i have to go to the football before we bring in david riley. the key line i read over the weekend was -- a cynical project, is european football nothing more than an asset bubble of these asset inflated times? jonathan: we were asking for a market call, but i won't give that to you. ultimately they do want to find more money after a difficult 12 months. this is the conclusion of 20 years of negotiations with uefa. when we talk about a breakaway league, leaving behind their domestic competitions, their proposals are different. you can say it is disingenuous, but ultimately this is a challenge to the champions league. we want to maintain participation in our domestic competitions. this will take place midweek. the pushback from the national organizations, european organizations, is that you won't be able to participate in your domestic league if you go forward with this. this is high-stakes. do the european big players have their bluff called? if this is indeed a bluff? this morning, i have to say, it feels different. tom: i think of minor-league

jon: we will talk about that with david riley. he will be joining us later. from new york city this morning, good morning to you all, alongside tom keene and lisa abramowicz, i am a jon ferro. 1.5747. dollar weakness. in the equity market, we are down nine points in the s&p 500, down from all-time highs by .2%. this is "bloomberg surveillance ." ♪ ritika: first word news, i am ritika gupta. authorities decided to move alexey navalny after allies warned that his health was failing. the u.s. threatened the kremlin with unspecified consequences if he dies. alexey navalny has been on a hunger strike since the end of march. closing arguments are set for today and the murder trial of derek chauvin. he is a white former police officer accused of killing a black man, george floyd. there is anxiety over the potential for violent protests. china says it has no desire to topple the dollar as the world's main reserve currency. it is said it is creating images of currency for domestic use. the ceo of gamestop is stepping down. george sherman -- a persistent slump. gamesto

david: meanwhile, jason riley of "the wall street journal" writes in the journal that he thinks democrat politicians are stuck in 1964 when it comes to how they treat african-american voters. so should we be worried that the president's policies could be setting minorities back economically? let's get the read from political strategist test land figaro. good to see you, thank you for being here. what do you think of charles barkley's statement? >> well, i think charles barkley's statement is basically charles being charles. [laughter] the bottom line is there's certainly voter suppression. when we talk about the argument that those who are poor do not necessarily have the access to be able to get the documents, if republicans certainly want to believe that everyone should have an id, then let's talk about how we can put those resources in the community so that they can do so. but the more important thing is voter depression, giving folks a reason to vote and motivating them to go to the poll. that is what most folks like me, you know, are concerned about. people are certainly -- will cer

riley conducts the interview where he is now a professor. watch tonight beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> next, historian davidpietrusza describes the 1919 world series fix by members of the chicago white sox, which came to be known as the black sox skabdle. he talks about how portrayals of the book shaped public perceptions of what happened. the liech times and murder of the criminal genius who fixed the 1919 world series. and "judge and jury" about baseball's first commissioner. >> okay. i like to welcome y'all to cooperstown. i am the director here. david kent. and we are very fortunate, tonight, to have esteemed historian and award-winning write -- writer. who is not only an historian. but he is a -- he's very into baseball. and so, it's a good combination. because right now, it's the 100th anniversary of one of the most infamous scandals in baseball history. the bl

riley conducts the interview at the citadel, where he's now a professor. watch tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern and watch american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> next historian davidza describes the 1919 world series fix by the chicago white sox which came to be known as the black sox scandal. he talks about how films. david pietrusza is the author of two books on the subject, rothstein and lifetime of the criminal genius who fixed

riley conducts the interview at the citadel, where he's now a professor. watch tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern and watch american history tv every weekend on c-span3. >>> next historian david pietrusza describes the 1919 world series fix by the chicago white sox which came to be known as the black sox scandal. he talks about how films. david pietrusza is the author of two books on the subject, rothstein and lifetime of the criminal genius who fixed the 1919 world series and judge and jury about baseball's first commissioner. >> i would like to welcome you all to cooperstown and the director here, david kent. we're very fortunate tonight to have a esteemed historian and award-winning writer, who is not only an historian but he's very into baseball. so, it's a good combination because right now it's the 100th anniversary of one of the most infamous scandals in baseball history. the black sox scandal where members of the chicago white sox were accused of throwing the world series to the cincinnati reds. it brought about getting a commission and getting eight players on the white sox banned for life. the story of that is not really a simple one. it's very complicated. so, the