Mae jemison. Thank you and thanks very much for my sons question. Thanks for joining us. The news continues here on cnn hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us from the United States, canada, and all around the world. Im Christina Macfarlane, On Max Foster just ahead. Mike on or off the trump and harris teams, Squabble Over whether to leave microphones muted during the president ial debate, just two weeks out from the highly anticipated event russia unleashes a new wave of deadly strikes on ukraine a day after moscow launched one of its largest drone and missile attacks of the war so far and cited, fined, or even jailed San Franciscos aggressive approach to dealing with the citys Homeless Population cnn newsroom, with max foster and Christina Macfarlane exactly ten weeks from today, americans will head to the polls to pick their next president , democratic nominee Kamala Harris, was off to the Campaign Trail monday, but later this week, she and running mate tim walz will begin a b
A huge announcement from Attorney General Merrick Garland, Special Counsel is now investigating hunter biden, the president s son, after a potential plea deal collapsed. Plus, 59 people are now confirmed dead in the hawaii wildfires. It comes as residents start to return to lahaina to see the rubble where they used to live. One of them is my guest tonight. Lets go outfront. Good evening, im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, major developments on multiple legal fronts for both donald trump and joe biden. Trumps attorneys coming face to face with judge Tanya Chutkan for the first time today as the Attorney General spoke publicly, something he rarely does. Merrick garland announcing he is authorizing a Special Counsel to investigate bidens son hunter. And all of this comes as witnesses subpoenaed in the fulton county, georgia, investigation, can be told any minute they need to testify monday in front of a grand jury. Thats when the grand jury meets again and could indict if trump is indicte
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
thank you so much for spending part of your tuesday with. we re grateful. the beat with ari melber, i want to hear what you have to say about the novel legal arguments we heard today. i appreciate that. we rely as well. we watch you, novel, extreme, dangerous, you re ono something. we re going to get to it. thank you, appcie it. welcome to the beat, i am ari melber, today marked the most controversial court hearing in the coup of donald trump. we can see the motorcade driving up to the washington courthouse today. some important things happened. trump pulled up so that he, the defendant, could attend this crucial appeals hearinwhh determines if this march coup trial will happen or not. trump and psktfuelga context laid out. i want to start withhe key developments that we learned from this hearing. one, trump is likely to lose. the judges were very skeptical, across the hearing of these extreme claims. most accounts of the hearing reported on that and how all three jud
the country, including a former president, was the subject of a hearing today in a federal courthouse in washington, d.c. attorneys for donald trump and federal prosecutors argued over trump s claim that the federal election case against him should be dismissed because everything he did in the postelection period was in his official capacity as president. the three-judge panel that is hearing the case appeared spectacle of that claim. the ex-president and jack smith were in the courtroom today. trump has been claiming that president joe biden has been forcing him to appear in court, which is not true, he did have no obligation to appear at today s hearing. trump s attorney argued that allowing the prosecution of donald trump would, quote, open a pandora s box, but the judge has pushed back on that and many of the arguments he was making. trump s lawyer also argued that the president could only be prosecuted if he was impeached and convicted by the senate first, no matter what