from his fellow philadelphians to billionaire businessmen robert kraft, to hip hop legend jay-z, theof national attention to the problem of excessive sentencing. a problem he's now committed to fighting he says. but in the meantime, he's trying to live his best life, grateful for that support that has made him a household name and at least physically a free man. earlier i sat down with mill and his lawyer, joe tackpino. >> let me first say that it's much better seeing you on this side than other side. last time i saw you i visited you in jail in december. >> yeah. >> and the whole country was outraged about your incarceration. i think what moved me more than many causes i got involved is how clear you were that it was a bigger issue than you. you kept saying reverend al, this is not just about me, looking at brothers in here. tell people about what you were really passionate about, even while you were doing time in an unfair situation as far as i'm concerned? >> every day i work up i was in prison, i thank god every time my foot touched the floor even though i was in a touch situatio

since he was 18, he's now 31 there's been a lot of people who have come to his defense including robert kraftnd michael rubin who was with us yesterday, owner of the philadelphia 76ers, they helped get him out of prison for a lot of crazy things, like popping a wheelie which wound him back up in prison. we're using this as an example to not just talk about meek mill but to talk about the thousands of other men who are wrongfully incarcerated or caught up in this ridiculous cycle of probation, where they can't break out of the cycle they don't have advocates or money, or lawyer there's a can help them bring some issues to light. this morning we will be joined by wes moore, ceo of the robinhood foundation the robinhood foundation fights poverty in new york. statistics show 1 out of every 5 new yorkers only makes $20,000 a year or less wes moore is someone who has written a book called "the other wes moore. he grew up in baltimore, inner city, spent time on street corners. found out there was another wes moore doing the same thing, hanging out with buddies, getting in trouble but our wes moore g

. >>> patriots owner robert kraft chatting it up before game two with the celtics and sixers. had a 22-point lead in the second quarter, but you just can't count out the young celtics. rozier leading the comeback. boston comes back to take a 2-0 lead in the series. ben simmons did not show up in this one. he had one point in the game. >>> stanley cup playoffs. looking to even the series. goaltender with one of the best saves here for pekka rinne. he stops the puck with the knob of the stick. that series is tied. >>> the white sox beating the twins thanks to a walk-off home run thanks to trace thompson. usually when you you do th-- wh that, you get attacked at the plate with water. check out sanchez. he dumps the water cooler on himself before joining in on the fun. never before seen that in major league baseball. dumping it on yourself and then celebrating with your team. that's a fun young team. usually you are trying to avoid the water. >> i want to see a coach do that. take it himself. andy scholes, thank you. >>> the shifting story on the stormy daniels payment leaving the

franchises with names like florida mayhem, london spitfire, and boston uprising, a team that's owned by robert krafthe new england patriots. the young players get a minimum salary of $50,000 a season, plus health benefits, and some make much more, including one of the newest stars, 18-year-old jay won, better known by sinatra. >> is it like a dream for you? >> it's been my dream since i was 12 basically. >> reporter: sinatra was hooked on video games long before it was his job, so mom mckayla made a deal. get bs in school, or she'd limit his playing time. >> so you never threw the x-box away? >> i did once. he did something bad in school, so i threw it away. >> reporter: but the x-box wasn't gone for long. he went on to make a name for himself and last year asked his parents if he could leave high school and move across the country so he could turn pro. >> my first reaction was, okay, sounds great, what's your plan b? >> were they surprised? were they skeptical? >> they were definitely skeptical at first because i was only making like 1500 a month. >> then i thought, you know, that's really what he

comes after audio leaks last month of an nfl meeting on the kneeling issue where patriots owner robert kraftto trump's horrible polittization and eagles owner jeffrey lurie called trump's presidency disastrous. today they gave him what he wanted anyway and trump was happy and mike pence hsh winning and no one ever knelt for a national anthem again. no, there came dissension in the ranks. the chairman of the jets saying his players are free to keep on kneeling. the fine will be born by me, not the players. i never want to put restrictions on the speech of players. the players themselves are not backing down either. philadelphia eagles safety malcolm jenkins tweeted saying in part while i disagree with this decision, i will not let it stop me from fighting. the national conversation around race in america the nfl players forced over the past two years will persist as we continue to use our voices. >>> we are writing the next chapter of georgia's future. where no one is unseen, no one is unheard, and no one is uninspired. >> history was made in georgia last night. never before in in our nation'

i can tell you what is great for me to watch the way the 6ers, the nbc, robert kraft, the eagles gotmills we used our platform to make a difference. >> yes in the real world the owners are walking a fine line between the 9% ratings drop for money and to not alienate the players, so be realistic about it don'ting a leak it's a high minded >> there is a question of whether they have just -- by the way. it's not clear the players are very happy >> they are very unhappy >> the owners are happy and they will pretend, oh, i didn't want to do this you can outpay for like the new york jets guy i will pay, they all signed onto it they all wanted to get this thing. are you an owner you probably wouldn't want to put it behind you, would you >> it's very complicated issue >> that's the virtues. >> people have a different take. >> i don't understand how you. >> demoralizing. >> oi don't know how can you say demoralizing >> i are not moralizing. >> i'm saying, i'm being honest about what's happening here. >> but i think there is a lot more here than you talk about. >> it said it's a complex issue.

her, she said we're not going to do a deal until we put the companies together she went through robert kraft to make that happen there's a handful of other potential bidders in the story it's a worthy read it does lay out how the soap opera is unfolding we don't know the end though >> or what's what happening inside it must be a huge distraction for both companies >> huge distraction. they've been managing, to the extent that you can manage >> do they have a choice at least in terms of viacom, if they don't merge with cbs? >> are you a shareholder >> i don't own either. >> if you were a shareholder of cbs or viacom, do you think there's a breach of fiduciary duty >> that's hard there are multiple voting class shares i'm not a lawyer i would say les has done a good job with the assets over time. at the end of the day probably proper management gets the value for the company significantly higher there's such a management focus and distraction on this politics, what happens to content, programming and the franchises there's a lot going on in media today. it's not a great time to be distracted a

robert, i want to thank you for bringing that up. >> you brought it up. >> when i spoke to chris kraft he explained this was a serious situation and the contemplated ordering the mission bag back. would you have followed orders or kept going. >> no way on god's green earth i was going to cancel it because i had -- because i puked a couple of times. just no way. and frankly, be very candid, i was concerned because the medical profession at that time was very anxious to make its name in the space medicine business and i thought some of the actors drown would get in and beat their chest and say, for the health of the crew we have to bring them home. i wasn't going to come home if i had a heart attack. >> jim and i didn't decide at the time but i'm sure beg of us thought that if he really was sick we'd just throw him out the hatch and go by ourselves. >> we were going to go one way and that's it. >> but it all worked out. >> well, fascinating to me to learn even in the last minutes of the outbound journey you had not spotted the moon and mission controlled ask the what you were seeing and ju said nothing, it's like being on the inside