trump s right-hand man, walt nauta, enters a plea to charges he helped trump mishandle classified documents. in the aftermath of the supreme court affirmative action decision, a republican senator warns colleges against admitting too many blacks and latinos. we discuss. elon musk spent $44 billion to buy twitter. what s it worth now? after more than 30 million people have signed up for mark zuckerberg s rival app threads in less than 24 hours. we begin tonight with the third time being the charm for walt nauta, donald trump s co-defendant in the special counsel s classified documents case. he finally faced his arraignment after finding a florida-based criminal attorney. he said, yes, your honor, as he pleaded not guilty to the six charges laid out in last month s indictment, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding a document or record and making false statements. mind you, that was three more words than trump uttered during his arraignment last month. naut
supreme court being now felt across the country. this weekend, the conservative leaning high court, dealing a blow to lgbtq rights, while also striking down affirmative action at colleges, as well as killing president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. so, as a result, young americans telling msnbc, their faith in the court is shaken. i don t have a lot of confidence in the supreme court right now. i felt that for quite some time. it s just, all of it is infuriating in that the supreme court will just decide, well, yeah, this does not work and, you know, just no regard for the actual lived experience of people and what this is going to do to people. i am livid. meanwhile, a trump supporter who stormed the capitol on january 6th had two guns and 400 rounds of ammo in his van when he was arrested near former president barack obama s home. nbc news reports, taylor toronto showed up at obama s residence thursday, after former president trump posted screenshots on his tr
and i think that across the board, the vast majority of the american people don t agree with a lot of the decisions the courts are making. president biden in an exclusive interview with my colleague, nicolle wallace, responding to today s very predictable supreme court decision on affirmative action. and that is where we begin tonight, with the united states supreme court once again turning the arc of justice away from equality and back to the early 20th century. striking down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. the roberts court, which wouldn t even look like the court it is today without affirmative action, decided that race conscious admissions programs at harvard university and the university of north carolina violate equal protection under the constitution. it is fitting then that it would be the court s first black woman justice, ketanji brown jackson, who clearly articulated the cost of this latest regression. writing in her dissent, with let them
carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger. so helms called in the political consultants who in turn helped the helms campaign to fight back. this is what theygn came up wit this ad. you needed that job because you were the best qualified, but they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gains says it is. your vote on this issue, for racial quota, harvey gain, against racial quotas, jesse helms. you were a better candidate than the minority guy that they went with. can you feel the injustice of it all? that ad was exactly what senator jesse helms needed. he won re-election to a fourth term in the senate 54 to 46%. that strategy worked, it worked well, making gant the face of affirmative action, a racial quota system that kept whites at a disadvantage ipfavor of less qualified minorities, it was potent stuff. the race baiting and the zero-sum politics, it moved people because it angered them a
people as the central players shush, don t tell them. well, cats out of the bag. it s happening. i think it happened today. thank you for the book plug, as well. thank you my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the year was 1990. republican incumbent north carolina senator jesse helms was pulling behind his black democratic challenger, a man named harvey gantt. it was a surprisingly competitive election. so helms cold in the political consultants, who helped the helms campaign figure out a way to fight back. and this is what they came up with. this ad. you needed that job. you are the best qualified. but they had to give it to a minority tick is of a racial quota. is that really fair? harvey gantt says he supports ted kennedy s racial quota law but makes the color of your skin more important than your qualifications. you ll vote on this issue next tuesday. for racial quotas, i began. it against racial quotas, jesse helms. that added, with