good morning, everyone. i'm tamron hall. this is news nation. we begin with big breaking news. the u.s. supreme court ruling that employers with religious objections can refuse to pay for contraceptive coverage under president obama's health care law. the decision 5-4. coming on the last day of the court's current term. the court stressed that the ruling applies only to corporations that are under the control of just a few people there's no essential difference between the business and its owner. we begin with the coverage nbc news justice responded wi eed p williams has been staked out and has the breaking developments. give us the step-by-step here so people don't understand even down to what is a corporation and the size that matters here and the relevant si to the

decision. >> sure. it was a big question here. the supreme court has never said before that a for-profit corporation as opposed to individuals can have religious views and can claim that abiding by a federal law would violate its religious believes. today for the first time, the supreme court said the answer to that question is yes. the court said that merely because business people want to form a corporation and get the legal protections that come with being a corporation, they don't re -- they don't shed all their religious believes as well. because it said the corporate form is intended to protect the people, the shareholders, the owners of the company and religious believes are part of that. so court says when you have a company like these three that were involved in the case, the hobby lobby, a chain of 500 craft stores nationwide. a bookstore owned by the same family in oklahoma. a chain of bookstores, and another company in pennsylvania called conestoga wood that was

owned by christians. when you have companies like that, family-owned, not publicly traded with strongly-held religious view, they can claim they're protected by a federal law called the religious freedom restoration act. they can claim that following a certain law would violate their religious believes. and so the supreme court said they're allowed to make that claim here in terms of the contraception mandate in obamacare for a couple of reasons. one of which the court says is that number one, it's narrow to that issue of contraception. and number two, the court said there are alternatives that would protect the government's interests. the justice department said its important to provide these contraceptives to women because so many pregnancies in america are unwanted and because something like 98% of women use contra septdives in their lives. what the majority said there's a alternative. the government could do the same thing with the for-profit companies that it does with

nonprofit religiously affiliated company, which is to say that the government picks up the cost of the contraceptive insurance. so given there is an out there that will accomplish the government's ends, the court said the companies in this case are relieved of their obligation to provide the insurance coverage. now, the dissenters in this case say it opens the door for a company to claim all kinds of exceptions from the law as a matter of religious belief. but the majority said no, it's no the case. it's a very narrowly constructed opinion. partly because of the nature of the companies, and partly because of the fact there is an alternative that will achieve the government's interest. the majority goes out of the way to say we're not saying that companies can claim religious exemptions to -- they don't want to hire minorities, if they don't want to provide coverage for blood transfusions or inoculations. >> and pooe, pete, the idea of transfusions. you have some religions that are opposed to that. people are trying to understand the court's decision and saying

it's narrowly constructed to focus on contraception and not a blood transfusion, if the company is owned bbay. >> alternative available already. that the government provides contraceptive coverage already to women who work for religious affiliated institutions. if they work for a church, if they work for a church charity, a church school within the women that work for those organizations get the contraception coverage paid for by the government. the employers get a pass from having to provide the coverage. that wouldn't be the situation with blood transfusions, for example. >> let me play little bit of the reaction, pete. what you heard earlier from attorney lori windham. they represented hobby lobby. let's play a bit of what they said. >> today's decision a landmark decision for religious freedom.

the supreme court recognized that american families do not lose their fundamental rights when they open a family business. today's victory against this unjust mandate is important not just for families like the greens but also religious ministries like the little sisters of the poor and all americans who seek to live according to their consciouses. >> and as you heard, the attorney there lori windham. she mentioned other corporations organizations that she feels, and they feel, are having their religious trounsed upon. >> it applies to for-profit corporations. i think that's correct. there's another round of cases here that are pending in the lower courts that raise the question of how far does the nonprofit coverage go, and you already have the exception for churches. now the question is in those

other cases, how far does that extend beyond churches for nonprofit religious affiliated organizations. those questions are pending. i think they're probably right to say that this decision is a good sign for them. but this decision doesn't decide those other cases. >> thank you for the great details. let me bring in huffington post justice reporter ryan riley and jessica gonzalez. thank you for joining me. jessica, i'll start with you and get your reaction to this decision and what it means here. >> this decision is a devastating blow to women's health and religious liberty in this country. it opens the door have a handful of crows make decisions on behalf of millions of women in this country. for latinas and women of color are impacted. we're struggling to make ends meet. it puts the hands of our health, our decisions, our moral agency

is then trumped by those of this corporation. >> you heard from the court when use the term crow. we're looking at handful of businesses that are not publicly traded. >> hobby lobby employs 20,000 people. this should not matter whether it's a family company or a large corporation. but that women have access to the health care they need through their insurance plans. they can make decisions for them through their moral agency, through their conscience and faith, and not faith of their bosses. >> let me bring in anna palmer. we know the politics involved with this, senator mcconnell said today's supreme court decision makes it clear that the obama administration cannot trample on the religious freedoms that hold deal. obamacare is the single worst piece of legislation to pass in the last 50 years. michele bachmann said she's encouraged by the supreme court

decision. we know it was the opposite in june of 2012 when the individual mandate for the health care law by the supreme court. we're knee deep into the politics. as if we left of the health care law. >> absolutely. i think what you're seeing today is the obama administration is kind of in between a rock and hard place. there is no legislative way for them to ask congress. i mean, you're not hearing any democrats saying they think that obamacare is going to be opened up again in congress this year or the next couple of years in terms of making changes to it. it's going to play out into 2014. you have republicans use this to try to motivate their base of voters to get them excited about coming out to the polls in november. >> absolutely. and ryan, let me bring you in. it was after the individual mandate was upheld by the supreme court. you had some tea party members and others saying that chief justice john roberts was a traitor. there were things said about him following that decision that was

a great disappointment. is this a split? does anyone get any true momentum when you look at the individual mandate into this decision regarding contraception? >> possibly, you know, kennedy, i think, is the key vote here. christie said there was an exception by providing the exception the government provided a path, i think, for this basically provide this to nonreligious entities as well, kormgs. i think it's a big opinion. and ginsburg laid out we don't know how it's going to play out in the lower counters when we get around to interpreting it. >> and the other layer of the story from the politics of it to concerns through the supreme court and the latest rulings, and how it falls among the conservatives. within that group. a lot of people, ryan, are wondering about the women on the supreme court and where they fell in the decision. >> you can see them lining up on the one side. it was joint descent and varying

dissent. i think it plays into the politics of it. when you have the male justices ruling one way. a lot of members of the majority religion ruling one way. >> jessica, back to the impact on women in this decision. a poll in march asked whether employers shower exempt from the health care law contraception requirement. 53% said should not be exempt. 41% say at the time that they should be exempt here when you look at reproductive health and you have a company who equates contraceptions to that of an abortion, many say the learning curve. i'm not sure how to explain it. regarding women, women's health, and the role contraceptives play is still, for some people, they don't understand the science of it or don't understand what contraception is. >> a lot of this is based on junk science. it's important to note that 99% of women in this country, essentially use birth control and have used it at some point

in their life. for will tlatinas 97% have used contraception at some point. 97% of married catholic latinos have used birth control that is banned by the vatican. it's should be included in comprehensive health care in any plan. >> anna, let me bring you back in. i got the statement in from rnc chairman. it protects the religious freedom that is guaranteed to all americans by the first amendment. we're grateful they ruled on the side of liberty. you know back to the hostile side of politics, as it relates to this, that president and administration was attempting to oppress or suppress the religious freedoms of americans. >> nothing gets people for more exercise than that. what you'll start to see in this -- i would guess in the next coming hours both sides trying to fundraise off it. trying to use the decision and at the same time you'll have the obama administration really

wrestling with how what are they going to do now? are they going to provide the contraception that these companies strong to pay for as they have with some religious institutions? how do they react? what kind of recourse do they have? >> to that point we're awaiting white house reaction to the supreme court's decision including possible comments from the president who is meeting with chile's president. they will hold a daily briefing. we'll bring it. thank you to my panel. ryan, anna, jessica, we appreciate it. we turn to new efforts by president obama to deal with a crisis at the border involving thousands of unboumt evdocument children. the president is asking congress for more than $2 billion in emergency found help stem the surge of people illegally crossing the border. since october, more than 52,000 unaccompanied children, most from central america, have been apprehended entering the united states via the mexico boarder. the money requested by the white

house will be use to fast track deportation proceedings and quickly return children to their home countries. and go to more border enforcement and humanitarian aid. joining me nbc senior white house correspondent. i imagine you will have some organizations concerned and upset that these children the deportation will be expedited. it seems to be a lot of the focus now. >> there is no doubt about it. it's a humanitarian crisis that shows no sign of abating. on the other hand, you have that in some cases at odds with what people see as a threat to homeland security. there's no sign that the number of children coming across the border is evading. the president sent two messages in recent days. one, to the parents of the children, first, don't send them. we're going send them back. the second, when they come here, we're going to do everything we

can to make it as humane as we can. let me read for you where the crux of this is. it comes from the act. an amendment was signed by president bush in 2008. it was reauthorized by president obama in 2013. and it said to the extend feasible unaccompanied alien children from countries that are con ting use with the united states should be housed and screened by an immigration officer with expertise in child welfare in separate child friendly facilities conducive to disclosing information related to human trafficking or exemploy theyati theyation. they have to notify the department of human services regarding any claim that an alien is in custody under age 18. what does it mean? $2 billion that the president wants that will do among other things what you said. but send more judges down there. they want to expedite the cases. not have to move so many children so far away from where they cross the border.

the speaker of the house, john boehner said he wants to look at the details before he comes out with any reaction. there's been push back from immigration groups, catholic bishops in the united states who are concerned about the situations that these children will be returned to. >> and we know, also, we're getting new information on the president's nominee to head the department of veteran's affairs, bob mcdonald, the lead guy at proctor and gamble. by all the information that comes out. it seems he has gotten high praise even from republicans. >> it's interesting. he wasn't on a lot of people's radar. there's no doubt it's a surprise. very different. he has military background. the administration believes that something new is required. this is somebody who ran a multibillion dollar corporation. a lot of positive hearings you're hearing are just politicians but people in the business community that worked

for him. that say he'll know how to go in and approach it as a business. it is a business. he'll know how to get to the heart of the problems. it's a huge job. the big question, how does anybody fix? what will be his approach? but i think that at least now the surprise is turning into some positive feedback that something different was required and he may provide it. >> thank you very much. it's great to have you on today. we're awaiting the daily briefing about 15 minutes. we could hear more on the nominee that would lead the veteran's affairs department as well as, of course, the breaking news regarding the supreme court. coming up are some democrats already turning on hillary clinton since her comments about being, quote, dead broke." and other comments some have taken issue with? my advice to hillary clinton, just go away. otherwise you're going to blow this. >> our team said there's clinton

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welcome back. we continue to follow the breaking news with the supreme court said corporations can't hold religious objections that allow them to opt-out of the new health care law that requires coverage of contraceptives for women. new reaction in from center harry reid saying in part today's decisions jeopardize's women's access to essential health care and employers have no business intruding in the private health care decisions. women make with their doctors. the american civil liberties union reacting saying in part it's a deeply troubling decision. for the first time, the highest court in the country said that business owners can use their religious believes to deny their benef employees a benefit that they are guaranteed by law. we are awaiting the daily briefing from the white house. it's set to start, as i understand it in ten minutes. we'll bring you that as soon as it begins. developing now. one passenger called it the

scariest flight. federal officials are investigating why a evacuation slide deployed midair forces it to make an emergency landing. it opened up less than two hours after the plane took off from chicago o'hare. tom costello has more details. >> good morning. this was a united 737 flying from chicago to california. flight 1463. while in flight, the emergency slide opened near the rear of the cabin. the plane was cruising altitude at the time. it caught passengers and the flight attendants by surprise. you can see in the photographs the slide consumed much of the section of the plane. and you can't fly across country like that. the pilot declared and emergency and landed in wichita without incident. >> the first thought, gosh, i hope it's not someone in the restroom.

fortunately the flight attendant was was in the aisle. not a lot of room. 96 passengers on board. crew of five. nobody injured. the crew nor the passengers in danger. the united sent replacement plane in to ferry the passengers on to southern california and a maintenance team is looking into why it deployed. the event is rare but it has happened before. you may recall when president obama was running for office in 2008, a slide opened on the campaign plane. the ntsb determined it had not been properly secured before takeoff. >> thank you. another big story. oscar mipistorius back in court. they tell the court whether the 0 olympian knew right from wrong when he killed his girlfriend. a live report from south africa is next. e (birds chirping softly in background.) (loud engine sounds!) what!

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welcome back. the trial of olympian blade runner miss miss is back underway after the month long break so pistorius could undergo a psychiatric evaluation. they claimed he suffered from anxiety disorder. joining me now with more on what we heard in cou-- tell us about it determined here. tamron, as you said, the case has been on a bribreak of montra month. in public here with the court with prosecutors but in private with psychiatrics inside the state medical facility. they were asked to assess his state of mind after claims he had an anxiety disorder. the crucial question for them is whether he was criminally liable for what happened on the morning

of valentine's day last year and they concluded that, yes, he did know the difference between right and wrong. and so both sides in the case agreed that the trial could proceed and it did with another defense witness, the surgeon who amputated his legs when he was a young child. he was brought to paint a picture of a man with high vulnerability and limited mobility. a man who found it difficult just to turn 180 degrees. but prosecutors seized on the evidence and asked how it could be that he was able to proceed from his bedroom and to the bathroom at the time of the shooting without falling forward. they were claiming that it tended to undermine his entire account of what happened on valentine's morning last year. and then the questioning continued with claims by the defense who were retaliating asking where an electric cord was. it appeared in crime scene pictures inside pistorius' room.

it formed some of the basis for the cross-examinings earlier in the trial. they wanted to take a look, measure it, to take their own pictures. the police had to admit it had gone miss missing. prosecutors were embarrassed and the judge was not pleased. >> where is it? was it moved somewhere else. was it left in the house? did somebody take it? >> i can't answer those questions. >> this ordered them to investigate it. who said who was in control of the house. who is the person that controlled the house, that sealed the house. what does he say? why is it not there in the 15th? >> why is this so important? it goes to the heart of one of the defense claims that this was an investigation that was bungled and was lead by incompetent police officers.

more evidence tomorrow when the trial continues from an acoustics expert. remember, one of the key prosecution claims is that neighbors heard the sound of a woman screaming. that this expert said it would be near impossible to distinguish between a man's screams and a woman's screams. and so it maybe that the screams they heard belonged to pistorius himself. >> all right. thank you very much for the new details. we'll continue to follow the case. developing now. we are awaiting the first reaction from the supreme court rule that the affordable care act cannot force companies to vidicon that sepgs. we'll have the very latest from the briefing coming up from you live. and this. >> rain is coming down pretty hard. you can barely see anything. >> after me about six more cars hit. after a weekend of rough weather. severe thunderstorms, even tornados, back in the picture today in the plains and in the midwest. it's one of the stories we're following around the "newsnation" for you.

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no, she's out of touch. >> given the last two or three weeks of coverage that's good news for hillary clinton that you end up having a majority 55% say she's in touch. she can't relate. at least compared to other potential presidential candidates that are out there. 37% degreed. most are republicans. i think it makes a little bit of disconnect that those who cover politics every second of the day, you and me, are focussed on every word that hillary clinton says on the status of their wealth. we have a poll number that comes out. for a lot of american, they don't care and pay attention as much as we do. this, i think, right now, and the numbers explain. i think it's a d.c. political story as opposed to something a long-term. >> when you say d.c. political story. they said she needs to go away for awhile. it got a positive response from the audience.

when you hear something like that, is that just in a vacuum? >> absolutely. the presidential race hasn't even started. we're kicking the tires on a race that hasn't begun yet. i think that's important to note. if she does decide to run, it's important to note. there will be a situation when she works the rope line and speaks at town halls on whether she, you know, 22 years removed from having being a first lady, having secret service all the time. not driving your own car on whether you can relate to the pocketbook issues of everyone else. bill clinton was answering there. as long as we talk to the pocketbook issues and talk about the policy we're in a better position. she would be trying to do something we haven't seen in a long time. public somebody life, secret service 22 years, can you relate to everyone? that's a challenge for her. >> it is. let's talk about the other challenge right now is, i guess, what is ahead for those who will not receive coverage for the

contraception as a result of the supreme court decision. we are awaiting the update from the white house. as i understand we understand it's been postponed to 12:15. we haven't heard a reaction from the president or a official statement from the white house. >> i'm sure we're going to hear from the president he's going to criticize the movement. as you have seen from every democrat and the women's organizations that support abortion rights, and tamron, when you look at the pure politics of this. i think probably helps out the democrats, at least in the short term. it fires them up a little bit. when we see contra senception i issue. abortion is 50/50. when it comes to contraception and this relating to female and women. they're the ones who decide the midterm elections. whether they're in arkansas, whether you're in minnesota. depending on the contest. all of a sudden, if so you women who are fired up, that could be helpful to democrats. >> to your point, we heard a strong statement from harry reid saying that this is about women's health.

the aclu saying that never has a supreme court ruled a decision in this way regarding women's health and the right to have these things. on the flip side mcconnell is out with his statement saying the supreme court decision makes it clear thobamacare would not trample. >> it is the argument i'm making. when we are debating the democrat decisions when it comes to the contraception democrats have been weaponing the fight. played out in virginia gubernatorial contest. it it might help. we're talking about 2016, hillary clinton. who sits on the supreme court is a big deal. and the next president in the white house from 2017 to 2020. that person could end up picking two or three more supreme court gist justices. >> the short term, to your point, the midterm election impact it could have. >> thank you, mark.

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right now, the father has been charged nbc is outside atlanta with more on the disturbing case. >> tamron, good morning. the boy's father is here at the cobb county jail being held without bond. now new disturbing questions are being raised that involve the boy's mother, too. as police say the child's death is no accident. this morning, police are digging deeper into the death of 22-month-old cooper harris. >> the manner of death is homicide. >> reporter: his father is charged with murder and child cruelty. a newly released search warrant police say during an interview he stated he recently researched through the internet child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for it to occur. >> it's a significant development. if justin harris searched on the internet for child deaths in cars, shortly before his own child died in the car, is

certainly looks like first-degree murder. >> another warrant now claims that the boy's mother told investigators she had also been researching health-related car deaths. the timing her search unclear. police say justin harris took his son to breakfast june 18th in suburban atlanta before driving to his office minutes away. investigators allege he even briefly went to his vehicle during lunch, but after leaving work he suddenly pulled over. telling witnesses he forgeten to drop off his son at daycare that morning. accidentally leaving him in a sweltering car for seven hours. >> it's a sad, man, to see something like that happen. >> weekend in alabama. his dad called the church from jail. thank you for everything, he told mourners. i'm sorry i can't be there. the boy's mother spoke at the funeral. calling her husband a wonderful father. he's due back in court later this week. and pleaded not guilty. she has not been charged with

any crime. tamron, their attorney declined to comment. >> thank you very much. a violent weekend. it tops the look at stories around the "newsnation." four people were killed. another 19 hurt in a series of shootings in all five new york city burrows. police say there were seven separate shootings in brooklyn alo alone. among the injuried a 16-year-old, 10-year-old, and 12-year-old. despite the violence, the number of shootings have lowered since last year. two men opened fire on bourbon street early in the morning. nine people are hit by gunfire. two in critical condition. the men got into an argument before they started firing at each other, witnesses say. firefighters rescued seven people from their homes after flash flooding in memphis yesterday. the national weather service said memphis got 7 inches of rain in 30-hour period.

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in addition to the music, at least the first thing i saw, a lot end up, you know, struggling with substance abuse and other personal issues. why should we follow their pattern? few people inspire the kind of passion in their fans the way rock stars inspire passion. we as individuals and individuals can learn from their careers. some of the things they did on purpose. position i positioning presentation and positioning. >> it's your unique story. we live in a society that encourages conformity from the earliest days in school they are people who have rejected

conformity. a goit example is kiss. a band that put on ridiculously insane music. did things no one had ever seen passion and purpose. i can understand that. presentation, though. >> presentation is a key element because it's how you tell your story. all the things you do, sum up in your presentation. so if you are an artist like bruce springsteen and want to embody the working class of new jersey, you do everything in your career, the kind of songs you record, the bandmates you surround yourself with. how you look and carry yourself. everything you do culminates in a story you want to tell. >> you were a music industry insider for 30 years. as mentioned you witnessed the rise and fall. some of the examples you point out in addition to those you named. fleetwook mac. they used the forces that almost

tore them afooter make their best work. >> it's a great example of overcoming the obstacles you can't control. every day when we wake up we encounter traffic or angry co-workers or a boss in a bad mood. all kinds of factors we can't control from the weather to almost anything. probably 95% of the things in the world are beyond our control. fleetwood mac was in that. the emotions taking their toll, the breakups within the band. they wrote great songs about them. now when you hear that album "rumors" you can hear the breakups and addictions. people feel those emotions through the music. >> is there one rock star that stands above them all that we can pattern our brand and careers from? >> i think jimmy buffett is one of my favorite stories. he grew up on the gulf coast. he was the beach bum. everything jimmy did in his

career did that same thing. being a beach bum. he became wealthy off one song. 208 words about getting drunk and margaritaville. >> it's a great book. steve, thank you so much for joining us. they choose to check it out. it's called start you up. ways to unleash your personal brand and set your career on fire. great title. thank you for joining us. there's a lot going on this morning. here some are things we thought you should know this morning. mayor rob ford left rehab. he's expected back at work today. ford is expected to make a statement to reporters but he's not taking statements. his brother and campaign manager say in rehab the mayor received over 400 hours of hard counseling, group sessions, one on ones and other meetings. also lost a considerable amount of weight. mayor ford hopes to win re-election to a second term. actress amy adams is winning praise after fellow passengers reported she gave up her first class seat friday on a flight

from detroit to l.a. to a soldier in uniform. when asked, she said she didn't do it for the attention for herself but rather for the attention for our troops. meantime, her new seatmate in coach posted a selfie with amy adams on twitter. that's how the story got out. it wasn't amy seeking publicity. it wasn't her team. it was a passenger who told us what went down. we love amy adams. time for the news nation gut check. facebook is face something backlash today amid news the company manipulated users' news feeds for psychological experiment. for the experiment, facebook data scientists tweaked feeds to show statutes that were either more positive or negative than normal. and after checking users' statuses, researchers found their moods were affected by what they saw. those who saw more negative

posts would upload their own negative messages and vice versa. it happened in 2012 and was only divulged in an article published this month in the national academy of sciences. one of the facebook researchers involved has responded to the backlash on his own facebook page saying, i can understand why some people have concerns about it. and my co-authors and i are very sorry for the way the paper described the research. however, he goes on to defend it saying we felt it was important to investigate the common worry that seeing friends posting positive content leads to people feeling negative or left out. the action was legal due to terms laid out in the user agreement which everyone must agree to before you sign up on facebook. what does your gut tell you? should facebook have run this secret psychological study even if users agreed to their data use policy during sign-up? go to newsnation.msnbc.com to cast that vote. that does it for this edition of "news nation."

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