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Different racial backgrounds to come together and experience one another as peers. right? this opens up pathways to leadership in business, in government leadership. and so its critically important that the court keep open these pathways and not strike down the use of race in higher education. >> and what we have seen the court, the supreme court do, over a period of time is essentially weaken just how much affirmative action the public universities can do. the standard they can use, the amount ...

Still working on that. theyre hoping to get more weather, more rain. as we saw over the weekend to with their fight. but, again, as you mentioned, we have several investigators who will start stepping in as fire suppression passes and they start looking at the cause of this fire. el paso county sheriff explained how theyre doing it. lets listen to what he had to say. >> we have called in some extra experts and support from atf and the state. weve assembled, basically, a task force to really dive...

Debate and the narrowing of laws. >> shannon: i know there is a bipartisan measure that has been introduced in the senate that would push for the court to reveal more of those opinions. is that something you signed onto or would sign onto? >> i supported that measure and the foreign intelligence security act was re-authorized in last year. i am supporting it again now. i am a leading co-sponsor. as a prosecutor for 4 1/2 years as united states attorney and as attorney general, i believe that war...

For us. >> unfortunately we do not have any good news. were talking about warm conditions but notice the difference where you see the green, thats all the moisture out there and that bulls eye of dry air currently on the western states where we continue to see the wildfires popping up. in the morning hours humidities in the teens and 20s but as we go through the afternoon we see those drop down to single digits. were watching a dry low, picked up moisture going over the ridge. remember the moist...

The u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? well, were just a step closer, and this is a significant development. we celebrate that standard & poors today raised its outlook on the american governments credit rating from stable to negative. its still aa-plus, we dont have aaa back, but raising the outlook to stable means there is a less than one in three chance that the agency will cut the rating any time soon. so, lets keep going, guys. however you want to get there, ...

The u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? well, were just a step closer, and this is a significant development. we celebrate that standard & poors today raised its outlook on the american governments credit rating from stable to negative. its still aa-plus, we dont have aaa back, but raising the outlook to stable means there is a less than one in three chance that the agency will cut the rating any time soon. so, lets keep going, guys. however you want to get there, ...

And the company contracted to build this duck, well, the inflatable artist who built last years floating duck, andrew carnegie, of course. it has been 676 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? were just a step closer and this is a significant development. we celebrate that standard & poors today raised its outlook on the american governments credit rating to stable from negative. the rating is still aa plus. we dont have aaa back but raising it means...

We have live witnesses to the comings and goings of the victim before the disappearance, so you have an opportunity to separate all of these individuals that admit seeing lauren throughout the night, and then you can actually map her movements and then see where the statements are conflicting and start narrowing down those interviews, and quite possibly turn those interviews into interrogations, and the use of polygraphs to make sure that somebody is in fact telling the truth as they know it. an...

>> whats driving the narrowing of the gap there. >> according to this one poll, a couple of things. one, it seems republicans have come back home. hillary clinton support among republicans has gone down a little bit. that should not be surprising. as soon as she turns from being secretary of state to more of a domestic political figure, her erosion among republicans was always going to happen. also, the polls show theres a little erosion among independents. she was ahead in the march polls among...

President, wasnt too long ago, the speech. do you think the speech really changed anything when it comes to the drone program? >> well, we shall see. i mean, one of the things that president obama seemed to distinguish in his speech was drones going after those who threatened american interests, versus those who threaten american lives. and he seemed to be narrowing who the drones would go after. this individual who was killed in the drone strike in north waziristan, he was the number two for th...