support. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. monday america celebrates the third ever federal holiday of juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans. as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college admissions. does that mean it achieved its purpose or we re abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. we ll soon know the results. one involves harvard, the other the university of north carolina. the conventional wisdom is that race-conscious admissions will end. currently race is permitted to be a factor, meaning one factor among many to be considered as schools seek to create a diverse student body. kwoet quote teas, however, are unconstitutional. that s the bottom line after the supreme court has taken up several cases involve ing affirmative action over time. justice sandra day o connor wrote we expect 25 years from now the us
The nasdaq is on track for its best monthly gain since july of 2016 the s p 500 is at its biggest monthly gain since last february the s p and nasdaq have risen seven of the last eight trading days if you were waiting for things to slow down, you are still waiting. Triple digit gains for the dow already this morning overnight in asia there were gains this came after the strength yesterday with the dow up 200 points. The hang seng was up by 1 shanghai was up by 0. 1 . The nikkei did give back some ground in europe this morning, there are some green arrows across the board. Gains of a quarter percentage point for germany and the ftse in london. The cac in france is up by a third of a percentage point. If you want to look at treasury yields which have been picking up ground, you will see the treasury yield for the tenyear, sitting about the same, 2. 544 lawmakers in germany reached a break through in talks to form a new government the euro rising. You need a government. Euro rising to new
Phillip brucker said that the north korea Breakthrough Potential upped the stakes on the mike pompphaoeubmike pompeo. They may be playing with the one opening we have with north korea. Do you agree or disagree with rucker in. Heidi heitcamp got on or board with his confirmation. It will be close. Theres some sense there is an issue where if you oppose pompeo you open yourself up to attacks. Is and some of these red states is not supporting the president on Foreign Policy during this key moment. A lot of people a lot of democrats were forced on thursday to grudgingly acknowledge sort of admiration or respect for pompeo going to meet with kim jongun over easter. It didnt move a lot of their votes. As you saw a bunch of the democrats on the Senate Foreign realizes committee, they still had to reiterate their
opposition is. Anna palmer from politico, what do you think is is the story of the week . I think one of the most interesting stories is u. N. Ambassador nikki haley asserting herself
Anybody. This country hasnt broken your heart . Then you dont love her enough. Savagely wrong in this country. I dont understand how they would not root for the success of america. Its rooting for the success of all of us. Every time that you get undressed i have in my heads i wrote this song just looking at you oh, oh, oh the drums low and the trumpets they go and the trumpets they go. Pete oh my goodness. You dont tell us what music is going to be on the show. They just spring it on us. They nailed it. Griff they do a good job. Trumpets. Get the goose bumps going and horns playing this saturday morning. Abby only pete hegseth lives a more interesting life. A normal week. Im going to fly on air force 2. Im going to go with the Vice President over to hawaii. We received the remains from north korea. An historic moment. What an experience. Pete it was an experience. Im a little jet lagged. It was an honor truly. Air force 2 to get a chance to speak with the Vice President. Interview him
Testify before congress. White house spokesperson sean spicer remarking earlier today that the president is not afraid of what flynn might say and President Trump for his part has thrown his support behind his former top advisor tweeting this mike flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witchhunt, excuse for big election loss by media and dems of historic proportion, he writes. But that is not what President Trump and mr. Flynn said about immunity deals during the 2016 campaign back when Hillary Clintons advisors were under the microscope during her email scandal. Watch. The reason they get immunity is because they did something wrong. If they didnt do anything wrong, they dont think in terms of immunity. When you are given immunity, that means that you have probably committed a crime. So there is that. Chief washington correspondent ed henry joins you now with the latest on a very busy friday from the white house. Very interesting. Contentious White House Briefing for sean spi