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good afternoon, im lindsey reiser in for chris jansing at msnbc headquarters in new york city. breaking news, affirmative action struck down. president biden as you just heard that finished speaking on the landmark supreme court decision and the potential long lasting consequences at colleges, universities, and students across this country. the court ruling on a pair of challenges to policies at harvard and unc, that the schools can no longer look at race during the admissions process....

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Not? thats what i tried to get a answer to and i didnt get an answer to it frankly here today. it seems right now they are focusing on getting the american citizens through the checkpoints. >> peter bake, you cover the white house, do you get a sense with anybody youre talking to that they will be prepared to extend the deadline from august 31st because general milley said this several times, evacuate all americans, so he made clear the mission is not necessarily tied to a timeline given the fac...

Couples serving as foster parents. the court said that was a violation of religious freedom rights, religious exercise rights, that it would go forward. this is, again, a very significant decision. this is a court that has been very muscular in its approach to religious liberty, much more expansive than higher courts have been, and once again, theres been another decision that spans the scope of religious liberty, although in a more narrow way than was expected. >> melissa murray, peter bake, be...

Its going to take hard work and it will take some time, but you dont have a lot of time so get started. >> peter, whats the likelihood we can actually get a deal done tomorrow considering the fact that as of tomorrow this is already the fourth longest government shutdown in history? i mean, its not looking good at this moment that they could actually get a deal done considering what weve been seeing on twitter from the president. >> yeah, id be skeptical that well have a deal done by tomorrow. i...

There are other aspects that we just need to have the government funded. we need to have our i.c.e. agents getting paid. we need to have tsa checking people at airports. we need to have the faa run so that our planes dont crash into each other and can land at the right place. yes, the government should work. lets get it done. >> all right, peter baker with the "new york times" and former white house chief of staff, andy card, thank you to you both. coming up, taking on trump, whats behind mitt...

Remember, it was a week ago that the vice president came here and offered $2.5 billion. the question is what are we going to call whatever goes down at the border. democrats are steadfast that they will not accept the president building a giant concrete ball. if we talk about it more broadly, that suultimately how d get to a deal, everyone agreeing to disagree about what constitutes a wall. >> someone wants to emerge the winner in all of this. who the winner will be, hopefully its the american p...

Demonstrating his interest in getting to a big deal, and lets make it a good deal. lock the people in a room, and lets get something done during 1990 they actually went to andrews air force base and sat in a room where they had no communications with the outside world, and they came to an agreement. >> peter, what do you think the presidents end game is here? does he have one? >> well, hes made it more difficult for himself in finding a finessing kind of deal the way hans and garrett were just d...

Meeting and to the media, to the press thank you very much. we appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. thanks. >> and good day. im andrea mitch in washington. thats president trump just finishing speaking at his seventh cabinet meeting since he became president. speaking at the white house, of course, saying he will designate north korea a state sponsor of terror and that the treasury will announce more sanctions against them t...

>> to that point, peter baker, in terms of what we did on "meet the press" with all the other programs have been doing is talking about roy moore in addition to taxes because the president went after al franken which, of course brought it all back to his own past history with the "access hollywood" tape and then it brought up with kirstjen gillibrand then bringing up the clintons, as well. so we have this conversation now which seems to be talking more about 2016. look at hillary clinton in the ...