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lay out the cases for us. >> reporter: arguments in the two cases are teed up for this morning. the supreme court will once again re-examine affirmative action but this time with the solidly conservative court it is quite likely that the justices could ban affirmative action once they release their opinion sometime next year. this is all happening as the groups fighting to end the consideration of race in admissions they have been quite outspoken. >> diversity as important as it is, ca...

now, john. >> all right. important update there, chad. thank you very much. a sudden departure this morning by a key figure in the january 6th investigation. tony ornato, the sis tachbt director of the secret service left the agency on monday. it comes two months after his name came up in explosive testimony by former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. she said ornato told her then president trump was furious with his security detail for refusing to take him to the capitol on janua...

hurricane. >> meantime, hundreds of thousands of people now without power in canada, as fiona makes landfall there. this powerful storm is not letting up after you may recall it left a wave of destruction in puerto rico. were going to have the latest on that storms track. and it sounds like something out of a sci-fi thriller. nasa gets ready to slam a refri refrigerator-size spacecraft into an asteroid. well tell you why and give you the latest details on this fascinating mission. �...

good day. im chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. high stakes political drama unfolding today. in two of the closest senate races in the country with two embattled candidates trying to keep their shot at victory from slipping away. this georgia republican nominee herschel walker is tripling down, maybe quadrupling down on his denials about an ex-girlfriends abortion. >> flat out denial a lie. >> and democrat john fetterman giving his first in-person interview sinc...

as we come on the air, new details coming in about the ninth and maybe last january 6th hearing, now less than 24 hours away. what new evidence the committee is planning to share. who theyll hear from, who we wont, and how the committee might use all of those eternal messages that they have their own -- internal messages that they have their own hands on. a member of the far right militia group oath keepers is on the stand as we speak, what he told the jurors about the massive stock...

applies the the ukrainians were responsible. a claim that ukrainian authorities have denied one senior official saying we are not a criminal state. fred pleitgen is in moscow. where do things stand on this investigation? >> reporter: a lot of this is still very much a mystery. at such dazzling time in russia as you have russias special military operation, as they call it, in ukraine, going on. so there were, of course, someone in the pretty high echelons in russia who believe that mayb...

washington today. unvaccinated superstar novak djokovic is barred from playing in this years open as migrants cross the u.s. southern border in record numbers without being asked to produce vaccine records. peter doocy says its a double standard and pressed the white house press secretary on this yesterday. listen. >> somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane, you say thats not okay. somebody walks into texas or arizona unvaccinated they are allowed to stay. >> that is what is happen...

in the uk , for the first time hello and welcome. in a few days�* time, the uk will have a new prime minister — and penny mourdant, leader of the house of commons has become the first conservative mp to say she is running to replace liz truss. inset)no other mp has declared yet — but both borisjohnson and former chancellor rishi sunak have nominations from other mps. rishi sunak has 100 people backing him already. mrjohnson left office just over six weeks ago, forced out after a ...

helping the president celebrate his inflation reduction act the same day we learned inflation wasnt reducing, it was soaring. and later than that same day the dow can was careening more than 1200 points. now, some call it bordering on tone deaf. but on the lower left here, no more so than when it concerns the border. never mind more than 2 million migrants that have been pouring in there, from the administration nothing to see here. >> we have a process in place to manage migrants at t...

disinformation and flat out lies continue to pour out of trump world this week, as the red continues to scramble to try to get their stories straight following the fbi search on trumps home. in just a few days, the official maga line says there was no cause for a search and that the fbi planted classified materials to u.s., there was classified materials, but trump somehow telepathically the classified them. look, each lie is more absurd and more cartoonish than the one before it. quit...