former presidents are no different. all right, good morning, everyone. welcome to the cross connection, i m tiffany cross. as you just saw, to cap up the week, donald trump is feeling that heat, because his legal woes are piling up. from being sued by the state of new york, for 200 and $50 million for a large business fraud, to an appeals court siding with the justice department and allowing the doj to review classified documents seized from mar-a-lago, too, of course, now the special master demanding that trump backed up his claim that the fbi planted evidence during the search of mar-a-lago. trump has until next friday to prove that the judge is essentially like, we don t believe you, you need more people. you can guess how inspiration as inspiration as our reacting. of course, by throwing a fit online. you re with me is political contributor, jason johnson, who was like this morning, i will tell. you also joining me is msnbc legal analyst and civil rights attorney, charl
Houston Rockets head coach Imme Udoka announced Ben Sullivan, Royal Ivey, Garrett Jackson, Tiago Splitter, Cam Hodges, and Mike Moser as his new assistant coaches for the 2023-2024 NBA season.
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back with me, jason johnson. now, let s get into it. we re not defending the allegations against udoka, obviously, since nothing has been confirmed. but the punishment of one of the few black head coaches in the nba who will lead the celtics to playoffs to a championship is one of the most severe we ve ever seen, especially given what s happening with so many other people right now, in brett favre and server. what do you make of that? i make of that that this is a situation where we have a lot of speculation. especially in the black community, as you said, in the barbershops and beauty salons, because this is about the alarm. this is why we re interested, and this is why we want to know. but we don t know, and that s the issue here. there s so much out there that we people think might have happened, but we don t know actually happens, because udoka if it happening and the celtics
silence from the nba coaches union. usually, in an instance when someone gets suspended, the union comes out and says, hey we re going to investigate this. we re going to appeal this one by or another. it s been 36, 48 hours, and we ve heard nothing from one of the more powerful unions in professional sports. why do you think that s the case? do you think that they think this is too big of a problem? they don t touch it? do you think udoka like, hey i m going to accept this. i have we heard in the union in defensive commentary about the suspension? i don t want to speak for you, but what i think are hinting at is half of the culture in the nba are black, which is a huge thing that lot of people don t know about. it s bigger than that. the coaches aren t talking. players aren t talking. former players aren t talking. no one is talking, and that is the thing i want to keep bringing attention to, is that when something like this happens and no one talks, it s usually pretty, pretty bad,