Owners constitution. Effective immediately, i am damning mr. Sterling for life for many associations with the Clippers Organization or the nba. He may not attend any nba games or practices and he may not be present at any clippers facility and he may not participate in any business or personal decision involving the team. He is also barred from attending the nba governors meeting or participating in any other activity. Also finding him 2. 4 million from the maximum amount allowed constitution. These funds will be donateed to organizations, dedicated to antidiscrimination and tolerance effort that will be selected by nba. And its players association. Silver said he will do everything in his power to force Donald Sterling to sell his stake in los angeles clippers, according to nba constitution. To force sterling to sell the team, a team that sterling bought for 12 million in 1981. It has been valueed by some almost a billion today. Here is an excerpt of racially charged comments that for
Other threats facing this country. I dont share my opponents view that isis or other terrorists are going to cause the collapse of this country. America is strong, we have a strong smelter in the world and we are going to take on this thread, we have a strategy to do that, building an international coalition. The airstrikes have taken hundreds of fighters and we are working with over 60 nations to address this threat. But we dont need is our leaders raising concerns about our ability to take this on. We can take on anything that american sets his mind to do and that is what im counting on. Do think it was rise of president obama to rollout the use of Ground Troops . We have heard from the other generals that we dont need round troops at this time. If the president wants to send in Ground Troops, he needs to come to congress and ask for authorization for use of military force. When american interests are threatened, we reserve the right to take any action and i think that that is true i
We want to get that back so we don have to have schools with our teach. Thei want to go back to litany of nonsense he just talked about. Im proud to be county executive of one Million People, two to one democrat. Its the fourth most diverse county in new york and i can 13pointelect twice by margins with the help of democrats, of women, of africanamericans, and latinos, the latino vote in westchester county, in 25 of the africanamerican vote. The only im going to win this election, so i ask for your support in this election because we can make new york great again. But dont listen to his nonsense. When he throws out the race card idea. Ause he has no mr. Cuomo, one minute. As again, as opposed to rhetoric. Mr. Astorinos tax plan is tax cut for the rich, it would decimate public keanl would decimate the budget. Thear as race rests, federal government is suing one county executive out of 3,000 in the nation for discrimination, its mr. Astorino. Theyve taken 20 million from him. For discri
For biden. Former president george bush and his brother jeb not planning to vote for President Trump either. Well get to all of that in a moment. But first, in washington today, democrats unveiling a new plan to reform americas policing. In the 1950s, news cameras exposed the brutal horror of legalized racism in the form of segregation. 70 years later, it is the cell phone camera that has exposed the continuation of violence directed at africanamericans by the police. Empathy and sympathy and words of caring for those who have died and suffered are necessary but its not enough. We must change laws and systems of accountability. Joining me now to discuss, elisia garza, from the National Domestic Workers Alliance and cofounder of the black lives matter movement. Kristen clark, executive director of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights. And jonathan kay part. Is this a genuine inflection point, and how important is it that this is a broad Multiracial Coalition from around the world lead
Youre in the situation room. Triggered from an explosive report inside the Veterans Affairs, one after another on capitol hill, democrats are now calling for Eric Shinseki to resign and hes said to be on thin ice over the failures at his agency. Cnns drew griffith who broke this story will be live and ill speak with congressman jeff miller. Lets bring with our senior White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim . Reporter wolf, the writing may be on the wall for Eric Shinseki. The white house declined to say whether shinseki has the confidence of the president. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki is on thin ice. Today, the ice started cracking. As White House Press secretary refused to answer whether president obama had confidence in shinseki who is leading the review of the v. A. Scandal. How does the run the department if he doesnt have the full confidence of the president . How does he conduct an investigation if he doesnt have we look forward to the preliminary review that he ask