the lead starts right now. the justices erase race-based college admissions. we re talking to one of the attorneys that argued in support of affirmative action before the court. then documents shared exclusively with cnn show a russian general, whose whereabouts is currently unknown, was a secret vip member of the wagner mercenary group. plus cnn s erin burnett joins us live from kyiv where she just sat down with former vice president mike pence during his surprise trip. the parkland resource officer who did not enter the building is found not guilty. welcome to the lead. i m abby phillip. jake tapper is off today. we begin with our law and justice lead. college admissions programs in america will no longer look the same. protesters gathered outside the u.s. supreme court after its landmark decision saying colleges can no longer take race into consideration as an expressed factor in admissions. now, this over turns longstanding precedent that has benefited black and lat
they ve already helped him make this pick and go through this process, but they are now going to get out there and work the roots for the votes, especially for the democratic votes he needs and the more conservative states out there. this is how you do a roll-out. whether you agree or disagree with something, and after the last few days, how can something like the travel ban be so rocky and so confusing where government agencies are not talking to each other, and they do this again. whether you like the judge or not or a president from a marketing and branding standpoint. that s perfect. this is the dividing line in the white house. the travel ban was ushered into being by steven miller and steve bannon who are disrupters by nature. they create this sort of environment of chaos as part of their governing philosophy, but the supreme court pick is a very conventional washington thing. this is a reince priebus operation. it was done by the book. it was contrary to what everybody thoug
Of the picture and you do what the president is suggesting, taking socioeconomic status into consideration, do you think that that would be fair to asian american students as well? no, i don t. i think that admissions should be only based on merit. the reason why is because you can t why are we asking a university to calculate somebody s level of adversity. i think that sets a very bad precedent for anybody trying to get into clenl. we should be treated on the basis of our merits. we should be treated on the basis of how hard we work, our study, our s.a.t. schools, a name-blind, race-blind process is what i would advocate for. kenny, can i ask you, though, colleges, obviously they care about grades and s.a.t. schools, but also are full of people, human beings who have other factors that they bring to the table. why is it not okay for them to consider those things?
Coast. this is this is inevitable. the question is, you know, to paraphrase john kerry, who is going to be the last school child to have to die because republicans in state lenl slay legislatures and in congress won t step up and do what they know they have to do and what the american people want them to do? yet, joe, we have members of congress who show up wearing ar-15 pins. we have members of congress who put out christmas cards where they re posing with their family with weapons of mass destruction in schools. look, i have to tell you, going back to 2012, if what happened in newtown, connecticut, did not break the country, did not shock the country into action, i don t know what would. i mean, i still remember my reaction to that. i remember the debate that took place and how, tragically, we
Left? do you stand on what you see as principle? when ultimately, the final product of getting a vote secure to clear it will result in nothing? and be clear, what we saw on the senate floor today was a bill that many predicted would actually die before the first vote was even cast. yes, it did put lawmakers on the record, that s true, that was one of the goals. but many are now asking, what is the good of the symbolic vote, it seem, if the result was going to be the same in the end? now, of course, there is pushback. it was more symbolism. it was an attempt to try to actually get the lenl insulation passed. but some think house democrats did, in fact, try a, well maybe a symbolic hail mary in the other chamber of commerce. with progressives loudly marching over to the senate. my decision, my body! my decision, my body! my decision, my body! but, you know, even with