coming. luring away top pga players like and dustin johnson. it reportedly offered superstar tiger woods between 700 and 800 million dollars to join, which woods turned down. the pga tour fought tooth and nail to stem liv golf s momentum, borrowing defecting players from competing in some events, engaging in legal disputes with the saudi tour. what s changed? the money went out in the end. the saudis had way more money than the pga tour. the pga tour, i guess, came to a conclusion that they couldn t didn t have the resources to continue. now, one of america s most iconic sports entities teams up with a tour backed by wealth fund known as mbs, the crown prince of saudi arabia, the man who u.s. intelligence said approved the operation which led to the murder and dismemberment of washington post columnist jamal khashoggi in 2018, which been salomon has denied.
one thing both sides agree on though is that there will be widespread and long spread consequences of this. and i think in particular the people of kherson suffering as they have for many months. this is a region, a city of what ukraine took back from march in november. it has been around a list the shelter ever since. and catastrophe unfold, you know one person killed in the region. 60 70 kilometers north of mykolaiv region, hearing of bridges collapsing there. the dnipro river, you can see that this is not isolated to a particular area. hour after hour, class of action for us, thank you for giving us the update. now a great day, when we come back for golf, sell it to the saudis. details on the new lines between pga tour and liv golf.
players like phil mickelson, bryson dechambeau and dustin johnson. it reportedly offered tiger woods between $700 million and $800 million to join which woods turned down. the pga tour fought tooth and nail to stem liv golf s momentum, engaging in legal disputes with the saudi tour. what change some had. money won out. saudis had way more money than the pga tour. the pga tour i guess came to the conclusion that they couldn t continue to fight the fight. they didn t have the resources. reporter: and now one of america s most iconic sports entities teams up with a tour backed by a well fund chaired by bin salma known as mbment is, the crown prince of saudi arabia, who approved the operation which led to the murder and dismemberment of washington post columnist jamal khashoggi in 2018 which bin salman has denied. basically the headline is never mind. everything that we talked about, outrage of the pga tour, how
ahead here on cnn newsroom. investigations intensifying as cnn has learned that donald trump s former chief of staff testified before a federal grand jury even as the classified documents probe picks up steam in florida. cnn is on the ground in parts of ukraine after the massive dam collapse in kherson. what we are learning about who is responsible for the damage. we have a live report. plus, shooting a one 80. after slamming lid golf for taking saudi money, the pga is now putting up a hypocritical slope. to partner with the liv golf. we begin with two major developments in the special counsel investigation of donald trump. forced, sources tell cnn a second graduate based in south florida issuing testimony of
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