it is topsy-turvy live news event kind of day. case in point, in a matter of about two minutes, we expect to hear from president biden. he will address the nation live on a number of topics, not the least of which is the abrupt stepback our country took today away from fairness and progress toward intolerance and discrimination. the conservative supreme court ruled 6-3 in favor of a colorado web designer, an evangelical named lori smith who refused to work on same sex weddings. the court said that the first amendment protected her from punishment. and it is a turning point decision that will flip the state of equal protections on its head and allow business owners to likewise evade punishment under similar laws in 29 states. and in the longer term, it could again signal a threat to the landmark decision of the 2015 case establishing the case of same sex couples to marry. and if you are wondering of the same sex couple, what they are doing, after being denied basic human decen
insights with us. thank you so much. that does it for me. thank you for watching. ali will be back here next saturday and sunday morning from 10 am to noon eastern. stay right where you are. inside jen psaki begins right now. well it s been a pretty demoralizing week. three major supreme court decisions with far-reaching consequences. one effectively scrapping affirmative action programs. one invalidating president biden s student loan debt relief plan. one clearing the way for businesses to refuse service to lgbtq+ americans. i ll talk about that, and how democrats should be fighting back, and the politics of pennsylvania with the state s governor, josh shapiro, who s coming up first. plus, law professor and former clerk to judge sonia studio more, is joining me to talk about the impact of the supreme court decisions. we talk about the uncertainty facing many college students graduates, education secretary, miguel cardona, we ll talk about the and she is the first openly
humanitarian and disaster relief mission. reading up to the job, volunteers put up donation boxes, sorting through donations, and gruesome the u.s. partner companies put together pallets of supplies to help decorate them with messages from the holidays. finally, aircrews look at the palace on to the plains and dropped more than 200 packages and supplies and toys to over 40,000 people, living on 58 different islands. the operation took six days to complete and covered 1.8 million square miles. now, that is what i call spreading christmas cheer. and on that no, i wish you all, a very good night. from all of ourolagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. end of tomorrow in the year 2000, george w. bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016, donald trump became the second. now, what made both the two responsible at the expense of the popula
married up, dude. i sure did. thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. in the year 2000 george bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016 donald trump became the second. now, what made both of those victories even possible at the expense of the popular vote was the electoral college. but in 2000 it wasn t just the electoral college. it was also the supreme court. the 2000 election came down to the state of florida, the margin between al gore and george bush was 537 votes, a number that remains staggering to this day. and even though al gore had won the popular vote by more than half a million votes, whether those 537 votes in florida did or did not get counted would decide the race. and after a flurry of legal challenges and appeals, that decision ended up in the hands of the supreme court. the supreme court hasn t been asked to decide the election, but their decision just might do just that.
democracy that nobody is above the law. and that applies to presidents too. this is the ultimate test by kevin, how committed you are to that principle. 7 to 2. lisa rubin, thank you very much. that is all in on this wednesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. i m just waiting for the next kate shaw op-ed in the new york times. next kate shaw op-ed in she . she is probably better than beyond. thank you. thanks to you at home joining me this hour. in the year 2000, george w. bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016, donald trump became the second. now, what made both the two responsible at the expense of the popular vote was the electoral college. but in 2000, it wasn t just that electoral college, it was also the supreme court. the 2000 election came down to the state of florida, the margin between al gore and george bush was 537 votes, a number that remai