all charges for failing to confront the gunman who killed 17 people. across america, more than 100 million under air quality alerts as the smoky haze spreads. thousands of flyers still stranded, despite some improvement after this week s meltdown. but one airline still struggling to get back on track. the violent protest in france after the deadly police shooting of a motorist. an officer now charged. our new reporting on how the fbi is cracking down on swatting incidents across the country, and the couple whose home police have come to at least 40 times. and a sweet story about sour dough. why people can t wait for this man s bread. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, everyone, and welcome. are we now a color-blind nation? it s a question animating the political left and right over today s supreme court decision delivering a blow to affirmative action policies. a sharply divided court scrapping decades of precedent, striking do
designed to create diverse student bodies at our countries colleges and universities. we re going to talk about why that ruling is so much better than just a college admission process. plus, the conservative-leaning court also presided president biden s debt forgiveness plan was unlawful, which means payments will default again soon. we are talking to biden s domestic policy chief about what the president can do to still give americans some form of relief for their student loan debt and much more. and when it comes to this idea of color blindness the conservatives want you to believe is their way of not seeing race as a factor in legislation or policymaking. well, i say they are lying. i ll explain why later this hour. i am symone sanders-townsend, folks, live from new orleans, today. hey essence. and i have got something to say. elections have consequences, and supreme court rulings have ramifications. millions of americans will soon feel the consequences of this n
we have been speaking to family members desperate to figure out whether their loved ones were on the ship. at this moment, there are so many others even now in the med terrain yuan trying to get to safety. and that is such an important point. thank you. cnn this morning morning continues now. donald s position is never to settle ever because he thinks it s a sign of weakness. unfortunately, he didn t have anybody around him to guide him properly. he is like a petulant child that keeps sticking their finger into an electric socket. most people don t have what to takes to tell donald you re wrong, you ve got to do this, because donald doesn t want to hear it. if you say it, he just terminates you. good morning, everyone. that is where we begin on the former president because of a stunning report in the washington post this morning that former president trump has ignored the advice of his lawyers, some whom tried to prevent this classified documents case from coming in
mr. trump s fingerprinted through a digital figure consistent, but his mugshot, they used an existing photo. special counsel watches from the front row as the ex president pleads not guilty. for donald trump, america had never before had a president twice impeached. america had never before had an ex president indicted, let alone twice indicted. today, on the day of his federal harassed, america starts yet another new chapter. joy reid, nicole wallace, chris haines, lawrence o donnell, already melber, alex wagner, stephanie ruhle, jen psaki, plus our legal experts and reporters, all here for msnbc s special coverage of the first federal criminal indictment of a former u.s. president. good evening, and thank you for being with us for our special primetime coverage, of a day that will go down in american history as unimaginable, inconceivable, unthinkable, and also equally hey, what took you so long? i am rachel maddow here at msnbc headquarters with joy reid, chris area
he even scowled during his arraignment. his aide and co-defendant walt nauta appeared with him in court. nauta not entering a plea to the six counts he faces because he did not have a local attorney. let s go now to cnn anchor and chief correspondent kaitlan collins who s in miami. trump is calling this one of the saddest days in the history of the country. it is a sad day, though, i m not sure in the same way he means it. give us your take. reporter: yeah, jake, and i think what you re seeing with that comment that trump posted as he was on his way here to this courthouse for that arraignment and the many others that he has posted online also shows, you know, not just what we ve been talking about here today which is the legal strategy and what that s going to look like, but the political strategy that you were seeing the president use when it comes to this visit and how they are going to be fund-raising off of it and using it as, of course, he tries to make his way throug