decision. first what the president just said, speaking live from the white house, i strongly, strongly disagree with the court s decision. he said the court walked away from decades of precedent and called this not a normal court. what was your reaction to what you just heard? my reaction is that actually the supreme court is finally bringing into alignment education law with employment law. for over 40 years the supreme court has been more conservative on employment law and has restricted use of race motivated by interests like diversity or equity or systemic racism or societal discrimination. so really, i find the court s opinion today really to just be reaffirming what the court has held in other areas the fact we should not use race as a justification for any decision-making. andrew, we got word from the justice department and the attorney general with a statement, the supreme court s decision undercuts efforts by universities across the country to create a diverse gr
neil: demand all they want. the supreme court has ruled against the president s loan forgiveness program. a lot of folks not happy about that. there s options to make the payments more affordable or come up with some other solution. we re expecting to hear from the president of the united states on that. welcome. i m neil cavuto. shannon bream has had a busy day. tell us what s going down. let s talk about the student debt relief program that the supreme court 6-3 said cannot move forward. the chief justice had this to say. that s what the court found here. they said essentially they re waiving away $430 billion in executive loans. dissenting justice kagan said the statute does give the secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency s effect on borrower s ability to relieve. the secretary did that. clearly the two sides saw this differently. the bottom line strawberry that program, which the president had expressed it being illegal, the speaker of the house s
space center where an all-european mission to the international space station will be taking off later on this hour featuring an italian astronaut on board. a lot of you are saying you re only saying this because there s an italian astronaut on board. that italian co pilot would be the tenth italian in space. a lot of you have been saying, you re only saying that because he would be the tenth italian in space. you re actually correct. but it is a beautiful day for a space launch on this spacex mission, which would be the third commercial crew flight. there s a way that the italians look at this by talking about a beautiful day for a space launch. [speaking italian]. that means it s a beautiful day for a space launch. we ll take you there in 49 minutes when this gets going. meantime, another big story right now, and it is getting bigger by the second, the border and what to do about. is a deal close? some republicans say for any deal to happen, there better be big improvements
u.s. district court in los angeles, california. hunter biden is there as we speak. he s being arraigned formally on the nine federal tax charges. prosecutors are alleged that he engaged in a four-year scheme to avoid paying millions in taxes. we re on top of that. i m neil cavuto. glad to have you with us. let s get to it with kelly o grady who is there and how things are going now. kelly? neil, the hearing is expected to get underway any minute now. this is going to be hunter biden s first appearance in court over these charges. he arrived at the courthouse behind me roughly 1 1/2 hours ago or so. it was very much in contrast to yesterday s chaos on the hill. the arrival was planned. he was driven in to underground parking. today he s facing nine charges of tax evasion, three of those will be felonies. according to the indictment as you mentioned, he failed to pay $1.4 million in federal taxes from 2016 to 2019. he did, however, spend millions on a lavish lifestyle. there
on all of this later on. we re separately learning that the bond order that the president had to sign in order to leave the courthouse states that he had no contact with any witnesses in this case, including walt nauta, that was indicted. the former body man for the president who was helping him move boxes around. some say that he was this co conspirator that hatched this plan to hide that from authorities. so much we don t know. this much we do. the former president went ahead and signed that bond order about a half an hour ago. let s get the latest from mark meredith in miami. he takes a look at what went down just a few minutes ago. hi, mark. neil, good afternoon to you. a historic day. these proceedings will continue long after this arraignment hearing wrapped up in the last few minutes. as we mentioned, the former president pleading not guilty. the justice department under the special counsel last charged him with that he conspired to hide these classified documents as