i know you re in training right now. how much is this weighing on your heart and your spirit as you re trying to get ready to qualify potentially for the spots available? for me, it s bus as usual. we don t really think about where we are going to perform. we don t think what we are going to do. we think about the olympics. for me personally, if this were on mars, i would perform there. that is what i it into my training every day. i m working and try to give a stand-up performance and do something not only america is proud of but the lgbt community around the world. megan, you came out last year and declared your status. as we know that you support all other athletes that are in training. you know how hard it is. johnny, among other 80 athletes are protesting this russian law. thousand by other summer olympians like yourself and rally behind olympians like
i always believed that this was a long term project. this wasn t a short term project. and, you know, for individual americans who are struggling right now, they have every reason to be impatient. reversing structural problems in our economy that had been building up for two decades. that s going to take time. it s going to take more than a year. going take more than two years. going to take more than one term. probably takes more than one president. now more on that investigation of memphis. sexual abuse allegations are surfacing against the head of the amateur athletic union. two men tell espn that robert bobby dodd molested them back in the 1980s when they were playing on dodd s aau basketball team. cnn george howell is in memphis. he joins us now live. so, george, what more, if anything, is being said about these allegations? reporter: fredericka, we just got off the phone with police. they say there s an active investigation into bobby dodd. the amateur athletic un
i want you to see. one of them, a nascar superstar who will be racing next week in honor of the 9/11 pentagon victims. ryan newman will join me live from the atlanta motor speedway. also this morning, an exclusive. another comedian saying something he now has to policies for. katt williams is who we re talking about, joining us live here on cnn, just minutes away, asking him about his controversial remark made about mexicans during a stand-up performance in phoenix. those comments have him apologizing. from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is your cnn saturday morning. i m t.j. holmes. glad you could spend part of your holiday weekend here with us. labor day often means politics. specifically this morning, though, sarah palin and the tea party. she is the main attraction at a rally in iowa today, even though she s not an official candidate, at least not yet. cnn political reporter peter hamby is in iowa for us. peter, help people understand this. it s iowa, it s labor