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Two of the best athletes who ever played the game are in trouble this morning. baseball great barry bonds convicted of federal charges of obstruction of justice and basketball icon kobe bryant fined $100,000 for using the f-word and an anti-gay slur against a referee during a game. want to bring in attorney and former in session anchor jami floyd to give us an idea, well, give us to give us her thoughts on both those cases. i want to start with bonds though, because i have been wondering about this, jamie, how can you be convicted of obstruction of justice but not lying? i knew you were going to ask that question, carol, i m ready for t they are very similar but perjury is a harder case for the prosecution to make, need to show, in fact, that barry bonds lied, those were the counts the jury couldn t come together on. essentially they compromised on obstruction. what they needed was greg ....
Nope. i want to move on to kobe bryant and play a bit of kobe bryant s performance for our viewers. of course, we couldn t play what he actually said because he said the f-word and ant anti-gay slur. he was aiming those remarks at revery. he was fined $100,000 he makes 25 mall year, that s just in his salary r oh, for god s sake. why bother? first of all it is $300,000 a game for kobe bryant. it s like fining you or i $10 or something. it s ridiculous. but i do think it is really important to make a statement to viewers to kids, for the nba to say look, not going to tolerate this maybe fine him more, but it did require kobe to step up to apologize it is more the statement the nba is trying to ....
Your future at stake. what s more important than that? we are talking about it after the break. plus, damage control for kobe bryant. the superstar drops an anti-gay slur on a referee and it s gonna cost him $100,000. that story s just ahead, too. ....
On overnight ships at two dozen airports. according to the labor department, the number of people filing for first time unemployment benefits increased to 412,000, up 27,000 from the week before. nba superstar kobe bryant is apologizing for an anti-gay slur he hurled at a referee, but he will still have to pay that $100,000 fine to the league. we begin this hour with a serious effort to raise the retirement age to 70 years old. it is one of the tough choices on the table in washington this morning, as all parties race to reach a banlgt grayment. this is a solution. we are not afraid to propose the solution and that s what this town needs. it s what the country needs s i leadership proposed in these solutions. tleechblgts republican senators are proposing to raise the age ....