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support. im michael smerconish in philadelphia. monday america celebrates the third ever federal holiday of juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans. as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college admissions. does that mean it achieved its purpose or were abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. well soon know the results. one involve...

juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans, and as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is that the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college administrations. does that mean that it achieved its purpose or that were abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. we will soon know the results. one involves harvard, the other the university of north carolina. the conventional wisdom is...

insight into former president trumps strategy in this ongoing back and forth over the documents kept at mar-a-lago. and the legal advice and from whom hes getting from conservative activist tom fitton. one person close to the former president said once trump took fittons advice, quote, it was all downhill from there. this was sources tell cnn trump and his allies have become increasingly concerned about the potential legal implications from all this. plus, president biden fresh off wha...

seizing control of kabul with hardly a shot fired. >> on the program -- >> the entire u.s. military effort is collapsing. >> the embassy has been completely evacuated. >> it has been a year since the fall of kabul. >> sheer desperation. >> afghans trying desperately to board outgoing flights. >> a year since then-president ghani fled afghanistan. for a year he has been virtually invisible. >> what a difference 24 hours made. >> today, we will hear from him directly. why he left so hast...

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>> im a strong defender of the president, ill also disagree with him, where we diverge on policy issues. on this issue, i would have taken a different approach. for example, with that sum of money we could have relieved all medical debt in this country. that would be more fair and it would be more progressive in that it would disproportionately help those with lowest income and lowest wealth. >> so lets turn to afghanistan, especially given what today marks, you served in afghanistan, today mark...

Is the president being overly optimistic? >> the economy is growing, but the rate of growth isnt strong enough to generate enough jobs to bring down unemployment until unemployment is definitively moving south, i dont think anyone should feel confident about the way things are going. were not quite there yet. >> there is a new study in "usa today" it finds u.s. companies are sitting on $837 billion in cash, enough to hire 2.4 million workers at a salary of $70,000 for five years. so, whats going...