what is your view? is it the end of humanity or a bit more of a benign force? well, it could be somewhere in between, i would say. i mean, ithink, like a lot of people, so i ve toyed around with like the chat bots and things, and things like that, chatgpt. we d actually, we d wrapped on this latest series of black mirror and then, and then the next month chatg pt came out. one of our episodes is quite timely. there s a sort of ai generated imagery thing going on in one of our episodes. but i toyed around with chatgpt and you sort of type in like, come up with a black mirror storyline, or something like that or, say something in the style of philomena cunk, or something like that, and it will do, it will spit out something that at first glance you get a kind of sudden spike of dread and think, that s it, i m out of a job, this thing has replaced me, because it looks convincing. but that s really. where we re at at the moment, that s really what it s doing, it s just sort
i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. the supreme court comprised by appoint east of former president donald trump ended a most consequential term. scotus on voting rights, affirmative action, student loans and adoption. this on top of last year s rulings concerns abortion, guns, religion and climate change. yesterday, the court released a much anticipated opinion concerning speech and gay rights. at issue, a colorado business seeking permission not to work for same-sex wedding couples, only this time it wasn t the baker. this case was decided in 2018 when jack phillips refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. then the court decided for the baker, but didn t determine whether a business owner s speech writes can justify refusing service to gay couples. well, five miles from the colorado baker is a graphic artist named lorie smith who will join me momentarily. she said she didn t want to create any same-sex wedding message at odds with her religious beliefs. she neve
court and laura jarrett. i remember the reporting in december, you were reporting on what a critical impact this could have should the lower courts be overturned? yes, the state legislature said they should have the power to draw the lines, and what justice roberts saying today and the majority opinion is the way north carolina interpreted that theory, it was way over broad. he s not saying the court should never weigh in on this issue, but specifically, and the way north carolina interpreted this, it was too broad and they went beyond their authority. what this case boils down to what it could have been, if the supreme court said, yes, the legislature was within their power to draw the districts, it could be within their power to manipulate a number of ways to conduct elections from the state level and it could fall into each state s individual party to see how people are registering to vote and how the congressional districts are drawn based on the parties ruling them, bu
now for the news. a bbc investigation has led to the identification of a new suspect in the stephen lawrence murder case. he s been publicly named for the first time as matthew white who died two years ago. the investigation found the met police seriously mishandled key evidence relating to him. scotland yard has apologised for how it handled the case. russia s defence minister has appeared in public for the first time since the uprising by wagner mercenaries. sergei shoigu has been pictured in state media visiting troops on the frontline in ukraine. wagner s leader, yevgeny prigozhin, had demanded his removal when he ordered troops to advance on moscow. a woman whose husband and son died in a submersible which imploded in the atlantic says she was supposed to be on board. christine dawood gave her place on what was meant to be a tour of the titanic wreck to her 19 year old son, suleman. and a study has found that people in the uk are less likely to survive trea
war plans against iran, with people who were at his golf club in new jersey two years ago. we re going to have expert legal analysis on this seemingly damning piece of evidence in just a moment. it comes as the justice department will meet this week with someone who stood up against trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. trump s lawyers are also busy in new york trying to get the ex-president s hush money case moved to federal court. we ll have the latest on that. we ll also get a live report from moscow for an update on that revolt against russian president vladimir putin. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, june 27th. joe is on assignment, but willie is back. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former press secretary and now msnbc host, jen psaki. founder of the conservative website the bulwark, charlie sykes. a lot going on in politics, willie, but this audio tape, of course,