our top story this hour, the two major new rulings by the u.s. supreme court and what they mean for the nation. our justice correspondent jessica snider, she s here with mere in the situation room. jessica, walk us through these very, very significant decisions. yeah, two major decisions on the last day of the court s term, wolf, from what has become a very divided supreme court. so the conservative majority striking down the president s student loan debt forgiveness program while also issuing a ruling in favor of a website designer that leaves the door open for businesses across the country to discriminate. the supreme court ending the term with a dramatic finish and showing just how ideologically divided the justices are. first, all six conservative justices ruling in favor of a christian web designer from colorado who refused to create wedding websites from same-sex couples citing religious grounds. she objected to a colorado law that prohibits discrimination saying it v
tapper. wolf blitzer is over in the situation room. have a great day. happening now, president biden just announced new action aimed at easing student debt after the u.s. supreme court blocked his loan forgiveness program. he s slamming the ruling as wrong and accusing republicans of hypocrisy. we re also following the fallout from the high court s other major decision today putting limits on lgbtq protections. the senators warn the ruling may open the door to discrimination of all sorts of protected minority groups. and growing questions right now about the fate of the russian mutiny leader yevgeny prigozhin. are kremlin spies plotting to kill him as ukraine s intelligence chief claims? i ll ask top white house official john kirby about that and much more. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. we begin with today s one-two punch by the u.s. supreme court, decisions limiting lgbtq protect
welcome to hannity . alarming new report from the house judiciary committee day. in 2021 believe it or not your federal government began asking banks to sit through private transactions for millions of americans and search for terms like trump and maga, so which banks voluntarily handed over that information? and what did the doj do with it? the house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan will join us with more on this orwellian and frankly dangerous breach of personal privacy. needless to say the 2024 election cannot happen soon enough. thankfully, we are just six days away from the new hampshire primary. one important note, unlike many other primaries, the granite state allows independents and democrats who register as independents to participate in the republican race. over 4000 democrats, by the way, are now independent. they will want to vote, it looks like the boats will be directed toward former ambassador nikki haley. she is performing well among those two groups.
we re live with the latest. plus, taste the expletive out of the blue, a january 6th rioter who bragged about using a stun gun on police learns his fate from a judge. and the race against time in the atlantic, with less than a day s worth of oxygen inside a missing submersible, more ships are rushing to a search area two times the size of connecticut, hoping to find five people alive. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin right there with the latest on the search and rescue with nbc s kristen dahlgren, we don t know for sure how long they may have breathable oxygen. we know yesterday it was 40 hours, now we re probably down to 15 if that was right. but clearly from the press conference we just heard, this is 100% search and rescue still? reporter: yeah, absolutely, chris, and as for that question about how much breathable air is on board, they wouldn t field that today, they said there were a lot of factors that play into i
sub? . and sometime this hour, we re also expecting president biden andwe indian prime minist modi to hold a press conference, more than 7,000 guests gathering at the white house earlier today for the official welcome. can the pomp and circumstance overcome concerns about india s human rights record and democratic backsliding? plus, democrats rallying around one of their own. adam, adam, adam! that s what happened after house republicans censured congressman adam schiff and now have set their sights on impeaching the president. a lot going onon today. we start with that stunning in development. that search teams may have done the near impossible and found thene titanic sub. but if so, it may only serve as proof the crew didn t survive. right now experts within the unified command are evaluating a debris field detected by a remote operated vehicle within the search area. we don t know exactly what that looks like, but even before the announcement, we knew the likelihoo