Distinguished leaders in the field of athletes rights and representation who can speak to a number of current challenges facing athletes across the movement. As we do, i want to take a moment to remind our witnesses and to all those who are here with us and listening on the live stream, that this commission is not just focused on olympic sports, but paralympic sports as well and i hope we will all be mindful of that. Id like to introduce our witnesses. First we have donald. Until last year he served as executive director of the National Hockey League Players association and he was previously the executive director of the Players Association for major league baseball. He has spent nearly half a century as an advocate for athletes and in doing so, not only help make our favorite pastimes more equitable and fair, but stronger and more commercially successful as well. We are also joined by a former prosecutor, champion athlete, pastor of the u. S. Opc, a longtime advocate for athletes Due
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Deadly tragedy. Fastmoving fire engulfings a south korean hospital two weeks ahead of the Winter Olympics. 47 people killed, more than 100 injured. An investigation under way. All that, plus sick day. The flu epidemic, forcing entire School Districts to close. We made the best decision that we could. Oscars noshow, the scandal that has embattled Casey Affleck dropping out of this years ceremony. And seeing triple . A photo shop fail gives Reese Witherspoon three legs and Oprah Winfrey an extra hand. Their picture perfect response today, friday, jain ar 26th, 2018. This is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. I dont know who did the photo shopping of that image but lets give them a hand, shall we . I mean oprah has had so many pictures taken of her and reese, theyll frame that one. The arrows tell the story. Well have more on that a little bit. That potentially explosive development connected to the russia investigation. Nbc news is confirm
Is out, but john, mike, and me, post nine for the hour as the dows trying to repair early damage down about 30 points right now. The big story though, some of the redstone coming out on the battle for viacom. Sources tell us the deal is in place bringing to an end nine months of legal battles. Sumer in and his daughter are coming out on top. The settlement posted three lawsuits under way without putting to test the mental competency which has been called into question. The sources tell us viacoms ceo will step down immediately and coo tom dually will become interim through the end of september. He is not exactly losing. Hell receive a 72 million severance package, and thats on top of 491 million hes brought home in compensation from his past decade at viacom. Now he is among the most highly paid ceos despite the fact that viacom vastly underperformed the s p 500 and sumer in red media giant cbs. He has until he steps down as executive chairman on september 13th to prevent his proposal