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
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
the horn. paul and the rest are here. kevin, let me start with you because you and i had conversations before, during and after the president started essentially harassing the league, harassing and bullying the owners and shaming the players for exercising their first amendment right to silent and peaceful protest. yeah, and this is just really a continuation of that now by the league because what they are doing, in essence, is vilifying and demonizing those players that would prefer to continue to protest issues of police lethality against black men in this country which, by the way, hasn hasn t waned all that much since the years colin kaepernick first dropped to a knee to bring this issue to the fore. it s really unfortunate. the good news is i think there are some owners in this league and we ve already seen it crack late this afternoon who are not down with this policy and are instead down with