d-day, why we still fight for democracy on an all new episode of the whole story. that s this sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern only right here on cnn. and thank you so much for watching news night. laura coates live starts right now. have a great weekend well tonight, donald trump turns his conviction into a cornerstone of his and pain. but will it work? plus american airlines soon after eight black men say they were kicked off a flight because someone complained about body one of them will be my guest tonight and laura coates live so. we actually have no idea what sentence judge messiah is going to actually hand down to donald j. trump next month, but we do know one thing for sure. donald trump is not leaving his political future up to this judge between now and november, donald trump is going to use that 34 count conviction to try to get to 47, the number 47 that is. and today, a furious trump railed against the verdict during a speech in trump tower. you know, trump tower
frequently over the past decade then maybe ever before my next guest argues american sports stability has now collapsed. and in his article titled how grievance splintered american sports, jerry brewer says this, i used to have no doubt about the unifying super power of sports i used to believe it was an imperishable kind of magic. i don t anymore or rather, i can t division has seized too much control jerry brewer joins me now. he is a sports columnist for the washington post. jerry, good to see you this evening. more on your article. and in just a moment. but i am curious about this event today at the white house. i mean, there was no mention of the kicker s speech at all. there was also no protests it went off without a hitch. are you surprised by that considering frankly, white house visits by sports teams under trump became so politically fraught and made it even happen at all. yeah, a lot of them didn t happen i was impressed that
i ll been who happens to be in a rock band, tours all the time and he flies and he no longer has or cheap flights. he has to look for flights an airlines. they re not going to discriminate against him. so it s a different thing now emmanuel jean joseph, we re going to continue to follow this tsukuba. thank you both for being here this evening. it truly is shocking and i really thank you for joining me tonight. i appreciate it. thank you next call it the grievance games from anger over kneeling to outrage over athletes calling for racial justice. why have sports gone from a maybe unifying force to a source of division? we ll talk about it next you have an excellent warren g t, blurring
remember this moment well, and you say the politicization and the division in sports was missing before this moment, but this was super charged at that moment. i mean, the former president has since sparked with so many sports figures there on the screen. just name a few what has the sports world? become so divisive yeah, look at that moment back from september 2017, as donald trump not being the culprit, but being the closer. and i think you have to go back, laura, for 12 years. go back to when trayvon martin was killed, which was the same de as the nba all-star game. in orlando? trayvon martin killed in sanford. and how that deeply affected the nba. that that led to sports be in part of the black lives matter movement, if you will, protesting police lethality it all kind of peaked