league for just huge sums of money and the pga tour has retaliated and gens those players with bans. we have the host of cnn s world sport, don redell. i think the thing that is really stunning people here, don, is that it really is this 180-degree change from the pga s stance from when the saudi tour was first announced. absolutely. it also came completely out of the blue. it seems as though everybody was blind sided by this today. reporters, golf correspondents who spend their entire time around the players. even the players themselves. many of them read about this on social media this morning and they were absolutely stunned. and to really comprehend what a 180 this is, just listen to what the pga tour commissioner jay monahan said last june less than a year ago when this was kicking off and players were leaving to join the liv tour, defecting and
don redell joans us. what is the latest? he is cleared to play. i was at the united states training session and he was out there running drills. i wouldn t say 100% but definitely looking pretty good in the distinctive orange soccer boots and so important to the u.s. he is back in the team. he is known as captain america though he isn t captain of this side. it is a side that came into the world cup with basically no world cup experience. they are getting better with every game. they need him against the netherlands. they have only scored two goals so far and pulisic was involved in both of them. this is win or go home but in this these kind of games anything can happen. so i would imagine that an awful
excitement and interest in watching charlie, because he was very good last year. we should all just enjoy it. but this in no way implies that tiger woods is returning to golf. he says he ll never be a full-time golfer again. that s right. and even just playing competitively on the tour for one event is something that s a long way from where he is now. okay, well, thank you for that, don redell, i appreciate it. that does it for me today. thank you all for joining us. we ll see you tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. eastern. in the meantime, you can follow me on twitter at ana cabrera. thanks again for being here. the news continues next with alisyn and victor.
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