blues, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once. again i m stephanie ruhle, and lucky me live from washington d.c. and we re now 272 days away from election day. and in 11 hours from now the supreme court will hear arguments in a case that could upend the presidential race as we know it. in december the colorado supreme court sided with the egg with donald trump cannot be on the 2024 ballot, citing the 14th amendment. part of that amendment says that if, as a sworn officer of the u.s. government, you engaged in insurrection, you cannot hold federal office again. attorneys for colorado plaintiffs say this is an easy call. donald trump is disqualified today. he was disqualified on january six, 2021, when he engaged in that he. disqualified himself under our constitution. it s not our plaintiffs who are seeking to do that. trump of course appealed the colorado decision, sending it to the supreme court. trump himself is not expected to attend
and get healthier with golo. week, three major supreme court decisions with far-reaching consequences. one effectively scrapping affirmative action program. someone invalid-ing president biden s student loan debt relief plan. and one clearing the way for businesses, to refuse service to lgbtq plus america. i ll talk about that, how democrats should be fighting back and the politics of pennsylvania with the state s governor, josh shapiro. who s coming up. first, plus law professor and former clerk to judge sonia soda mayer, melissa murray will join us to talk about the impact of the supreme court decisions. and when it comes to the uncertainty now facing billions of college deviants and graduates, education secretary, miguel cardona will talk about the next steps for the biden administration. also ahead this hour, she s the first openly transgender person to ever be elected and serve in the state legislature. i sat down with virginia delegate, danika roem, for this week s week
we re learning from our sources about the special counsel s investigation. plus, our russia experts are weighing in on cnn s exclusive new reporting. documents showing a missing top general in vladimir putin s military has been a secret member of the mercenary group behind the recent mutiny. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room . there s angry backlash tonight after the u.s. supreme court ruled that race can no longer be a specific basis for college admissions. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider has our report on the decision and the disredissent. reporter: the supreme court stirring up protests with its decision to gutting affirmative action saying colleges and universities can no longer rely on race in the admissions process, but prospective students are allowed to talk about how race has shaped their experiences in the applications. the decision will prohibit students from ch
u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul, former nato supreme allied commander, james to read us, and cia analyst from congresswoman, elissa slotkin. later, my sunday exclusive with house speaker nancy pelosi. get her reflections on the one year anniversary of roe v. wade being overturned in the future of abortion rights in america. over just the last 48 hours, the yevgeny prigozhin a brutal shadow commander of mercenary forces staged a short-lived attempt to seize more power in russia. briefly taking control over rostov-on-don a key military logistics have on his way to march towards moscow. in the 11th hour, a shady and mysterious deal was struck by valery gerasimov valery gerasimov a leader of belarus that led putin in power, and to prigozhin packing his bags to move to believers. we know the story is unlikely to end there. back in 1991, another russian leader, gorbachev, also survived a coup. he only relinquish power for months later. even a short-lived attempt to take
taking direct aim at president biden s open border policies. in a new video desantis is promising to secure the border, stop the cartels, build the wall, and stop the invasion. right now governor desantis is getting ready to meet with potential voters in eagle pass, texas as you look live there. we will he will deliver remarks and take questions there, we re told. here is some of what he had to say yesterday about president biden s immigration policies. the parolee is doing is unconstitutional. we sued him on things like catch and release. he is abusing the law to change the law to allow people to have an open border. we ll deputize state and local officials to also enforce immigration laws. dana: bill melugin is live in eagle pass, texas. what did you find out? good morning to you. this is governor desantis first trip to the texas border as a presidential candidate. as you can see behind me in a matter of moments he will be meeting with potential voters here in eagle