>> this is a very savvy guy. >> go ahead, judge hatchett. >> i absolutely think it was scripted.ow do we have this tape leaked? you have a mysterious person on the other end. we don't know who that person is. it was contrived and so transparent and so -- i mean, scripted. it's a poor script writer on top of it. >> but here's the weird thing, though. it doesn't seem to help him, cedric. it doesn't seem to help him case at all, even if he put it out there as a pr ploy. >> here's the thing. i'm not calling him a racist anymore. i just call him confused. over and over again the same thing happens. he hits himself in the head and backs away again and tells people different things. i don't care what happens in this whole situation. donald sterling cannot be in the nba. but as the panelists said, he will not go down without a fight. it's going to be -- he's not going down. the nba is not going to get rid of donald sterling that easy. >> yeah. >> i think so. i think so. if i can just say quickly, i think given the constitution, i think sterling's out. i agree with jeffrey, the matter wit

and judge hatchett. everybody knows everybody on the panel. you know, cedric, we have a new national poll at cnn and we asked should nba owners force sterling to sell the los angeles clippers, 47% say yes and the 50% say no. are you surprised by this? >> i'm not really surprised. the reason i'm not is i think a lot of people are looking at the message, the way it was got, the information that was gathered and a lot of people said so what where the information was gathered. if you look at your poll right now it tells me a lot of americans right now think the information was gathered the wrong way and the young ladies who was giving the information the more she talks the more it seems that people are going against her and not donald sterling. so it's really a mixed message that is being sent. >> i want to talk more, gloria, keep that in mind about what he said. but let me give you this followup. if we break those numbers down further, 42% of whites feel he should be forced to sell and 61% of non-whites think so. what do you make of that break do

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. >> judge hatchett you thought she went too far? >> i was offended by it. basically you are making fun about black women who were basically ra basically raped and used to breed children. to joke about that it's a painful time of our history. >> judge, it's satire. >> i thought it was too far. you know me. but i thought this was too far. >> i love the judge and have seen her show a thousand times. >> good. >> but it's satire it's something that people look at and say this is satire. some things you don't go over the line and is so serious but in in case i thought it was funny. i have heard people say worse things and get jokes over it. but this to me you don't turn on "saturday night live" to get an editorial. you watch to get something special and satire is funny. >> leslie responded on twitter, many, many tweets and this one she said, very sad i have to defend myself on black people. if chris rock or dave chappelle did that joke they would be called brilliant. they all do the same type of material. black people are too sensitive. does she have a point? >>