moving all-star game from atlanta. then the list of states attorneys generals challenging biden's agenda. arizona attorney general mark brnovich is here on his fight on hr1, the border wall and gun control. all here right now on sunday morning futures. ♪ ♪ maria: first up this morning president biden's unprecedented power grab as new lies surface about the infamous laptop purportedly belonging to his embattled son hunter biden. in a series of interviews, hunter rebound the narrative that the laptop can be part of russian disinformation campaign insisting that he's done nothing wrong and claimed that the office of national intelligence reached the same can go, -- conclusion, fortunately the former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe is here once again, once again to set the record straight. good morning to you john ratcliffe, thanks for being with us. john: good morning, maria, great to be with you. maria: it was pretty extraordinary that after you came out and told us the truth about this laptop not be

from president biden. >> what about the possibility that baseball to move the all-star game out of atlanta because of the political issue. >> i would strongly support them doing that, that is not right, this is jim crow on steroids what they're doing in georgia. david: our next guest says the message coming from biden and the democrats is not just a lie, now they have corporate america pushing their false narrative for them, the wall street jour want to make a name for yourself in gaming? then make a name for yourself. even if your office, and bank balance are... far from glamorous. that means expensing nothing but pizza. your expenses look good, and your books are set for the month! ...going up against this guy... and pitching your idea 100 times. no, no, no! no. i like it. -he likes it! ...and you definitely love that. intuit quickbooks helps small businesses be more successful with payments, payroll, banking and live bookkeeping. keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlis

president barack obama and biden support the boycott of atlanta. senator marco rubio blasting the mlb commissioner. he wants to know if the baseball commissioner will drop his own membership in the exclusive augusta national club and stop the mlb trying to make money in communist china and cuba? they are major human rights violators. on the show tonight, top georgia official bob barr, butch miller. ford o'connell with us too. along with douglas holtz-eakin, fred fleitz, chris bedford and congressman bride an babin from texas. we have more on the fight over baseball's boycott and dozens of companies who opposed georgia's voting law when they require i.d. from workers and customers. more from the white house and media, including cnn's don lemon, they are misleading, quote, gaslighting the public over georgia's new voting law. "60 minutes" now trying to claim a cut for quote clarity. governor ron desantis florida explanation, critics say "60 minutes" deceptively he had at this timed their report that governor desantis favored publix supermarkets, when

in atlanta we still don't know what the motive was for the shooter. he seemed to have a twisted sexual fantasy he would remove temptation if he could remove the women. ashley: yeah. it is interesting, but do you think the public at large buys that narrative, bill? that it is not only covid but it is trump, white supremacy, all part of the same thing? can we give the public more credit to see right through that? >> i give them credit. i think a lot of people are skeptical but you know, you have this whole architecture of this critical race theory coming out to explain everything and they're documenting more and more crimes. i mean one of the problems is there have been attacks on asian-americans for a long time and they basically been ignored. there is an article in 2010 in the mercury news out in california about a spate of attacks, in this case black on asian attacks in that area. it is not new. it is hard, so relentless, you hardly see someone saying let's find out what the facts are. it is meant to override the facts, to leave an impression and it

telling them that he was not going to do that citing the mlb decision to pull the all-star game out of atlanta over the controversial election law he said it's shameful that america's pastime is getting involved in politics. >> thank you grady, great to see you a dozen for us on fox business. "the evening edit" starts right now. liz: president biden'snd p big x incentive plan hitting a wall oe the senate up to seven senate democrats may reject the bidens tax hike that is according to joe manchin. it could be dead on arrival in the senate the president i didn't under without explaining that. if that's so why are they using tax shelters to avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal income payroll taxes as republicans point out with us now ron johnson, congressman tom emmert and buddy carter, jim trusty, art del cueto and we have more on the fighting family long history of using frequent use of off-balance shell companies to bury the cash from dealmakingre overseas. plus hunter bidens big 180 he does not remember if he owned the infamous laptop at the center of multiple probes. but he adm

he's in atlanta and he's talking to voters. what are they telling you? reporter: voters feel slighted by major league baseball and corporations. the conversation has changed on the ground here and one voter i talked with, void for prince said even some of the emergency action that was done in the last election were made permanent by the voting law, but he says it's up to the people of georgia and no one else, not the white house or anyone else, but the people of georgia to sort this out >> should have been more bipartisan as opposed to one side. that always raises problems. but the other side came out with the bill long before was ever ever signed and that site-- that starts a whole other frustrating level. no one is talking to each other anymore. reporter: he's frustrated by the rush to action in the rush to judgment on both sides. in business owner i talked to yesterday heard a lot of things about the bill, but he did what many others have not. >> it was very frustrating to find out it was actually happening and then to do a deep dive, personal dive in

atlanta not having the all-star game costing the city, as much as $100 million. back to you, ashley. ashley: i think baseball misread the whole thing. charlie gasparino, fascinating stuff, more on behind the curtains. thank you very much. spring weather here, time for new beginnings and change. today's closer says change is happening fast. the main street market narrative is not just keeping up. he says he has got picks that are. miles lewis, royce investment partners portfolio manager with 11 billion under management joins us now. miles, why isn't the market keeping up with the narrative? explain that quickly? >> i think there is change happening all around us. the way we live, the way we work, societal, social justice issues government, there is a lot of change to happen and narrative continues to be buy what worked last 10 years. megacap growth, tech stocks, large cap, bonds. when history says works develop 10 years it doesn't deliver very good forward returns. there is mentality buy the dip, not a regime change. we believe we're more on the cusp of a ridge ga

pull the all-star game out of atlanta over that controversial election law. he said it is shameful that america's pastime is getting involved in politics. dagen? dagen: thank you, grady. great to see you. that does it for us on "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" starts right now. elizabeth: tonight president biden's big tax-and-spend plan now hitting a wall in the senate. up to seven senate democrats may reject it the biden tax hikes there. according to democrat senator joe manchin. it could be did on arrival in the senate. president biden trying to argue the tax hikes will make the economy quote better without explaining that? if that is so, why was the president and the first lady using tax shelters to avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal income taxes, payroll taxes as republicans now point out? with us tonight senator ron johnson, congressman tom emmer and buddy carter, joe concha, jim trusty, darren porcher, art del cueto. we have more on the biden family long history using tax shelters to avoid taxes and their frequent use of off-ba

♪ david: a live look at truist park in atlanta. this, of course, is where the atlanta braves play. business around the park were hoping to cash in from this year's all-star game, now they're grappling with huge losses. edward lawrence, how much money are businesses going to lose from this? >> reporter: it's not just the direct impact, it's that money that comes from people coming in and spending here. you know, it's a gut punch, disappointing. those are the terms i've heard from business owners about moving the game over to colorado. this is manuel's tavern, lunchtime here. the owner had planned a bun bunch of activities leading up to this game, but it's not just restaurants. i talked with the owner of atlanta rx, it's a cbd shop, and he says that he's looking at an economic impact. listen. >> according to our analytics, about 10% of our business is from out of town. very touristy area, and we definitely will be affected by the all-star game moving to colorado. >> reporter: are you disappointed? >> yeah, very disappointed. >> reporter: and the cobb county travel ask tourism board s

liz: we hear what you're saying, we hear you, president biden advocated for baseball boycott of atlanta, georgia, they are silent about human rights abuses in china in major league baseball expanded in china, all of them silent about was going on inside of china let's listen to jen psaki talk about the boycott idea, let's watch. >> these are the winter olympics next winter so sometime away as it relates to the second part of your question and our hope that we are at a point that enough people across the country have been vaccinated but we will rely on health and medical experts on that particular piece our position on the 2022 olympics has not changed and we are not discussing any boycott with allies and partners, we consult closely with allies and partners at all levels to define our common concern and establish a shared approach but there is no discussion underway of a change in our plan regarding the beijing olympics on the united states point of view. liz: that is a really strong push back, real shutdown of state department official ned price who suggested this, they are saying abso

but it's quickly jerking into a embarrassment after moving the all-star game from atlanta to georgia over georgia supposedly voting rights laws the prominent colorado's voting rights law, awfully similar embarrassingly sober if you think the hypocrisy is good then pined to your batting thousand for the mlb is when the corporations have spoken out against the georgia laws which do sinister things like calling for voting id requirements. coca-cola, delta air lines, they are among them. early today senate majority said this whole situation is absurd. >> most type major league baseball is pretty important corporation. if they applied the same standard they apply to georgia, they could not have games in st. louis because missouri has a more restrictive voter law than georgia, then the new georgia law. what about the yankees? new york has a more restrictive voter participation law then they new georgia law. where is it at? so, my warning if you will to corporate america is to stay out of politics. >> gave big dumb dumb son let's go yankees by the staff and present biden responded to questi

on friday the mlb announced its decision to move the game out of atlanta in response to georgia's new voting law which it obviously did not read, a move which could cost the city millions in potential revenue. markets are lower, take a look at futures, indicating a decline at the start of trading after the dow and the s&p 500 hit record highs yesterday. in the first trading session of the holiday, after the holiday, as fiscal stimulus and vaccinations are now flooding the u.s. futures this morning are looking like a downer of a morning, down 34 points, the nasdaq down 28, s&p lower by 7 and-a-half. joining me right now is national securities corporation chief market strategist, art hogan. also joining the conversation all morning long this morning is fox business' jackie deangelis and chief investment officer, nancy tangler. thank you for being here. art, great to have you. let's talk about the first quarter earnings that are about to come out as well as all of the spending. your thoughts on where we are this morning and what will be most important in terms of driving the direction ov

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it is going to hurt the people of atlanta who are depending on this, who work hard for this. who are counting on this. they pick up and move it, the game out to rockies, out to coors field out in denver. it makes no sense to me especially when you consider the law, the actual facts. facts matter and in this case, there is nothing that i can see in the law itself that limits, that limits voting in the state of georgia. elizabeth: yeah. you know, major league baseball admitted that they moved the all-star game from georgia because of pressure from president biden criticizing the georgia law. you know, we hear what you're saying. the mayor of denver, colorado, he is cheering this on. he said his region, his area will get 100 million bucks. butch miller of georgia, a top state lawmaker broke down what is happening here. guy, i would like your comments after the sound bite of what butch miller said about this. watch this. >> georgia has a voter i.d. colorado has a voter i.d. georgia's voter i.d. is free. colorado charges $1.67 for their voter i.d. colorado has 15 days of early vot

but what really went into the mlb's decision to move its game out of atlanta? guess what? charlie will break it. he'll be here to explain more behind the curtain of what went on. also let's check the big board. well, there you have it, it's been flat for most of the day, and it's the same story with the dow with less than 20 minutes until the session is closed. "the claman countdown," though, will be right back. ♪ ♪ new projects means new project managers. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a short list of quality candidates from our resume database. claim your seventy five dollar credit, when you post your first job at indeed.com/home. ♪ ♪ we made usaa insurance for veterans like martin. when a hailstorm hit, he needed his insurance to get it done right, right away. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa want your workout to be easier, more effective, and more convenient? usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. then you should try aerotrainer by golo. the new full body workout that you can do

. >> natasha chen is in atlanta for us. how do other officials and georgia voters feel about this move? >> reporter: pamela, let's start with the people standing with governor kemp today at that press conference. he was flanked by both state and federal lawmakers applauding him for not wavering on this voting law, applauding him for denouncing what he calls this ka cancel culture that mlb intent to the left and pro-athletes and others congratulating mlb to relocate the all-star game. talking to people just walking past the park we heard from a neighbors who said he fully agrees with governor kemp and said it is unfortunate that the local businesses lose out on the revenue from this game. that particular issue of local businesses hurt shared by everyone but these couple of young voters told me they understand where mlb is coming from here. >> i think they made the right decision for them. just like i said it is disappointing that it affects local businesses, fans, people that would have come into the city and provided the ci

now that you have joe biden even claiming that it may be good for the all-star game to move out of atlanta, here is the question i have, who does that help? who does the boycotts help with this not help the georgians who plan to work that event, maybe the hospitality industry that they're going to make up some losses financial losses they had during covid, there is a reason even stacy abrams came out and said these boycotts are harming the people they say they're trying to help. i don't understand the game plan other to say this is a long push for changes on a lateral level federal level hr when i think that's with her ultimate pushing for. before you invoke the phrase of old which is worse than jim crow. jim porro on steroids which is historically illiterate. so kevin i want to come to you. i understand you probably do not support the law, but shouldn't president biden not lie about the law? he was last week in a press conference making statements about what was in this legislation involving what he said was curtailing boating hours on voting day to target workers. it turned out that was

you'd think a company in atlanta would find a black person to place in one of those c suite offices. later in the show we'll be taking a closer look at woke capitalism and what we can do about it, but we're going to start with a look at the covid pandemic. by any measure, the progress we're making is enormous. more than 100 million people in the u.s. have now received the vaccine. the economy is now opening up, indeed, the u.s. is doing better than most major economies in the world. this week, the imf forecasted it would return much faster than most of the g7 countries. yet they seem determined to downplay the progress that's been made. in fact, to listen to them, they actually seem to want to keep us locked down and terrified indefinitely. >> we aren't at the finish line. we still have a lot of work to do. we're still in a life and death race against this virus. the real question is, how much death, disease and misery are we going to see between now and then. now's not the time to celebrate. gerry: the media, of course, is weighing in. the coverage in most of the newspapers these da

"atlanta journal-constitution" poll found nearly 3/4 of voters want additional voter i.d., including 55% of liberals and 2/3 of blacks. we have senator marco rubio saying delta air lines your hypocrisy is stunning because you're still working with china still oppressing muslim uyghurs, numerous people in population. companies like delta air lines, coca-cola. the state of georgia is moving to rescind a tax break for delta air lines, is that true? are you going to do that to other companies. >> that was a movement in the georgia legislature last night and the session has ended so that a moot point. i would ask the ceos, mr. chenault, mr. frazier, ed bastion, mr. quincy look at other states that they're doing business in or where they reside and compare the amount of -- we have 17 days of in-person early voting in georgia. we increased more opportunities on the weekend. we have no excuse absentee voting by mail. some of those states and folks i just mentioned, they're living, doing business in states that you have to have an excuse to vote. so i think if people compare georgia to any ot

over half of the population in atlanta is black. the revenue loss from the all-star game going away could total more than $100 million in lost tourism revenue to the area according to one official. but when you're looking at the voting laws, the reason why mlb moved the game out of georgia to colorado, when you compare the two states, colorado has fewer days of early voting than georgia. 15 days to georgia's 17. both states require a valid i.d. to vote by mail and in person. they also both allow no excuse vote by mail. but politicians on the local level in georgia could be having the biggest impact on businesses that are choosing to take a political position on this. georgia house voted to strip delta, one of the outspoken corporations of millions of dollars in tax breaks. the georgia senate still has to weigh in on this before the bill potentially could land on the governor's desk for him to sign offer on. but the bottom line is, there can be consequences on the local level for these corporations. we also, david, did reach out to m

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atlanta is 52% black, denver is 10% black. colorado requires voter id. how is it possible that these titans of industry didn't even read your new law and just came out and rolled over for the progressive mobs? >> yeah, that's exactly finish they folded like a wet dish rag are to the cancel culture. i mean, it is woke in real life, and americans and georgians should be scared. what are they going to come after next in -- next? what value do you have that they're coming after next? are they going to come after your small business next? because that's who's getting screwed here, maria. it's the small business people that have have profited from the all-star game. and and now moving to colorado, they have a voter idea. president biden's been talking about how bad voter id is. he did the pregame for the ncaa championship the other night that was all held in indiana. that's the birthplace of photo id. that's where the first lawsuit that was upheld that says it's okay to have a voter id. most americans and most georgians support this. this is so hypocritical x.

live, from cnn-world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here, in the united states, canada, and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber, and this is cnn "newsroom. " >>> it's a specific kind of terror, that only seems to, constantly, haunt the united states. mass shootings. the most recent took place, thursday night, at a fedex-ground facility in indianapolis, indiana. eight people lost their lives. that horrific news is compounded by the number of similar incidents, in recent weeks. in fact, it's the 45th-mass shooting in the u.s., since the atlanta-area spa killings, on march 16th. and some cities have had more than one. now, cnn defines a mass shooting as one, in which at least four people are hurt or killed by gunfire, not including the gunman. officials say they won't reveal the identities of the people who are wounded in that shooting friday but they have released the names of those who lost their lives. they are 32-year-old matthew r. alexander. 19-year-old samaria blackwell. 66-year-old amarjeet johal. 68-year-old jaswinder singh. 48-year-old amarjit sekhon. 19-

hank aaron, pulling the game out of atlanta. it's totally the opposite. hank would have been the first person in line to get rid of this thing. outside of his family, nobody talked to hank more than me as a journalist. and hank aaron, along with jackie robinson, were the two biggest advocates in baseball history when it came to civil rights. and jackie robinson was an idol of hank aarons. hank told me that he had talked with every president since john f. kennedy, and that comes out to about ten, to barack obama. hank said that he refused to go to the white house to meet with donald trump or have any part to do with that. i think that would qualify as a boycott. he had no problem with boycotting whatsoever when it came to civil rights issues or racial issues. >> you knew him well, we will definitely take your word for that. there's been a lot of corporate backlash. delta and coca-cola among these corporations that have condemned this voting bill that was signed into law with the delta ceo saying it was all based on a lie. but is

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i'm edward lawrence talking in atlanta talking about georgia law. they want law i makers to listen to one other. some like the law. some doesn't leak the waa. they should allow people all the way up to the polling site door, not 150 feet away. they hope the national attention will push people to change the law. >> people listen to respond, not listen to actually understand. i'm not saying that one side or the other is going to be completely happy with everything that is done but a think a lot more listening can be done. reporter: others agree with the law it actually expands voting by adding 17 days of early voting, including both weekend days. yesterday we were at manuel's tavern that almost went under after 65 years of business during the pandemic. the community rallied to save the tavern. overall the law is not bad but reaction to the law has been disappointing. >> we're manuel's tavern. so much happened in that little tavern between all the different groups that wanted to get stuff done. they all got together, over a beer, made it happen. we're

, atlanta is 51% african-american. they moved the game to denver, which is 9% african-american pure explained to me how remotely you are a racial social justice warrior by taking jobs in $100 million from thousands of african-american owned small businesses in atlanta, from thousands of african-american workers in atlanta? this has nothing to do with substance or racial politics and everything to do with corporations enlisting in the democrat vision to transform america. stuart: i have to leave time for this, yesterday you grilled president biden's justice department pick, kristin clark, over her past op-ed calling to defund the police appeared i have time to roll the exchange pure roll the tape, please. >> do you still believe in is a good idea to defund the police? >> thank you, senator, for that question pure i do not support us defending the police. >> do you believe you were wrong last year when you called for defunding the police and investing less in the police? >> it was a poor title chosen by the editor. >> in

that will hurt a lot of black workers in atlanta. what do you think. >> its way to hurt a lot of families and georgia. when you thing about this, about jim crow on steroids there is no place for politics and name-calling in baseball or business. i don't think it's appropriate, the president misspoke at the very least and he should apologize frankly, it was unfair, ridiculously of what he made. if the president of the united states someone around him should've been helping them. liz: 35 states in dozens of countries have voter id including canada and france but a lot of leading coverage of this let's listen to chris christie go after democrat stacey abrams for hypocrisy on this. watch this. >> stacey abrams was in new jersey in my state praising phil murphy this week for a voting law were new jersey early voting is nine days, half of what georgia is, yet she is on tv in new jersey, i saw it myself say this is one of the greatest voting expansions was ever seen but this is jim crow. liz: what did you think of that. >> chris christie st

in fact, this is the 45th mass shooting in the area since the atlanta killings on march 16th. a mass shooting is defined as one four people are hurt or killed by gunfire, not including the gunman. officials say they won't reveal the identities of the people winded in that shooting on friday but they have released the names of those who lost their lives. they are the following. investigators in indianapolis are combing through what they called a chaotic crime scene. they also identified the gunman and revealed how he ended on law enforcement's radar last year. jason carroll has that, plus details on how the horrific incident unfolded. >> i saw a man with a machine gun of some sort, an automatic rifle and he was firing in the open. >> eight dead and several others injured after a gunman opened fire in indianapolis at a fedex facility. >> we started hearing six to around ten shots. this made me stand up and actually look at the entrance door. >> my buddy levi saw somebody running out of the building and then more shots went off. somebody went behind their car to the trunk and got

other states including denver which is actually more restrictive than -- than what you're seeing in atlanta georgia, gianno. gianno: absolutely. absolutely. i think about over the 200 companies who boycotted around the issue of voter id when 69% of african-americans supported and 60 plus percent of democrats actually supported is beginning to feel like this culture is marginalizing african-americans considering the fact that they wouldn't have possibly been by way of projections $100 million of investments in the atlanta, georgia area. so is woke culture becoming poisonous to individuals who they claim to support? that's my question. maria: yeah. good question. mark. mark: yeah, i mean, this whole -- this whole situation is absolutely crazy. you know, the critics say that the new georgia law is supposed to disadvantage minorities, but isn't it racist to assume that minorities don't have id's to be able to vote in the first place. that's pretty racist to me. that is all crazy. m ll is hypocritical. they are pushing draftkings all of the time. it's unbelievable. maria: yeah, it's certainly di

atlanta is majority african american and yet yet major league baseball decides to punish atlanta. it doesn't make sense. they are so inconsistent whatever they do. i agree with you, if you are going to do this, do it to every state, be fair to everybody but they don't want to go that route. this is a gift, political gift to the republican party in georgia. i think brian kemp has done a very good job. he has been very even-handed on this, as has the state legislature. this was not some bill dropped overnight. it was debated over the entire legislative session. they knew about it. everyone was invited to the table. elizabeth: got it. biden and democrats are accused of misleading, bullying and pulling down atlanta with a phony, with the boycott based on a phony racism charge. like the major league baseball and companies and democrats don't know what they're talking about. they didn't even read the georgia voting law. you got president obama calling for baseball and companies to boycott georgia. remember when obama sat next to raul castro in communist cuba to watch a baseball game in

live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> the u.s. justice department has now opened a sweeping civil investigation into the policing practices of the minneapolis police department. that announcement from the attorney general comes one day after former police officer derek chauvin was convicted of murder in the death of george floyd. >> the investigation i am announcing today will assess whether the minneapolis police department engages in a pattern or practice of using excessive force, including during protests. the investigation will also assess whether the mpd engages in discriminatory conduct and whether its treatment of those with behavioral health disabilities is unlawful. >> this investigation comes in the wake of a verdict welcomed by many across the u.s., and now derek chauvin sits in a maximum security prison in minnesota after his conviction. the latest now from cnn's omar jimenez. >> find the defendant guilty. >> reporter: with a guilty v

dell computers in texas, and american airlines, and in atlanta, delta and coca-cola. sports business is trillion dollar global scale, trillion dollar domestically ecosystem. they depend on each other, media, corporate sponsors, fans, right now to your point, neil, it is fans that are losing in this ecosystem of imbalance. neil: i'm just wondering whether the fans protest by either not watching on tv or not going to the games, even where there are, you know, limited if any restrictions on crowd capacity such as arlington, texas, where you can fill it to the max and not have any issues? i'm discuss wondering whether it might show up that way? people drop out on the attendance when baseball desperately needs them? >> baseball is absolutely fan attendance driven sport unlike others the does. they don't have the television deals and merchandise, which led to 70% drop in the covid year. baseball is looking at this presumably from a balance sheet standpoint first. within that what are key drivers and indicators, kpis, give u.s. the red flags or green flags in the proverbial

major league baseball is moving the all-star game out of atlanta into denver. that is too much for mitch mcconnell. the hypocrisy as it always seems to be is off the charts here. i will explain. make sure you sit down and watch, okay? facts first here. mr. mcconnell blasting corporations for taking a stand on voting rights. the same mitch mcconnell who, for years, has defended the first amendment right of corporations to hand over millions of dollars in political spending. remember citizens united? but now mitch mcconnell says this. >> i am not talking about political contributions. most of them contribute to both sides. they have political action committees. that's fine. it's legal. it's appropriate. i support that. i'm talking about taking a position on a highly incendiary issue like this and punishing a community or a state because you don't like a particular law they passed. i just think it's stupid. >> it's stupid. suddenly, corporations don't have first amendment rights after all? hmm? not many disagree with them. tim scott tweeting this misleading compar

out of atlanta. there were a lot of people disappointed. and i commend rob manford for reaching out to different individuals, different entities, different groups, including the players alliance to disengage and all that went into him making that decision, which he ultimately did. >> he got your pulse, you spoke to him before the decision was made. what did you say to him? >> i told him we had a chance to talk to some of our members of the players alliance, we comprise about 150 current and former black ball players. we have non-black brothers that have played alongside us, both on and off the field and in between. we got a chance and you can imagine guys on both sides of this thing, voicing their opinions him we were able to provide that insight to rob. i appreciate him reaching out to us. as he is trying to understand what's going on, you definitely can't predict the players that will be ultimately playing in this game. all eyes will be on them, whether they decide to take the field or they're disa

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live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here, in the united states, canada and around the world, i'm kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." nope ♪ ♪ >>> in just a few hours a new witness is expected to testify in the trial of derek chauvin, the former police officer accused of killing george floyd last summer. the court got a glimpse of new videos on day three of the trial showing floyd's deadly encounter with police and witnesses expressed how helpless they felt as they stood and watched floyd die. cnn's sara sidner has details from minneapolis. >> reporter: on the third day of testimony we heard no doubt the most powerful, emotional and poignant testimony from a 61-year-old man who normally walks the neighborhood. he began with kind of a funny anecdote that he was just being nosy when he heard the commotion outside of cup foods, but then he breaks down in uncontrolled sobs as he watches what happens between george floyd and the police officers. 61-year-old eyewitness charles mcmillen took the stand breaking down in sobs after prosecutors played

were as well so now you have joe biden claiming it may be good for the all-star game to move out of atlanta. who does that help? the boycotts help? it doesn't help georgians who plan to work the oven, maybe hospitality industry without they would make up losses, financial offers they had during covid, there's a reason why stacey abrams came out and said the boycotts are harming the people, they say they are trying to help them. i don't understand the game plan other than to say it's a long push for changes on the federal issue, federal legislation, hr one, i think that's what they are ultimately pushing. >> you say relic of jim crow, that's almost welcomed demagoguery compared to what biden said which is worse than jim crow. jim crow on steroids which is historically illiterate. kevin, i understand you probably don't support the law but shouldn't president biden not lie about the law? he was last week in a press conference making statements about what was in the legislation involving what he said was curtailing of voting hours on voting day to target workers and it turned out that was absol

reporter: the commissioner of baseball says moving the game in the dropped out of atlanta demonstrates the values of major league baseball. county travel and tourism bureau estimates moving the game will cost local businesses including minority local businesses more than $100 million and senator chuck schumer said new york should host the all-star game and ironing is new york election loss offer fewer early voting days than georgia does and also no one can pass out food or water valued at more than a dollar in new york and new york ex .-dot fires an excuse for an absentee ballot in georgia does not, just ballot identification card is what you need to buy alcohol or even your covid vaccine. ashley: interesting. thank you. we should point out call the county which is where the game would be held voted for joe biden and now they will lose millions of revenue by not hosting the all-star game and we know major league baseball has come out against georgia's law to show id to vote, that mlb teams still require fans to show photo id to pick up their will call tickets and baseball is not the on

, moving it to denver which i might note atlanta is 51% african-american denver is 9% african-american. so good job baseball you care about racial equality so much that you took 100 million dollars away from largely african-american small businesses, and atlanta and moved it to bunch of lily white businesses in denver. you've shown your virtue through and through. and i have to say my attitude i'm fed up with it. i'm sick of it. i think a lot of americans are sick of it. and so i announced this week as of this point going forward i will not accept any contributions from corporate packs not a penny in nine years corporate packs contradicted 2.6 million to my campaign and i've decided enough is enough. that if they're going behave as enemies of the american people, enemies of liberty if they're goapg going to engage in lice and willingly be weaponized as economic tools of punishment for the democratic party and the radicals, who are doing enormous damage to the country that -- that i want nothing to do with that endeavor. >> fair enough. senator cruz, you speak right to the issue, and we