woman to serve on the supreme court. all the members of the court, i am pleased to welcome justice jackson to the court and to our common calling. [ applause ] her elevation to justice coming at an incredibly politically fraught moment for that court following the conservative-leaning bodies overturning of roe v. wade. joining me is nbc news justice correspondent pete williams, nyn professor and former law clerk melissa murray, and politico author eugene daniels. appreciate you joining us on this. pete, before we get to the history-making moment, i want to talk specifically about the two decisions that came down, really kind of a split decision for the biden administration here. reporter: that s true. the easier one to talk about is the remain in mexico program. supreme court said the biden administration went about it the right way trying to end this program that was launched during the trump administration. that required the government to send asylum seekers back
environmental decisions in years, the courts conservative justices cited with several red states and coal companies, and limited the epa s ability to crack down on greenhouse gas emissions. in a victory for the president, the court ruled in favor of the ministrations efforts to shut down the trump remaining mexico immigration policy. we will have reactions to that straight ahead. also coming up it is now justice jackson. this afternoon, to tonya brown jackson became the first black woman to be sworn into the supreme court. it comes in a time of turmoil on the supreme court after the conservative majority overturn roe v wade. good afternoon, everybody. we are back with you for another hour, join now with our nbc news team, and mike medley is with us at the white house. let us take you through the monumental decisions. the biden administration taking a win and a loss all at the same time. sure, the win is a little easy to describe. this describes the so-called migrant protect
investigation has revealed evidence that mr. cipollone repeatedly raised other and legal concerns about president trump s activities of january 6th and while the select committee appreciates mr. cipollone s earlier informal engagement with our investigation, with the ball now squarely in cipollone s quote the new york times is out with some important reporting, quote, the subpoena of a white house counsel a rare step for a congressional committee sent a clear signal of the aggressive tactics the panel is willing to use to force the cooperation of the white house top lawyer who could likely invoke attorney-client privilege in response to many questions. the committee has at times used the leverage of a subpoena or the leverage it creates to force witnesses to negotiate a deal for their cooperation. discussions about the scope of a possible appearance are expected to begin soon. lawyer familiar with cipollone s deliberations who was not authorized to speak on the record said th
vote. i will say get mad and vote. we re going to do what we can, but in the end, this is about november. we ve got to elect pro-choice legislators, governors, supreme court judges. we need to show the american people that when they give the democratic party and actually do vote for us, that we will be using and we are willing to use the power that they do give us in order to merit increased expansions in our majority. the supreme court overturning roe v. wade shifts a lot of the action to the states and right now, abortion is banned in nine states already via trigger laws. in at least 12 more states, the limit of ban of abortion could be in place in weeks to come. there are also a flurry of lawsuits. today in florida, there s a hearing for abortion rights groups asking for an injunction to stop the ban replacing its current 24-week ban. in ohio, plans parenthood trying to file a suit. more action as well in california. in michigan. we ve gotten this warning from a demo
number one finland borders with russia. then you have sweden, follow the waterways, a key access to the baltic sea. this is what vladimir putin did not want. he thought four years ago it would split nato. some might object. others might say we don t want to spend the time, the resources on this. this is a diplomatic victory for president biden, it is a snub at vladimir putin. putin didn t want nato expanded along russian borders. that is exactly what they re getting with this movement for finland and sweden. as you know it has an 800-mile border joining nato. it can t be overstated how significant that is when you look at what putin was trying to accomplish and what, in fact, he was getting right now. it is also significant as caitlin was noting that the biden administration, european officials didn t necessarily expect this was going to happen today. so the fact that they were able to pull this off is significant and president biden was engaged diplomatically on this. but