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and jamel hill. host of the must listen podcast. jamel hill is unbothered.xtraordinary. you wrote for every former women's basketball player that had to play in an empty gym, and you went the college before the digital era. so you might get one tv game. and your mom wrote into the newspaper every time they didn't print the women's scores. 12.3million is for you. you mattered then and you still do. how does this moment feel right now? >> this moment feels incredible for a lot of people. when you think about it. title 9 is 52 years old so women have been playing sports at the collegiate level and there have been more opportunities. we still have not had equity in other areas when it comes to media coverage. when it comes to dollars from sponsors. all the things that allow sport for women to truly grow. or that they needed to have. they didn't have. and what we are seeing now is really the perfect storm. first of all, we are watching a generation play basketball that has never been without the wnba. with the professional women's basketball league. with 144 of t

joining me now is jamelle bouie new york times opinion columnist. of people were saying, trump, his middle line, though i would beg to differ, is a good piece of strategy, that was monday, today, we see what happens in arizona and i just wonder whether you still think leaving it up to the states is a good strategy for him to pursue? >> i think it is the only strategy for him to pursue because a national ban is just so toxic with most voters but it it's also clear that leaving it up to the states is really leaving it up to the whims of in this case, a packed republican supreme court in arizona, so, that's what leaving it to the states means. i think voters, most people, are kind of aware of that, they can see that happening but as far as trump is concerned, not really any place for him to go other than oak, we have to leave it to the states. >> it seems like it's the harvest of the multi-decade project of the far right which is to inject conservative christian principles into the judiciary. you see them in alabama, these judges are in arizona, and fl

joining me now is jamel bowie. thank you for being here. line. is a good piece of strategy. today, we see what happens in arizona and i wonder if we still think leaving it up to the states is a good strategy. >> it is the only strategy for him to pursue, a national ban is just so toxic with most voters but it is also clear that leaving it up to the states is really leaving it up to the whims of in this case, a packed republican supreme court in arizona, gerrymandered state legislatures. the majority of voters may well support abortion rights. but the state legislatures are so gerrymandered against the popular will, it is impossible to get that preference passed into law. that is leaving it to the states, that's what it means. i think voters i think most people are kind of aware of that. they can see that happening. but as far as trump is concerned, there is not really any place for him to go other than oh, we have to leave it to the states. >> it also seems like it is kind of the harvest of the multidecade project of the far right to inject

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