miguel joins us live this hour to discuss what this means for higher learning in america. and breaking news out of moscow. cnn has new reporting on the top russian general who appears to be missing after the mutiny. documents indicating he was a secret vip member of the wagner mercenary group behind the rebellion. and the former school deputy who failed to confront the park l parkland shooter is found not guilty. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s get right to our top story. the united states supreme court ruling that united states supreme court ruling gutting affirmative action in college admissions. the concern with majority upended precedent and prompting a fiery dissent by liberal justices on the court. cnn s senior supreme court analyst is joining us right now. joan, how did the conservative majority reach this decision and what are the real world impacts of it? well i ll tell
campaign travel as the administration s poll numbers sink while the border crisis reaches critical levels with thousands of migrants arriving every day and released into the country. welcome to fox news live. i m griff jenkins. hey, jacqui. jacqui: good to be with you, i m jacqui heinrich. in a victory for trump, and the 2024 election cycle. alex has this for us. let s start with the drive by the biden-harris campaign. it offered bullet points and did not hold back. inside the maga plan to attack and ban the abortion pill. tying the former president to restrictive abortion policies. the biden team says the campaign as a whole will hit full steam by early summer, but a push is evident now to connect more so with black and hispanic voters. yesterday the president commuted the sentences of 11 people in prison for nonviolent drug offenses and on wednesday touted bidenomics with a focus on minority businesses. it s a fundamental break from trickle down economics, economics tha
leaving no one behind. we ve never lived up to it but have never walked away from it. we will not walk away from it now. even as president biden expressed optimism the supreme court wouldn t rule this way, white house officials have been preparing for this outcome. today, we heard at least one of those directives the president is issuing, urging the department of education to begin compiling a list of best practices for how colleges an universities can ensure they have diverse classes through add miss. and the president today explaining he believes that new standard that is now required is talking about adversity. looking at financial means, geographic location of some of these students and other standards like that. but the president made very clear in response to a question from our colleague that he doesn t believe this is a quote normal supreme court and the president in a sequence in interview expanded on that, saying he believes this court has done more to unravel basic rights
with john kelly chief of staff today. let me ask you by asking you congressman your response what he said moments ago in that interview. pretty significant add miss, right, saying the president has evolved on the wall. but what he actually said there in terms of admitting that the mexican government would not directly pay for it, that is a massive admission. it s an admission of fact we all know but not something that the president has admitted to. how significant is it? well, as the late governor marr marrow komo always said, so very often lots of things said during the campaign but when you reach government there must be a consensus building effort to ensure that all sides are heard and that a consensus is built to move forward. and i think this is what s happening. what s happening right now is the president is realizing that there is currently three bills on the floor. there is the d.r.e.a.m. act
reports were instigated by the house of representatives committee on foreign affairs and we went when to the v.a. to ask not recommendations would be followed up on they said, yes, and we asked about their numbers, they lied to congress. it is difficult to believe that the central office in washington, dc did not have any idea about the cooking of the books and the illegal activity going on and their own add miss at 60 percent of the facilities. why is it unlikely that eric shinseki didn t know this was going on? or that president didn t me? because the secretary three weeks ago when he testified in front of the senate committee said it was an isolated incident at phoenix. we knew it was throughout the country and the vast majority of the facilities were affected. dr. foote you were there for 24 years in the v.a. facility in phoenix how do you explain and do you believe this disconnect between the gaming of the