court ruling that didn t go his way. top court dealing with affirmative action. that means merit agains and the media will need a fainting couch. the worst thing about affirmative action is that it created a clarence thomas. clarence thomas has criticized affirmative action and we know that s why he s on the supreme court. i think this is sticking dag dag dager in our back. we will see that segregation become wider and wider. what s next, gay marriage? is this leading to no women in colleges soon? who knows. no women in college. we can dream. i joke. biden wasn t done sobbing running over to the safe space of msnbc. find it so out of sorts with the basic value system of the american people. do you worry without court reform this conservative majority is too young and too conservative that they might do too much harm? i think they may do too much harm. ink some of the court are beginning to realize their legitimacy is being questioned in ways it had not bee
a debate coming up. john: begin with the supreme court hearing arguments today on what could be one of the most consequential rulings for higher education in decades. hello, john roberts in washington and hello to you this afternoon. gillian: good to be with you, john, on this spooky halloween. john: good to be with you as well. gillian: i m gillian turner. whether to end affirmative action policies in a pair of cases. john: opponents argue the criteria has harmed millions of students, particularly asian-americans. david spunt starts us off live outside the supreme court. did justice brown jackson recuse herself. that s right, because of her position on the harvard board of overseers, and her connections to harvard university. she thought it was best she sits out. there are two separate cases, overall affirmative action affects millions of students across the country and the justices began hearing two arguments three hours ago. started with the case out of the uni
murder. that was the real racist part. he saw them outside of himself. a way to go to heaven. he did not see them as human. he had to preserve his christianity as all causes. a double marginalize they were not doubly marginalized. he perceived them as sex workers. he perceived them as ex sex wors and asian. that was the racist part of him. that s overt obvious racism. right. these are the things that we need to dig into as both of us do in therapy to figure out what s going on. there is so much strange to fit it in the box when sometimes it is like porn, you know it when you see it. i don t know his context of his relationship of the spas. the fetish of asian women is well-known. is that his thing? if you want to charng a hate crime, fine. find your criteria. we are talking about society and people are attacking our asian brothers and sisters. we know why they are doing it. i live in atlanta for seven years and went and visited atlanta many, many times in years and wo
you got to see what happened in atlanta as an opportunity. i don t know what we re going to find out, about what this shooter understands of his own motives. i am, certainly, not giving him any excuses. but, is there any, other reason, other than the obvious here, for why he targeted asian-american women? even if it was a sex thing, why did it have to be them? why were they the object of his desire? or his affliction? and even if the analysis is strained i could tell you. it s not your turn, yet. even if the analysis is strained, we have to recognize their reality because it s on the rise. the attacks are on the rise. absolutely, no matter what the finding is in atlanta. cnn tonight. the big show. its big star, on screen right now, d lemon. i ve got so much that i want to say, and so much that i want the viewer to see. i am sorry that i was encroaching your time. i am sitting here raising my hand, and you know i never do that. i wait for you to finish. i can tell yo
morning. a lot going on. yeah, there is. we have important new developments after the murder of eight people in georgia. six of them asian women. asian-americans on edge in the u.s. and you can understand why. authorities are noting the suspect claims the shootings were not racially motivated. but he says were the result of sexual addiction. a sheriff s deputy facing backlash for this description of the suspect s frame of mind. he understood the gravity of it. and he was pretty much fed up and had been kind of at the end of his rope and yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did. also new, russia responds to president biden calling vladimir putin a killer. mr. biden s comments were labeled as unprecedented. we ll have much more from the white house on that in a moment. but we want to begin with natasha chen with the very latest on the georgia investigation. good morning. reporter: good morning, erica. we re in cherokee county where the suspect is