roe v. wade. take a look at the decision today. take a look at how it s how it s ruled on a number of issues that have been precedent for 50, 60 years sometimes. across the board, the vast majority of the american people don t agree with a lot of the decisions this court is making. that s president joe biden yesterday on msnbc, reacting to the supreme court overturning the use of affirmative action in college admissions. you know, willie, it was a fascinating interview. i have to say, though, a little concerned. the new york washington post new york post, which is morning joe s paper of record also, people come up to me and ask why. it s simple. they won more pulitzer prizes collectively than all other newspapers. look it up. look it up if you don t believe me. that s why. anyway, don t look it up. they have on the cover online, like, joe biden walking off set, right? it s like he got lost. kind of like barnicle. we ask him a question, and he walks off in
germany say police spoke to the suspect in thursday s hamburg shooting a month before the attack. one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the southern hemisphere hits mauritius and madagascar twice and is now heading for mozambique for the second time. it may have broken the record as the longest lasting cyclone in history on record, it s been a named tropical cyclone now also 33 days. we start in the us, and regulators have shut down silicon valley bank, a major lender to tech companies after it ran into financial trouble. concerns triggered a sell off on global financial markets. it is the largest banking failure in the us since 2008. james clayton has been explaining how it happened. this will go down in silicon valley history, certainly one of the most stressful days for silicon valley founders in modern times. we have spoken to people today who have been able to withdraw their money from silicon valley bank, and some who haven t. one person i spoke to said they put
happening at the same time, whether one is a diversionary one or other plans to happen simultaneously. so, whether this was an errant explosion, and the explosions were heading elsewhere, we don t know what the intended targets may have been, if this was not the target they selected. gillian: bill, obviously when you look at a situation like this, it s way too early in the process to talk about motivations, but do you have any sense based on just the geography, the very bare phones facts we have here, the fact this was likely a car bomb, that they were going from the u.s. or trying to go from the u.s. to canada. does that speak to you and your background expertise about what types of terror organizations might be interested in conducting something like this? yeah, it s very difficulty point to kind of come to any of those assumptions. certainly we know that the fbi director wray just over the past few days has reiterated concerns about potential terrorist activities, eman
brett kavanaugh wrote the ruling would apply to students first starting college in 2028. reverend sharpton, yesterday morning, you and i discussed this. you anticipated this ruling. most people expected it to go this way. you had begun to walk us through some of the follow-on effects from this decision. how are you looking at it this morning? well, i think it was as bad or worse than i had thought. clearly, the court, in my judgment, stuck a dagger in the back of many of us that feel that we need to continue to legally protect people that have had to deal with historic inequities. you must understand, affirmative action started under the nixon administration, written by arthur fletcher. this was a conservative remedy to equalize the fact that blacks by law couldn t go to certain schools. by law, they were enslaved. i mean, we are not talking about a custom here. we re talking about the law said
admissions, even beyond campus, the follow-on effects of this, what this means at the corporate level perhaps, if we see new lawsuits brought against corporations with dei programs and things like that, what are your concerns as you now look over the horizon based on this ruling? well, my concerns are the majority on the supreme court and where they re going with this. i wonder, i mean, justice roberts did exempt the military academies. he said that issue wasn t presented to them in this case, so they re not messing with that. but when we get lawsuits coming up, percolating up perhaps, that deal with perceived affirmative action, whether it is real or not in employment, hiring, promotions, wherever, what is this court going to do? i have great concerns about that, but we ll have to see.