A crucial supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. The Central Question being decided this time is should Affirmative Action continue forever In The Name Of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on Asian American students . This is the most important civil Rights Case of our era. I dont think its an overstatement to say theyre freaking out right now. One admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that theyre thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. There has to be some discrimination here. There has to be something against Asian Americans specifically. This case is going to be something more than just about admissions. The notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating for a number of areas of the law. An
He also founded craigslist, the online Bulletin Board where i sell my discarded swimwear. Last night, tucker revealed the study was in fact no study at all. Can we get some numbers on that, and why you . No, actually, we cant. In the words of the study, pinning down precise proportions of censorship is impossible because twitter doesnt release sufficient data. Are you following the reasoning here . Their conclusion, twitter is not biased and we can be certain its not biased because twitter refuses to release the data on who it bands. Greg in other words, a fake study for a guy who claims he doesnt like fake news. It was designed for the media so they wouldnt have to do their jobs and investigate the actual claims, but the research is about as a researchy as turning on the lights to your living room to assess the existence of whales. Yep, no whales there. Really, having a Big Tech Lib Fund A Study On Whether big tech is biased, thats like me finding a study on how great i am, or a study
did you hear that? seacrest is on speed dial. he sure wise. congrats to pat sajak and such an impressive run. and way to go ryan, on your new gig. on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. of tomorrow we have some breaking news tonight from the new york times this evening, some reporting that makes a recently unearthed trump recording even more incredible. if you ve not yet heard it, nbc news has independently obtained the audio of former president trump and his bedminster unit new jersey golf club, essentially admitting to a crime. here is trump in july of 2021 telling a group of people that he still has classified information after leaving the white house, and then proceeding to destroy his own defense. he explicitly says on audiotape that he could have declassified this when he was president, but he did not. take a listen. isn t that amazin
this evening. alex wagner tonight starts right tonight with my good, friend alex wagner. ts righ thank you, chris, and thk you as always for joining us this hour. we have some breaking news tonight from the new york times this evening, some reporting that makes a recently unearthed trump recording even more incredible. if you ve not yet heard it, nbc news has independently obtained the audio of former president trump and his bedminster unit new jersey golf club, essentially admitting to a crime. here is trump in july of 2021 telling a group of people that he still has classified information after leaving the white house, and then proceeding to destroy his own defense. he explicitly says on audiotape that he could have declassified this when he was president, but he did not. take a listen. isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case. except it is highly confidential this was done by the military and given to me. i think that we can probably do that, yes? we ll have to
the special reports that we do sometimes around here. this one is about what we call the just comply lie from some republicans, as well as sean hannity. we re going to show you how it has been shredded by recent events. how sean hannity s standard was failed by none other than donald trump himself. how it fits in with civil rights in our country. by the end of the hour, to end the week, we have a saturday night live alum with us as well. our top story is the kind of news that sometimes comes at the end of the week about the january 6th coup. it s about our democracy. it s about the man who already got donald trump arraigned, special counsel jack smith. people are taking everything he does as seriously as possible these days. indeed, one thing that you can find agreement on from sort of doj veterans and allies of the justice department, if you want to put it that way, and donald trump s team and world, they all think jack smith means business. they are all watching everyth