then l.z.rouble, a senior writer for espn and espn.com and a contributor to our own cnn.com. let's start with the republicans. listen to the names i'm about to run off, bachman, cain, pawlenty and as of tomorrow, santorum. can any of these people defeat president obama? >> yes. look, don, no president, no incumbent president has won re-election since fdr when the unemployment rate has been above 7.2%. so that would put the vegas odds pretty strongly against president obama, but are any of them mvps? no. i'm unimpressed. i expect the statistic i just told you to be contested with this election. >> thank you for stealing my question to l.z. i won't ask you that later, so this is your question. check out this poll, it is a cnn opinion research poll from late may. just 16% are very satisfied, 45% are fairly satisfied, 39% say they are not satisfied. so is there a winner in this group in your estimation, l.z.? >> i'm sure someone has to win the gop primary, i guess, but as far as the presidency, no.

l.z. in the house with us. kids lose about two months of grade level equivalency in math computation skills over the summer months and we also know it leads to losses in reading although not quite as much as in math. wait a minute. we're talking about less homework during the school work but we're in the maryland of the brain drain right now. what's the message here? >> the message is the education process hasn't figured out what's best for your kids. it's throwing thing up against the wall until something sticks. if we know our kids are losing valuable basic information during these long breaks why are we continuing to give them these long break. it's like we haven't figured out the disconnect between the two ideas. >> you make a good point about homework too. in some places we need to be doing more homework because kids have idle time without it. there's rote busy work that other countries do. where do you weigh in? >> i'm about homework, homework. i looked for him to have enough homewor

had an operation where they had thirty helicopters i was circling waiting on my turn to go in this l.z. or landing zone to put the combat assault in. and our the radio on and the power of the one of the red flight said this is red lead were taken fire and all i could hear in the background was. and i would try to relax and i try to forget about it and it was corrected by this paralyzing kind of fear of knowing that i had to start and be shot at. the helicopter pilots you have both hands full so your gut instinct is to fight it. but there's no place to hide you're looking through a clear plexiglas window and the surrounding woodland you see little flashes and united people shooting to describe it and hit you. from that point although. i think i realized that it is possible to doubt. that. we were a bunch of thirty guys in a two and a half ton truck put in as replacement train and we couldn't find the division. we finally found it in the first thing they said to us and we got their armor why did you take so long there was no welcome. being a replacement which is the most god awful curse

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l.z. loves a good conversation. him and it shall continue. >>> dallas will have a victory parade for the nba champions mavericks even though the city is in a budget crunch. jeff is here with that story. >> helps to know people who have a lot of money in times like that. >>> mavericks getting a hero's welcome at the airport and happened yesterday. a water cannon support. mark cuban is there carrying the championship trophy. dirk nowitzki behind him. he was the mvp. cuban says he will pay for thursday' parade out of his own pocket. he says it's not right right now for the city to pay for it. cuban is a billionaire so a parade he can afford. chump change. speaking of chumps. who gave the go ahead for this ad to appear in "the miami herald"? they congratulate miami heat for winning the title. did i miss something? they posted an online correction later. boston bruins force a game seven with vancouver in the nhl stanley cup. i will show you that in 15 minutes. >> i can't wait! >>> still ahead this morning, what happens w

in the coming years as ricky rubio the spanish stolid and seeing two years of speculation after an l.z. he has to join the minnesota timberwolves next season from barcelona basket twenty year old rubio had been drafted in two thousand and nine by the same team the wolves but a massive buyout clause but spelled the deal until now. i will play with the best i believe the n.b.a. is the best league in the world when you are there you face to play is that you can see whether you are capable of playing though not because until you go. now on to the special olympics a sporting event due to kick off in greece on the twenty fifth of june russia will be sending over three hundred athletes to the games involving mentally disabled sports men and their own sounds as if it's the mets with the country's deputy sports tourism and youth ball is a minister pavel call up call for his curating the russian branch of the organization over seven thousand five hundred athletes and all will be competing in twenty events this summer including basketball badminton bowling golf judo athletics and of course footba

leave a comment for l.z. it. ♪ >>> so why not make it be said that 10,000-1 shot that john isner would meet his opponent in the first round. if you took that bet you're itch rich now. the marathon men are playing today and their match last year lasted more than 11 hours. the final set going 70-68. the court that they played on now is a commemorative plaque by it and they will play on another court today but not center court with its bigger seating capacity and that ticking off ticket holders who want a better chance to see the rematch. the two are friends now and text each other and may doubles later on this year. >>> sports is coming up in 15 minutes. >>> storms churned up and dozens of tornadoes in south central nebraska, tossing around train cars and destroying homes. the details are coming up. >>> also the casey anthony murder trial. >> enough is enough. >> a warning from the judge. attorneys for both sides put on notice. a live report from the trial in three minutes. coldwell banker. we never stop moving

. >> i have to let you go l.z..republican senate that approved it this time around? >> well, it just proves that, you know, when you trip away the rhetoric of people's religious beliefs, you just deal strictly with the law, you will find the 14th amendment is pretty solid no state should deny anyone equality and i was really happy to see the logic, especial. >> always good to talk to you. one of our cnn contributors. we appreciate having you on the line with us this morning. >> thank you. >> we're getting close to the bottom of the hour now. we want to let you know we're standing by. the casey anthony trial is resuming this morning. we'll give the very latest. stay with us. ♪ [ male announcer ] and just like that, it's here. a new chance for all of us: people, companies, communities to face the challenges yesterday left behind and the ones tomorrow will bring. prudential. bring your challenges. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] thanks to advanced natural gas turbine technology from ge, the power that will help make our nation

l.z.ng us next. >>> the "uss carl vincen" will host the first-ever ncaa basketball game on an aircraft carrier. coming up, we will talk to one of the coaches, tom izzo of the michigan state spartans. ♪ [ waves crashing ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] and just like that, it's here. a new chance for all of us: people, companies, communities to face the challenges yesterday left behind and the ones tomorrow will bring. prudential. bring your challenges. >>> human rights group claim the syrian government is targeting protesters but an adviser to the president tells our hali that is not true. >> i think peaceful demonstrators have made their points and making their points every day. we have no problem with that. but i think it is a complex problem. >> halla is joining us live. did anything this adviser say come as a surprise to you? >> nothing came as a surprise. it fit right in with the narrative of the regime from the beginning that armed gangs are responsible for the violence. perhaps the first tim