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also tonight, theres growing frustration inside the biden administration right now, as the kremlin refuses to engage with a u.s. offer to exchange brittney griner and paul weelan for a russian arms dealer. ill speak with a key white house official john kirby. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." lets get right to cnns exclusive new reporting on the u.s. justice departments criminal probe into january 6t...

polarizing decisions, issued by the court on abortion, gun rights, and todays ruling limiting the epas authority to fight climate change. we are going to have much more that ruling specifically, and on the future of the court, and its newest member just ahead. before we get to all of that, do you remember when the donald trump campaign was caught scam in its own donors. i just have to redo the lead from the new york times, the story that broke the scandal open. quote, stacey black was ...

today sworn in as the nations 116th justice, and the first black woman ever to serve on the high court. her husband, dr. patrick jackson held two bibles on which she swore a family bible, and the courts harlan bible. a court federal appeals judge, jackson replaced justice stephen breyer, who stepped down today after three decades on the bench, justice breyer hired ketanji brown jackson as a clerk in 1999, making it a full circle moment when he administered the judicial oath to her toda...

specifically. and on the future of the court, and newest member, st ahead. before we get to all of that, do you remember when the donald trump campaign was caught scamming its own donors? i just have to read you the lead from the "new york times," the story that broke the scandal open. quote, stacy blatt was in hospice care in september 2020 listening to rush limbaughs dire warnings about how badly donald trumps campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he cou...

infamous insurrection. she drew on the front row seat to provide new damning details of the attempted coup. today, this was the sixth insurrection hearing. we tried to cover them precisely. the first hearing detailed violent crimes by many, though sometimes without clear causal links to trump. another hearing shows the liability of trump appointees and lawyers raising questions about donald trumps own role. other hearings featured republicans from pences office at the state level and o...

41 people were killed, many of them children. they blamed the blaze on an electrical fault in the air—conditioning system. now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isnt driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ideologies. my gu...

took nearly three decades but most significant gun legislation in that time, closer to law as it awaits president bidens signature. lets go "outfront." and good evening, im erin burnett, "outfront" tonight, protests nationwide tonight as the supreme court overturns roe v wade, looking at like pictures from chicago, boston, atlanta and the steps of the supreme court. at least 70 protests in the united states planned tonight as crowds have been growing through the day. some are celebrati...

to vice president pence, mark short, greg jacob, they were both asked during their grand jury testimony about the fake elector scheme and the roles of trump lawyers rudy giuliani and john eastman. this morning in additions, "the new york times" and "washington post" are reporting justice department investigators back in april received phone records from key officials and aides in the trump administration including chief of staff mark meadows. all of this as the attorney general himself...

justice clarence thomas where he writes, quote, in future cases, we should reconsider all of this courts substantive due process precedents, including griswold, lawrence, and obergefell. he is talking about reconsidering decisions on gay rights and the right to contraception. joining me now inside the growing protests, nbcs julia ainsley. josh letterman is at the white house where the president just spoke and barbara mcquaid former u.s. attorney and msnbc analyst. julia, ive watched th...

and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here, thank you for having me. its great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. its described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months since you published it, the transgender story, as we put it, the issue...