someone like commissioner cadell taking and listening and understanding the seriousness of it. we have a new conversation that will begin. i think it's fantastic. >> thank you. >> ruth, robert, mike, thank you to all three of you for joining us, we appreciate it. have a great holiday weekend. >>> the first openly gay player drafted in the n.f.l. has been cut from his team. mike freeman has been working on the story. the st louis rams released michael sam today. he will become a free agent and can sign with any team. i think it will happen, i think someone will pick him up. the player of the year took to twitter to voice optimism. and this is what he tweeted: >>> the n.a.t.o. summit is set to start next week in whales. can it impact a crisis in ukraine. that story after the break. >>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here is a look at the top stories e.u. held a summit in brussels. they have given russia a week to scale back or face tougher sanctions. leader are asked for military support. ukraine and russia are nearing the point of no return. the king of saudi arabia warns t

commissioner reasonablying e-cadell said: -- roger cadell: a new policy was announced: . >> the policy plies to any n.f.l. employee, not just players. it will not be retroactive. ray rice will serve 2-game suspension and nothing more. >> the n.f.l. personal conduct policy often doesn't require a criminal conviction to be in force, and is not subject to bargaining with the players union. the n.f.l. players union said in a statement: i spoke to robert bowlen, the chair of sports and management at the newark university, and mike freeman, an international writer, and from denver colorado, bruce, the director of the national collision against domestic violence and asked if they were surprised. >> i have to say i was stunned. i have covered the league, the n.f.l. has never taken domestic violence serious at all. what happened with ray rice is an indicator, they have not seen it as a huge issue to be a part of. when they did this. i can tell you myself and everyone around the league was stunned. no one expected this. first of all, rocker cadell admitted that he was wrong, which is unbelievabl

to pat cadell on what could decide all of this. what do you think, patrick? >> first of all, you look at situation. the cake's not baked yet. it's kind of going republican, you see it going that way. the president's ratings are down. it's the sixth year, he's getting awful numbers. the issues are not working so well for democrats, but the democrats have more money than the republicans by a large amount which is incredible, and they are doing -- they are trying to real their base and run on small issues, abortion and what have you. the real question that i have is what the gallup polls pointed out. when at a moment we have people believing -- let me mix this up, a country that is in decline, that is not -- where children don't have a future as good as we had, when they also see that they rate congress at its lowest numbers ever, and the highest number of people saying my congress person doesn't deserve re-election my question is what if all of the assumptions, democrats just dump $3 million in colorado attacking the republican on abortion, trying to do the tin

. >>> smith met with cadell to explain his run ins with the law. he had three felony charges last month. he was arrested for a false bomb threat incident and a dui. he will be serving 12 days in county jail and he faces a league suspension. >>> williams defeated her sister. the last time 34-year-old beat her 32-year-old sister was 5 years ago. she still lead it is all time series, venus is ranked 26th in the world. >>> things are heating up in baseball . enjoy us our extended highlights. our one-on-one interview with oakland's top white out todd. it's a full hour of your sports need right after the news. ...we need to break up. is it the biting? cuz i can stop? no! i love you and your show. it's cable. customers are more satisfied with u-verse. switch and we can stay together forever. forever? ow. i'm not gonna lie to you. it's also the biting. break up with cable. choose u-verse tv from $19 a month for 2 years. >> we're back with developing news after a double stabbing in san jose that makes the city's 24th homicide of the year. mike pelton is rep