thank you so much for joining us, john lucas, and everett, our legal expert. and you say that donald sterling has a lot of cash, and he could tie it up legally for the team, and say he gives the team to his estranged wife or another family member? is that accurate? >> well, the league has wide discretion in imposing whatever penalty they believe is appropriate, but really a that is not the issue. we are one, and we are one together at the intersection of race, sports and money in this country. mr. sterling's comments are symptomatic of a situation that needs to be addressed and hopefully the nba will take the opportunity to look beyond mr. sterling's comments and address problem problems that result from that kind of mindset. >> are there problems within the nba that are still being swept under the rug, and are you referring to that or you say society? >> well, there is a whole system of the taking the young men from the time they are in high school and they force them into a system that they track them into a program where they don't know how to read and writ

joining me is john lucas, executive drirector of john lucs enterprise, and jeff, i want to start with, you because we are waiting for the announcement from the nba, and we don't know a lot about the clauses of them available to them, and what have you found out? >> well, the nba byli-constitutn are private to the owners only, but talking to people, and adam silver says he has a broad range of powers and what we are learning about that is anything from the indefinite suspension to a suspension with the time limit on it, and then finally some kind of financial penalty that will, you know, in the big picture help him to make a decision, donald sterling, on whether he wants to own the team moving forward. >> and we know in the past, that $2.7 million is the fine that he paid in the housing discrimination where he said that he didn't want blacks and hispanics and people with children renting, and he said that blacks were dirty according to the deposition which is alleged, and so we know that he is willing and has paid the fines before, and so is this really about the fine or is the league

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lucas duplan? >> he came out of stanford and he was -- his advisor was the president of the school, john hennessey. was in the computer science department. he was attacking a big problem. the idea of being able to make payments with a smartphone is a compelling idea. he got the meetings from -- my understanding is that peter thiel was interested and after he invested -- he had co-founded paypal. i think other investors thought -- >> don't want to miss that one. i would love to see his deck. i would love to see the investor deck to convince these people to write checks. >> we do have a statement from clinkle which i should read about andy rendich leaving. they say, "we are adding users by the week and remain focused on hiring. we wish him the best in his future endeavors." we wonder if this thing is ever actually going to -- >> it is not available to the public so these are beta testers that they have. until they can get a product on the market and maybe a year from now we will see as a big success, but right now they are struggling. >> all right. thank you. we will be right back after this quick br

lucas magnuson who says we call on president putin and his government to cease all efforts to destabilize ukraine and caution against further military intervention. we all know secretary of state john kerry will meet with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and members of the eu in geneva on thursday as they try to work ahead to a diplomatic solution. obviously with the latest outbreak of violence that does not appear to be working. and the white house is very concerned that this latest outbreak of violence is quite similar to what they saw in crimea when russia annexed crimea just weeks ago. so there is concern. we're hearing more and more concern from the state department as well. obviously, we're seeing the united states and its government move forward with more to try to help ukraine. back to you. >> erin mcpike reporting there. officials have expanded the search for malaysian airlines flight 370. >> we will bring you live reports from our correspondents both in perth, australia, and kuala lumpur. stay with cnn for the latest. i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our

lucas film unveiled episode vii. its it shows the new akctors gathering to read the script. among them we see adam driver, known for 0 his role in "girls" and 22-year-old johnncess layeia and harrison ford is onboard as hans solo. it is set to premiere in december of next year. seen them all. >> have you? ep i feel like i'm late to the party. t i need to start looking, right? >> i've seen them all. i'm l >> are you into "star wars"?s just >> i've seen them all. >> me myself and i in no man's >> land. >> i'm surprised, by the way. >> we're going to tell george. >> i like george lucas. i >>> eating your heart out of trouble. dr. tara narula in our toyota greenroom wearing my favorite color. with new research on the breakfast food. recertificate of onserarch on the breakfast food to help you live longer coming up next on "cbs this morning." dad. how did you get here? i don't know. (speaking in russian) look, look, look... you probably want to get away as much as we do. with priceline express deals, you can get a fabulous hotel without bidding. think of the rubles you'll save. one touch, fun in the sun. i like fun. well, that went exactly as i planned... really

lucas. senator cruz said the investigator in a partisan democrat -- is a partisan democrat who has donated over $6,000 to president obama and democratic causes, just as nobody would trust john mitch tole investigate richard nixon, nobody should trust a partisan obama donor to elimb nays the political targeting of president obama's enemies. but he makes a good point. john mitchell deserved the criticism he got but no attorney eneral since john mitchell has their thful history in favor to stand up and say, no attorney general has ever been treated worse than i have. you just have to go back to alberto gonzales. again, i think he deserves some of the criticism he got, especially on national security letter issue. and i'm right there thinking it was a it's aer and he shouldn't have been -- and it shouldn't have been allowed to happen, people needed to be held accountable, which is why i called the white house after it came to light that a report had been on the attorney general's desk before he testified before the senate, that there were no known abuses of the national security letters, and i told the white house, this is indefensible. it isn't right. we can't defend this. and