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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 we're 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 that race conscious administrations will end. currently race is permitted to be a factor in the ad...

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 the way he was inaugurated, talking about the trump d. C. Hotel and it has been a consistent issue ...

Roberts wrote the opinion, it was unanimous, and i'm going to put it on the screen and read one paragraph for the audience. there's 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 government's 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 when appointing jag smith that the supreme court had kind of spanked him as it relates to your c...

Biden's son, was on the board of. in that sense he was advancing his personal interest using u.s. foreign policy. what do you say? >> it's 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 obama's direction he was implementing what was bipartisan u.s. policy at the time supported by republicans and democrats in congress, our western allies, the international monetary fund, which was to try to persuade them to get rid of this corrupt prosecutor who was...

On the basis theyn't hadn't 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 we're 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 secretary of state, i have certified the government of ukraine has take condition substantial actions t...