thank you so much for joining us. ac 360 starts now. the ruling is seismic. now come the aftershocks. john berman here for anderson. tonight what happens now that the supreme court has gutted affirmative action in a decision that could profoundly change college admissions and more broadly reshape life for millions in this country. also, what we are learning about the arrest in the washington neighborhood where the obamas live of a heavily armed man with materials to make a molotov cocktail who is also wanted in connection with january 6th. plus, what we re learning about a new cooperating witness in the january 6th probe of the former president, and why he could be in a position to now say a lot. first, the supreme court s history-making decision today, dismantling a pillar of affirmative action. specifically, college admissions. in it, the court ruled by a 6-3 margin that race conscious policies at harvard and the university of north carolina violate the 14th amend
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this is it, the official kickoff for the 2024 battle for the white house, and one state has the first shot at shaping the race. it s decision time in the bitter cold heartland. iowa has a huge, huge role to play here. this starts here. there is no way iowa is voting against trump. the first votes in a presidential contest that is testing american democracy in extraordinary ways. are you ready? will the former president and unprecedented legal peril get one step closer to a white house comeback? 2024 is our final battle. it s iowa s choice. tonight, after months of anticipation, the republican race gets real. donald trump aiming to drive home his dominance over his gop rivals. we got to be sure that we put this thing away. ron desantis and nikki haley. our best days are yet to come. engaging in a heated showdown to be the top alternative to trump. nikki haley is running on her donors issues. i m the only one running on your issues. he is going to
n. chris jansing reports starts now. good day, guilty on all cobs, robert bowers convicted on all charges how the community that lost 11 members is reacting now. we ll have the very latest coming up. plus, as donald trump rails against the government for seizing his classified documents, we re learning more about what his staff calls a beautiful mind connection to those piles of boxes at mar-a-lago. and this is all that s left of perrytown, texas, much of that town wiped off the map by a tornado. right now, more than 50 million americans are at risk of severe weather from florida to west of denver. we ll have the details and the forecast coming up. but we start with breaking news out of pittsburgh, where a jury just took just five hours to convict robert bowers. 11 people were shot and killed resulting in 63 federal charges against bowers, including federal hate crimes. he was convicted on every single one. up next will be the sentencing phase which will include the
to bed. wow! one of the most famous whistleblowers in u.s. history, daniel elsberg. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. racist and unconstitutional policing in minneapolis. the lead starts right now. u.s. attorney general merrick garland has a rebuke of the minneapolis police department. the patterns and practices we observed made what happened to george floyd possible. a multi-year investigation finds systemic abuses and zrem nation by police and we ll break down what it said about the eek qual justice in the united states. and then guilty on all counts for the man behind the deadly assault on jews. a federal attorney debated whether the tree of life shooter will get the death penalty for taking 11 innocent lives. plus only on cnn, relentless fights in the streets of sudan. terrorism turns to genocide as we report on the disturbing connection between the mercenary group waging war in ukraine. welcome to the lead, i m alex marquardt in today fo