good evening and welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, here we go again. later this evening millions of americans will sit down to watch a socially distanced super bowl. and in less than 48 hours, they ll be treated to another made for television spectacle. the impeachment of donald j. trump part two. if we re lucky, it will be the final chapter in the trump political saga, and true to form the preparations have been con contentious and chaotic. we still don t know how long the trial will last or if there will be any witnesses. we can reasonably be sure we will not hear from trump, himself, which is just as well because there s nothing he could say to justify his actions. this is a man who took an oath to preserve and protect the constitution, who for months spread lies about a stolen election, ignoring evidence to the contrary. a commander in chief who tried to bully state and local officials to throw out thousands if not millions of legal votes even after the officia
ramps up today. this morning, we ll see legal briefs from the house impeachment managers and trump s legal team. but we already have a preview from mr. trump s newest lawyer who says the trial is completely unconstitutional. and there are new warnings from one prominent senate republican who claims next week s trial could lead to delays in president biden s agenda and cabinet confirmations. we re going to begin with new reporting on the pandemic relief talks. joining us, john harwood and aisha roscoe, a white house correspondent for npr. john, i want to put on the screen this picture, this remarkable picture of people actually having a conversation, a civil conversation about substantive issues. president biden with nine in-person republicans, one on zoom, and when i saw this, john, i realized what you had been trying to tell me patiently about your reporting and your analysis. that sometimes bipartisan is the way you go about doing things, even if what you ultimately agree
affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from the architect of the lawsuits, the schools were accused of giving substantial preferences to black and hispanic applicants while discriminating against asian students. what this lawsuit reveals is that personality
hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, once again i m stephanie ruhle, let s take a big deep breath because we have a lot to cover tonight, today the nation s highest court struck down race based affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from th
that itself is quite rare in police cases. two, you need to know tonight that all three other officers in the arrests have been hit with new murder charges, aiding the unintentional murder in the second-degree for their role in backing what we see here, what we all in mesh has been processing, which is how the main officer chauvin was strajing the air. peaceful onlookers pleaded to stop, to spare the life that was clearly dying in front of everyone in broad daylight on tape. three, another fact that you should know as all of this occurs tonight. this legal news didn t come from the local d.a. minnesota, like most states, still uses local d.a.s to patrol the police. but this news that i m reporting to you right now, today s news, it came from a more independent authority, state attorney general keith ellison. you could hear him speaking there. this was the press conference. this is different. and as everyone says, what should america do differently or not, you should know fact