are battling the golden state warriors in their fourth playoff game and want sports contributor terrance moore is contributing in the studio and cnn commentator and espn senior writer elsby granderson joins us. terrance, you first. we have not heard anything from mr. sterling. >> exactly. >> that silence really speaks volumes. why wouldn't the owner come out at this jhuuncture or how important would it be? >> he's not coming out because he's guilty. if you're not guilty you come out and say i'm not guilty instead of assuming that rich little is still out there doing impersonations of donald sterling. this is donald sterling actually doing this. his only other choice which is not in donald sterling's personality is to pull a jimmy swagert, i've sinned, i blew it. >> but you're a big businessman, a team owner. and we still don't know whether this tape is authentic, but if indeed that is him, there are people who say i recognize your voice. we talked to karim earlier. >> yes. it's obvious. >> why wouldn't you as the team owner knowing your team is in the playoffs, fourth game, had been doing well

reporter terrance moore will be wayi weighing in as well as former george zimmerman's attorney mark o'mara. that's all ahead here on "cnn newsroom." >>> president obama says the world must unite to show its disapproval of russia's actions in ukraine. speaking from malaysia today, the president said an international coalition is needed to avoid the perception that this is strictly a u.s. versus russia issue. >> it's important for us to take further steps, sending a message to russia that the kind of destabilizing activities that are taking place in the east and the south ukraine have to stop. >> moscow has refused to pull back thousands of troops at the ukrainian border and have denied flying military aircraft into ukraine's air space. >>> all right. here in the u.s., residents in several states are bracing for a possible outbreak of severe weather today. this could include tornadoes. we've already seen warnings and watches in several states. jennifer gray is in the cnn weather center. jennifer, we're starting to see activity percolate, right? >> yes. we're already watching this line contin

let's talk more about this with mlb.com columnist and cnn.com sports contributor terrance moore. >> i've for nearly 40 years. you hear these things behind the scenes. he's the only guy that's been caught doing this and now that he's been caught it's going to unravel a bunch of things. here's something that needs to be said. elgin baylor, his former manager, sued him for aids discrimination. he got fired after something like 22 years. >> was it an allegation of discrimination as well? >> he called it harassment at the time. now that this has come out, watch for more of that story to come even further. perhaps he may get more specific about what that harassment involved and it may have involved race. >> because that's what you wonder. this doesn't just come out of the blue. or does it not? there have been people along the way that has -- >> there has been. >> yeah. they have heard things, seen things, but maybe this is the most profound example, something very insulting because they heard his voice. you have to wonder, even though it may not be admissible in court, we heard that from mark

terrance moore is our sports contributor and columnist for mlb.com and also with us mark o'meara, cnn analyst and defense attorney, and stephanie elam outside the arena right now. kareem abdul jabbar said he is not surprised but donald sterling and magic johnson says he has to go. will this make any bit of difference? >> it's going to make a difference in the fact that he will end up going but you know, putting this in perspective, having done this been in professional sports journalist for 40 something years, don, i'm telling you something that donald sterling is not the only evener that i've ever encountered or general manager with these type of thoughts. he is one of the few owners who has gotten caught saying these things out there in the open. and that's the thing. it's almost like gambling in the piano bar, cold "casablanca" line. that's not the shocking part. the shocking part is the fact that it got out there some kind of way. people are reacting to it as well as they should, but to think that he is the only one and that he is some sort of a rarity here, the exception to the r

cnn sports contributor terrance moore is here and a contributor to mlb.com.'t seen you in a month of sundays. >> talking about the little plane i guess. >> yeah, yeah. you have something special for us. an exclusive excerpt from hank aaron. he rarely gets interviews. how did you come about getting this? >> i've known hank for more than 30 years. he and i have always gotten along great. he will talk to me when he won't talk to anyone else in the media. so with that anniversary coming up, i gave hank a call. he graciously agreed to do the interview. here's the thing, don. hank is recovering from hip surgery from slipping on the ice here in atlanta which tells you how great this was that he would do this. we sat down for over an hour to talk about anything and everything you could possibly imagine. >> i've always been one to, in spite of all the things that i went through, you mentioned some of them, i've always been able to separate the two. i always felt like once i got -- once i put the uniform on and once i got on the playing field, that i could separate the