[D. Johnson, Fan And Community Member:] Someone who put our community on the map. People thought that our community was just about violence. And Nipsey put a change in it. He was willing to partner to bring things to this community that we are now going to lose.
[Nick Watt, Cnn Correspondent:] A massive crowd of fans gathering throughout the day to honor Hussle, then chaos erupted Monday night. Hundreds of mourners scattering across the parking lot where Hussle was killed after police say a disturbance incited panic. Aerial footage captures the crowd fleeing in all directions, shoes and smashed candles left behind, at least 19 injured in the stampede. One person was critically wounded after being hit by a car.
[Meghan Aguilar, Lapd Spokeswoman:] Absolutely chaotic. Mass panic.
[Watt:] Mourners carrying the injured as firefighters treated people at the scene. Police dressed in riot gear rushing in, trying to disburse the crowd and breaking up fights that broke out amid the confusion. And when Los Angeles wakes up, the LAPD is going to be holding a press conference at 8:30 when they say they will give us an update on the investigation. They are appealing for the public's help in trying to track down that suspect. And they also say they will address what they're calling a surge in gun violence here in Los Angeles. Apparently Nipsey Hussle just one of 26 people shot in the space of just one week. John.
[John Berman, Cnn Anchor:] All right. Wow, Nick Watt, thank you very much for that story. On a decidedly different note, President Trump has spent 177 days of his presidency at one of his golf clubs. That's about 20 percent of the time he's been president. So he plays a lot of golf. And according to a new book, he doesn't just play a lot of golf, he cheats a lot. Joining us now is award winning sports writer Rick Reilly. He is the author of "Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump." Rick, always a pleasure to speak to you.
[Rick Reilly, Author, "commander In Cheat":] Thank you.
[Berman:] I confess, I picked up the book, I was skeptical, 244 pages on the president cheating at golf. And then I read it and I think I got it. You're not just saying he cheats, you're saying he cheats. I mean, he cheats on all of it.
[Reilly:] He cheats like a mafia accountant, right? He cheats crazy. He cheats whether you're watching or not. He cheats whether you like it or not. He tried to cheat Tiger Woods in a match and Tiger hits it like this, he hits two balls in the water, doesn't count either, and pretends that he almost tied Tiger Woods. So it doesn't matter who he is, he has to be the winner. What really bothers me is that he's told he told people on the campaign trail I don't know if you remember this he said, I'm a win. You've got to vote for me because I've won 18 club championships. He says this three or four times. And that's against the best players in the club. But I knew he was lying because he told me how he does it. Whenever he opens a new course that he buys, he plays the first round by himself and calls that the club championship. Puts his name on the wall. Sometimes he wins club championships from another state.
[Berman:] There was a time he was in Philadelphia and he claims he won a club championship in Bedminster?
[Reilly:] Yes.
[Berman:] What happened?
[Reilly:] So he's the club championship is going on at Bedminster. He's playing in Philly at his club there. And he finishes his round. He says, hey, what won the club championship? And they said, oh, joe schmoe shot 74. He goes, well, I shot 72 today, make me the club champion. And the guy's like, what? Yes, make me the club champion. And so they take joe's name off and put Trump's up. And this happens over and over. Like, he often says, I've won 18 club championships. Well, he doesn't tell you they're the senior club championships.
[Berman:] Or super senior as in the case.
[Reilly:] Or super senior. I wouldn't even know if he won those. So it goes on and on. Like his handicap he says is a 2.8.
[Berman:] Let's hold off on that because I love the handicap story also.
[Reilly:] It's true.
[Berman:] Let me just read part of this to get a sense of what we're talking about here. You write, to say Donald Trump cheats at golf is like saying Michael Phelps swims. He cheats at the highest level. He cheats when people are watching and he cheats when they aren't. Whether you're his pharmacist or Tiger Woods, if you're playing golf with him, he's going to cheat. And the book is filled with stories you talked about the club championships but of people, in some cases famous people, golfing with the president or before he was president with Donald Trump and he's cheating. Mike Tirico, you know, famous play by play guy, tell me that story.
[Reilly:] So Tirico and two other announcers are playing with Trump at Trump Philly. And Tirico hits is against him in a team game, right? And he hits the shot of his life onto the green, blind par 5. And when he gets there, it's not near the green. It's not on the green. It's not near the pin. It's in the bunker. Well, it turns out Trump kicked it into the bunker so that he could I mean, can you give the guy the shot of his life? And how important is it you for you to win? You're worth billions. Like, at what point is it like doesn't matter to him? But it does. You know, I played with Clinton when he was president.
[Berman:] He cheated.
[Reilly:] He cheated, but in a completely different way. Like he would take what we call billigans, like he'd hit a shot and then he'd hit five or six more because he was confounded by golf. But he wasn't trying to make you lose. He'd always play his first ball, but he was just trying to get the game. It's like a guy that goes to the bank to steal the pen versus the guy that goes to steal the money. He really needs to win. And I've never seen anything quite like it.
[Berman:] So, Donald Trump is a very good golfer.
[Reilly:] Yes.
[Berman:] All right. But he claims to be a 2.8 handicap.
[Reilly:] Right.
[Berman:] Explain that.
[Reilly:] So, in golf, you know, you and I can play if you're really good and I'm terrible, then you've got to give me shots. So I get ten free shots. Well, Trump says he's a 2.8, which is really, really good. To give you a little idea, Jack Nicklaus is a 3.5. Jack Nicklaus. So you look at you can go on the website that shows you people's anybody in the country, you can see their handicap. He's a 2.8, but it's taken him eight years to get the 20 scores. So he's just cherry- picking his best rounds. He can't cover a 2.8. No way. Everybody that's played with him, the pros, Dustin Johnson, they all say he's about a nine or ten. So why does he have to say he's a 10 I mean a 2.8 when he's really a 10? Isn't 2.8 isn't 10 pretty good? Why's he got to say 2.8?
[Berman:] And that gets to the other issue with this book or the what this is really all about, because you can ask, well, why does it matter that Donald Trump cheats at golf. And you write, golf is like bicycle shorts, it reveals a lot about a man.
[Reilly:] It does. And what it reveals about him is he has to win no matter what. It's not that he loves golf, he just loves beating you. So these guys always say he's fun to play with, he always wins, but then he doesn't even take your money. So it's not about beating you out of the ten bucks, it's about showing you that he's better than you. So when he always say, I'm the best player among all the rich people, nobody can beat me, he's played on television ten times, Pebble Beach Pro-Am seven times and the Lake Tahoe thing, Stormy Daniels' deal, three times. He's never made the cut at Pebble Beach. And at Tahoe he's never finished in the top half. So when there's rules guys and cameras, he's not that good. When it's just his course, his caddie, his world, he's pretty good.
[Berman:] You did say two things there and I want people to know that you make this clear in the book, he is good at golf, just not a 2.8, and people do like to play with him.
[Reilly:] They like to play with him. I played with him. He was fun. But it's crazy. He doesn't putt out. You sometimes putt out. He took a gimme chip in with me. Have you ever heard of this? We're playing a bet, I'm in there for a par at 5. He's off the green in four. He says, I guess that makes this good. He hasn't even gotten to the green. I said, did you just take a gimme chip in? Well, yes, I'd have made that.
[Berman:] So so
[Reilly:] Come on.
[Berman:] You know, we're constantly fact checking the president and calling out when he says things that are untrue or just flat out lies. What's his response? This isn't the you're not the first person to say he's a cheater. What's his response to the claims that he cheats at golf and the proof that's in this book?
[Reilly:] Every time he says, I never cheat, so I snuck into the Bedminster caddy shack in New Jersey with all the caddies, and I said, the president says he never cheats. And they all go, no, he never cheats. And then there was this silence. And I go, oh, you guys cheat for him. Then they all laughed. And they told they have three or four balls in the pocket, they throw it out of bunkers because he hates bunker shots. They throw it out of the rough. You know, he kicks the ball out of the rough so many times the caddies call him pele.
[Berman:] Finally, you have a challenge for the president here. You want to play him.
[Reilly:] I want to play him.
[Berman:] You're a 4.5?
[Reilly:] I think I'm a 4.5.
[Berman:] All right.
[Reilly:] He's a 2.8. If he plays the 2.8 and I play I'll play him for 100 grand. Either of our charities. And but the rule is we can't play his course, can't use his cheating caddies and there's got to be a rules guy with each of us. And I'll play him all day.
[Berman:] Rick Reilly, the book is "Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump."
[Reilly:] That's right.
[Berman:] Thank you very much for being with us. Mr. President, we'll see if you respond to the challenge. Alisyn.
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