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many seasons, stunned and bereft. meanwhile, the early reaction from cleveland fans, long live the king. >> it's fantastic! lebron is coming back. we're going to have a winning basketball team. the republican national convention. it's a great time without all of that. now it's even more fantastic. go cleveland! >> joining me now is lenny wilkins, who played for and coached the cleveland cavaliers. so, you know what, it's an interesting kind of dichotomy. you had cleveland fans burning lebron's jerseys four years ago. now saying, this is great. does this all seem really surreal to you? >> it seems a little surreal, joy, but, hey, sales on jerseys are going to go up again. but, you know, listening i'm happy for lebron. he took advantage of the free agency market. he went to a team, as he said.

he wanted to win a championship. he wanted to win two championships. he did that. now he wants to come home to cleveland. if free agency is available to players, they should be able to use it just like owners or coaches or whoever when they want to trade a player, they can trade them. so i'm happy for lebron. >> you know what, i'm glad you mentioned free agency. as somebody who grew up really into sports and has kind of fallen out of it over the years, mainly because it is so much harder to keep up with where your favorite players are. you can have a guy be your absolute favorite -- and this isn't just about the nba. this is professional sports in general. sometimes they jump teams so much that the guy that was your favorite is now on the enemy team. and the guy who was the player you hated the most is now on your team. for a lot of people, i think, free agency is kind of ruining the sport because you can hardly keep track let alone keep rooting for the same players or teams that are still together. >> well, i understand that, and i see your point, joy.

and i think that we need to do a better job with free agency. we shouldn't make it so that players can control the situation, but be as it may, that's what we have allowed. the thing is, yeah, you want to put together a good team. you want to do sort of what san antonio does. to me, they put together a good nucleus then tried to add to that nucleus every year. they don't wait until the last minute to try and do something. and that's why they've had guys come in, they adhere to what the program is there, and everybody wants to be a part of it because they know that they can be a part of a winning situation. and that's what you have to establish with your franchise, is that you can win and we need to not wait until the last minute but to start to add players to that team before it gets too old. >> yeah, because as a knicks fan, i can't imagine reggie

miller going to the knicks or patrick ewing going to the heat. but at the same time, i see your point. empowering the players is not a bad thing. i want to read to you just to refresh your memory from the original letter that was sent by dan gilbert. it was published by dan gilbert back in 2010. this was what he had to say about lebron james in comic sans font. he said, we simply don't deserve this kind of cowardly betrayal. i personally believe the cleveland cavaliers will win a championship before the self-titled king wins one. he added, this shifted our motivation to previously unknown levels. finally, this shocking act of disloyalty sends exactly the opposite lesson of what we would want our children to learn. is it possible for that person, dan gilbert, and lebron jaimes o ever work together in harmony after that? >> i think so.

first of all, gilbert was hurt. he was hurt by the fact that lebron left. lebron didn't do anything wrong. he took advantage of the system. so, yes, he was very upset at the time. but i want to tell you something, joy. you know, while i was in cleveland, they were the best fans ever. even out in the snow belt when the coliseum was in richfield, we averaged over 20,000 fans per game. and that's considering with all the snow and everything. so the fans there are great. yes, you know, gilbert had every right to be upset. sometimes when you're upset like that, you react emotionally. if i'm lebron, that's how i take it. it was an emotional reaction by him. and listen, i'm sure that they must have had some kind of conversation. someone has. because if he really felt that way, and i don't think lebron would be going back there, but he's going back home. it's a great opportunity for the

cleveland fans. and i think that you'll eventually see him and gilbert hugging or shaking hands. >> in his letter, which i think changed a lot of previously skeptical fans' minds, which was really heartfelt that lebron dictated to someone in "sports illustrated," where he says his emotions after seeing his jerseys burn, after seeing the reaction of the fans kind of made him feel mixed. he said, when i think about it on the other side, what i if were a kid that looked up to an athlete and that athlete made me want to do better and then he left. he says, i met with dan gilbert, we talked it out man to man. who am i to hold a grudge? if you were back coaching the cavs, how do we reblend in a player like lebron when he made such a high-profile exit? we were talking earlier with a couple people here, and they likened it to a man who leaves his wife, goes off and marries another woman, has two gorgeous

kids, and then says, you know what, i want to come home. how do you reintegrate the husband in this situation back into the family? >> well, first of all, let me tell you something. that doesn't even compare. come on. with a family, with a wife, all of that. that's taking it a little bit far. however, if you know lebron, you know that this is an outstanding young man. he wanted to achieve. he wanted to do something better. i think he's still a great role model because, you know, you don't read about him hanging out in bars and in the streets and stuff like that. this young man has a lot of responsibility, and he takes responsible actions for what he does. so, yeah, to compare it, that's taking it a little bit far. but as a coach, if i have a chance to get a great player like that, certainly i'm going to try and surround him with some good players. i'm going to let everybody know right at the very beginning,

okay, this is our goal, these are ways that i think we can accomplish it, and if you want to get on board, everybody needs to adhere to what the precedent is going to be. so i think it can be done. listen, he wants to play. he wants to compete. and he wants to compete at the highest level. and so as a coach, that's what you should be interested in. you want to surround him with some good players. you want to make sure that we compete every night when we step on the floor as a team. that's what other players see and want and want to be a part of. >> i would advise anyone who can get to it to read that letter that lebron wrote. it is very heartfelt. i think it comes through he wants to be a role model. it's hard no tnot to be happy fr those fans in cleveland. good for them. lenny wilkins, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> up next, the influx of unaccompanied minors along the u.s. southern border is giving

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the u.s. southern border continues to be ground zero for the humanitarian crisis facing tens of thousands of men, women, and children fleeing drug and gang violence in central america. every day texas highway patrol boats follow jet skis crossing the rio grande river carrying smugglers and the families they've taken thousands of dollars from to get them or their children into the u.s. and every day families like this one who make it across the river are picked up in the marsh by border patrol agents. and it's sights like this, a family standing side by side as

they board a customs van, that drives home the reality of what these families are escaping. gangs and violence and fear great enough to propel them on a journey filled with uncertainty. earlier today, congressional hispanic caucus member luis gutierrez pleaded with some of his colleagues to remember the faces of these children when they find themselves using this crisis as just another excuse to play politics as usual with a president they and/or their constituents can't stand. >> when we see these children, we see the faces of our own children. we see the faces of our own nieces and nephews. we see the face of our community. and we're not going to tolerate those that want to exploit them for political gain and demonize them. >> meanwhile, a day after homeland security secretary jay johnson said his agency will run out of money by mid-august without the nearly $4 billion emergency funding requested by the administration, house appropriations committee chair hal rodgers says the president's

border security request is too high because, quote, number one, it's too much money. we don't need it. secondly, a lot of what he's requesting is being considered in the regular bill process for 2015. so we'll just wait until then. joining me now from the border in mission, texas, is nbc's mark potter. mark, what is happening today at the border? >> reporter: hi, joy. it's very clear people are still coming in. we saw some of them last night about a half mile to the east of where i'm standing now in an area called devil's corner. about 4:00, 5:00 in the afternoon, the rains were coming down. but people were still coming in. we saw a family walking up the road, a family of four. we saw a group of 28 getting picked up by the order patrol and brought through that muddy area to be put on buses to be processed. very clearly, this is still an active zone. but the border patrol is saying there seems to be a lull right now. not as many are coming through as before. maybe 1,000 a day as opposed to 1500 a day. we're also seeing this in the

catholic charities shelter in mcallen, the temporary station set aside for people waiting to go out. typically 50 to 100 families would be there. now just five there today. so it's quiet. the question is why. the big reason given by the border patrol is the train, the beast, has been derailed a couple times. it's back up and running again. agents saying maybe we'll have a busy reason. the other reason is the message from washington starting to resonate. the get tough message of deportation and that. but talking to our producer, who has spent time in guatemala and honduras the last week, she said, yes, that message is being heard. what she could see on the border is it was being ignored because the governments weren't trying to stop the people from leaving, so they thought it was okay. they knew the message, but they could still see people leaving despite it. joy? >> thank you so much, mark potter.

we've heard a lot of talk this week about optics. specifically the optics of president obama not visiting the border. but we've seen another version of that narrative develop this week, and specifically it's related to the politics of texas governor rick perry. this is a governor we've seen this week all about #bordercontrol, tweeting out pictures of himself in tough-guy poses and calling for the militarization of the border with an infusion of national guard troops. >> when you add that thousand national guard troops, the visual of that is what's so powerful. >> it's a deterrent. >> and that is what gets sent to central america very quickly, is that, you know what, this border is not porous anymore. you can't just come across anymore. >> optics. well, let's not forget this is the same guy who ran for president and famously made this comment about immigration during a debate in 2011. >> but if you say that we should

not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they have been brought there by no fault of their own, i don't think you have a heart. >> now as thousands of unaccompanied children flood across his state's border, perry has thrown all that talk of compassion out and thrust himself into the front of the line, railing against the president and demanding military boots on the border, leading washington post to ask, is rick perry the new face of gop opposition? but thst another question. how does perry lead the republican party against the obama administration an extension against immigration reform while keeping intact the booming economy he calls a texas miracle, when that miracle is largely dependent on low-wage, migrant workers. erica greider joins us now.

i want to the start with you, james, on that question of the duality of rick perry. because this is a guy whose state whether it's the building industry, the agricultural industry s very much dependent on migrant labor. so he's had this kind of softer attitude toward immigration up to now. >> there's more than a texas-size supply of irony and hypocrisy to go around in this whole thing, joy. the governor, as you suggested, talks all the time about the texas miracle and how great things are for businesses down here. last night, yesterday, while he was up and down the border, skimming the border in a boat with four 60-caliber machine guns mounted on it, there were 200 businesses in mcallen, according to the mcallen economic development corporation, visiting from japan and south korea. so what sort of optics does it send potential businesses coming to texas when they turn on their tv in the hotel at night and see the governor in a gun boat skimming up and down the river?

if the issue is children, are machine guns really necessary? that's the question. rick perry is trying to have it both way, as usual. but he's still relatively inconsequential in national politics, isn't showing up in the poll, and he's using this to try to gain back some traction. >> yeah, and it's interesting, erica. "rolling stone" has a piece up now talking about -- they call it lone star crazy and essentially saying that right-wing extremists have essentially taken over texas, that it's falling into the hands of gun nuts, border sealers, and talk radio charlatans. how much of what rick perry is doing is trying to repair his former image as a guy who's got some compassion and try to get right with that wing of his party? >> well, i think unfortunately, perry had struck a fairly moderate stance in his previous run at the presidency in 2011, as you mentioned. he was pretty widely shellacked for it by his own party.

historically, people like perry and governor bush before him, i think, have been a little more moderate and pragmatic on this issue. >> i want to play you, james, a little bit of rick perry's great adventure. his rebranding, his optics jury near has been arming himself, as you said, showing himself with all sorts of big guns and trying to look like a tough guy. this is him on sean hannity's show last night attempting to explain the border crisis and add a little bit of extra. take a listen. >> they saw the same type of tactics in afghanistan and iraq you're seeing with these individuals, which tends to tell me that the drug cartels and the terrorist elements out there are probably in some type of consort. i don't know. can't prove that. >> i mean, james, is this guy typically a conspiracy theorist? now you've got him trying to link iraq and afghanistan and terrorism to these children streaming across the southern border. >> he's not really smart enough to be a conspiracy theorist. he's also not smart enough to

look at what's really happened in mexico in terms of the cartels and in terms of u.s. relations and foreign policy in central america. if we would consider as a country the fact that the demand for narcotics in this country is what's causing it down there, then we'd end up blaming ourselves as well as mexico and the cartels, and we would all be responsible for what's happening on the border. we also have a culpability in what's happened in central america, and we're ignoring that. and it's easy for the governor to turn everything into a black-and-white question and answer, and he gives a simple answer and says, i'm a tough guy, we're america, let's secure the border. and it's much, much more complicated than that. >> but you know what, erica, the politics right now in his party are not much more complicated than that. essentially you have the talk radio ring running the party, and you have to constantly cater to that base that wants to hear more and more extreme rhetoric. meanwhile, if you look at the record of rick perry in texas,

"texas monthly" gave him a report card. a "c" for transparency and ethics. d-minus for public health. b-minus for higher education. if rick perry is trying to run for president, most people think he s on his actual record, how do you think he stacks up as a national candidate? >> well, as president obama said yesterday in austin, the middle class' success and prosperity is a critical issue for the country. perry has superlative on that. even on this, i think he's kind of developed into a bit of con speartorial language lately, but i think he's quite frustrated. you can talk about border security. >> last question to you, james. couldn't rick perry just call out the national guard if he wanted to? i mean, he is the commander in chief of the texas national guard. all of this talk about trying to

get president obama to do it, which would require congress' consent, has there been any talk from the governor's office of himself trying to do that? >> well, there are some national guard troops down here now. i think about 100 of them that help out the border patrol. i think the way that works, that the governor would have to declare a disaster to get the guard down here to deploy them. or the president could do the same thing and say it's an emergency and we need them down here. i think that this is going to happen. i think that the governor is eventually going to say the president is not acting, and we're going to take control of this situation. that'd be bad for business down here. it would be bad for everybody who lives here. sends the wrong message to the rest of the world and everybody who wants to come live in texas. >> indeed. what i'm looking at behind you doesn't look like chaos. >> it's not. >> erica and jim, thank you both. now a reid alert on the situation in the middle east. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is vowing to press ahead with a military offensive despite an offer from the u.s.

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it's time for we the tweeple. today you're buzzing about the news that lebron james is returning to cleveland. over half a million people have liked james' post on instagram confirming his decision to once again play for the cavaliers. even after owner dan gilbert attacked him for leaving four years ago in a viral letter published in the hideous font comic sans. you're sending tweets like this one. quote, does this mean we'll get to see an apology letter from dan gilbert in that sweet coming sans font? and this one. florida didn't expand medicaid

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sunday will mark one year since the verdict in the killing of trayvon martin. the not guilty verdict sent shock waves through the african-american community for whom trayvon martin has become a symbol of the complicated relationship between america and its boys and men of color. although the defense never cited stand your ground, jurors were instructed in the controversial law, and the case sparked a national debate about it. we caught up with some of the key figures in the trayvon martin saga, including his parents, and asked them what's changed one year later.

>> they were virtually silent as the verdict came down and shortly thereafter the chanting started again. >> huge reaction. protests around the country. calls for a boycott of florida. a new debate on race and guns. >> this is about more than just one man and one boy. this is about what's happening across the country every day. whether explicitly in real violence of or the implications around the fear of young black men. >> what's changed mainly is public opinion. >> it's more about letting people know about stand your grand, more people know about racial profiling. >> i think the criminal justice system has evolved since the tragedy of trayvon martin because remember, nobody knew what stand your ground was until this tragedy took sabrina and tracy's teenage son. >> the person that shot and killed my son is walking the

streets today, and this law does not work. >> i think it's really important because it's starting a revolution. >> we are -- >> we are. >> a priority -- >> a priority. >> i think there were a lot of groups who expected more change on the ground in florida. you had the dream defenders camping out and demanding the laws be changed. you had local lawmakers saying not one comma will be changed. >> i hope that on the anniversary people will be reminded that we have to define the legacy of trayvon. we won't let a court verdict or anything else but our community define the legacy of trayvon martin. >> there have not been any changes. one of the biggest problems is that african-american defendants who are the most likely to be on trial in our criminal justice system are the least likely to get a jury of their peers. so it's very common there are no african-americans on juries or only one. >> folks couldn't see trayvon as their child. so in the courtroom, you can't

see it, but you can see it now. folks need -- when you see another person, imagine if that was your child. people don't understand how important their vote is on jury duty. in a jurying you're one of 12 people, and your vote has all the consequences in the world on families. >> when we're called for jury duty, you know, let's stop making excuses. let's go get on the jury pool. you never know who's on that stand or who's in the defendant box or who's in the plaintiff box or what family is sitting behind the state. >> where have you seen the most impacts in terms of society? >> a year later, i think the broadest impact is the seeds for a new movement. a whole new generation are becoming involved, and not just politics but social justice. >> i think we're moving into the right direction. people are really fed up with

burying children, burying even young children and our youngly days and everything. it's a whole generation we're losing. so that becomes important and that has no color. >> the trayvon martin foundation. >> this foundation is going to focus on supporting parents who have gone through what they've been through. >> we're going to stand with the work of the trayvon martin foundation. >> it will also focus on providing mentorship to young people, trying to stem the tide of gun violence. >> this is the start of something that's going to be univers universal. >> we have a mother's day program that was a week after mother's day. we bonded. we encouraged each other. we laughed about the funny things of our deceased person. we cried together. we are healing together. >> we're here because we lost our children. but what can we do to better ourselves and show the world

that turning tragedy into triumph is what we're here to do. >> you know, people say, i know how you feel and they really don't know. so just seeing the mothers from chicago and california and florida and texas and just all over the united states, just new york, we just had mothers just come from colorado. you know? and it was just good to bond together with other mothers. >> this is personal for me. this is personal for me. it's nothing political for me. this is very personal, very near and dear because at the end of the day, i'm the one that have to go to the cemetery and put flowers on the grave and on his birthday put flowers on the grave, fourth of july just passed and he wasn't there. so, you know, that was hard. at the end of the day, you know, i think we'll continue to push and push and push until we can't

push no more. >> and when we come back, we'll talk to somebody who was a key part of the trayvon martin story, reverend al sharpton, host of "politics nation." stay with us. each year, 95% of homeowners won't have a claim. but if you do... [ glass breaking, dog barking ] ...with allstate, your rates won't go up just because of it. claim rateguard from allstate. your home protects you, protect it back.

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biggest protests early on in sanford, florida, in terms of connecting with the family of trayvon martin, with the parents, was the reverend al sharpton, our colleague here at msnbc and host of "politics nation" on this very network as well as his radio show "keeping it real." joining us right now from "keeping it real" is reverend al sharpton. truly the hardest working man in activism and television and everything. i know you're in the midst of your show. when you look at this one-year anniversary of the outcome in the trial, in the killing of trayvon martin, it was so divisive while the case was going on. do you think that divisiveness has remained as sharp now, or do you think it's dissipated? >> i think that some people are still polarized in terms of their opinion. but i think that there's been a growth in terms of uniting people around some of the core issues. there's been two parts, joy, to

this case from the beginning. one was the law, stand your ground, which is why i and national action network got involved when the family called us. i had never heard of the trayvon martin case until we were called by benn crump and the father. and the overall concern was stand your ground. how can someone be determined innocent and just walk out that night. the second was the trial itself. a year later we're still battling on stand your ground. if you know anything about civil rights history, a year is not a long time. it took nine years from the montgomery boycott to the civil rights act of '64. so we're still battling. and there are many groups that are battling in the state of florida and in other states. we just had a big march that trayvon's parents, and others and i led earlier this year. we continue to do that. but the case itself a year later. we have members of the jury now

that have come out and said, joy, he got away with murder. and if the law hadn't been there, we could have voted different. so i think a year later, you see what we didn't know a year ago today what was going on in the jury room where they felt handcuffed by the law, one or two that would have voted him guilty, and secondly, where we are with the law. >> you know, one of the things i think for me that was most poignant about what happened as a result of this young man and his death is that you saw a lot of younger people connect to activism in a really visceral way whereas before it might have been something in the history books. when you saw whether it was the rallies that national action network led in florida, or even here in new york when you saw people rallying in union square, a lot of young people have continued to say this is something that connected me in a sense to the civil rights movement. do you think that piece of it is still alive? >> absolutely. i can tell you from our rallies, from our youth department in national action network and in other groups, the naacp and

others, a lot of young people that came in during the trayvon movement remain there. i just was at essence festival weekend. a lot of young people involved. a lot of young people that have become active because they saw this was not about something that happened back in the day. this was them with the hoodie on. these are laws they have to face. for the first time i saw in a long time a large audience that are very commercially successful that we could never get involved. lebron james, jay-z came to a rally we had here and beyonce came to a rally we had here in new york a year ago around this verdict. so i think it changed america in terms of the perception of those that would be active where it wasn't just your regular activists, but people start saying, no, they're not crazy, they're speaking for me and i'm going to join them. >> yes, indeed. lastly, what do you hope a year

from now the story is that we're reporting. what do you hope has changed a year from now? >> i hope that we will be able to say we changed the stand your ground laws. i hope we'll be able to say we translated and was able to transform the civil rights movement in this country from just one dimensional but that we continue to deal with issues where cases raise the transformation needed in the criminal justice testimony and not that we just go case to case. we are not perry mason just handling cases. we're dealing with these social policies that these cases are framed under, and if we're to believe the jurors that went public, the reason zimmerman was acquitted and not at least facing a hung jury was because of the law in florida, not because of the evidence in front of the jury. >> yeah, indeed. that translates into the activism that is also going into things like the right to vote, et cetera. that piece of it, i think, is a positive out of this incredible

tragedy for this family. rev, thank you so much. i really appreciate you taking time out. you're a very busy man. >> thank you, joy. >> be sure to catch "politics nation" every weeknight at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. we'll be right back. avo: waves don't care what age you are. take them on the way you always have. live healthy and take one a day men's 50+. a complete multivitamin with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. age? who cares. you know how you look in the mirror and kind of go like this... it looks great but you can't walk around like this all day. where's the kitty kitty? kitty kitty! so covergirl and olay invented facelift effect firming makeup. it has an advanced olay firming complex that penetrates to plump skin with moisture... ...making skin look firm and smooth. get the firming power of a nightcream... ...plus luxurious coverage... ...and get your hands free for the important stuff. facelift effect makeup from olay ...and easy, breezy, beautiful covergirl. and try new de-puffer eye concealer.

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please, if any haitians are watching, there may be an impulse to leave the island to come here. this is a very dangerous crossing. lives are lost every time people try to make this crossing. >> that was then-homeland security secretary janet napolitano speaking from homestead air base in south florida on january 16, 2010. the migrants she was warning not to make that dangerous crossing were from haiti. and they were fleeing a devastating earthquake and mudslides that killed anywhere between 46,000 and 316,000

people depending on which government estimates you believe. either way, the haiti earthquake was a cataclysm, and in its wake, mass displacement, terror, people buried alive and even cholera became very real in the lives of the island's population of around 10 million. as part of the u.s. emergency response, south florida counties cleared the way for a 600-bed detention center and took in thousands of haitian men, women, and children, some unaccompanied. even as the official u.s. policy continued to be to deport any migrant who floated to america's shores undocumented with the exception of migrants from cuba under the cuban adjustment act in its so-called wet-foot, dry-foot policy which allows them to stay so long as they reach the shore. there's an exception to that blanket denial of refugee status to all other migrants. it's called temporary protected status. a homeland security department designation allows people from

countries considered too dangerous or too unstable to safely send people back to, to remain in the country, though not on a permanent basis. haitian activists in miami pushed for tps for haitians and finally got it on january 21st, 2010. at the same time, the u.s. undertook a massive rebuilding and resettlement effort inside haiti to encourage its nationals to stay in their country. you cannot prohibit people from moving under international law if they feel threatened, but you can create incentive to stay. the head of the u.s. agency for international development who led america's relief efforts in iraq and afghanistan and in sudan and during the 2004 asian tsunami told "the washington post" at the time. there are currently eight countries with tps, inclueing haiti, sudan, south sudan, somalia, el salvador, hop durs, anne nicaragua. two of which are among the three

countries where most of the 57,000-plus children who are being smuggled into the u.s. are coming from, fleeing drug, gang wars, violence, and mayhem. the u.s. took in 100,000 cubans and 25,000 haitians during the boat lift in 1980. 12,000 haitian migrants during that country's 1991 coup. and not nearly enough iraqis after we invaded their country and some of them helped us. every time there's been political turmoil and people screaming, send them home, but there's also a process, a legal process that's written into u.s. and international law, especially when we're talking about vulnerable children brought here by human smugglers from countries in clear crisis. following that process is the right thing to do. and that wraps things up for "the reid report." i will see you back here on monday at 2:00 p.m. eastern. and be sure to visit us online. ready for the weekend, "the cycle" is up next.

guys, not quite ready for the weekend because i got to know what you guys are doing. >> you got to know. it's going to be a big cycle friday. we lead with lebron. something that's a passion point for a lot of people in this nation, including toure. >> yes. >> it's true. abby has a great rant on the movie "chef," which i haven't seen, but she has. >> everyone should get out and see that. >> the boehner lawsuit, we're going to break it down. also, talk about the border a little bit. it's going to be a good show. >> indeed. i have two sons born in miami, so i'm going to go home and here a lot of rancor going on. i'm going to stick around here and watch "the cycle." it's probably safer. "the cycle" comes up next. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare?

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king james. he says, the hope of bringing the city its first major championship since 1964 was just too strong to resist. of course, there's been speculation about this for weeks now. king james spent his first seven years in the nba there in cleveland. devastating fans four years ago when he left for miami. but today there are celebrations in the streets. >> today i was in the office. my client was in there. i got the news. i kicked my client out, got on my bike, and came downtown. >> and of course the move is dominating twitter and social media. mark bishop is in cleveland. welcome and explain the impact of lebron's decision here. >> well, the bottom line is the impact is people feel we could start winning again. i say we because we take ownership of our teams. i've been out on the streets talking to the people.

they're ecstatic, but i did note to some that just a few weeks ago we booed this man every time he touched a basketball because he wasn't ours. >> let's talk about the impact on lebron. this is a guy who's had no significant scandals throughout his career, but still the decision created a lot of controversy, made him into an nba villain, made him very polarizing, made him appear very selfish for a lot of people. i was not one of those people, but that was a widely held perspective on him. this move, going home, going to the underdog city of cleveland, suddenly washes that away, ab solves him, makes him the good guy once again. >> you know, the bottom line is, it's still in the back of people's minds. there's no doubt he was allowed to leave, but the way he did it was horrific. many of us still feel he quit in game five of the playoffs against the celtics. but by coming back -- but something else we have to mention. he's mentioning cleveland, northeast ohio. for the longest time, it was only his hometown of