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loif. again. the justices say affirmative action is wrong. the conservative majority s ruling will change how college admissions decisions are made everywhere. plus personal and pointed. the two black justices on the bench use their opinions to litigate a fight over the role of race in american society. and the ruling is making waves already on the 2024 campaign trail. president trump calls it a great day for america. president biden set to speak in minutes from the white house. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. the supreme court undoes decades of law and precedent. the justices today ruled to gut affirmative action, and it will scramble how colleges pick and choose who gets into their schools. it will also likely force students, especially black and brown students torks rethink where they even apply for college. i want to get straugt to jessica snider in washington. so jessica, this is a major, major ruling. it is. and at this ....
an autocrat facing dozens of ny charges with an ax to grind against the government he seeks to lead. that s a question that republican candidates are either unable to answer or unwilling to answer at this moment. there s now just one major challenger to ex-president trump after florida governor ron desantis dropped out and endorsed donald trump. it s hard to remember but for a time, ron desantis was seen as the much vaunted trump slayer, the one candidate who could break the hold on trump that he had on the voters in the republican party. appeal to those alienated by trump and ultimately beat joe biden. back in 2022, the new yorker asked, can ron desantis displace donald trump as the combatant in chief? the new york times asked, quote, is ron desantis the future of the republican party? but a las as it turned out, voters didn t want a trump alternative, they wanted trump. that became clear as his legal troubles mounted with every indictment the trump got stronger in t ....
developments from trump s many legal problems. we begin with developments about the former president s rough time in court over fraud today. closing arguments underway in the case against trump and his two eldest sons in the entire allegedly fraudulent trump organization. you can see trump in atep dance. he s been in more courtrooms than campaign events. he turned towards cameras every time he could. he lashed out at the judge and the attorney general. and he did his set of grievances. there were closing arguments on behalf of donald trump by trump himself got involved briefly. as we reported on this program yesterday here on msnbc, donald trump is a civil defendant here. his request to speak during closing arguments or give some sort of grand closing statement, that was denied by the judge for a simple reason. donald trump s own lawyers basically refsed the rules that would bar personal attacks. you can see some of the court sketches as that was all dealt with. now the ....
a huge campaign issue for 2024. but we re going to start with an even bigger one. is donald trump eligible to be president of the united states again? colorado says no. maine says no. oregon and new hampshire and others might also chime in and say no. of course donald trump says yes, he is. so who ultimately decides this? the supreme court obviously is the ultimate decision maker here, and they might get involved. colorado has already asked them to. now with maine and perhaps others moving to take trump off the ballot, it only gets harder for the supremes to stay out of it. but here s the issue. getting into it is pretty complicated. both colorado and maine cite section 3 of the 14th amendment which bars officials who have taken an oath to support the constitution from holding office if they engage in an insurrection. the states say it is clear trump did just that on january 6th. what does the supreme court do about that? you might start to think about the make-up of th ....
good morning. breathe it in deep. the weekend is here. and welcome to cnn this morning. i m boris sanchez. is and i m paula reid. boris, it s great to be with you. we appreciate you getting up bright and early. amara is skiing somewhere in europe. here s a look at what we re watching this morning. overall we created more jobs in two years than any administration created in the first four years. president biden taking a victory lap following a strong jobs report. where we re seeing those jobs. plus a stunning free falls that led to the second largest bank collapse in u.s. history. and testing the waters. presidential hopefuls sworm iowa this week as the gop race heats up. we have new reporting about when ron desantis might announce that he s running. i looked on the ground and it was flooded. he seems to be in a smiling mood for a natural disaster. california soaked by the another round of storms. those atmospheric rivers washing out roads, collapsing bridg ....