the president again. in 30 minutes, he ll speak from the roosevelt room, explaining the white house s next steps because a lot could change with a ruling that sided with a web designer opposed to same-sex marriage. and a lot will change now that the president cannot constitutionally cancel student debt. joining me now nbc news correspondent julia ainsley who s outside of the supreme court for us, and nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli. noah pransky is here with us as well, and cnbc washington correspondent, emily wilkins. thank you very much for being here, everybody. so 6-3 ruling, two more 6-3 rulings, i should say. student debt. you re right, katy, if somebody was going to sum up this supreme court right now, the name of the book might be 6-3 because we re seeing so many opinions fall along those lines. today we saw two more, the first coming in, a case having to do with a web designer in colorado who says that she does have gay clients but didn t want to be
hello, everyone. at this hour, enduring hope and continued heartache. more earthquake survivors pulled from the destruction in turkey and syria and at the same time the death toll is soaring. russia firing dozens of missiles across ukraine and escalating the attacks with a new offensive. and former vice president mike pence is facing a decision of what to do about the subpoena from the special counsel investigating the insurrection, and that is what we are watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. the numbers in turkey and syria are staggering today. nearly 23,000 people h reported killed after that massive earthquake five days on. and time is running out to find the survivors, but still, this morning, incredible stories of hope after a teenaged girl is carried to safety and miraculously still alive after 107 hours under the rubble. another video of a family of six in turkey. six parents and their four children pulled from their home 102 hours a
Into this situation. They stormed our kibbutz, they kidnapped me. Bring them home, bring them home. Nothing will be the same because at the end of the day our community lost 10 of its population. Sandra begin a brandnew hour breaking moments ago, two Security Sources telling reuters a Rocket Attack has targeted an air base in iraq which hosts u. S. And other forces just west of baghdad. An update from john kirby. He is going to be joining Karine Jeanpierre at the White House Press briefing, expected to begin just moments from now. Bill also well hear from the pentagon as a new report reveals the u. S. Military is stepping up its surveillance now in the middle east. Sandra a lot happening at this hour, over on capitol hill, lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs committee are set to receive a classified briefing on the threat from iran. Another busy day in our Nations Capital and beyond. Sandra smith in new york. Bill, great to have you here. Bill i dont know roberts is off today. Bill
i hope that s what he s saying. that s how i interpreted it. even if i hope that s what he s saying, i m not sure that s true. there s been reporting about how the justices are interacting with one another, the eye rolls, the notes they are sending one another, the ways they interact, that even nine years ago when i watched justices alito, thomas, and sotomayor on a sage at yale law school, nine years ago, they seemed at east with each other. i don t know that that s the case anymore. i believe the court is suffering as well. ruth bader begins i appreciate it, that s how i read it as well. lisa rubin, thank you very much for going over my questions with me. i appreciate it. i know you re sticking around. don t go too far. what the president can do to help the tens of millions of americans staring down tens of
for a year, and they will put them in hotels, and sending down tens of thousands of tents to this region, but this a tiny fraction of the need on the ground, and remember, these freezing cold conditions there, and some people are refusing to leaving the sites of their destroyed homes until they are able to retrieve their loved ones and able to findly put them in the ground. then you brought up the case of the hundreds of children now who have no parents or guardians who cannot be found, and then the scope and scale of the tragedy is so unprecedented. president erdogan is calling it the greatest disaster in a century for turkey and everyone here very much feels that. many of them saying that they cannot sit at home, and they have to help, but there is never going to be enough help when it is coming to a tragedy of this scale, kate. it is it is a horrible reality, but it is exactly the right point to make.