we re learning from our sources about the special counsel s investigation. plus, our russia experts are weighing in on cnn s exclusive new reporting. documents showing a missing top general in vladimir putin s military has been a secret member of the mercenary group behind the recent mutiny. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room . there s angry backlash tonight after the u.s. supreme court ruled that race can no longer be a specific basis for college admissions. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has our report on the decision and the disredissent. reporter: the supreme court stirring up protests with its decision to gutting affirmative action saying colleges and universities can no longer rely on race in the admissions process, but prospective students are allowed to talk about how race has shaped their experiences in the applications. the decision will prohibit students from ch
captions by vitac www.vitac.com 800-710-0020. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening, the supreme court closes one door to debt relief for millions of student borrowers. president biden tries to open another. john berman here in for anderson. tonight the case that pits a chief executive against a chief justice in the string of big decisions this week including one today on lgbtq protections and the first amendment, now pitting some of the justices against one another. also tonight, a cnn exclusive, the shocking details from a report on sexual assault at the coast guard academy that went unreleased for years. plus a week after leading a failed rebellion that sent him into exile, where is wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin? and is russian intelligence now gunning for him? first tonight, president biden is vowing to work around a supreme court decision blocking his plan to forgive some $400 billion in student debt taken on by tens of millions of americans. thi
our top story this hour, the two major new rulings by the u.s. supreme court and what they mean for the nation. our justice correspondent jessica snider, she s here with mere in the situation room. jessica, walk us through these very, very significant decisions. yeah, two major decisions on the last day of the court s term, wolf, from what has become a very divided supreme court. so the conservative majority striking down the president s student loan debt forgiveness program while also issuing a ruling in favor of a website designer that leaves the door open for businesses across the country to discriminate. the supreme court ending the term with a dramatic finish and showing just how ideologically divided the justices are. first, all six conservative justices ruling in favor of a christian web designer from colorado who refused to create wedding websites from same-sex couples citing religious grounds. she objected to a colorado law that prohibits discrimination saying it v
investigators. the death toll rising overnight after a russian missile strike on kramatorsk. and another hot and hazy day ahead, millions of people under heat or air quality alerts. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin with new developments in the donald trump efforts to overturn the 2020 election. later today jack smith s team will speak to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger as part of their january 6 investigation. you may remember then president trump called raffensperger in january of 2021 to press him to, quote, find the votes needed to win georgia which joe biden won by nearly 12,000 votes. here is part of that now infamous call. so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11 sk1,780 votes which is one more than we have, because we won the state. and we re also learning that the former attorney rudy giuliani has been interviewed as part of the probe. the meeting between giuliani, his attorney and invest
documents showing a top russian general was a secret vip member of evgenyevgeny prigozhin s pri army. these new documents, as there are new questions about where the general and prigozhin are tonight. mike pence making a surprise trip here to ukraine while he is going against so many in his own party whether it comes to the war. pence is outfront tonight. the supreme court decision that has the obamas speaking out forcefully tonight. let s go k outfront. i m erin burnett live in key et tonight. a top secret p member. new documents showing a top rurj shan general is a vip member of the wagner group. a top putin inner circle member listed as a member of yevgeny prigozhin s personal army, same army that marched against putin. it is a major development. guess what? there s more. in these documents, obtained exclusively here, there are 30 other senior russian military officials action wagner members. these are significant revelations if true. raising more questions, specifi