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Border. tell our viewers what youre learning. >> thats right, wolf. texas governor greg abbot launched this operation in 2021 as an affront to president biden and his immigration policies. its an operation that white house officials and administration officials were monitoring for some time, but they have grown increasingly concerned amid the troubling reports that have come about texas trooper sending migrants back to mex toe and not giving them water in the blistering heat. this ultimately led...

Trial, how it could impact the work itself? >> yeah. i think its incredibly concerning, alicia. prosecutors themselves tend to be pretty thick skinned and would say that they dont care, they put their heads down and do the job, but when you have threats against prosecutors, its really an affront to the rule of law. and when donald trump is out there saying things like this is a witch hunt, and the justice department should be sanctioned for bringing these charges, or for investigating him, he is...

I heard your opening comments, symone, but the lgbtq+ is particularly -- its exactly that. its a direct affront on rights on individual rights. and its so concerning to think about where this court could go with turning back rights. especially for that community when you think about the recent decisions on things like marriage. people are correct to be concerned about the responses, the remarks theyre hearing from republican candidates among all of this. the most extreme remarks we just heard mo...

Brilliant human beings i ever met. i had a chance to know. in her dissent, i thought it was scathing and perfect. you know, i was not surprised because clarence thomas has been on a mission to dismantle every institutional attempt to help an aide, not just black people, but any people who have been disadvantaged in this society since hes gotten on the court. he, like samuel alito, appears to operate from a kind of rage, a cold rage, against the entire 20th century, the second half of the 20th ce...

Counsel have been closely monitoring the changes in admissions procedures should the court reach a decision like the one today. we remain vigilant and intend to initiate litigation should universities defiantly flout this clear ruling and the dictates of title 6 and the equal protection clause. >> that was edward bloom speaking right now, he is the founder of students for fair admissions, the organization that brought these two lawsuits before the supreme court, so basil, given what we just hear...

Name on a building. they can still get in. their affirmative action seems quite in place. what do you make of that. >> i totally agree. thats still true today. theres also, you know, we have seen it in other cases like the back door, the side door, other ways to get into harvard. but they just struck it down just for black students and brown students on campus. to be able to have specific access due to, like, disadvantages in specific circumstances. >> when i was there, one of the other experien...

Been unhappy all my life, and now i finally understood why. its because, mom and dad, you never loved me." by the end of the letter, he says, "i dont want anything to do with you anymore." >> as he was trying to understand his social isolation and awkwardness and inability to function, like many people with mental illness who are paranoid, he started looking around him. and whos around him? the people closest, so his mother, his father, his brother. >> david was the last family kaczynski had, bu...

Thats what is actually missing. >> thank you. >> is getting to the truth. >> jesse: this is a full on counteroffensive by republicans. >> >> what this truly is, dana, is an affront to the rule of law. its an acin front to consistent application of the law. you had secretary clinton who had classified material on a server. she was not president of the united states. she was secretary clinton. you have that happen, nothing happens to her. when you have two people who do the same thing and one has ...

Server. she was not president of the united states. she was secretary clinton. you have that happen. nothing happens to her. when you have two people who do the same thing and one has the standard that ive talked about but the only one who gets indicted is the republican, the only one indicted is the one who was president and did it the right way. oh, my goodness. that is what the american people see. the other thing that troubles me about this and this is total affront to the rule of law is tha...

Declassified the material. >> but he says point blank, on tape as president i could have declassified it. now i cant. he says in his own words its on tape as part of this indictment that he did not declassify the material. therefore, it is classified. >> dana, saying he could have, saying he could have is not the same as saying he didnt. >> he said now i cant. >> now he cant. right. because he is not president now but when he was president he did declassify it. he said that. >> which means what ...