winning. this moment from the team s most controversial player megan rapinoe. megan rapinoe over the bar. [cheering] emily: rapinoe drew backlash from fans aftershe was spotted laughing after that crucial miss. chuckles turned to tears as the team suffered fastest ever exit from the world cup stage. critics are calling out the team for putting woke politics ahead of our country, with many pointing out team reluctance to sing for the national anthem. and alex says the women s woke politics are alienating americans. don t kill the messenger, this u.s. women s soccer team is polarizing, politics, stances have made this team unlikeable to a portion of america. this team built brand and derived its name from winning,
together for me in that period of time donald trump gave a speech to veterans of foreign wars in which he said something like i m paraphrasing but don t believe what you see. don t believe what you hear. only believe what i tell you. exactly. i mean if you don t have a better example of gaslighting than that, literally what you re seeing and hearing isn t actually what s happening. only i can tell you what s happening. it s remarkable. obviously many engage in gaslighting which is why it can become effective at the scale it is. i m struck by the fact there is a theme in trump, in part because i m wondering if gaslighting has become effective because of the platform and the messenger. it used to be don t kill the messenger. now you add a level of gravitas and possibility because it s coming from the person we call leader of the free world. he took it to a whole new art form, right? yes. if you think about it, it was really post 2016 we were
shall be valid or recognized in this state. cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in washington, d.c., this morning. boy, has this been playing out. we first heard the vice president joe biden. he says that he endorsed marriage equality and he is a roman catholic. how is this going to play out politically in washington? it puts president obama, in a way, in a bind because vice president biden and other top members of the administration has come out in favor of same-sex marriages. he does not. he supports domestic unions. but he does not support an amendment like the one in north carolina, which would prohibit rights for same-sex couples. what happens in north carolina now? this could have wide ranging impacts, and not just on same-sex couples but on male and female couples as well because it will prevent domestic partnerships in the future and any attempt at civil unions. north carolina also a battle ground state, a state that president obama won four years ago, he