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juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans, and as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is that the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college administrations. does that mean that it achieved its purpose or that were abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. we will soon know the results. one involves harvard, the other the university of north carolina. the conventional wisdom is...

Hour. Ali velshi is here. That would be wild if there wasnt a mention of emoluments in the konsz constitution. Even without it. If you look at the way business operates, the way we operate, the way politics operates, you protect against seeming like seeming like. For your own pocket. Even if the impression is there you protect against that. This was the danger when people didnt take the emoluments clause seriously when we discussed it. It becomes more and more on normal. We started discussing it...

Roberts wrote the opinion, it was unanimous, and im going to put it on the screen and read one paragraph for the audience. theres no doubt that this case is distasteful. it may be worse than that. but our concern is not the tales of ferraris, rolexes and ball games, it is the governments boundless interpretation of the federal bribery statute, a more limited interpretation of the term official act leaves am bol room for prosecuting corruption. obviously merrick garland, the attorney general knew...

Bidens son, was on the board of. in that sense he was advancing his personal interest using u.s. foreign policy. what do you say? >> its very simple but since donald trump has done a good job of trying to confuse people, let me break it down. in the first instance joe biden was acting on behalf of the u.s. government at president obamas direction he was implementing what was bipartisan u.s. policy at the time supported by republicans and democrats in congress, our western allies, the internation...

On the basis theynt hadnt done enough against corruption. >> reporter: this adds another data point as we try to understand the series of events and rationale given by the white house and other events as were learning them. here comes a new piece of information from the department of defense where they were n informing the relevant committees of congress about the preparedness to provide military asis tarns to ukraine. on behalf of the the secretary of defense and in coordination with the secret...

If we get a chance to see it, i dont think anybody can stand up to us. that was my point going forward and two years ago. the solution is the american people. the wisdom is with the american people. the courage is with the american people and the compassion is with the american people. lets let us decide when we make up our minds, ill go with however the americans decide. >> tom steyer is a 2020 presidential candidate. nbc news obtained a letter sent to house committees on may 23, 2019, this y...

Told me ukrainian leadership was led to believe that a phone call between the president and president zelensky would depend on whether zelensky showed willingness to play ball on issues aired by mr. giuliani. thats about mr. giuliani and a former top prosecutor that joe bidens son hunter was involved in corruption when he served on a board of a ukrainian gas company. the complaint was made public just before the acting director of national intelligence, joseph maguire, appearing before a house i...

Significant against to corruption. plus why some are saying the only winner to come out of the phone call with the president of ukraine is president putin. also my conversation with tom steyer who for more than two years has been pushing for impeachment of president trump, but hes not the only one sounding off. senator cory booker says the impeachment inquiry is a vital check and balance on president trump. >> this is a moment where we should be doing our job. there is enough smoke here that...

And accepting foreign help in connection with an election is illegal. colorado congresswoman who joined that list way back in may after the release of the mueller report. congresswoman, thanks for joining me. a couple of key points. in the last few days the president has changed his story as to why he withheld the $391 million approved by congress to go to ukraine. he said it was about corruption, something hes not actually ever expressed any concern about. however, we now have this letter that ...

Call in question happened in july and we know the president chose, based on the information in the whistle-blower complaint to freeze the transmission of u.s. resources to ukraine prior to that call. so this is another piece of information from the u.s. government that suggests that there was evidence that ukraine was, in fact, moving in a direction away from corruption and toward a more stable government. it also comes at about the time of the election of president zelensky, the new president o...