hello, everyone, i m julian castro in for alicia menendez. as we begin a new hour, american rights at risk. a week of consequential rulings from the supreme court has rolled us back decades, raising the stakes for the 2024 race. speaking of, we take a look tonight at the new laws now in effect in florida. governor desantis going for the rights on immigration, abortion, and the second amendment. plus, pressure campaigns and presidential immunity. donald trump s mountain of legal troubles growing higher as a judge shoots down his latest attempt at revenge against e. jean carroll. and the walk back. house speaker mccarthy saying my bad, after daring to doubt the trump can win again. this is american voices. we begin this hour with your rights. the supreme court and a are and a republican party hell-bent on rolling back years of precedent and progress. this week, the court s conservative supermajority ended affirmative action in college admissions. in a 6-3 decision, th
tonight on three 60, trump s latest excuse, it wasn t a, crime just bravado. and they weren t secret documents, just building plants. legendary reporters joining me live. also, vladimir putin moves to look at control as questions swirl about what really happened with this weekend s rebellion. author and columnist thomas friedman joins us. plus, e. jean carroll now defended just the former president already found liable for abusing and defaming her, countersues, claiming she defamed him. it, evening when we left you last night the former president had just floated a new explanation for the tape of him two summers ago. apparently sharing a classified plan for attacking iran which already people not authorized to see it. and that explanation now is i was just bsing people. he didn t say bs, he said it was bravado, a fancier word. same bs. before reading you his latest excuse, here is actual words. july 2021 showing off the documents. there is a secret. look at this. thes
ruled us back decades. raising the stakes for the 2024 race. speaking of, we take a look tonight at the new laws now in effect in florida. governor desantis going for the rights on immigration, abortion, and the second amendment. plus, pressure campaigns and presidential immunity. donald trump s mountain of legal troubles growing higher as a judge shoots down his latest attempt at revenge against e. jean carroll. and the walk back. house speaker mccarthy saying my bed, after daring to doubt the trump can win again. this is american voices. we begin this hour with your rights. the supreme courts and a are hell-bent on rolling back years of precedent and progress. this week, the court s conservative supermajority ended affirmative action in college admissions. in a 63 decision, the court struck a blow to lgbtq+ rights, siding with a website designer who refused to create websites for same-sex couples. it also ruled in favor of a jim crow era law to keep black americans from v
hi, everyone. it s 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added that he considers carroll s allegation false. that was stricken from the record immediately. that single question by his attorney is the result of a lengthy back and forth between the judge and trump s attorneys in which the judge warned trump not to relitigate the first trial in which he was found liable for sexually abusing carroll. there are no do overs. he ruled out the kind of statements trump has made outside of court. carroll s attorneys entered into evidence some of those statements in
leader to retreat. yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner mercenary group, has been pictured apparently leaving the russian city of rostov on don along with his troops. only yesterday a heavily armed column of wagner troops was heading from rostov on don towards moscow, where defences were being prepared. those troops got to around 300 miles south of the russian capital. then, at around 6.30pm uk time, prigozhin announced that he had agreed to stop the advance, in a deal brokered by the belarusian leader. with all the details, here s our eastern europe correspondent sarah rainsford. mutineers cheered as heroes. this crowd are shouting wagner, the name of the mercenary group that led me to putin had said treason a couple of hours earlier. in a day of high drama. the wagner group had rolled into rostov on saturday morning, leasing attacks on city streets and taking over a military command post for the ukraine war. there, wagner s boss was filmed haranguing senior milita