Think hes guilty . The lead with jake tapper . Weekdays it for and cnn its monday, april 8 right now on cnn this morning, donald trump closing the financial gap with President Biden with a Record Fundraising Haul as he he uses a big announcement on abortion this morning. President biden, preparing to bring a Student Loan Relief to a new group of borrowers plus bad weather threatening to spoil plans for millions of americans hoping to get think glimpse of todays Solar Eclipse all right 5 00 a. M. Here in washington, dc. A live look down the National Mall in Washington Monument and lincoln memorial. Good morning, everyone. Happy monday. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Team trump claiming they raked in more than 50 million at a palm beach, florida fundraiser saturday night, that is nearly double what President Biden raised last month at a starr new york event featuring former president s clinton and obama. Trumps campaign has struggled to keep up with bidens fundraising numbers. The new head of the Republican National committee, though, michael widely says the former president is solid financially heading into the general election weve raised over 100 million since the president became the presumptive nominee, about a month ago. And feel like we are very strongly positioned to go into this general campaign mode. Former President Trump also promising a statement on his abortion stance this morning we know that the former president has gone back and forth about how aggressively to confront that issue. Joining me now is sum of four politics reporter, shelby talcott. Shelby. Good morning. Great to see you. Lets talk a little bit about this fundraiser. On saturday night. They we know that the former president wanted to post this massive total but he also made a series of controversial remarks at this fundraiser that the New York Times is reporting here. What does it tell you that they were able to post this . Kind of a number and whether it means that there whether they are where they need to be. I think the most important thing to remember is in the primary, there were a lot of top donors who were really wary about backing trumps. Some of them stayed out of the primary others decided to back some of his opponents. And now were seeing this sort of coalesce coalescing around donald trump. And so that indicates to me that at the end of the de, these wealthy donors are starting to get behind donald trump, even if they have reservations. And so thats important because it does indicate that he is able to get a lot of money. Its not going to be as much as joe biden his Campaign Aides have acknowledged that but theres certainly in a better position than they were a few months ago when they were really struggling with fundraising . Yeah. The consolidation. Absolutely critical part of this trump posting, biggest night in fundraising of all time will double the biden number of last week. I we want to make America Great again, of course djt. Heres how the Biden Campaign spokesman Michael Tyler responded to this fundraiser watch hes down in maralago tonight with a bunch of billionaires, people like john paulson, who not only wants to cut Social Security, but hes famous for as a hedge fund or rooting against the american economy, betting against the american economy. So i guess its no surprise that hes investing in somebody like donald trump who is reading for the economy to crash. But the whole lot of them is a bunch of billionaire scammers, extremist and racist who understand that if they fund trumps legal fees, hes going to cut their taxes, volley cuts are Social Security so theres a lot there in terms of how hes talking about a lot of these donors, a preview i think of whats to come, but that economic messaging from the biden team, i mean, they have sort of struggled with how to frame that. Whats your view of how theyre doing it here in this context, this is it this is the big thing is both candidates in this election are really trying to build themselves as like the middle class every day. Candidate. And so when we see donald trump go to these high top donors, it gives the Biden Campaign and opportunity to say, hey, voters, donald trump does not actually of the people right . And on the flip side, when we see democrats raised a lot of money from high donors versus Donald Trumps sort of small donor amounts, which has historically been higher. Donald trump is able to say the same thing. So it indicates the importance for each campaign to target this group of voters version. Its, and its potentially going to determine who wins this election, right . Donald joe biden is struggling with young voters. Hes struggling with minority voters. And so these are the kinds of voters that they want to say, hey guys, were going to help you. The opponent is not going to help you. And so thats sort of what were seeing. Donald trump on a different topic also, put this out last night, that he says hes going to be putting out a statement on abortion right . He the all caps here, its kind of interesting, right . Exceptions. Hes focusing on exceptions for rape incest in the life of the mother he of course says this as well win elections is in all caps at the same time, we must use common sense in realizing we have this obligation to win elections. This issue, he has been pushed by many in the Prolife Movement to be more definitive about where he stands on a nationwide abortion ban. But on the other hand, he seems to acknowledge that it is, it is not been a winning issue for republicans. And he has seemed to go back and forth about whether he wants to do Something Like this. What does it tell you that he is going to put out a Statement Today . Which also by the way, happens to be the day of the total Solar Eclipse isnt wants that news. It is. It is really interesting because abortion has been such a hard issue for republicans ever since dobbs and its been something that democrats have really highlighted on and they plan to highlight and continue can you to attack going into this election because its been so successful for them. And so its notable that donald trump is actually coming out with a statement when he made that comment last week saying that he planned to make a statement, it took his aides by surprise. And so this isnt necessarily something that theyve been prepping for. It seems for a long time so im curious to see what he ultimately ends up, but i think he recognizes that despite antiabortion activists really pushing for much stricter restrictions, its not what the American People want. And so whatever he does come out with, i think both sides are going to be theres no its very difficult despite what he has said publicly to come to a consensus and to come to an agreement on this issue. Well, and the sort of consensus number if there is one, the way that he talks about it, and other republicans talk about it as 15 comma 16 weeks. Glenn youngkin tried to run on that in virginia and it didnt seem to really work for him, possibly because there are all these other examples of bands that are so much more draconian than that. And democrats are arguing. They say this now, but really they want to go further than that and they will. Is that do you think going to resonate at remember when donald trump came out last year and criticize the Antiabortion Movement meant for trying to be so strict and saying that republicans have failed to come to a consensus thats the big thing here. I think Republicans Problem has been that they cant find a consensus. So even when you have these candidates who are focused on what the consensus could be 15 weeks, 16 weeks, you still have a portion of the party whos pushing for much stricter restrictions. So regardless, that ends up affecting the candidates who maybe are willing to accept lesser restrictions. So its going to be really tougher for donald trump, for the Republican Party as a whole. This election on the issue of abortion and democrats know that all right, shall we tell cut for us, shelby. Thank you very much for getting us started this morning all right. 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In the meantime, israels Military Claims that theyve withdrawn Ground Forces from khan younis in gaza. But a cnn team there says they only saw a large number of tanks pull out, not troops. Prime minister benjamin netanyahu, facing criticism from President Biden after a tense phone call last week netanyahu putting the blame on hamas as demands intensified domestically to bring the Hostages Home Muscle knows hamas extreme demands were intended to bring about an end to the war while leaving the group intact it will not happen. Israel is ready for do, israel is not ready . Hey, just surrender all right, cnns max foster joins us now, live from london. Max, good morning to you. What do we know about the latest in these Ceasefire Talks and what exactly is happening on the ground with israels Troop Movements App in the wake of that call between the two liters, President Biden and Bibi Netanyahu well, a very positive news from the egyptians who are obviously deeply involved in all of these negotiations. But the same time we are hearing from netanyahu no ceasefire until all the hostages are released and were also hearing from hamas that they are not near an agreement here. So its the same as it always is. Listening, to different soundings from different groups, we were cant bet anything until theyre actually is some sort of ceasefire deal. A lot of those ongoing issues are still there on the ground. We are seeing troops leave khan yunis and palestinians able to get back in there and see all the absolutely horrific destruction there. Its not entirely clear whats happening there. Clearly regrouping, recreate recuperating after really tough period of war within gaza. But the big question is whether or not theyre preparing to go into raffa, which is where this is. Justin has been the next flight will be and there are huge amount of civilians. There so were really waiting on what happens to those new Troop Deployments there. The other big Talking Point Today is one of the crossings into gaza from israel that it said it would open. It hasnt opened yet because there are big logistical issues. Those aid corridor that land crucial Land Corridor of aid into gaza isnt open just yet max, can we just talk for a second about the pressures on Prime Minister netanyahu right now, because there were some News Analysis and the New York Times over the weekend suggesting that the people in israel raising questions about whether he is continuing this war in way that hes conducting this war has to do with domestic Political Considerations and pressure on him to keep it going in order to keep this fragile government governing coalition together. What do those pressures look like . Well, the precious the coalition, the pressures are that there are members of that coalition or now calling for early elections. So the its not quite fragmented there is still a war cabinet, but theres pressure on it. At the same time. Weve talked in the past, havent worry about the immense amount of pressure on netanyahu even before we went into this war. And how he handled the judicial review process, for example, he was very unpopular then but there was a war boost dare i say he was seen as very strong leader going into the war, but its being six months. And there isnt a deal. And october 7 still very clear in everyones minds, of course israel. But the time its been six months now, its still very fresh memories and still no Real Progress for many israelis is just this constant argument about how do you deal with hamas. Everyone is clearly agreed broadly in israel that the fight is with hamas. How do you break them down and netanyahus argument is still, we have to destroy them before we leave and reach any sort of lasting deal right . So max, on a slightly lighter note, ive never actually witnessed a full eclipse in my life, but it sounds like you have what are people in for . Well, we had a total eclipse in 1999. So major bit, but i remember i was working another organization then going outside the building and its a really hot day. And it was really weird an area. So if you do get that chance to see it today, id certainly recommend because it just goes dark. I know that sounds obvious, but its really weird but also gets really cold suddenly. And for me that was quite start because it was a hot day and its the silence. I think its the silence because people go quiet because they are trying to take in the moment, but all of nature went quiet as well. So bird stopped tweeting. It is the most mesmerizing experience then its suddenly over also last a bit longer than you imagine as well, but it definitely worth seeing if you get the chance. Yeah. Have you appeared on television with these on yet . A no and id say a lot of people didnt wear them, but the recommendation is you do. But here you are. This is your moment we agree many of them. I dont know. I cant read the telephone with a month, so you didnt get a chance to see it. Youll get up to see what youre gonna get partial totality here, which i have seen before. I mean, it is incredible still but my understanding is its just not the same as being able to experience it in full. So i guess im going to have to wait 20 years to get my shot. I feel all these people that would waiting years and a traveled and the weather is going to ruin it. Im just smoothing out for them one of my shelby actually who was just here, she said she has friends who booked three different flights and theyre just deciding this morning which one to get on that good weather. All max foster. Max. Thank you. Youre such a good sport. Talk to you soon. All right. Coming up next here. Weve got a new stage of the Salvage Operation at the site of the baltimore Bridge Collapse plus Caitlin Clarks i know College Basketball game ending with a threeword message to her fans Erin Burnett Outfront tonight, its seven odd cnn nobody is born with grid rose is really struggling its something youd build over time 21 at eight years, Morgan Stanley has offered clients determination. 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The good news is the worst is expected after the eclipse or meteorologists Allison Chinchar tracking the system for us allison, i feel like people just want to know are they going to see the eclipse . Whats going on . Right . So it really just depends on where you plan to go for the eclipse because there are going to be some absolutely wonderful spots along the path. Some of those places include areas of northeastern missouri, portions of Southern Indiana and illinois also areas of vermont up through maine. Also very nice conditions there. The trouble spots are really going to be some of these areas across us, the great lakes. And then again, yesterday down into texas and oklahoma. Will we do have the potential for some severe thunderstorms. Now, as you mentioned, those storms are really expected to be after the eclipse viewing, but a lot of those clouds could roll in ahead of time and that can end up obscuring that optimal viewing time. But even after that, as people are heading, maybe home to where they came from and they may be encountering some of those strong to severe thunderstorms. This is the target area you see here the green, yellow, and orange colors. We can expect large to very large hail. Youre talking maybe up to baseball size, hail, damaging winds and also the potential for some isolated tornadoes. So you can see a lot of those showers and thunderstorms already developing by three or 4 00 the bulk of them really ramp up after say, five or 6 00 p. M. But if youre headed back towards lubbock and amarillo, where maybe home is overtorqued shreveport in jackson, mississippi. You are likely going to encounter some of those storms as youre heading back home after the eclipse. Some other places again, dallas specifically still looking at pretty a pretty high amount of clouds for the eclipse viewing today, indian applause going to be a much better spot. Those clouds will actually be decreasing as we go through the day. So once we get to that time of totality, we should only have just a very few amount of clouds in the sky Niagara Falls is also going to be about that 80 range for cloud cover. Burlington, vermont only of kasie, about 20 to 30 , much better viewing there all right. Fair enough. Its not like there maybe some people getting stuck at the Dallas Airport trying to get out of dodge after that, well have to keep an eye on that too. Thanks, alice. And i really appreciate it. Well see you next hour. All right. Get your eclipseViewing Glasses ready. This is the rare opportunity that will come around for two decades do join us here at cnn for special live coverage of the eclipse across america starts live today at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. You can also stream it on macs all right. Coming up next here. 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Sanjay gupta and this is cnn comparing himself to Nelson Mandela again, over the weekend, the former president posted this to truth social about the judge presiding over his criminal hush money trial, quote, if this part isnt, he says wants to put me in the clinic for speaking the open and obvious truth. I will gladly become a modern day Nelson Mandela. It will be my great honor. That of course refers to judge one martin and his gag order that prevents trump from speaking out about witnesses, jurors prosecutors, and courts staff, as well as Family Members of the court and the manhattan district attorney, his trial set to begin next week. Join me now, Associated PressWhite House Reporter sung min, kim, segment. Good morning. Wonderful to have you for having me its not the first time we didnt show back in october what donald trump had to say about mandela. Watch if you want to challenge the result of an election, they hound you cared. We dont get scared ill tell you what. I dont mind being Nelson Mandela, because im doing it for a reason hes doing it for a reason. Well, hes doing it for political reason in that in that he is trying to make himself the victim of all of his legal proceedings. And that is what he has consistently done since his face. All of these a criminal indictments across four cases in terms of a strategy in the primaries, its something thats worked for him. He has made himself the victim of these legal challenges. Or these legal issues, and he makes his legal challenges about the people that his supporters, his base and thats what hes continuing to do here, it just continuously sort of outlandish ways. The argument is there victimizing you when they victimized me is what hes trying to say. And yes, lets just be clear. I mean, what was nelson Nelson Mandela put in jail for . Or to an end and Apartheid System that literally divided races from each other, right . Right. And donald trump, as we know, as someone who has constantly stoke these racial divisions the country through his rhetoric, right . So lets talk briefly about Something Else that occurred over the weekend which was congressman turner, chairman turner. Congressman turner spoke to jake tapper over the weekend about russian propaganda and whether some of that was making its way into rhetoric being used here in america by republicans. Heres what turner said. Watch Congressman Mccall made a comment this week about what he says sounds like russian propaganda from some conservative media and why its so difficult to explain to Republican Voters why supporting ukraine is important. He told julia yahi, quote, i think russian propaganda has made its way into the United States unfortunately, and its infected a good good chunk of my partys base. He singled out primetime shows. Im conservative channels. Do you agree with him and how big is this problem is absolutely a true its absolutely true. He says, what do you make of that, right . Well, i think what people what republicans like mike mccall and my turn are trying to make the point that theyre trying to make is that the reason this conflict began is russia invaded an autonomous country that russia invaded ukraine. And thats why its so critical for the United States other allies around the world to help ukraine in its fight against russia. And that is not what youre hearing from a growing segment of republicans, not just those who might, who may watch fox news or or, or our an isolated part of the Republican Party. But many other elected representatives in congress, and thats one of the reasons why its been so difficult to get that ukraine aid package across the finish line in the house. Now we know speaker johnson has mauling several different options. I do think it does sort of way on him this idea of helping ukraine in its fight against russia. But he just really has to weave this go figure out this political puzzle in the house that doesnt make him lose his leadership position. If he does bring it up for a vote whats your sense of mean . He seems to have indicated a willingness to do this to try to put this ukraine aid on the floor. Do you think at this point that thats the most likely scenario . Its hard to tell the fact that hes floating various different options of what he could get an exchange, whether its lifting that lng pause at the Biden Administration has put on or turning liquid natural gas. All right. Yeah. Thank you for the explanation. Early in the morning or youre changing ukraine aid and parts of that aid into a loan which is something that the former president , former President Donald Trump solve has proposed. But the problem is, im not sure those little those little wins that he could get could sway enough of his conference who are just adamantly opposed the concept of aiding ukraine altogether, people like Marjorie Taylor greene and a growing faction of that conference. Im not sure what he could get in return. That saves him his political save, saves his political position. If he does, again, if he does bring it up, especially is when the answer is that hes going to need support from democrats to actually get it done, right . Poison pills in there. The democrat that are going to lose and democratic votes, right . Right. He needs eight now he, democrats have significant leverage here. Im looking at this sort of more or less test vote that one speaker, one speaker Kevin Mccarthy was speaker in terms of a little bit of additional assistance to ukraine. I believe it got only 107 House Republican votes at that time. So that leaves basically the passage of ukraine aid in the House Democrats hands. And again, as you say, if johnson tries to accept its extract something in turn, if its really small democrats can say fine, but if not that democrats would say, why are we helping you here when we have the power . Because they do all right, sungmin, kim simon, thank you very much for being with us. I appreciate it all right. Treasury secretary janet yellen i held a News Conference de she wraps up her four visit to china. This is yellens Second China Trip and included meetings with the chinese premier and senior economic and finance officials. So the visit did not result in any major breakthroughs. The worlds two largest economies did agree to hold intensive exchanges on more balanced economic a growth. Its not clear when and where talks might take place are mark short, marc stewart, excuse me, live in beijing with more mark. Good morning to you. You just had a chance to question the treasury secretary. What did she tell you . Hi casey. Good morning. As you know, from your spot in washington, there is this intersection between economics and politics and china that secretary yellen is having to confront. Its a very full menu, just a few weeks ago, we had all this controversy involving tiktok. There is concern that chinese evs could perhaps collect data on american streets. Its a very long list and it is drawing skepticism as well as suspicion from washington, from main street, as well as from wall street. And i asked the secretary if this is a warranted and what a path forward could perhaps look like, lets lets take a listen ive tried in our conversations to make clear that this is a reason for caution on the part of american firms about doing business here. I think on each side we need to be as transparent as we can about are National Security concerns and how the actions we take relate to resolving those concerns. These concerns over National Security and how they relate to the economic side of things are a big deal. The secretary acknowledged she had Difficult Conversations with her chinese counterparts including concerns, claims over purported support by chinese firms, for russias effort in ukraine, casey, this is a very long list of issues. They also talked about anticorruption efforts, about moves by china to perhaps flood the market with products but she did seem encouraged indicating that perhaps more talks would happen as soon as next week, well have to watch all right. Marc stewart for us. Mark. Thank you very much. I really appreciate your reporting coming up next here. 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Why one handsfree with wide fits, get your slippers, dry wipe fit, sketcher, slip them super bowl of celestial events is here today later today, millions of americans are going to gaze up at the sky together with of course the protection of glasses to witness these Solar Eclipse, get those glasses ready the next time. Youll be able to experience total Solar Eclipse across the contiguous United States. It will be 2044. I didnt want to calculate how old im gonna be by. If you want the full eclipse experience, youll have to be within The Path Of Totality one of those places to do that is holton main, where crowds have been gathering all weekend and joining us now is jane torres. She has Executive Record the greater Holton Chamber of commerce jane, first of all, im so jealous youre gonna get a chance to see this because of where you are. Give us a sense of how excitement has been building in your town through the weekend we are beyond excited when we started on this path. Well call it the path of years ago. We really, we really didnt even dare to hope that we would have weather like this and the sky is blue and the crowds are actually beginning to form and its only quarter five quarters six in the morning, excuse me. But we are so excited to have everybody come to our town so youre a town of about 6,000 people and im told that youre expecting, according to the banger daily news, 40,000 visitors. There was an amusing headline about a neighboring town of girls in maine and New York Times, when Somebody Questioning for the bathrooms for all of those people. How does your town prepare and are you ready to handle that . Many people i think we are. Were slightly terrified, but i think we can do this. This is, this is this is we have pretty much hit on everything from safety to portapotty places to park shuttle buses. Everybody in the town has pulled together to make this happen do you have any like can you give me some numbers like how many portapotty is did you have to bring in . Well, we brought in 100 and now were beginning to think we should have brought in another hundred, but now its is 2020 we think were okay. For sure. So what is the weather supposed to be like today . You said its been nice through the weekend actually, actually the weather has been cold. Its been snowy, it has been really kinda grim and yesterday it started to turn in the afternoon and people started to come out and were looking at 55 to 60 degrees and absolutely clear skies amazing. So have you seen a total Solar Eclipse before in your lifetime i think when i was about six, i remember doing something with a milk carton, but i dont remember actually being allowed outside to see it. So this is gonna be really exciting so what have you done in terms of preparing with your own family mean do you guys have a spot to watch it . Where did you get your glasses, Etc The Committee so we have this committee that we formed a twoandahalf years ago, and we actually ordered 60,000 pairs of glasses and were down to a bow. Im going to say the housing left, so we hope everybody brings some. We do have some available for people, but we assume that a lot of people have already had them. But my family came to visit me from New Hampshire and i havent seen much of them because for three days weve been planning this whole thing organizing it. And ive had site the whole time. But hopefully well all be together today. Theyll come to the Historic Downtown and thats where ill be i was going to say you said youve been onsite kind of preparing. What does it actually look like in your town . Like what are the best eclipse watching polices, what have you set up . We have fivestar parks. We have the airport, we have we have a really very Nice International airport, but we do have a lot of jets coming in, private jets today, we are at capacity at nine private jets, but we do know a lot of smaller players will fly in. Thats a very Big Star Park we are youre looking. At Market Square right now that is a really good start park. Its not quite as big as everything. Every other place but it is kind of the coveted spot just because of the picture opportunity and the mda. Its just gorgeous down there. We have a beautiful town. So we have a Community Park we have weve really spread out across the town and we have Parking Areas all around the town of houlton. So we hope to have we actually have buses that it will be shuttling people from these parking lots into the different areas those would be going i think they started nine and therell be going throughout the day major logistics challenge. So you see your ad capacity with nine private jets mean what do you know about the folks that are flying their private jets in we dont know anything. It will be interesting to see who ends up in our small town will have to. Im sure that there will be people tracking these tail numbers, but im really interested in this story because because i dont know why it didnt occur to me before that. If you have a private jet obviously you would fly into The Path Of Totality because what else would you use your private jets are today yeah well we heard stories about people turning around. It were headed to texas and they said, no, thats not the place to be because of the weather. So lonely hold, heres helped me and a little hope main, this is definitely are well, we have some documentarians here. Is that a documenting what a small town does and how everything comes together . Other for an eclipse event like this or any event like this is the biggest thing weve ever seen. So theyre here and theyre calling the documentary a moment in the sun. And it is so true, this is our moment thats so amazing congratulations to holton. And i hope everything goes smoothly. I know since youve spent so many years planning this event but it will go great and thank you very much for taking it off today with us. I really appreciate a jane. Oh, thanks for having me and come visit holton sometime. I would love to we love maine, so i will i will definitely think about it next time were up your way thanks again and get those Viewing Glasses ready. This is a rare opportunity that wont come around for two decades can join us here at cnn for special live coverage of the eclipse across america. We start today at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. You can also stream it on macs my time now for sport South Carolinas Womens Basketball team caps and undefeated season with a National Championship and they took their revenge against Caitlin Clark and iowa along the way. Andy scholes scholz has this mornings bleacher any your back . Good morning good to see. Yeah. I yesterday we had the best player and Caitlin Clark versus the best team in South Carolina for the championship. And in the end, it was the gamecocks completing just the 10th undefeated season and d1 history, but that wasnt easy. Caitlin clarks came out just on fire in his games. He scored 18 points in the first quarter, but then or johnson would just put the locks on clarks you held clark to just 12 points, the rest of the way and kamilla cardoso, what can you say about her dominant dal low for South Carolina . A lot ad 15 points and a careerhigh 17 Rebounds Gamecocks would when at seven and 75 to claim their second title in three years they werent going to be denied. So i am so incredibly happy for our players it doesnt always let you wanted them much like last year. But but my friend, shes are at the top of my at the top of my heart because they wanted this and i hope we can erase whatever pain they had last Year Experience and not being able to finish it here so im just were proud of rao work. Im super proud of our fans this is awesome is unbelievable god daily. Theyre very emotional after the game in a really cool moment, she took time to recognize what Caitlin Clark did for womens College Basketball in her career i want to personally they Caitlin Clark for lifting up our sport she qarrah. She carried a heavy load for our sport and it is not going to stop here on a kalisa tour. When she is the number one pick in a wnba draft, shes going to choose going to lift that league up as well. So so Caitlin Clark, if youre out there you are one of the goats of our games are we appreciate you when i think about Womens BasketballGoing Forward. Obviously its just going to continue to grow, whether its at the wnba level, whether its at the college level, like everybody sees that everybody knows, everybody sees the viewership numbers. When youre given an opportunity, womens sports just kind of thrives and i think thats been the coolest part for me on this journey. Down the mens side, youve got an old school Big Man Match Up Tonight in the title game, seven foot zach edey and produce taken on seven foot two, Donovan Clingan and uconn. This is the first matchup between seven voters in the title game since ewing versus elijah, won in 1983 . The first ever between two guys over seven foot pointing is really good like he changes the game defensively, but offensively, hes a good player two were going hes hes just going to keep calm and hes gonna be a fabulous play or hes got 15 to 20 years in front of him. He understands the challenges that hes dealing with zach, edey. Its its just a its a unique matchup thats gonna be a heck of a challenge for our frog court, for our guards, for a whole team, because going to have to take It Team Effort to try to slow him down a little bit and you gotta try to become the first team. Went back to back men titles since florida back in 2007, pregame covered starts night seven, easter or Sister Network tbs tipoff, nine all right. Finally, huge bu in the call is coaching ranks according to multiple ports. John calipari is leaving kentucky after 15 years to become the new coates at sec rival arkansas, calvaria one a National Title back in 2012, but its just one inscrutable a tournament win in last four years, arkansas hasnt reached the final four since losing the 1995 title game. So casey, big move there and im sure one razorback fans are pretty excited about hoping that caliber i can elevate their mens basketball program. Yeah. For real big deal down there. All right. Andy. Thank you very much. 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