ways that are completely at odds with the framing of them, you know, as chris hayes said there, of being this kind of imperial, you know, entity handing down rulings. the other thing that i think is left out here is that of all the entities that represent our federal government can at the moment, i would argue that the court is being the most representative of public opinion in the sense that if you actually look at the affirmative action question whenned asked both by harvard s own polling efforts and by the pew forum and the like over the last several years, it s a 70-30 issue at best. most recent pew poll was 74-26 in terms of the number of americans who are opposed to affirmative action. and so i don t think that this has the same kind of flavor as it would in perhaps other areas where it s viewed as the court sup planning itself over public supplanting itself over public opinion. they re ruling according to the constitution, and it is consistent with where americans are. howard:
i think it s more coherent than elon when it comes to social media, and he s looking at this whole a.i., you know, this virtual reality stuff. and what i think he s doing and this is just my my surmise is that he wants to somehow make threads into some sort of a media outfit that is combined with his a.i. i mean, that s where i think he s going. and you know what s interesting about that, when you combine all that together? it s very futuristic and novel, and, you know, we re a ways off, obviously, you know, that could put, that could really hurt twitter. elon is not, like, you know, out there on the a.i. thing really. i mean, he s behind the 8-ball. zuck has got a huge head start on him. so this is an interesting battle. watch this, because it has huge implications for social media, for a.i., for virtual reality howard: you know, the head of instagram said on the site, well, it s not in our interests to push hard news and politics, doesn t really help us. i commented on it becau
with drugs howard: let me jump in. there s been all this media speculation, does the cocaine belong to hunter even though the family wasn t there, and i know there s arguments about when were they there. is it unfair to go on tv and just toes this out? i think it s very unfair because it s not substantiated by reason. hundreds of people go through the white house. to assume i will dispute that. the fact that it s one person is ridiculous. especially on the fourth of july weekend when they were having multiple events i would like to dispute that only because, and i m sure you ve been to the white house, the lower level of the white house where this was found not actually well trafficked. that is a place i have put my phone in that cubby, okay this. so have i. but you and i know when you go to that a part of the white house, you re meeting. all the times i put any phone in that cubby, i ve been in
alex berenson, the journalist, was canceled because he s a vaccine skeptic. all horrible, disgusting stuff. but i don t know, how is it illegal for the government to ask? howard: right. they don t make the final decision. the company make the final decision. right. we re reporting reporters. we get a lot of crap from people. people call our supervisors. the question, you know, you kind of want to have that dialogue with people that you re covering, and social media is kind of a journalism outfit even though it does have, you know, pleasures that we don t have like section 230 of the communications act, they can t get sued, but in any event howard: let me just jump in because the trump campaign did some of this as well, and the twitter files investigation uncovered is some of this, and the mainstream media basically ignored out. do you see it as a battle over free speechsome. you know, it is a9 ballot over fee speech. i don t know the law here. the law seems dubious here that yo
he seems to be very traditionalist, somebody who believes in washington institutions, so that does not shock maine i do think ben has a point. and when you think about the legitimacy of the supreme court, 98% of the supreme court justices came from yale and harvard, and at those institutions you have a problem with legacy add migs. howard: hocking. so we re having this conversation around the elites in this country and making sure that that reflects what the country actually looks like both in socioeconomics as well as racial breakdown whether we re going to have a conversation about the 6% of african-americans there or the 28% like you quoted of rich folks and harvard alums howard: you both have made the point and, by the way, you re agreeing way too much [laughter] that the media have missed this point or that point. why do you think that is? does that have too with the mistakeup of i think it absolutely does, including a lot of people who have gone through a lot of these i