at a time when colonel gadhafi is under great pressure and our allies are with considerable burden of the effort, it will send a bad message to gadhafi on the funding issue to have a vote like that. in report last week the white house projected that libyan mission would cost united states taxpayers more than $1 billion through the end of september. leading the major newspapers this morning, the supreme court blocking a major class action discrimination lawsuit. against walmart. the largest case of its kind in america history. the headline reading, justices curb class actions. new york times, supreme court tightens rules in class actions. the high court says that the women did not have enough in common to justify lumping all of their claims of discrimination
live look at the white house at 34 past the hour. how about my you got to love it. welcome back to morning joe. reading the major newspapers this morning. it s an amazing song. that s enough now. the supreme court blocking a major class action discrimination lawsuit filed by 1.15 million female workers against walmart. here s the reason behind the high court s ruling. it s a huge legal blow to betty dukes from california, a walmart greeter and one of the first to sue. if you re a major corporation in america and you have the resource, then you have a greater advantage over us that
jenna: thanks. gregg: this could be the largest class action discrimination lawsuit in american history as women employees take on walmart, the world s biggest retailers. but they ve got a pretty high hurdle to clear. will the u.s. supreme court let this case go forward? jenna: a busy day at the supreme court taking a look at that line. as calls go for the 4 libyan leader to step down his closes advisers aren t sure if qaddhafi can hang onto power. what his inner circle is saying to fox, we re live with that story. jenna: a woman nearly buried alive in her own backyard when he fell into a giant sinkhole that swallowed her up. i go inside the house, i hear carla screaming. i followed her scream, i opened the sliding glass door, i look to the left and sure enough i see her fingertips and screaming
water back out in order to get the workers in there to find out what the cause is of the leak in the first place. so there was a bit of good news, they did get more power hooked up to another control room there, so they can get a better idea as to what is going on with the reactors. but then we have a battle on two fronts, keeping the reactors cool and then figuring out what to do with all that radioactive water. that s the latest from here, thomas. back to you. all right, lee, thank you very much. the supreme court is hearing arguments at this hour in what could be the largest class action discrimination suit ever. pete williams is at the supreme court with more for us. reporter: thomas, this is a huge case. the largest class action discrimination lawsuit ever against the nation s biggest retailer. the question is, can this case go to trial, or is lumping so many complaints together, does that make it unfair for walmart to defend itself? for 25 years, christine has worked at a nor
elsewhere? and this is going to be the big challenge he faces in devicing a grand strategy for the middle east. also quickly, the president referring to this is not about regime change. he brought up iraq saying it took eight years and thousands of american and iraqi lives and nearly $1 trillion. this is not about regime change, it s a humanitarian effort. well, yes. i mean, it s very clear that iraq haunts the obama administration and that they re very concerned about the parallels to iraq. so that s why obama kept on saying, this is an operation limited in scope, and we keep on hearing that theme. so it s very clear that obama s trying to steer a middle course between too much intervention and too little intervention. all right. thank you so much. we greatly appreciate your time, yet again, on news nation. thank you. another big story, protesters rallying outside of the supreme court in support of women involved in the largest class action discrimination