Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to cnn. This boarding, if there s something you wanted to get down before the end of august, you gotta do it today. Oh, yeah. Yes. It s august august 31. It is a rat for august. And the unofficial end to summer coming up soon. Good to have you with us. I m victor blackwell. I m has been flying, hasn t it? i am amara walker. Thank you so much for being with us this morning. Here s what s happening. The trump campaign, donald trump himself and his running mate, j. D. Vance, can t seem to pin down exactly where trump stands on abortion access in florida or nationwide, the about face. We re hearing from trump and how the harris campaign is looking to capitalize on it. You feel so bad you d have welch runner works a tragic story out of new jersey in nhl star and his brother were hit and killed by a drunk driver just hours before their sister s wedding how they re being remembered by fans and other players. New this morning, more evidence that trump s fede
behaving badly. ouch, son of a bitch! and severely mistreating animals. goddamn you. you know what i m talking about. what what you see is a power trip. they go into cages with tigers and seemingly dominate them as an extension of their own masculinity. these so-called kings took dominion over wild animals and made millions off their suffering. he was stumbling and falling over. it s traumatic every time their babies are taken from them. the netflix show is a ratings bonanza of mullets and mayhem. but the real story was short-changed. do you think enough attention has been directed to the cats themselves? they did not show the main victim. not surprisingly, it s been left to a bunch of women to clean up the mess.
Chiefs-Saints a Ratings Bonanza or Bust?
Patrick Mahomes pointing to the haters. | Jamie Squire/Getty Images
Much has been made this week of the 2020 NFL ratings slip costing broadcasters money. Simultaneously, the NFL is reportedly nearing a $100 billion broadcasting deal with those same networks plus Amazon, which is to say the financial sky isn t falling at NFL HQ despite the downward trajectory of viewership.
This week, the NFL gets another chance to redirect the ratings narrative as the AFC s top-seeded Kansas City Chiefs face off against the NFC s second-seeded New Orleans Saints in a potential Super Bowl preview.
Even with Drew Brees not expected to play as he continues to rehab from broken ribs, it s a dream matchup for CBS featuring the defending Super Bowl champions, the best quarterback in the NFL in Patrick Mahomes, two of the league s best offenses and two of the most loyal fanbases around. That it s being broadcast in the late window (4:25 p.m. ET) with Tony Rom
president? that s a real apples and oranges thing. one is legislation, and that s what the guns thing is about, in the states, in the congress. and whether this was in fact a kind of turning point moment. and i think, because of what you were saying before about video and the medium of the day, that these kids have figured out social media because they have grown up with it in a way. and social media is going to be what makes this happen. i happen to be teaching about that this year, and i can see it through their eyes. so yes, i would say that s lasting. as for stormy daniels, i frankly think that unless and until melania trump gets in this story, it s going to be a ratings bonanza, but the real question here is melania. the only woman frankly who can affect the narrative of donald trump is not stormy daniels, it s not any playboy model, it s