we've lot contact with lz granderson. we'll move on for now and come back. >> ifill: in washington today, a group of holocaust survivors returned to the capital for a day of remembrance, reminding younger generations of past horrors and of future challenges. ray suarez reports. >> suarez: under a steady rain thousands of came to mark the 20th anniversary, the dedication of a museum built as a constant reminder of one of history's greatest crimes. nazi germany's murder of jews. >> time is an all important -- >> suarez: between 1933 and 1945 hitler led germ dmi and his collaborators first to systematic ally persecute and eliminate european jewery. today's ceremony brought together survivors and more than 100 military veterans who took part in liberating europe and the death camps. there probably won't be too many more gatherings like this one. it's almost 70 years since ve day. even those liberated as children are in their 80s and 90's. natalie is one of those survivors from poland she remembers what she saw when she was th

elsie granderson and anna alvaro. first of all, i want you both to listen to some of the comments this morning, by congressman, peter king, republican from new york, talking about the fbi a handing of this case. >> this is the late tefst in a series like this. now, this case with the older brother where the fbi is given information about someone as being potential terrorist. they look at them and they don't take action and they go out and they carry out murders after this. again, i'm wondering, is there something deficient there? what went wrong? >> he wants answers from the fbi. l l.z., others are making similar points. do we need to look at how the fbi is handling cases like this one? >> that's a fair question to ask. i want to be careful playing monday morning quarterback. everyone can look back now, 2020, and say everything that everybody else did wrong. september 11th is what, 11, 12 years ago now. he has only rattled off five names. i took a look at the fbi's counter terrorism website. they apprehended seven peo

cnn contributor lz granderson is also a senior writer for espn.ty, tim wise and country music singer and songwriter and producer peter cooper. good to see all of you. so these guys obviously aren't racist, i don't think that they are. their intentions were good. is this just a clumsy attempt to start dialogue? to you first, tim. >> well, it is clumsy. but the history of the way we talk about race in this country is pretty clumsy and oftentimes misguided. is it any worse than the way we teach history in our schools? no. here in the south, we've had seven generations of white folks who have been taught the civil war was a war of northern aggression and had nothing to do with slavery. it doesn't surprise me that seven generations later in spite of the history that says secession was about that, we have people who wave confederate flags and put them on their trucks and say it means something. we have to do better at understanding that history, whether we're a songwriter or teacher in high school. >> peter cooper, you're a songwriter. you're a performe

for more, we turn to lz granderson, a sportswriter and columnist for espn and a cnn contributor. specifically for our nonsports fans, why was this taken so long in prosports and why is it a big deal now? >> well, one of reasons it's taken so long in professional sports is because there's a sense in the locker room that it isn't an environment in which an openly gay male athlete feels safe. that if it came out he could be at risk especially in a collision sport like football or or waive him if he was playing football. the threat of your livelihood and the health for many, many years was the reason why athletes were so hesitant to come out. and as far as it being a big deal now, i would like to -- it's a big deal in the sense that it's the first player but if you look at the arc of the lgbt movement and where we are right now, i'm not sure in it's as big of a deal as what is going on in the supreme court right now with the defense of marriage act. in other words the movement has progressed to a certain point in which laws being addressed are affecting a larger group of people than

alex rodriguez, mark teixeira, derek jeter, curtis granderson and phil hughes all hurt.ot playing today. who knows when they'll all be back in the lineup. a-rod might be done for good. competitive balance in baseball, whether it's revenue sharing because of the big tv money or here at mlb advanced media where they say they elevate each individual team's value by $200 million, you have buster posey getting $167 million from san francisco. justin verlander $180 million from detroit. elvis andrus $120 million from the texas rangers. it's not just the red sox, angels and yankees making the signings. >> i would argue this. no offense to your sox. they always beat my angels every single game. isn't that good for baseball? isn't it maybe good if the yankees come down a bit? no offense. that way maybe other teams can elevate. >> there's absolutely no doubt about that, brian. actually, if you talk to people maybe not inside the yankees but maybe inside the red sox, they're kind of embracing being underdogs again. it was just difficult to have that laser, target on chest every sin

. >> so, elsy granderson, i want to get your reaction to that reaction.king about how not only homosexuality, but also premarital sex, et cetera doesn't line up with his biblical world view.]ú there has been a strong reaction against it. but isn't he just saying what hundreds of millions of people think, people who are religious. >> well you know first of all, i want to say that karl malone just dropped the mike on what he said about people living their own lives. and who is openly gay and who is not openly gay.chris, first of all, full disclosure, i was the person he was talking to in that interview yesterday in espn. chris and i had elements of that conversation over the years. i used to be chris' eder is er isditor when i was an editor at espn magazine. i personall surprised at all at anything that chris said. i don't think anyone that follows chris online would be that surprised. with that being said it is very important that we in an effort to have full equality, also have patience and tolerance for conversations that may not necessarily be where we

granderson and anna. she is a cnn contributor. l.z. is a contributor and senior writer for espn. i want you to listen to the attorney general eric holder. he was at the white house correspondents dinner last might suspect his miranda rights and peter king this morning blasting him. take a listen. >> can you comment on the suspect being miran appropriate? >> well i mean the decision to mirandize him is one that the -- magistrate made and was totally consistent with the laws that we have. we had a would-day period we were able to question him under the public safety exception. i think everything was done appropriately and we got good leads. >> the fbi wanted to continue on and eric holder now is -- said he approved that interrogation being stopped and is absolutely disgraceful. because that interrogation could have ended many american lives. we know what full consequences will be. we don't know who was involved who can be involved in the future. we may not know because of eric holder. >> okay. i want to start with you now, anna. there is a legal debate here obviously, but there's a

granderson and ana navarro, and i asked them given all this pushback from both sides, what sort of chance does it have getting through congress? >> i think the president's budget in the short term, don, has no chance of getting passed. i think the republican budget has no chance of getting passed, and i think the democrat budget out of senate has no chance of being passed, but, you know, what the president did was start to talk about some very important issues, like change cpi and put entitlement reform on the table. this is a starter. rome was not built in a day. i can assure you a grand bargain won't be reached between this white house and this congress in a day or maybe even a month, maybe not in a year, but it is starting to put this issue out there. it's going to get slammed, i assure you, on the right and on the left, but people are going to start thinking about it, and i think republicans need to acknowledge and give the president credit for having started this conversation. >> all right. so you said it doesn't stand a chance from either side. >> he needs to go a lot further than t

. >> so derek jeter, alex rodriguez, mark teixeria, curtis granderson, like $100 million of players notough season for them sorry to say. really sorry to say. >> i just love going to see ball games. grew up if atlanta. other than fenway, what's your favorite stadium? >> i went to dodger stadium for the first time last year and there was something so like 1960s about it that i kind of loved it it. you can see all the -- >> come on, wrigley, wrigley, wrigley. >> i've been in the bleachers at wrigley. love san francisco, too. >> you do have to stipulate other than fenway because there is only one stadium -- >> thus the stipulation. and we'll be right back. hey, so i just switched my car insurance to state farm. saved like $480 bucks. that's a lot of money. i know, right? wait...you have a car? yeah, an suv. [ male announcer ] switch and you could save $480 bucks with state farm. the act of soaring across an ocean in a three-hundred-ton rocket doesn't raise as much as an eyebrow for these veterans of the sky. however, seeing this little beauty over international waters is enough to bring a

with me lz granderson and will cain. to you both. >> good morning. >> let's start simple, shall we? should the rutgers president be fired, lz? >> yes. >> that's simple. >> i'm not sure why he's still there. this notion of him stay to go clean up a mess, he's the reason the mess has festered and got to the point that it has. so, yes, he should are resigned. >> will, do you agree? >> i do. i guess i'm not capable of quite the amount of certainty that lz just gave you. here is the deal. one of the amazing questions is how did this rutgers scandal made takes take size into this national issue. i played college athletics. lz is around athletics a lot. what you see in this rutgers tape is unique, is bad, but not as unique as you might want to think. and there are gray lines where coaching is not necessarily -- it's not a hand holding exercise. the point is to say this, none of that makes the rutgers thing right. and mike rice had to go. but how did that go from, you know, a scandal, a localized scandal at rutgers or in the imm