the public that truth matters, democracy matters. he's fighting for it, standing for it, and he is not afraid to call people out who are doing the opposite. >> josh, roy would definitely had some funny lines. i think, for me, the big line was definitely on harlan crow and clarence thomas. you know, it wasn't a surprise.

we expected him to go after tucker. we expected him to go after don lemon. he went after trump. but i thought the way he brought in harlan crow as a billionaire owning a supreme court justice was genius, was comedic genius. >> yes, i agree. i think the nft think was also amazing because i still don't know what nft really is or does, and him explaining it in the way harlan crow -- yeah, easily. so, i thought it was really, really well done. it was beautifully done. and i was even impressed with the president. i'm not gonna lie to you, when he started also serious, i was like, how do you come back from this much of like a stone face, like important message and everything, and then he just started. i thought that was really well done, and then he got serious again. so, he really weaved in and out in a way that was impressive.

>> dean, your take? still working on that boat tie -- >> it's my new trademark, my new thing now. >> what did you think of the speeches? >> i was disappointed with neither president biden nor roy wood jr. made fun of you. i was really hoping they would mock you. and if i ever become president or a comedian, i can assure you they will be jokes about ayman. i'll tell you, like danielle said, president biden was good last year, but a little bit tentative. he sure was like a comedian. like, he was commenting between the jokes, and his reaction, which is they would owe a little bit, and they would like come on, he made a joke about ron desantis. he was from like a comedian. it's like a one-man show, honestly, with joe biden. he went from serious to finding, even costing change with the sunglasses, it became dark

branded at the end. i think roy wood jr. stuff on clarence thomas is something i never heard of. i'm a big fan of white house correspondents dinner going after the supreme court justices like that. it's great. really fun stuff. this stuff on clarence thomas i think, the things you're gonna see in the media tomorrow morning, on the phone clips are gonna be that. that was really remarkable stuff. >> david, are you surprised, i mean, listen, donald trump presumptive front runner for the republican party. i'm surprised he did not feature as much as i anticipated he would. there's a lot going on. i mean, certainly roy wood jr. went after him with trying to explain, you know, all the cases against him and, you know, all the scandals, and to use scandal as the device to explain, you know, his point on the state of our politics. but i was surprised that president biden did not go after donald trump as much. one reference, i think, to hush money payments. >> he has, he really didn't. and i will say, i mean, i'm

from new york city, originally. people have been dunking on donald trump since well before i was born. like, he was just kind of in the water in new york when i was growing up. this guy is a joke. and i think we may have run out of material. i think that might just be the sort of simple act of the matter. like, if i had been working on the speech, i probably would have agreed with what president biden's joke writers did which is say, how much more can we do on this, guys. we've done it all. but i think it's an interesting broader point, because if joe biden can say, let's move past trump, this is -- we are done with this. and i'm gonna rise above it, that is and a political message, but it's one he's going to carry with him through what is likely to be a rematch against donald trump. so, again, this is in the context of jokes, but they're weak and all of that is some really serious stuff about where we could be headed politically over the next 18 months. >> josh, joe biden got a career in comedy, if his presidency career doesn't work out after

this run? >> you know, he did great tonight. you know, i think he's very it was very good tonight. i don't want anyone coming for my job. i need this, few people doing comedy as possible, let him just keep him president, hopefully. and i agree with the statement that was made before. i think that airing on the side of not just making it all about trump was a good idea. you can give them shade, but don't give them shine. it's not like he's there. imagine if roy and biden only talked about nikki haley the whole time, you'd be like, is nikki haley some sort of front-runner, you know? >> i gotta ask you, dean, i mean, there was an important moment there, and that was when the president acknowledged the journalists that were detained overseas, brittney griner received a very rightfully very warm round of applause. evan and his family were

mentioned. and the president announced the importance of going after countries that detention lists. and i think something that you and i have certainly been following very closely, there was no mention of holding the soldiers who killed the american journalist in israel. and i think that was the last moment for the president and the white house correspondent association to reinforce that. >> look, that's a great point, ayman. and at this point, being palestinian heritage, i'm almost not surprised by the fact that the humanity of the palestinians isn't talked about on the same plane as other journalist. and would have been great if president biden did that. i will say, to biden's credit, though, when he brought up griner, it wasn't like a typical politician talking about her. you can tell this human bond he had with her. and i thought it was moving, to be honest. i thought it was a very unique thing. i love you, brittani, he literally said that. and he talked about her wife,

and that he spoken to her so many times. i thought that to be a beautiful moment and there. but, yes, ayman, i would have loved him to talk about the american journalist in palestine. >> danielle, final thoughts to you. there's another substance and both of these speeches, whether it's about the corruption's on the supreme court, whether it's about rewriting and erasing black history. whether it's about the right of freedom in this country and what is under attack. the substance of tonight was not lost. >> no, it wasn't, and i thought that if america got from stage today about what's at stake, our freedom is at stake. our ability to vote. our ability to educate our children. our ability to be alive. i mean, the joke that roy wood jr. made about i don't know why you are concerned about drag queens when kids are being killed in their classrooms. and people, you know, they had a moment about that, but he was, like pass legislation. so, i think it's really important for americans to

recognize what is at stake here. and i'm glad that we did not spend an entire hour on donald trump because he is not consequential anymore. it is monica that we are fighting, and it is fascism that we are filing, not a man. so, i think it's really important that both roy wood junior and the president were able to weave into their jokes the seriousness of this critical moment that we are in. >> danielle, i think you captured and summarized tonight perfectly for all of us. danielle moodie, josh johnson, david litt, and of course our good friend dean obeidallah, we did not get a call from fox for audition tape, 18. but we'll keep the lines open. thank you all for joining us throughout the night. thank you so much for sticking around for the last two hours. and certainly, thank you for making time for us and tuning in to our special coverage of the white house correspondents dinner. i am ayman mohyeldin. have a good night. we're not going to join our regularly scheduled programming that is already in progress. thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> but as you just mentioned,

the officer in the breonna taylor case is hired by another jurisdiction, and that is the hole here, that is what their legislation could do something. so, in some cases, people just don't know. they'll go shopping for a new job, and it does not inform them of what happened in the old job. so, they would have have a national -- that's not even happened here. they knew. they just said, well, we don't care. there's not enough that happened in the wake of that, regardless of what he did, there were no charges filed. but if there are no charges filed because the way the laws are written right now, so you protect officers. so it opens to the weakness of our criminal justice system when it comes to holding police accountable for their actions. >> and that's why we need national legislation. we did get an executive order, but we need national legislation. next, i want to hear your take on the naacp suing the state of

mississippi, after its governor signed a pair of bills yesterday expanding the states control over the predominantly black city capitals, the capital city of mississippi, jackson. the states plan creates a temporary court system within the city, but outside of the city's control was, staffed with appointed justices and prosecutors who will preside over jackson's capitol police unit, which is not subject to the police reforms instituted by jackson mayor lumumba. the laws say that jackson citizens are being stripped of their constitutional rights because they are predominantly black. do you agree with that assessment, charles, and how do you view this whole situation? >> what we've seen recently is a number of states stepping on the toes of black cities taking over power over those black cities. you also saw in houston where the state took over part --

took over the educational system in houston, which is another city with a majority black or brown population. so, we're seeing that happening in jackson. we used to see white flight for white people getting out from under the control of black governments, and cities will become majority black. but with the mississippi legislature, we've been saying, we don't need white flight. we have white seizure. we're gonna be able to seize this portion of the city where white people live. they don't have to move. which is gonna take them out of the control of the black government of the city of jackson. that is a new frontier in the segregation of the country, and also in white supremacy, and how it could operate on a state level to impact municipalities. >> wow! from white flight, we are now in white seizure. it sounds like a charles blow column, oh, because i'm talking to charles blow. finally, charles, this week, we learned about the death of caroline bryant dunham, former

mississippi woman who was, whose allegation that 14-year-old emmett till harassed her, led to the black teens torture and murder in august of 1955. her husband and brother in law, admitting to emmett till's murder, after being acquitted by an all white jury. caroline herself was never held accountable, but as i said at the top of the show, the horror that resulted from her actions, and the fact that emmett till's mother opened that cascade and showed how he was brutalized, it galvanized black america. and with it, the civil rights movement at that time, that ultimately changed america for the better. your thoughts on the legacy of that emmett till murder? >> as i have written, we just shed no tears, not only did she say that in the beginning that the boy had, you know, that emma tale had harassed her by, you know, being sassy with her.

when she testified a trial, they were gonna let her do it in a special circumstance by the way, unlike anybody else, when a trial, she said no, that he actually grabbed her hands too hard for her to pull, and then he actually grabbed her around the waist. so, she elevated the charge from kind of verbal harassment to physical assault. you have to remember what the emmett till fight was really about. it wasn't a case that centered on the question of whether or not these men were guilty, it was a case of whether or not emmett till deserves it. and so, when they escalated this idea that he had actually been aggressive to her and physically assaulted her, it was easier for a prejudiced all white jury to then say, even if they did it, they don't deserve to be punished for, because he would already done something horrible to this woman. and, this is not a case where you could say, well, we don't speak ill of the dead. i don't think telling the truth about someone is actually speaking ill of them.

and in this case, caroline brian durham spoke a lot of the dead, she spoke well of that young that man. even when she believed this, or she -- intensifying the attack on her husband, the husband later admitted to torturing and killing this boy and she stayed with him. so, there is no sympathy here for me, for her at all. >> charles blow, thank you as always for being with us. coming up -- there is a battle brewing on capitol hill by political panel breaks down how the debt ceiling is shaping up to be the first showdown of the 2024 election cycle. plus, and just a few hours, politicians and press will be mingling at the white house correspondents dinner. i'll tell you why it is a d.c.

tradition worth holding on to. but first, my colleague jessica layton with today's top news stories. jessica? >> hi, reverend al, thank you, some big stories we are watching at this hour. police in texas are searching for that man they say, they believe shot and killed five people including an eight-year-old. it happened after neighbors asked him to stop firing grounds in his yard late last night in cleveland, texas. that's just north of houston. investigators say 38-year-old francisco used an ar-style rifle in that attack, and he may have fled the county. and in ukraine, at least 23 people are dead after a wave of russian missile strikes on friday. ukrainian officials say their air defense shot down 11 russian cruise missiles. in kyiv airspace. and what authorities said was the first missile attack on the capitol and more than 50 days. ukrainian president zelenskyy called for an escalation of global sanctions against moscow, following those attacks. more politicsnation with reverend al sharpton, coming up

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trading this suit and tie for a tux to attend the annual white house correspondents dinner here in washington. for the second straight year, they dinner will be held in person with the president in attendance. and a black comedian from the daily show as the mc. it's a return to normalcy for an event that just a few years ago was on life support. in 2021 and 2020, they dinner was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. and the three years before that, they dinner was held without the guest, his honor, then president trump who used to break bad with the press calls, he called the enemy of the people. during those trump years, many wondered whether the correspondents dinner should be scrapped as a relic from a bygone era, when insiders ruled over washington.

but i'm glad the event has persisted. i've been going since 2003. in an era where americans are more politically divided than ever, we need more opportunities for members of both parties, and the press, to come together and see each other as colleagues rather than enemies. bad jokes, rubber chicken, once again, business as usual, that's a good thing. but we shouldn't get complacent. next year, voters will face a choice between reelecting the biden administration committed to continuing the hard work of national reconciliation, and republican candidates like donald trump, or ron desantis, will want to double down on the divisions and grievances of the past. for many years now, the white house correspondents dinner has served as a barometer for the health of our democracy as a whole. it survived its first near

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politicsnation. now, let's bring in my political panel. democratic strategist michael hardaway and republican strategist brendan buck. thank you both for joining me today. let's start tonight on capitol hill. on wednesday, house republicans narrowly passed a bill to raise the federal debt ceiling. speaker mccarthy managed to unite most of the caucus by loading up the bill with deep cuts to social spending that are unlikely to win much support in the democratically controlled senate. brandon, congressman mccarthy and his allies are portraying this bill as a win for the speaker.

but is the victory more than just symbolic? >>. . , -- this was a risky play by kevin mccarthy. as you know, he is not going anywhere. but he felt like he needed to put something up, that's something for the house with only republicans to try to jump-start negotiations with the president. i can tell you, having worked for speaker boehner and speaker ryan, that's a very difficult thing to do, to get 218 republicans to vote for, an increase in the debt limit, no matter what you actually. so, it's such a narrow majority. i was actually very impressed that he was able to pull this of. i think it shows that his numbers have confidence in him. they want him to go in and negotiate. now, do i think that his head is actually strong to negotiate? no, i think he has a lot of trouble still ahead. whatever deal he's able to cut with president biden is going to be pretty small. government is gonna have significant trouble getting that across the floor, but for now, his bottom self little

political capital to use later on. >> michael, went to parties clashed over the debt ceiling during the obama administration, pulling suggested americans tended to place blame on the republicans more than the president. but with the 2024 race looming, president biden faces a dilemma, even if voters don't like republican brinkmanship, the white house needs to avoid any shocks to the economy that could derail an election bid. how should the president approach this debt ceiling fight? >> you know, look, congress has done the 78 times since 1960. they raise the debt ceiling 49 times, the republican president 29, under a democratic president 29. a clean bill which is all this president has asked for, which is the money that america has always spent, largely under president trump, should be paid for. and i think his perspective

here in terms of fighting for a clean bill and the partnership with mr. schumer is the smart strategy. i think ultimately, this week was a win for mr. mccarthy, but it was a loss for america, because we have maybe a month or so left before we hit the debt ceiling, and there's no progress. but i think ultimately, the american public will see that the president is being responsible by saying, let's just have a clear debt limit raised, and then we could move on later, and have a conversation about the rest of your wish list. >> switching gears, former vice president mike pence testified thursday on -- for seven hours before a federal grand jury. that grand jury investigating january 6th and former president donald trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. that same day, how trump was seen at a new hampshire diner hugging and signing autographs for a woman who served jail time for participating in january six.

michael, at the same time as trump's bid for the gop presidential nomination is gaining ground, is also quite literally embracing insurrectionists. how big of a problem is that for the republican party? >> it's interesting. donald trump, you know, he has been indicted from a grand jury. he's had several other investigations. he committed obstruction of justice and a number of other things. however, his polling among republican primary voters has never been higher in recent history. it has wasn't vote seven points over the past few months, to about 62% in a recent emerson poll. and that, to me, says a lot about where his party is. and the real question is where will the party go when you nominate a person who cannot get to the general election? and that is donald trump. he continues to lead, and it will be interesting to see how this shakes out next year in the election. but it doesn't look good for the republican party. >> now, staying with the 2020,

2024 election, it looks like florida governor ron desantis is ready to jump into the race. he's launching an exploratory committee next month. and this week, he took a policy world tour with stops in japan, south korea, israel, and the uk. but when reporters on the trip had questions about his campaign, he didn't look so presidential. here is the clip. >> i'm not a candidate, so we'll see if and when that changes. >> brendan, republicans are grumbling behind the scenes about the florida governor's culture wars, and disney wednesday filed a lawsuit accusing him of targeting them politically. as the desantis campaign gone off the rails? >> well i guess it hasn't started yet. but certainly it's having a bad start. look, there's a lot of people who have invested a lot of hope

in ron desantis as the electable, more electable fighter than donald trump's, who could sweep in there and dethrone donald trump. and everything that he has done as a candidate so far at this point -- look, i think we are realizing that he might be quite the political mastermind that a lot of people wanted to name him, and terms of the ability to answer tough for policy questions, his ability to play the inside politics game, you know, getting endorsements, and just his ability to connect with people, he has been struggling. he is not dead yet, though. as i said, he hasn't really started his campaign. but i think what he is realizing is that running for president, you are faced with a much higher level of scrutiny than the governor of florida. and he's gonna get his act together pretty quick because his phone numbers are dropping pretty fast. >> all right, michael hardaway and brendan buck, thank you both for being with us.

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departure, his base would be filled by another preacher, and that preacher will be al sharpton. [applause] i am blessed and honored to have marched with him, stood on platforms with him, and listened to the richness of his counsel. >> welcome back. this week, i lost a longtime mentor and friend, harry belafonte. harry was a culture defining musical genius, and an incredible actor, even more importantly, harry used his platform to advance the civil rights movement and mobilize those on the sidelines to fight for change. i cherish the time he would give me and others to both guide and correct us. i am heartbroken by his death. i'm inspired by the long food

for life he lived and all he gave to humanity. joining me now to discuss the legacy of harry belafonte's his longtime advisor and pr consultant ken sunshine. ken sunshine, thank you for being with us. you was with us in harlem this morning at the rally. you knew harry belafonte very well, probably as well as anyone. and you knew him as a man uniquely placed in the worlds of entertainment and politics. the world has mourn the loss of him this past week. but also, celebrated his legacy. what impact did hair we hope to leave on the world? >> he was an activist who became an entertainer. and he achieved enormous success as entertainer. first gold record ever given was to harry belafonte and the late 50s.

and he did very well, but his priority in life was to change the world. and he was a real activist. he used his platform to further the civil rights movement, human rights movements around the world. his legacy is, you can use art to change the world, and the greatest comment i would make about him is he what's true to who he was. there was not a phony. there is a lot of -- i've been in the entertainment business a long time. and some people are as phony as they come, and not harry. if there is one thing i would say for the younger entertainers, the younger people in the movement, you can be true to yourself, you don't need to squeeze every dollar. you don't have to play it safe. you could risk, you could risk

your career for the legacy are going to leave. >> harry wrote in his 2011 more, quote, i was not an artist who became an activist. i wasn't activists who we can and artists. he was a long time advocate for civil trade, much of with martin luther king jr. day, but before the release of nelson mandela, just to name a few of his efforts. as a guest on the show in 2017, harry talked about the fight for civil rights and criminal justice right here on the show. listen to this. >> and when did fortune did a smile on me, i felt with all of the good fortune, ahead of this power, all this opportunity to use the platform that was given to me. it made it turn out to be another waste of time.

>> you know, harry was also very careful. you tell me that he was not trying to outdo the leadership. he was trying to support them for a movement, where a lot of voters today tried to speak as if they are social justice leaders rather than artists helping. and not being activist became artists, as harry was. what drove mr. belafonte's passion for justice and civil liberty? >> harry came from real poverty, born in harlem and grew up in jamaica and harlem. he did not graduate high school, what into the navy, served in the navy and did not really have a clear path, by chance, got a couple of tickets to the theater in harlem, where he met -- and started at the very bottom. look what happened to dr.. yet, again, his priority was to

change the world, he grew up in abject segregation. he told the story years later that he was headlining in vegas, headlining. he had to walk to the kitchen to get into the casino and could not stay in the death photo. it was frank sinatra who broke that barrier for harry and sammy davis, who are both headlining at that time. can you imagine living in a society that already data and perry did not have bitterness. he was a true activists, and he was not going to be bribed by money, fame or celebrity. he loved talking to young artists, however frustrating that could be. i know you, reverend, spent much time talking with him artists, athletes, they try to make them the harry belafonte day of the future. he spent a lot of time in the

pop world and loved the art form. he then tried to inspire the leaders and the world, both the business and creative side, to follow in his footsteps. >> this morning, spike lee, who is there and close to harry and his father played harry, talked about how they can learn from his example, as harry boys talk about his -- he will talk about that almost ceos talked with him. he was also a ground breaker, the first black person to win an emmy and the first soul singer of any race to have an album so over 1 million copies in eight year. he often pushed back on some of the acting roles she was offered, saying they were racially stereotyped, then eventually launching his own production company, going on to produce many films. talk about harry's role as a child pleasure for black

creators. >> harry was a music superstar, the first gold record, as i said, was the leading entertainer on the road, some of records. then he started making movies, and many at the roles that he was offered were demeaning to him. remember, we're talking about post racially stereotypical roles were the only royal stop blacks could get in hollywood. harry would not settle. he did some magnificent movies. like, he refused to do films that he felt were not of the standard that he wanted to do. he knew that he was a pioneer, and it was about time that america embraced a black crossover actor and role model, but again, he did not complain that hollywood has not fair to

him. in fact, the speech he made, he got a special offer, not that many years ago -- his speech, if you want to see a great speech, and he talked about how i would. he did not pull any punches about the history of blacks in hollywood but he was determined to use his platform, to use the gift that he had, the ability to communicate the billions of -- billions of people. in fairness politicians, politicians have a hard time communicating because most of the individuals turned them off target reason, in many cases. entertainers, especially the ones that carry, had a gifted platform. i would hope that -- >> that's why his legacy and memory will be there for a long time. i really appreciate you coming on. you spent decades putting people in front of the camera. a. takes a lot to get you in front of the camera, but you did it tonight.

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we did with her wife, her and i at the convention. earlier this week, britney griner spoke in her press conference since being detained in russia for ten months. the phoenix mercury star says she will never play overseas again and east her time to call attention to the facts of why she was there in the first place, a pay discrepancy between male and female athletes. she also appealed for us to pray and stand for those that are still being held and russia unfairly, including a wall street journalist. we must continue to raise issue of releasing people from russia. we must be about causes than our own careers. that will make harry belafonte live. i'm glad to see brittney griner in that tradition. that does it for me, thank you

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