should follow california on this issue. kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. hey there. thank you so much for joining me on this july 4th holiday weekend. i m safra sidner. we begin with controversial supreme court rulings that will have a broad impact across the country. the nation s highest court started off this week by gutting affirmative action in college admissions. by a 6-3 vote, the supreme court ruled that colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a basis for admission. the conservative court dropped two more landmark rulings on friday. in one case the court said with a christian web designer in colorado who refuses to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings out of her first amendment rights. the court also blocked president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. the plan aimed to forgive up to $20,000 in relief tole the millions of americans. in response, president biden is laying out a new plan to help those struggling with their loan
killed in an explosion near beirut, lebanon. hezbollah mwarning israelis thi won t be tolerated. and claudine gay is officially out as harvard s president. her controversial testimony on capitol hill about anti-semitism. kaitlyn collins is off tonight. this is the source. i m brianna keeler. tonight donald trump s legal team appealing the decision by maine secretary of state to remove the former president from the state s primary ballot. trump, of course, was booted off the primary ballot in colorado. we re still waiting on that appeal. we will have more on this breaking news in just a moment, but it is all unfolding 13 days from the iowa caucuses, where republican voters will have their first say about who they want the party s nominee to be. if you think those court battles are getting in trump s way, think again. not only did he nail down an endorsement today from the second highest majority leader in the house, majority leader steve scalise, but his base is growing mo
taylor greene who is known to spread misinformation and hate speech, she stated she s coming to town. while you are in town be on your best behavior. okay, then, new york city mayor eric adams control yourself. just going right there with that warning ahead of a historic day in manhattan. donald trump, former president, will become the first former president to face criminal charges. we will get a live report from outside the courthouse in just a moment meanwhile, there is new reporting this morning on how the manhattan grand jury is impacting the fulton county da s investigation into election interference in georgia. also ahead, we will break down what is at stake today in wisconsin as voters head to the polls for an election that many are calling the most consequential in decades. that is a huge state supreme court race that has national implications regarding gerrymandering, regarding just the laws of that state, which has become the most consequential swin
cohen was discredited from his own legal adviser, robert cos costello. take a look. i just spent two hours or so testifying before the grand jury at downtown manhattan. i got my point across although it was clear to me that the manhattan da s office did not want to get to the truth. i need to explain that a little bit. i called them up after i saw michael cohen on tv, stating things he said he was going to tell the grand jury and had told the grand jury. it was contrary to what he told us when we represented him in april of 2018. so, i m siting at home watching these lies and i said i got to do something about it. i don t represent donald trump, but i do stand for justice. i have a legal obligation to inform both sides. that s what i did. so, what does this testimony actually means for the case going forward? in just a moment, we ll review the horrendous track record from new york s leftest sorrel funded and alvin brag. joining us now on more of what we can expect this we
newsroom. i m jim acosta in atlanta and the key battleground state of georgia. right now we are in the final sprint before those critical midterm elections, and the balance of power in congress is on the line. today the biggest names in politics are out on the campaign trail. president biden and his two predecessors are all stumping today, and they are all in pennsylvania. moments from now president biden and former president barack obama, there you see the live picture right there, they will take the stage in philadelphia to rally for democratic senate nominee john fetterman. in a couple of hours from now former president donald trump will be in latrobe with republican senate nominee mehmet oz. pennsylvania is one of the three toss-up senate elections and it is a must-win for both parties to have control of the senate. cnn s jessica dean is in latrobe ahead of trump s rally and we begin with cnn s phil mattingly in philadelphia. phil, we have been talking to you throughout