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stories that are breaking. tonight to big developments in the classified documents case against donald trump. remember that one, x chief of staff, mark meadows, told special counsel investigators that he does not recall donald trump ordering or even discussing the classifying -- materials before leaving the white house. that's according to new reporting from abc news. that same report says that meadows told investigators that he's unaware of any standing order from trump authorizing the automatic declassification of materials taken out of the oval office. meadows account directly contradicts trump's biggest offense in the mar-a-lago classified documents. you may recall trump of course insisting, his whole argument was that he declassified everything before leaving office. moments ago a trump campaign spokesperson said that this reporting was incomplete. it lacked proper context. but he didn't provide any evidence to support their claim and just
tropical storm in southern california and 84 years. we're gonna be following all that for you and bring you updates if we have them throughout the evening. but switching now to other big stories that are breaking. tonight to big developments in the classified documents case against donald trump. remember that one, x chief of staff, mark meadows, told special counsel investigators that he does not recall donald trump ordering or even discussing the classifying -- materials before leaving the white house. that's according to new reporting from abc news. that same report says that meadows told investigators that he's unaware of any standing order from trump authorizing the automatic declassification of materials taken out of the oval office. meadows account directly contradicts trump's biggest offense in the mar-a-lago classified documents. you may recall trump of course insisting, his whole argument was that he declassified
university of north carolina cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the equal protection clause. the majority not explicitly saying that there are overruling more than four decades of precedent that allowed affirmative action, but the three liberal justices writing that today, this court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress. >> i'm really most worried about the youth and the students younger than us in high school, middle school, elementary school who might not get the same opportunity i did. >> the two cases were brought by the group's students for fair admissions led by activist edward bloom, who is fought for nearly a decade to eradicate affirmative action. >> classifying students by race and ethnicity, treating them differently because of their race and ethnicity is unfair. >> at the forefront of the harvard fight, asian students who argued they were disadvantaged because harvard prioritized other minorities and used a personal rating score that did not rank them favorably.
students are still allowed to talk about how the race has shaped their experiences in their applications. b6-three opinion written by chief justice john roberts will now prohibit students from checking a box indicating their race, specifically saying the practice at harvard and university of north carolina cannot be reconciled with a guarantee from the equal protection clause. the majority not exquisitely saying they are overruling more than four decades of precedent which allowed affirmative action but the three liberal justices writing, today, this court stands in the way and rolls back decades of precedent and momentous progress. >> i'm most worried about the youth, and students younger than us and has gone middle school and a limited school who may not get the same opportunity that i did. >> reporter: the two cases were brought by the groups, students for their admissions, led by activist edward bloom, who has fought for nearly a decade to illuminate affirmative action. >> classifying students by race and ethnicity, treating them different, because of their race and ethnicity, it is unfair. >> at the forefront of the
>> i'm really most worried about the youth and the students younger than us, in high school and middle school and elementary school who might not get the same opportunity i did. >> reporter: the two cases were brought by the group students for fair admissions led by active into edward bloom who has fought for nearly a decade to eradicate affirmative action. >> classifying students by race and ethnicity, treating them differently because of their race and ethnicity is unfair. >> reporter: at the forefront of the harvard fight, asian students who argued they were disadvantaged because harvard prioritized other minorities and used a rating score that didn't rate them favorably. the issue is deeply personal to justice sotomayor who issued a fiery descent accusing the majority of employing an unjustified abuse of power that would only -- justice sotomayor
they said they were made it his consent. one of those was when he was speaking with people who were ghost writing that book for mark meadows. that is where he was talking about seemingly having a classified document in front of him. we don't yet know what these other recordings are. we don't know what is on them, how relevant they are. it does say they are made with his consent. it could be public comments he's made about the classifying the declassification process. that has obviously been a focus this week. it has still been yet to be seen what those are. now that discovery has started in this case. >> that definitely jumps off the page here. we don't know what they say, but the one that we do know about was a fairly significant piece of evidence in that indictment. we have much more to learn on this, caitlin. thank you so much for that. tonight, house speaker kevin mccarthy facing another up rising. behind closed doors,
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information and over classifying, potentially others? yeah i think this is two very different conversations, and we should be really careful not to mix them that this was really damaging. so it damaged our relationship with very important allies. uh it exposed at least gives a counterintelligence agent so remember, on the other side, the russians, the chinese , the iranians, everybody who has intelligence services working against the united states. they're all going to take this information and flyspeck it and they're going to try to re engineer how did they get this particular piece of information? how did they come to this particular conclusion and they're going to walk it back. some believe that some of the information that was released mhm may have pointed out that there was somebody cooperating overseas somewhere. uh and guess what, that that will create real problems for the u. s intelligence services and any individual that that might apply to and so all of that really, really dangerous. and if you think about the
you know that the other the civilian intelligence agencies went through this after the snowden event, and everything is locked down. it appears to me the department of defense did not go through this after the chelsea manning case, and i think they're going to have some explaining to do. this is the second time in relatively recent history where these have had such damaging leaks. for people who have access to the network, but really don't have access to this information. so we're talking about locking down information, making sure that those who do not need access to specific details do not get them and then go the step of printing them or downloading them. a couple of months ago, we were having a conversation about over classification. this was in the context of the documents that were founded. former president and vice presidents, homes. are they part of the converts? same conversation here finding a middle or should we be looking at this in two separate context of classifying of this type of