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During an exclusive interview with the widow of Muhammad Ali on Tuesday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer worried: “Muhammad's message was to bring people together, and we live in a time right now in this country, and around the world, when there’s so much division. And I wonder in the last years of his life, was he disappointed and distressed by that?”
Lonnie Ali replied: “He was pretty distressed, especially some of the things that were going on in the world, because he thought that we had sort of crossed a line, crossed the barrier. And he was a little disappointed with that.”