Hey, everybody. Welcome to left, right, and center. I'm David Green. You know, some say if you want to try and unite the world, you should use sports. But from the pitch to the octagon to the basketball court, this week's biggest sporting events were kind of competing with politics or at least very much interacting with our politics. And let's start with the globe's most watched sporting event, the World Cup.

Those are the very exciting opening ceremonies to kick off the games.

They started on Thursday.

And for the next month, 48 teams will be facing off in stadiums across the United States,

Canada, and Mexico. Over five million foreign spectators are expected to come to the United

States alone, except some have already run into some problems at the border because of President

Trump's immigration policies. And that includes several staffers of the Iranian team who are not allowed into the country.

Also a Somali referee, a very respected one, who was turned away by officials after landing at the international airport in Miami.

So is this all going to dampen the spirit of these games? And that's where we're going to start with Moalathie, who is here from the left and Sarah Isker from the right.

Are you all worried about this World Cup after what we've been seeing so far?

Referees being turned away and team officials not being allowed into our country?

Is this a problem?

Sarah?

What I think the number one concern for any large event like this should be is the safety and security of the players and the people

who are there to watch the event. And my understanding with that referee is that he basically

ended up on a database because of ties he had to folks affiliated with terrorist organizations

in his home country of Somalia. On the one hand, I think

it's easy to say, like, well, this is a respected referee and, you know, we should let him in anyway.

But again, I think it is good to err on the side of caution because these are such targets

for international terrorism. As far as the immigration part is concerned, again, that Somali

referee example was this huge example of Trump's immigration policies or something preventing

someone from coming in the country. But when the facts actually came out, it kind of sounded like

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