thank you so much for joining us. ac 360 starts now. the ruling is seismic. now come the aftershocks. john berman here for anderson. tonight what happens now that the supreme court has gutted affirmative action in a decision that could profoundly change college admissions and more broadly reshape life for millions in this country. also, what we are learning about the arrest in the washington neighborhood where the obamas live of a heavily armed man with materials to make a molotov cocktail who is also wanted in connection with january 6th. plus, what we re learning about a new cooperating witness in the january 6th probe of the former president, and why he could be in a position to now say a lot. first, the supreme court s history-making decision today, dismantling a pillar of affirmative action. specifically, college admissions. in it, the court ruled by a 6-3 margin that race conscious policies at harvard and the university of north carolina violate the 14th amend
her january six testimony. at the top of the hour, a very good day to all of you from msnbc headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. it is one pm here on the east coast, seven pm in the middle east. and we begin with breaking news on the israel-hamas war. [sound of artillery] nonstop shelling in the gaza strip today. here s what is new this hour. israel confirms it has boots on the ground in gaza. the limited internet access is back on. the world food programme warns of growing hunger and desperation. the idf says it has hit 450 hamas targets in the last 24 hours. here s part of a report from nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. [sound of artillery] reporter: we saw and heard a huge explosions that shook buildings for miles around. israel says it is using heavy bombs to collapse hamas tunnels and remove the group from power, after it murdered 1400 israelis and captured at least 229 hostages three weeks ago. [spea
in his seat. thank you for your team. i hope you are enjoying your vacation. we will see you back next week. if you want more of me, just tune into msnbc where i am right here as a legal analyst. inside with jen psaki begins right now. with jen psaki begins right now. it s been three weeks since hamas terrorist unleashed their devastating in deadly attack on israel. three weeks since over 200 people were kidnapped. many of them women and children. three weeks of humanitarian crisis spiraling out of control for the people of gaza. and now the israeli defense forces confirmed that they had expanded their ground operation over the last couple of days. new video released by the idf shown here shows ground forces on the move inside of gaza. and over the past few hours, we have continued to hear explosions, and see smoke rising over the skyline. the israelis have specifically not called this the official ground invasion, but regardless of what they are naming it, nbc news reporters
university of north carolina violate the 14th amendment. in his majority opinion, the chief justice writes that the program s, quote, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping and lack meaningful end points. those omissions cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the equal protection laws. justices gorsuch and kavanaugh and thomas wrote separate occurrences. justice sotomayor wrote a blistering dissent, and justice ketanji brown jackson, who recused herself from the harvard case because of ties to the school wrote this in dissent on north carolina, with let them eat cake obliviousness today, the court pulls the ripcord and announces blind by all legal fiat, but erasing it so in law does not make it so in life. president biden, meantime, offered this. we cannot let this decision be the last word. we cannot let this decision be the last word. while the court can render a decision, it cannot change what