and i think that across the board, the vast majority of the american people don t agree with a lot of the decisions the courts are making. president biden in an exclusive interview with my colleague, nicolle wallace, responding to today s very predictable supreme court decision on affirmative action. and that is where we begin tonight, with the united states supreme court once again turning the arc of justice away from equality and back to the early 20th century. striking down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. the roberts court, which wouldn t even look like the court it is today without affirmative action, decided that race conscious admissions programs at harvard university and the university of north carolina violate equal protection under the constitution. it is fitting then that it would be the court s first black woman justice, ketanji brown jackson, who clearly articulated the cost of this latest regression. writing in her dissent, with let them
Im dania korea along with Jesse Watters and brian kilmeade. Its 5 00 in new york city. This is the five. It ready, everyone. It is the new normal right smack dab in the middle of an election season. The leading president ial candidate is off the trail and on trial for a donald trump was back in the Defense Table Listening to new york prosecutors lay out their case against him and grill their first witness. David pecker the x publisher of the national inquirer. He tried to illegally influence a 2016 president ial election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public. Covering up a large Hush Payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels or as they put it it was Election Fraud, pure and simple. Lawyers countering that none of this was a crime in the case should never have been brought. It is an attempt to kneecap is campaign. President nine defending himself was dismissed. To keep me up Like Campaign trail. I should be in georgia now. I should be in florida no
it seems fitting that we continue to have this because we had a lot we had a couple centuries of that violence and that history compared to just a few decades of being free of that, even at the university of north carolina, they had that university was created in 1789 to serve the children of slave owners at the time, and they fought for 200 years to continue to exclude black students. so we knew going in to the argument that it was going to be a tough sell for this court, this sitting court. prior courts with republican appointed and democratic appointed justices had put aside those differences of politicized opinions, but this court through some of its questions you could kind of start reading through. we did feel very strongly that the law, the facts, and the constitution were on our side. and we had strong evidence from our own students discussing how