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Advantages, and michelle robinson at the time, and barack obama did not have. so, as generations have passed here, the perspectives have changed. and interesting pew study here constructive to the public opinion. looking at the numbers here. a bare majority of 50% of americans said they believe that affirmative action programs have run the course. they do not approve of the affirmative actions, and only 16% approve and about 75% of republicans, and 3/4 of republicans believe that they disapprove of the affirmative action program, and 54% of the democrats, and actually 29% of democratic-leaning...

Of republicans make up that. a quarter of democrats supported. but this is now going to be injected, already has been inject ed into the presidential campaign and to the context of our public life here. i think that as we hear from president biden at the bottom of the hour, he was strongly opposed to this. he's talked about it eloquently. this is to a person has come out in support of what the supreme court did. i thought interesting the comments from former president obama issuing separate statements on this, both of whom benefit from affirmative action programs. back on the campaign trail in...

The Supreme Court has spoken on affirmative action. But our democratic duty to improve educational access remains, writes Olatunde Johnson.

Race. and the fact that as eddie talked about early on, what is likely to occur is we are going to now see a very steep and significant divide in terms of access and who is able to really get into these spaces in terms of elite universities, people who would be able to get in there and thrive and do well and excel, and now we're going to see that segregation become wider and wider because it's going to take a while as laura already talked about for us to figure out what does this mean and how does this work. and the biggest problem with this entire discussion is you're taking affirmative actio...

Decision, while republicans are praising the choice. here is kelly o'donnell. >> reporter: tonight, a new fight. president biden firing back at the supreme court. >> we cannot let this decision be the last word. >> reporter: emphatic that discrimination still exists. and when asked if the justices are a rogue court, the president with this striking attack on the conservative majority. >> this is not a normal. >> reporter: going even further on msnbc. >> find it just so out of sorts with the basic value system of the american people. >> reporter: the vice president in new orleans today. >> it i...