a good sunday evening to you. i m jim sciutto, and this is cnn s special live coverage of the extraordinary yet short-lived uprising in russia that has left much of the world asking exactly how this happened and what could happen next. is putin s leadership under threat? is this an opportunity for ukraine to repel russia s ongoing invasion? we do have new developments tonight, including reaction from the biden administration. but first video has emerged on social media which shows the crash site of a russian military transport plane, reportedly shot down in southern russia saturday by the wagner mercenary group which carried out this rebellion. the russian defense ministry still has not commented on the loss of any aircraft. also, there is still no sign this evening of wagner s leader, yevgeny prigozhin, after he apparently cut a deal with moscow and called off the insurrection. and there is no sign as well of putin after the most serious challenge to his rule since he came t
admissions. joining us now to discuss is laura coates. let s start on affirmative action, if we can. the conservative majority in this court has had their cross hairs on affirmative action so far. based on your read of this and the oral arguments, are they going to outlaw affirmative action? the expectation for really decades now has been the climb back will continue over a long period of time. sandra day o connor famously said 20 years ago, 25 years from now we will not have a need for race based considerations. we re not there yet. but the court is on the concept of shouldn t race be a suspect classification, meaning we never want it to be considered. you want to stop discrimination on the basis of race by not doing so. it is quite effective according to the statistics and university