parts of the administration interacts with the social media company and judge siding with the plaintiff on overreach and the administration pleasured platforms to address posts that contributed to vaccine hesitancy they said. the preliminary injunction specifically restraints employees from a number of agencies from meeting with social media companies or urging them in any way to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce content and posts involving criminal activity, national security threats and efforts to suppress voting and conduct cyber attacks impacting elections are exempt from the ban and white house says it is weighing the next steps and reviewing the ruling, which came down on a federal holiday. now tonight, the president will celebrate independence day on the south lawn after military families and this morning addressing a virtual without having gun violence this holiday weekend. they re part of the answer. they ll make a big difference. the president briefly touched
reinforce his standing on the world stage, after we saw the military go up against his regime and putin s government. the standoff between prigozhin did not last long, accepting a deal and receiving amnesty. putin is in power and stayed in power is he s seen as ruthless dictator, someone who everyone is afraid of. rag-tag group of mercenaries, 8000 strong can take over one of the biggest cities in russia. big sign of disrespect. we heard antony blinken who said the u.s. has forecast idea of an uprising for quite sometime. the rising storm inside of russia by prigozhin is something people have seen for months now. challenge to leadership. now questioning the premise of the war. the chaos in russia may raise concern about the state of nuclear arsenal a study found russians maintain large nuclear warhead inventory. over the weekend, president biden spoke with zelenskyy, zelenskyy saying it was positive and inspiring conversation. president biden has one public event on s
the country, including a former president, was the subject of a hearing today in a federal courthouse in washington, d.c. attorneys for donald trump and federal prosecutors argued over trump s claim that the federal election case against him should be dismissed because everything he did in the postelection period was in his official capacity as president. the three-judge panel that is hearing the case appeared spectacle of that claim. the ex-president and jack smith were in the courtroom today. trump has been claiming that president joe biden has been forcing him to appear in court, which is not true, he did have no obligation to appear at today s hearing. trump s attorney argued that allowing the prosecution of donald trump would, quote, open a pandora s box, but the judge has pushed back on that and many of the arguments he was making. trump s lawyer also argued that the president could only be prosecuted if he was impeached and convicted by the senate first, no matter what
moment that you will be forgiven if you don t remember are missed at the time, a lot happened on this day, but at his speech before the insurrection on january six, president trump had a lot to say about bias on the supreme court. you know, look, i am not happy with the supreme court. they love to rule against me. the supreme court, they rule against me so much, you know why, because the story is, i have not spoken to any of them since virtually they got in, but the story is, that they re puppets. the only way they can go out to, because they hate that, not good on the social circuit, and they only way to get out is to rule against trump. let s rule against trump, and they do that. now, in reality, the current supreme court is one of the most conservative courts in modern history. they are the court that overturned roe and ended affirmative action, all practically speaking, gave it to citizens united. conservatives dominate the bench, 6 to 3. but donald trump is not compl
that s right. it s an important public service announcement. i encourage everybody to watch at 8:00 and 9:00. this is usually ari s hour. who can do it like ari? i wish you a happy holiday. you made it through two hours of a holiday rock block. did it. i m sorry we re not in the same studio. have a great, restful, well-deserved holiday. enjoy your rock block. i will. thank you all at home for joining me this hour. i m not ari. i m alex wagner. this is the beginning of a two-hour rock block thick with news. we begin here. it s a moment that you are forgiven if you don t remember it or if you missed it at the time. a lot happened on this day. at his speech before the insurrection on january 6, president trump had a lot to say about bias on the supreme court. you know, look, i m not happy with the supreme court. they love to rule against me. the supreme court, they rule against me so much. you know why? because the story is, i haven t spoken to any of them, any o