The l. A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling is at the center of the storm. Hes reportedly the voice heard making racist comments in a sometimes heated conversation with his girlfriend. New audio has surfaced in the past few hours, and this hour, were going to play long, extended excerpts for you. So sit back and listen. As this controversy swirls, the clippers lost todays game. During warmups, they wore their jerseys inside out so the team logo was obscured. Sterling did not attend. His wife did. Some are saying that was in bad taste. The controversy ast catching attention at the highest levels. Even president barack obama is weighing in. Well play those comments for you, as well. Then there is this the los angeles naacp has called off plans to honor Donald Sterling next month with another Lifetime Achievement award. They gave him one before, one in 2008 and one in 2009. Tmz sports obtained these tape recordings, we dont know how. Heres an extended excerpt of the voice, purported to be st
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Over. I want to talk about that and the kentucky results. Dana bash is there and Gloria Borger is in washington keeping the eye on the other key races. Dana, mcconnell expected to gate major challenge from the right, from the tea party. What happened . It turned out to not be much of a race at all. Reporter thats right. You know, as you said, he promised to crush the tea Party Opponent and that looks like what hes headed to do. At this point, it looks like matt bevin is probably not going to crack 40 and that matters because its all about at this point pitching forward to november and how much juice mcconnell can get first and foremost monk the republican friends and Republican Voters in order to beat the woman hell likely have a neck and neck race with, the democrat. Im watching mcconnell four years now try to deal and to play the tug of war with the idea of the tea party coming up and surprising a lot of republican colleagues, some of his fellow senators were beaten, outright beaten,
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