7488003. Or you can join us on twitter, cspanwj, or facebook. Com cspan. We will get your thoughts here in just a minute, but first joining us on the phone here is lawrence hurley, a Supreme Court correspondent. What was the question put to the courts and what did they decide . Guest thanks. The question is whether sex discrimination within the title vii, which is the federal law that bars employment discrimination, whether sex discrimination applied to Sexual Orientation and gender identity. The court in the ruling ,esterday said that it does which was surprising to some because you had chief Justice Roberts and justice and neil gorsuch joining the four liberals, as you mentioned, in that ruling. The court basically said that any kind of discrimination on the basis of sex is kind of a broad concept and that can include elements of discrimination that concern Sexual Orientation or gender identity. It reads prohibits employment through discrimination based on color, sex, andigion, natio
Wanted as well. And this from carolyn, totally out of touch and not listening to the cares and concerns of american citizens. Their thinking is crazy and skewed. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me today. Cnn newsroom continues with ashleigh banfield. Actually one month after president obama vowed to use whatever power his office holds to prevent more tragedies like newtown he is about to say exactly what that means. In a little less than an hour hell take the wraps off a series of proposals that go beyond gun control. Hes expected to push for a new ban on assault weapons and highcapacity ammo clips. He wants to close the socalled gun show loophole, that involving the background checks. But hes also expected to talk about other things Like Mental Health car health care and boosting school security. He will be joined by his Vice President , joe biden who compiled these ideas after talks with various stakeholders. And for good measure they invited along some of the children who w
Violation as a security thereto. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, june 13th. We have White House Reporter for the Associated Press jonathan lemire, heidi pryzbyla, staff writer for the atlantic, james fallows, yaum etch alcindor and clint watts. A couple of this evening ngs coming this morning be spgs and a furst look at the cover and a little. Of thein into outside interference in the 016 president ial race, President Trump said in an Oval Office Interview yesterday that he would be open to a foreign countrys offer of what he called Opposition Research on rival candidates in the 200 election and that he would not need to notify the fbi about it. The response came when the president was asked l his son, dond trump jr. , should have alerted federal authorities about being offered dirt for the 016 race. Let put yourself in a position, youre a congressman. Somebody comes up and says, hey, i have information on your opponent. Do you call the fbi . If its coming from