hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again i m stephanie ruhle, let s take a big deep breath because we have a lot to cover tonight, today the nation s highest court struck down race based affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from th
tell us what you re thinking because everyone is going to be watching tomorrow. you know there s never anything in front of me. i try to listen and be in the moment, but i think some big things on their agenda and a lot of big questions we all have who cover the white house and the country. i jump into the chair saturday as the events in russia were unfolding, and that is a story that gets more surreal by the day. the more we learn, the more bizarre and remarkable that story is. of course i m excited to hear what he thinks the problem is there and putin s a leader he s been dealing with for decades. as you remind everyone the presidency for being there at the white house is always more than one job and always can change in an instant. i m looking forward to watching what they sometimes a colloquy or an interview. we ll be watching tomorrow. thank you, my friend. see you soon. again, we ll this up on msnbc tonight during our hour, other hours and tomorrow to remind e
good morning to you, it saturday, january the 20th. i m ali velshi. three days, three remaining candidates for the republican nomination are gonna face off in the new hampshire primaries. ron desantis, nikki haley, and donald trump. they re all holding offense throughout the state this weekend. and in the normal presidential election year, the race would really be ramping up right now. we would be talking about momentum from iowa and how the independents would line up in new hampshire and who would last through south carolina and to make it to super tuesday? this isn t a normal year. this is a post trump era of american politics, and anyone who s been tank attention to the republican party and as long as it s concluded the try some piece multiply indicted experts wouldn t will be the last man standing. that s how thoroughly he has taken over the gop. the former presidents decisive victory in iowa on monday resulted in the republican party consolidating its support for him eve
it has been a busy night here. 20 russian missiles fired at this city. most were shot down, but there was death and destruction, but you are right, it was even busier across the border. experts are saying this is the biggest internal challenge to russian president vladimir putin since he started this war. russian officials claiming the fogner group mercenary chief yevgeny is launching a coup, an armed uprising against the government, specifically its military leadership and is demanding his arrest. all started friday morning when yevgeny blasted the whole bases and conduct of this basis and conduct of this war. later, he launched one more threat against the government saying his 25,000 men would leave ukraine and take on the regime. all night, we ve been watching incredible scenes of russian military rolling out to protect moscow and a key city to the south and then columns of the trucks, tanks, armor and troops rolled into the city marching around and with barely any fight
machine is loyaling. we got no answers at the white house press briefing does this not under mine the president s claim during the 2020 campaign and by his 2 press secretaries since he never discussed his son s over seas business dealings with them. no and i will not comment further. i will save you no. let me save you some breath if you are going to ask about this i will not address. i know you do. more than i d like to you have i m not going to address this issue from this podium i will not do t. i believe my colleague at the white house council has answered this question already and dealt with this. his made it clear. i don t have anything to share outside what my colleagues have shared i refer you to him and the doj not going to comment from here. texts. what i can tell you i than my colleague has dealt with this. address third degree. at the white house council was the president. gi just steven. upon steven, i just answered the question. i just said this