That does it for me. Thank you so much for the privilege of your time. I hope to see you later tonight on nbc nightly news. Stay where you are, the The Katie Phang Show starts now. I am katie phang , live from Telemundo Studios in miami, florida here is the week that was. The u. S. Supreme court today unanimously ruled that states cannot remove former President Trump from their ballots. They call it Super Tuesday for a reason. Racking up primary wins across the country from california to maine nikki haley said to drop out after winning one state on Super Tuesday. Budget and is now up to donald trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. I hope he does not. In february, 2021 shortly after the attack on the capitol building, i said i would support former President Trump if he were the nominee of the party and he obviously will be the nominee of our party. I will leave the senate at the bottom of this year. In the bottom of my heart, thank you for
our top story this hour, the two major new rulings by the u.s. supreme court and what they mean for the nation. our justice correspondent jessica snider, she s here with mere in the situation room. jessica, walk us through these very, very significant decisions. yeah, two major decisions on the last day of the court s term, wolf, from what has become a very divided supreme court. so the conservative majority striking down the president s student loan debt forgiveness program while also issuing a ruling in favor of a website designer that leaves the door open for businesses across the country to discriminate. the supreme court ending the term with a dramatic finish and showing just how ideologically divided the justices are. first, all six conservative justices ruling in favor of a christian web designer from colorado who refused to create wedding websites from same-sex couples citing religious grounds. she objected to a colorado law that prohibits discrimination saying it v
the united states . the consequence of that changenc policy, nearly six million migrants cross the southern border, but you should notould b be surprised. he said he would do it.3 4 f the idea that a country of three hundred thirty million people cannot absorb peoplet who are in desperate need and who are justifiably fleeingg oppression is absolutely bizarre.sion absolutely bizarre. so not only can you cross the border unlawfully, president biden has a list of other crimes. he doesn t has a think are seris enough to warrant deportation and removal. normallyt of oth, migrants are d entering the united states unlawfully. they re processed for deportation. and but if you allege a credible fear of beingcan remr persecuted or tortured, you can remain here in the u.s., those seeking asylum have to showum hs a well-founded fea tr of persecution on the basis of their race, religion, nationality, or number of a social or political group. but the hearing is years in the future. sym
added to the list of venues that are now welcoming migrants from the border. some record number of migrants, we might point out. startling numbers today for fiscal year that technically isn t even over yet, but we have broken all records in the process. let s get to it with peter doocy from the white house. hi, peter. neil, this afternoon president biden upending our understanding of his i immigration policy. more than a year he told us the migrants are coming from the northern triangle countries. that would be el salvador, guatemala and honduras. now he says that s not the problem anymore. there are three countries that are never there s fewer immigrants coming from central america and from mexico. this is a different circumstance. what is on my watch now is venezuela, cuba and nicaragua. the ability to send them back is not rationale. just before that in the briefing room, the white house claimed they were willing to engage leaders that were bussing or flying migran
alexis mcadams with the latest on the flooding at the chicago o hare international airport. we will start with lakawana, new york, hi, max. reporter: good afternoon, we are ways south of downtown buffalo and we are standing next to a gas station because this is one of the few places that people can go to to just warm up and get inside, get food, a lot of people actually spent the night at this gas station because they became stranded in blizzard conditions last night. we were one of those who got stranded in the blizzard conditions, completely white-out, you couldn t sigh in front of you. we had to honker down in the cars and spend the night in the cars, luckily we had full tanks and we were able to keep warm. shelter are open and police officers have been shuttling those folks to warming shelters. meanwhile, though, some services aren t available in parts of western new york and some parts of buffalo, emergency services just simply can t get out to people and unfortunately w