champion, as the activist and paved the way for every black player who came into the league after him, and including me. the world has lost a legend and my condolences to the family and may he rest in peace. this is from the boston celtics organization, bill is a champion unlike any other, and bill s dna is woven throughout the celtics organization with relentless pursuit, and from the individual glory to the commitment of social justice and civil rights on and off of the court. andy shoals is taking a look at bill russell s life and career. i took basic skills and egotistically speaking, i think they had the best command of all of the skills in basketball as a package of anyone who has ever played. reporter: the champion of champions, bill russell played the best of anybody in nba history, and he had one thing on his mind winning. one thing i loved to do was to be back on defense by myself and have a three-on-one coming to me, and i loved that. because over half of t
federal courthouse in washington, and this is cnn hello again and welcome. it s time to break bound the big stories with some smart people today, we re asking, following this supreme court s abortion pill decision, how will it change the debate over this highly charged issue then backfire. the unexpected fallout for gun advocates from hunter biden s guilty verdict and carded the head-scratching moved by a restaurant and keep some people over 21 from eating their the panel is here and ready to go. so sit back, relax, and let s talk about up first. a major decision by the supreme court allowing the so-called abortion pill to stay on the market. what s more surprising all nine justices agreed at a time when at least one of them is under even more scrutiny for his views i don t think we ve ever had a unanimous decision on anything related to abortion. the unanimous decision, a win for abortion rights advocates but it still leaves the door open for future lawsuits against the
that moment? i think jeff flake had what we might call a john mccain moment. remember when mccain put his thumbs down, some people call it a profile in courage moment, some after act of civility. he s obviously the bane of a lot of conservatives existence right now, the anger level at flake is coming from the hard right, not from democrats. but be careful, because jeff flake at the end of the week, if this fbi investigation goes forward and kavanaugh gets a clean bill of health, you will see flake, murkowski, and collins quickly jumping in on board with the rest of the republicans. they might even get a democrat or two along with them. so and then the left will not like that jeff flake. so i think flake did speak from the heart, he s a devout family man, a mormon, he doesn t drink. the behavior of kavanaugh and the weirdnesses in the calendar about ralphing and all these things we ve lived through this
republican, individual political interest of the house republican members is opposite to the political interest of the gop as a presidential party. they are veering down the road where where the members of congress are going to be safe but they will increasingly have no chance of winning presidential elections. this is one of the weirdnesses that our weirdo political system creates that these peculiar incentive. and this vote came the same day that john boehner put an editorial or op-ed that latinos, we are there for you and working on immigration reform. again, john banker not really control his talking points that s gets back to what we were talking about at the beginning there about, you know, john boehner comes that close to losing his speakership in january and knows it is the steve king s like forces in the congress that are the threat to him and king is basically saying linking what the
you re so smart. i learn more by the way, stood against the party on funding. went against the right wing church groups and everybody, all the ideologues on the right hated that law. and climate change, too. he did that, too. it s personal. it s nothing more than that. this is vendetta. this is what goes around comes around. the more i watch this congress, the more i m reminded of why the greek people said enough of this parliamentary system. they are blowing the republican form of government. the reasonable representation of people out there, not their own piques and weirdnesses. they re not doing their job. this isn t about the public interest. joy right or left. thank you, joy reid, and michael steele. coming up, are you now or have you ever been? well, those were the words that defined the red baiting of the mccarthy era back in the 50s. ted cruz demonstrated he d be comfortable having those words spill out of his mouth. can president obama beat the nra? wayne lapi