support. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. monday america celebrates the third ever federal holiday of juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans. as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college admissions. does that mean it achieved its purpose or we re abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. we ll soon know the results. one involves harvard, the other the university of north carolina. the conventional wisdom is that race-conscious admissions will end. currently race is permitted to be a factor, meaning one factor among many to be considered as schools seek to create a diverse student body. kwoet quote teas, however, are unconstitutional. that s the bottom line after the supreme court has taken up several cases involve ing affirmative action over time. justice sandra day o connor wrote we expect 25 years from now the us
juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans, and as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is that the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college administrations. does that mean that it achieved its purpose or that we re abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. we will soon know the results. one involves harvard, the other the university of north carolina. the conventional wisdom is that race conscious administrations will end. currently race is permitted to be a factor in the administrations calculus, meaning one factor among many to be considered as schools seek to create a diverse student body for everybody s benefit. quotas on the other hand, are unconstitutional. that s the bottom line after the supreme court has taken up several major cases involving affirmative action over the years. and one of those cases was in 2003, it was grutter versus bollinger, involved the
musk. desantis making light of last night s rocky rollout. we had a huge audience. it did it was the biggest they had had ever had. it did break the twitter space. so we re really excited about the enthusiasm but ultimately about the future of our country. lawrence: okay former president trump campaigned saying, quote: ron desantis botched campaign announcement is another example of why he is just not ready for the job. the stakes are too high in the fight to save america is too critical to gamble on first timer who is clearly not ready readyfor prime time. his re-election donation page with the caption this link works. the king of fumbles is making fun of desantis. i find that interesting. ainsley: good point. he made the announcement last night on this platform that most people don t use a lot. we were all talking about live on air. and lawrence is texting us saying it s basically a conference call. brian: trying to help us on the show yesterday. ainsley: basi
top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. and i am erica hill. right now several key hearings happening on capitol hill. a pretty busy day in washington. this hour lawmakers will grill active administrator billy nolan after multiple close calls on the runway and some of the aviation incidents sparking safety concerns. also federal reserve chairman jerome powell appearing before lawmakers for the second day defending his decisions to raise interest rates in an effort to tamp down inflation. we re also watching the top u.s. intelligence officials testify, among them fbi director chris wray, the director of national intelligence avril haynes as what they see the biggest global threats facing the u.s. today. cnn s melanie is live on capitol hill today. several events and several bits of testimony on the hill today. walk us through what you re watching. yeah. a very busy day here on capitol hill. we are tracking a number of high-profile hearings, and i want to walk yo
from police in those moments. this was presented without the fuller context as if this video of how chancely actually got into the capitol building did not exist. it was not aired. in court documents, of course, they said officers tried repeatedly to get the man to leave the capitol and he ultimately pleaded guilty to felony charges related to his activities on january 6th. now, fox claimed the small snippets proved that democrats and those on the january 6th committee have been lying to the american people what have been happening that day and very little about the attack was violent fox claims. here is how republicans who were actually in the capitol on that day described what happened inside the capitol during the insurrection. again, these are republicans. this is insane. i mean, i have not seen anything like this since i deployed to iraq in 2007 and 2008. i mean, this is america and this is what is happening. mad dam speaker, today the people s house was attacked, wh