be controversial. it should be done in one voice. sadly, it has become political. we have to end this. what happened to paul pelosi s despicable, unacceptable. unfortunately, it has become a more dangerous place me have to do everything we can to lower the rhetoric, have a civil conversation but make sure people are safe. we are counting down to midterms, now just nine days away. we are looking at the biggest issues driving people to the polls. a new abc abscess poll shows the economy, inflation, and abortion as the top three concerns, respectively. today the chairs of both republican and democratic campaign committees gave their message to voters. exploding cost of living, a crime wave in our major cities that is the result of this defund the police nonsense. those are the issues that are top of mind for every voter in this country, that is why they are going to show up on november 8th. that is why democrats a republicans are going to win in the midterms. we will pla
it was something i m sure for the mostly young people there let me give folks a sense of the response to this. there were so many people, thousands and thousands there. speaking of thousands, 1700 response personnel. there were 520 firefighters. 1100 police officers. 70 government workers and more. it was an extraordinary response all in that small area. the trauma to that region, absolutely extraordinary and heartbreaking. thomas, thank you so much for the report from seoul, south korea. let s go to washington. tomorrow, the supreme court will hear arguments on where the biggest cases of this term. a challenge to college affirmative action policies. how might the makeup of the court changed one of the most famous past supreme court cases? we will bring you two answers next. next [ chuckling ] and i hope whatever you ve got to do
that affirmative action is permissible, the courts have said those two things mean the same thing. title six means the same thing, they have the equal protection clause, if there s a compelling state interest and there is no intrusive way of doing it, that s okay. they are four, title six allows affirmative action. i think the new conservative majority, the more textural, ideological approach to interpreting things, is going to take a second look at that and may say, no, title six flatly prohibits discrimination based on race by recipients of federal funding. there is no balancing. but that case, maybe it s more restrictive. that will be their justification used to end affirmative action. do you agree with that, melissa? do you think this is a permit jordy on the conservative court will overturn overturn things? one of the things you have to weigh here is the question of institutional isn t. this is a court that has, in just the last few months, laid
new drop boxes. they weren t terribly controversial prior to the 2020 election, after the election conservatives started attacking them. 2000 wheels came out. there were false allegations made about drop boxes. they are being monitored very closely in arizona and similar states as well. one more quick question. this is the audio obtained by politico. it happened on friday. it revealed former trump attorney, john eastman, urging joe people workers to challenge individual votes and file complaints which could form the basis for court challenges in upcoming elections. take a listen to what he said. document what you ve seen, raise the challenge. and which of the judges on that election board declined to accept your challenge. get it all written down. and that then becomes the basis for an affidavit in a court after the fact. what are your thoughts on what we heard there? the message john eastman is delivering there is very consistent with what other attorneys are saying.
college admissions will argue that it is very much in keeping with the spirit of brown to think about race in order to equalize society. a society where members of underrepresented groups historically have been excluded from these institutions, whereas the conservatives will argue that the entire logic of brown was about not allowing color to impede progress, not allowing color to factor in the decision-making at all. the mona lisa, if you will, two very different views of how brown should weigh in the balance here. charlie, i know you ve written about affirmative action cases in the past. now, considering the court s recent decision overturning roe v. wade, is there reason to believe this more conservative court will upend another decades old precedent? this time on affirmative action? i think there s a lot of reason to suspect that s where they are going. the real politic way of thinking about this is there is now a politically conservative super majority on this court.