Attorney general Merrick Garland, appointing a special prosecutor david weiss us Special Counsel in the probe of President Bidens son hunter. Upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, i have concluded that it is in the Public Interest to appoint him as Special Counsel. This appointment confirms my commitment to provide mr. Weiss all the resources he requests. It also reaffirms that mr. Weiss has the authority he needs to conduct a thorough investigation and to continue to take the steps he deems appropriate independently. Based only on the facts and the law the law. Brian lets try to break this down. Keep this in mind. David weiss is the same prosecutor who cooked up the original Sweetheart Deal that hunter kind of blew up. Judge kind of blew it up. Involved in foreign business dealings, now we are Learning Tl Prosecutors expect hunters taxing gun know my tax income. As for the big guys involvement in the new Hunter Special counse
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 we re 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 that race conscious administrations will end. currently race is permitted to be a factor in the administrations calculus, meaning one factor among many to be considered as schools seek to create a diverse student body for everybody s benefit. quotas on the other hand, are unconstitutional. that s the bottom line after the supreme court has taken up several major cases involving affirmative action over the years. and one of those cases was in 2003, it was grutter versus bollinger, involved the
Hello im john vause at the cnn center in atlanta with our ongoing coverage of israel at moore. We begin with the u. S. Brokered deal to allow desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza, which is now on hold, it seems. Multiple sources tell cnn a convoy of 20 trucks agreed to israel and the u. S. Is not expected to pass through the rafah Border Crossing before saturday. Aid groups are warning of a dire system situation in gaza. Any delay and humanitarian systems of dark consequences. Israel is refusing to allow medicine, food, and fuel into gaza until hamas releases all the hostages being held. But israeli Officials Say humanitarian aid crossing from egypt will be allowed. At the same time, israel appears to be closer than ever to launching a Ground Offensive, and all out effort which is really efforts here israeli Officials Say will bring an end to hamas. Telling them, you see gaza now from a distance, you will seen seat from the inside. Were translator there is no forgiveness for t
Questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 welcome to a Special Edition of newsnight, the Trump Hush Money Trial. Im abby phillip in new york alongside laura coates here five hours and eight minutes. That is how along the trials most important witness spent on the stand today Michael Cohen directly implicating donald trump, telling the jury dramatic and potentially critical facts when it comes to the prosecutions case against trump the jury watched intently, their heads were sibling back and forth between the prosecutor and the witness as the government lead cohen through screw a deliberate testimony to and actually trace is evolution. If you remember from trumps periphery to trumps, go refer to trumps. Do everything fixer. And that included the alleged Hush Money Deal designed to silence Stormy Daniels idea that cohen testified trump ordered him to make the jury learned how cohen called trump. Well, mr. Trump or more simply the boss, his demeanor was measure
Be back on the stand and we have the dramatic highlights from Keith Davidsons testimony so far. Plus, Breaking News and traumatic images on the campus of ucla as police move in to disband a Protest Encampment. Well take you there live. It is 10 00 eastern, im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. Lets get right to that Breaking News at a courthouse in manhattan, Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial resuming just minutes ago and up first this morning, a hearing on four new alleged Gag Order Violations by the former president , and soon were expecting Keith Davidson, former lawyer for Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal to return to the stand. Our Yasmin Vossoughian is outside the courthouse and here with me, msnbcs katie phang, Criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor jeremy salan and former Assistant Attorney General for new york, tristan snell, the author of the book taking down trump. Yasmin, whats happening so far with this Gag Order Hearing . Reporter so were looking at fou