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miguel joins us live this hour to discuss what this means for higher learning in america. and breaking news out of moscow. cnn has new reporting on the top russian general who appears to be missing after the mutiny. documents indicating he was a secret vip member of the wagner mercenary group behind the rebellion. and the former school deputy who failed to confront the park l parkland shooter is found not guilty. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." let's get right to our top story. the united state...

Of someone like a ketanji brown? >> i believe it will have a devastating impact. i think medicine is a phenomenal areas to focus on because we know that having black positions for example and he talked about this on social media, having a black physicians actually has a demonstrable effect on the quality of life of black patients. and so, there will be a major effect of this opinion, i appreciate that there are many institutions that are trying to find ways to continue to have a diverse outcome, even if they can't consider race in specific ways but with a strange exception for admissions essay...

>> i find the college as a component to this so confusing having had two seniors who have just gone through this the college essay is about your lived experience or it is supposed to be to shed light on who you are beyond your test scores and so what justice roberts said about it and i will read it to anyone he says nothing in this opinion should be construed as prohibiting universities from considering an applicant's discussion of how race affected his or her life. yet through discrimination or otherwise. but despite assertion to the contrary universities may not be established through applic...

Court appointments now in this phase of his campaign. now on affirmative action, recently he's been leaning into the dobbs decision on abortion and i think he's, you know, trying to submit that republican base that would perhaps have felt strongly that affirmative action should end. i do want to point one thing out, the court does say, in the chief justice's majority opinion, there is nothing that prevents a university from taking an essay into account, and how race affected a particular student. right at the end, however, the court comes back and says, basically, no, you can't do that. that u...

A caveat in the Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action programs could have major implications for admissions.