designed to create diverse student bodies at our countries colleges and universities. we re going to talk about why that ruling is so much better than just a college admission process. plus, the conservative-leaning court also presided president biden s debt forgiveness plan was unlawful, which means payments will default again soon. we are talking to biden s domestic policy chief about what the president can do to still give americans some form of relief for their student loan debt and much more. and when it comes to this idea of color blindness the conservatives want you to believe is their way of not seeing race as a factor in legislation or policymaking. well, i say they are lying. i ll explain why later this hour. i am symone sanders-townsend, folks, live from new orleans, today. hey essence. and i have got something to say. elections have consequences, and supreme court rulings have ramifications. millions of americans will soon feel the consequences of this n
welcome to the beat. we have a lot going on tonight. possible legal nightmares increasing for donald trump. you may say doesn t he already have enough legal problems, but with a top campaign lake cooperating with jack smith it is another story. george santos also back in court with a lot of problems. we begin with the wider story we were discussing with the breaking news yesterday, the war on rights waged by a supreme court that said it cared about president but only cares about some precedent. this now trump tax court is that these two rulings, businesses can now legally refuse service to lgbtq customers, ruling in favor of a web designer who said they could not, would not work on same-sex weddings. now businesses can refuse to sell products and services basically on the argument that the message matters more than the equality and nondiscrimination of their potential client base. no one he wants to go about their lives thinking if i go to this place, if i go to this restau
reporter: there s certainly more people out here today than we ve seen in days past, especially because today we know exactly what we will get decisions on because it s the last day. you mentioned those two big cases, of course at the end of pride month. that case that has to do with whether or not a web designer can refuse to design a wedding website for a gay couple. we could see some reaction to that. the biggest one we re watching for is on student loans, whether or not biden s student loan forgiveness program will stand. the biden administration was using a congressional act started after 9/11 in 2003. it was continued through the pandemic, even invoke bid betsy devoss under the trump administration. can student loans be forgiven in their entirety forever? this would affect about 43,000 people, sorry, we re starting to get some decisions just in now. so i m going to go listen for what those are, and i said 43,000, that s 43 million people, and i ll be back to you when
israel to change its tactics inside gaza to protect civilians and get the remaining hostages out. u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin touching down in qatar today as officials desperately try to hammer out a deal. plus, dual natural disasters across the globe. in iceland, lava spewing out of a volcano in what experts say is one of the worst possible locations for an eruption. in china, a devastating earthquake killing more than 100 people. and wild weather complicating life in the u.s. after a massive storm knocking out power to more than half a million people in the northeast. a final good-bye for a woman who stands stall in american history. president biden will be among those offering tributes at justice sandra day o connor s funeral in just under an hour. it is a busy tuesday. thank you for joining us. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin in gaza, where israeli forces say they have been engaged in intense fighting this morning. and have killed a promine
castro in for alicia menendez. as we get to the our immigration talks come to the wire as homeland security chief, alejandro mayorkas meets with bipartisan senators, the clock is ticking on a deal. and progress is slow. while we are not denying crucial aid for our allies, gop lawmakers spend their time on bogus impeachment schemes. california congressman, robert garcia, and what happens next. also tonight, paying the price, how this week, multimillion dollar ruling against rudy giuliani could have ramifications beyond his bank account. and how might home states attorney general is doubling down on extremism after surviving a recent impeachment. this is american voices. we are just over one week from christmas. most lawmakers have already gone home for the holidays. earlier today, a few, along with homeland security chief, alejandro mayorkas, had a rare weekend session to try to hammer out some kind of deal on immigration before the end of the year. while they have not r