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good afternoon, i'm 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. the vote was 6-3, and eddie glaude, reacting just after the decision about the lasting impact he s...

>> thanks, rachel. >> all right, that is going to do it for us for now. i will see you again on monday. it will be back here for the rachel maddow show monday night. now it's time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. good evening, lawrence. it was, i believe, 53 long days ago when i was running through the hallways here with this leaked opinion that i couldn't believe that i was holding. you had one, and just the shock of having a leaked supreme court opinion, and then, getting it today was also shocking because the stuff that we and others pointed out ...

and i think that's, i think, part of the reason that you've had so much discussion today about what's next, because if they're willing to do this on this, which they knew would be the most divisive possible thing in the country, obviously, they would do it on things for what they think they had even more leeway to operate. that, we don't care element to this is, i think, gonna be a profoundly important part of the way this changes the country. >> and when you think of the presidents who made this happen, beginning with ronald reagan, but more importantly now, george h. w. bush, becau...

out new york state's restrictive regulations on concealed carry pistol permits. thomas wrote the majority opinion. shannon bream, chief legal correspondent is in "focus" now. shannon, first of all the reverberation that can happen throughout the state of new york. is it immediate? >> pretty much. it will be hard for them to enforce this specific law anymore. what this doesn't mean so people know is you can simply go out in new york and buy a gun and start carrying it everywhere you want and no questions asked. this was about the concealed carry permit situation. my suspicion is that'...

Number of black s.t.e.m. graduates and engineers and doctors and things because bringing people into colleges that they're not prepared for seems to be the main result of some of these racial preferences programs, as justice thomas's dissent points out. at the end of the day, it doesn't result in more minority applicants, not generally minorities, we know that asian americans are minority that in this case is being discriminated against in these policies, but black and hispanic applicants overall there were not more going to college, they were being redistributed to different colleges and ofte...