lots to talk about, obviously. let s start with the supreme court striking down affirmative action in college admissions. tell us about the consequences of this decision. this is going to have huge consequences. when you think about it, policymakers have been trying to figure out how to implement the 14th amendment, which is the promise that no one is denied equal protection under the law. and decades of research have shown that affirmative action is incredibly effective in ensuring diversity, and also in tackling racial discrimination. this recent ruling is effectively a ban on affirmative action, which is going to have long-term implications for our workforce. it s affecting the pipeline of diverse workers there you need for a modern economy. it s going to affect equity in the workforce, diversity in the workforce. it s even going to affect retention rates. because research shows that more diverse companies are 5.4 times more likely to retain their
results depending on what the questions are. but no matter what, the democrats, their base at least is animated. there are a lot of issues that have been taken away from republicans who often were very animated in elections to go to the polls. and politically speaking, this might have some benefit for the democrats if they can really take on these issues and motivate their supporters to go to the polls for this. natasha, much has been said about the fact that chief justice john roberts, who was the majority in every one of the court s most important cases, is back in control. what are your thoughts on that? well, i think there were some that were hoping that he was going to be more moderate as the court started to tilt much more to the right. but he actually penned the majority decision himself for the affirmative action case,
been this severe police crackdown. how do you read the response of the government? do they have these under control? well, i read macron s response in a number of ways. one, as soon as it happened, in the wake of protests after nial was killed, president macron said that what happened was inexcusable. but he also said that it was inexplicable. and that s another example of french authorities pretending as though they don t know why young arab and black youth in particular are being targeted by police. our thanks to crystal phlegming for her analysis there. even as a federal special counsel and a georgia prosecutor investigate donald trump s alleged election meddling, a source tells cnn trump pressurized then arizona governor doug doocy to help overturn his presidential election defeat in that state. the source says trump called doocy after the election
the special counsel did interview this week another state official, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, about the call he had with president trump in 2021 about finding enough votes for the president to win the election in that state. former governor doocy isn t the only one downplaying these allegations. former trump attorney timsays i not surprising. so that doesn t sound too surprising to me. that was really the effort throughout that time was to go to the states and try and get them to do investigations to find fraud. which is, of course, always the risk when you ask somebody to do an investigation and find fraud is, if there is fraud to be found, if there s not, they very well could come back and say, we looked, there s nothing there. so there s nothing about that that particularly surprises me. and the specific words of find
verification he or his fighters are actually there. more recent satellite images show a disused military base in belarus where rows of tents have suddenly appeared, preparation, perhaps, for a new mercenary base. back in russia, the head of prigozhin s nationalist media group, patriot, has announced the propaganda outlet and troll factory is shutting down. effective immediately. the kremlin rapidly withdraws its support from prigozhin, his vast russian business empire is no longer in fashion. just ahead, after a week of canceled flights and travel turmoil in the u.s., extreme weather is threatening to challenge travelers even more on one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. plus thousands of hotel workers are set to go on a strike this weekend, holiday