A crucial supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action could come tomorrow, as colleges and universities grapple with the possibility that race might no longer be a factor in admissions. The Central Question being decided this time is should Affirmative Action continue forever In The Name Of diversity, and are the gains achieved worth the harms allegedly inflicted on Asian American students . This is the most important civil Rights Case of our era. I dont think its an overstatement to say theyre freaking out right now. One admissions official told me, some colleges are so worried about being sued in the wake of this decision that theyre thinking about scrubbing racial and ethnic data from their websites. There has to be some discrimination here. There has to be something against Asian Americans specifically. This case is going to be something more than just about admissions. The notion that noticing race is per se unconstitutional could be devastating for a number of areas of the law. An
i m ari melber. we begin with breaking news. donald trump s federal trial is back on because this court is ruling against defendant trump today. they re green lighting the trial sought by special counsel jack smith. this spruling sets a precedent for holding a former president accountable. we have special coverage we ve been working on since this broke early on the east coast today. we start with the basics. you don t need to be a lawyer or constitutional scholar to understand this. the ruling rejects donald trump s very far-fetched arguments that his job history as president should mean he could never be arrested, indicted or tried for anything related to his time in office. trump s lawyers argued he should basically retain a kind of permanent immunity from the fact he used to be president. the court is rejecting that today. we re going to begin, like i said, with the clarity of this single spare sentence. quote, for the purpose of this criminal case, former president trump
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news, overnight vladimir putin s military facing another critical setback as this massive explosion was showing severely damage to a key bridge between crimea and russia. part of that bridge has collapsed into the sea, disrupting a main russian supply route. let s go right back to kier simmons joining us from moscow. what can you tell us about this? well alex, it s another dangerous moment in this conflict in ukraine. 48 hours after president biden mourned of the escalation could lead in his words to a nuclear conflict. well now we have this bridge attack, now the ukrainians are celebrating and not taking responsibility for it. the russians are furious. with a nuclear threat looming, a major fire on the bridge linking russia to crimea. the blaze visible for miles reports of a, huge explosion at around 6 am local time. russian authorities saying that it was a truck
oh. oh. don t goes goodman. bret. jesse: in politics it can be the kiss of death. remember thomas dewey holding up the dewey defeats truman newspaper? remember that? if you were born later you probably don t. i have seen it. it looks like they had fake news back then, too, didn t they? it looks like joe biden had his dewey moment this summer. remember when he declared victory over inflation? actually, i just want to say a number zero: today we received news that our economy had zero percent inflation in the month of july. zero percent. zero inflation last month. jesse: just like he declared victory too early over covid, same thing happened with inflation because, today, just like the rent is too damn high, so are prices. this just in, the august inflation report chief business correspondent christie romans has the numbers what are you seeing? forward cooling but too high. you have the overall inflation number 8.3%. you get inside these numbers, some of the year over
the s&p 500 losing 17 #, the nasdaq fell 633. all of this was sparked by new numbers indicating inflation is not going anywhere but up. any time soon it appears. food prices, other essentials, skyrocketing in the latest cpi report. consumer colonel not far behind. and the president, who is boasting about having inflation under control is facing criticism tonight. we will talk with democratic senator joe manchin in just a moment but, first, white house correspondent jacqui heinrich starts us off live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening to you, bret. either the white house expected far better numbers or the person who planned this party had an unfortunate scheduling oversight. gathering democratic lawmakers on a sweltering south lawn on the same day a new inflation reading came in hotter than expected. while the stock market plummeted, james taylor played a song about death on the white house south lawn you can sing this song when i m gone. the day