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the court go on pre-existing conditions? against republicans' relentless assault to dismantle pre-existing conditions. on day one of our house majority, democrats acted decisively to throw our full legal weight of the house of representatives in the fight against this republican lawsuit. we will never forget how republican leaders embraced this way to rip away america's health care in the middle of a deadly pandemic. more than 1 million americans have signed up with affordable care act since president biden extended the enrollment period. more than 1 million americans. because of the extension, but also because of the expansion of access to benefits that we had put into the rescue package. i'm very proud of that. now democrats will continue our work to build on this

transformational -- the rescue package to make what's in there permanent in terms of affordability, access and quality health care for all americans. for the people, we will continue to work to lower health care costs by lowering the cost of prescription drugs. that is a very important part of where we go from here. we thank the court for its wisdom and declaring the cases against the affordable care act to have no standing. we are so proud of our president who is back from his bilateral trip, a trip to visit, to participate in the g7 talks, of course, the nato talks, eu talks and, oh the one on one with vladimir putin. he, i think, made a remarkable

presentation for america to say america is back. you have heard me say, many of you, that in my communication with members of parliament and leaders in other countries, that they were very happy to hear that america is back in full strength as we talk about nato, in full values as we talk about who we are as a country and in true friendship to the countries that had been part of our multilateral approach to security, growing our economies, protecting the planet as well as honoring our values. he was direct, the president, about saying that there would be consequences if putin hurts our interests, including relating to russia's election interference and cyberattacks, making clear that certain assaults on our

infrastructure, our critical infrastructure, will be met with reaction. earlier today, some of you were there maybe, i hope you were, because we -- >> you have been listening to nancy pelosi at the top of her weekly briefing, rather well timed considering the breaking news throughout the morning here. that is the supreme court upholding the affordable care act by a 7-2 decision. speaker pelosi, as you heard, declaring victory now for the law. i want to bring in josh letter -- ledderman and jeffrey rose and pete williams. pete, let's start with you, this obamacare decision was the blockbuster of the term. walk us through it. >> the decision was written by stephen breyer, joined by the other two liberals and four of

the conservatives. it's not a ruling actually upholding obamacare. it's a ruling rejecting the challenge. the challenge brought by 18 red states. they had argued the individual mandate, the requirement all americans buy health insurance or pay a penalty was unconstitutional. the supreme court answered that in the first challenge saying, well, because there's a tax penalty, that means it's illegitimate use of congress' taxing authority. the republicans said, we will solve that. we will set the tax penalty as zero. therefore, they said, you can't save the tax -- you say it's a use of the taxing authority. the supreme court said the problem with the challengers, the 18 red states, is that they can't show how the law harms them. they can't survive the threshold test for any case to get into the supreme court, which is what

the lawyers call standing. they have a beef, a legitimate problem with the law that harms them. that's what the ruling is about today. as clarence thomas said in his concurrence, we're not saying anything about the merritts of obamacare. we are saying the challengers can't successfully bring this case. the majority opinion seems to go further saying, you know, this theory -- nobody really could try to come to court on this theory because of the way congress structured the tax. there isn't a tax anymore. that makes it hard for somebody else to cobble together a way to bring this particular objection to obamacare back. it's not a decision on the merits. you can say it's the next best thing for supporters of obamacare. >> ari, you can pick up on that and talk about the implications of this moving forward? >> yeah. the big implication, pete walked

us through the fact that this was a clean victory. they didn't get to the merits. the democrats in congress have their own agenda. we heard them celebrating this and saying it's a path to do more or better. that's a policy debate. people can decide whether to do more or not with it. what i can tell you is this fortifies the fact that every time the supreme court, even with different membership, has looked at this issue, they have found obamacare is legal, constitutional. you can tweak it. you can change it. states can debate it. never have they gotten near and certainly not in case trimming or overturning it. that's good news for anyone who is on obamacare and likes it or anyone who wants to be a part of the program. it does one more important thing, which is it kicks in a clear way any further debate back to the political branchs where i think the court is implying it belongs. you can debate whether this is a good idea, but it's a constitutional idea.

>> pete, can you help me understand something here? i know you will tell me if i'm wrong. i know you will put it into plain english. given the way that the justices have written this decision, is it plausible that there may be a case that comes forward on the affordable care act again that could make its way to the supreme court that would get a ruling on the merits? >> well, theoretically possible, yes. some other attack on obamacare. it has been -- there's been several challenges that have come through the courts on the individual mandate unconstitutional, on it originated in the wrong part of congress. lots of legal theories have been advanced by people who don't like obamacare to try to get it struck down. none of them have been successful. it's hard for me sitting here now to think of one that would get past the standing question and, b, then get a decision on the merits that declared it

unconstitutional. i think you could pretty well say that the challengers have had their day three times over. the odds of coming up with a fourth one that would work -- you know, look, i think a lot of challenges to obamacare thought, we have six conservatives on this court, but they could only get two on this one. >> jeffrey, your take? >> it's absolutely a victory for john roberts who said he wants narrow unanimous decisions. it's significant that it was 7-2 and that justice barrett took a pragmatic position. in that sense, it tees up with the second big decision the courtdecided today. it could have been a huge divisive case. instead the court said the city's decision not to contract with an adoption agency that wouldn't allow gay couples to adopt violates the klaus.

they came up with a narrow, pragmatic compromise that all nine justices should agree on. these were some of the most divisive cases of the year and the fact that they came out this way is a victory. >> do you read anything in the fact that they came out earlier, that they didn't wait to the last day of the term to release these? >> they tend to release the decisions when they are ready. the fact that they were nearly unanimous suggests because there was no divisiveness, they came out. the few remaining ones might be the real 5-4 and we could see fireworks. >> you brought up that lgbtq case, religious freedoms case. i want pete and ari to help us explain that more. that's the other significant case we have been looking at. it's also breaking and developing this morning.

ari, walk us through the nuts and bolts of that. >> this is a case that basically cites the old cake shop case where the court tried to find a narrow way to resolve the tension between a religious group that doesn't want to recognize same-sex marriage but provides services and folks who say, that's discriminatory in their view, so it shouldn't be allowed. the compromise narrow fashion ruling here doesn't make a lot of changes -- i don't see it in national policy or anything like that. basically says that a group that for religious reasons does not recognize same-sex marriage is allowed to hold that belief while still providing services. it's basically restricting or disagreeing with what had been a local city view that that was so discriminatory that they weren't going to do business with them. bottom line, you can clear out all of the details and just say, it's the supreme court saying,

they can allow it without it being considered discrimination or or allow it to be basically what this group wants to think and feel and say, but they're not looking to break new ground on new compromises or move the needle, so to speak, on some of the clashes we have seen between what groups see as religious freedom and others as baseline equality. >> jeffrey touched on this, pete. i want to dive into this. the role of justice amy coney barrett. this was the first case she heard argued when she took her seat on the court, am i right? >> was fulton county the first? i guess it was. you said is there any significance to them coming out so early. these cases were argued in november. obamacare was argued the day after the election. it has been a long time. something has been going on that -- usually cases that take this long to come out, it's because of the back and forth between the majority and

minority opinions. they keep responding to each other before they are ready. i think jeffrey is right, decisions are announced when they are ready. it took a long time to get these. perhaps we will find out later that alignments changed here. on the philly case, there was a supreme court decision that said there's no religious exemption to laws that are -- that generally apply to everybody. it involved some people that got fired for ingesting sacramenal paoti. that's the question here, would the supreme court overturn its ruling that basically said -- it was written by scalia. it says laws that apply to everybody, there's no religious exemption. catholic social services who brought this case invited the supreme court to do that, rather aggressively. it's time to throw that out.

they didn't get any takers on that one. the supreme court's decision is quite narrow, based on the complexities of the specific way the city contracted with catholic social services. so the supreme court was really trying not to let this decision stand for a wider acceptance of the idea that you can discriminate based on religious freedom. >> josh, any formal or official reaction from the white house other than those tweets from the chief of staff so far? are we expecting anything from perhaps president biden? i think we will see him later this afternoon for the bill signing on the juneteenth federal holiday, right? >> that's right. we will hear from the president later today. that will be an opportunity for him to address his reaction to this news. all we have heard is from ron klain, who is very happy that this has been saved. we're also expecting the white

house will more formally release something on paper. in the meantime, we are hearing from the head of the democratic national committee who is also releasing a statement saying the aca is here to stay. also warning that this is not the end of the road for this fight. saying it's only the start. pointing to the need to actually expand on obamacare, bring more people into the process, something the white house is supportive of as well. >> garrett, as we came on the air for this show here on msnbc, we were listening live to nancy pelosi who was essentially declaring victory here, given the ruling. i spoke this morning with nancy mace who seemed to suggest, right now, that perhaps -- to ari's point, it is the legislative fight that will continue and perhaps not the legal one for republicans. what are you hearing? >> repeal and replace has been republican cannon since 2011 or so when it became really important on the campaign trail.

perhaps even before then. even when republicans were in charge of all three, the house, senate and the white house early in the trump administration, they had the repeal part down but never the replacement. i think that will be the challenge for congressional republicans should they ever return to the majority perhaps in 2022 in the house or senate. they know what they are against. on health care, they have never been unified in what they are for. we saw this in that late night vote to try to repeal the health care law in 2017. of course, john mccain's famous thumbs down moment. republicans were united in repealing but broken and disunified in replacing. trying to get rid of obamacare and figure out what would take its place later. to the best of my knowledge, in the intervening years, there has been no serious legislative effort to figure out what that replacement would be. unless and until congressional republicans get serious with coming up with an alternative to

obamacare, the legislative road is just as rocky and challenging as likely fruitless as the judicial one that pete and ari were laying out. >> pete williams, ari, jeffrey, we will see you throughout the day. garrett and josh, stay put. we will talk about the president's domestic legislative agenda. with everything going on, remember, you got potentially some sleepy folks over at the white house. president biden only just got back from his summit with vladimir putin overnight. we will talk about that and much more coming up after the break, including the covid response team meeting at the white house as vaccinations are lagging. craig melvin will pick up coverage after a quick break. ak

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are taking new shape on capitol hill this morning. back with us, josh ledderman. and our capitol hill correspondent garrett haake is back with us as well. following a couple of major developments on the hill. josh, what's president biden's next big focus? >> huge challenges awaiting president biden on his domestic agenda now that he is back from the summit and his first overseas trip. first and foremost, the infrastructure discussion, which has been raging here in washington even as the president was overseas. as he left geneva, he acknowledged that he had not yet had a chance to get briefed on the bipartisan framework for an infrastructure deal that lawmakers on the hill have been working on. a white house official has said that today the president will be briefed on that and on an update that white house officials got yesterday from the democrats who are part of the bipartisan

senate group. even as the talks for that bipartisan deal go forward, the president has a big problem in just trying to keep his own party in line as you will hear from our congressional correspondents. the fact of the matter is, you have now a lot of liberal democrats who are in something of an open revolt over the fact that climate change, other top priorities seem to be getting jettisons from what the president is able to potentially achieve in partnership with republicans. they are now threatening they may not support this compromise deal if it's not in there or if the president isn't able to guarantee a second package through reconciliation that would add in the other priorities. as soon as he moves to the left to placate those democrats who want more action and more spending on those items, he risks losing those democrats more in the center, joe manchin and kiersten sinema.

get something done on infrastructure as well as voting rights, the big domestic issue on his agenda right now. >> garrett, let's talk about those two areas, infrastructure and voting rights. let's start with infrastructure. there has been some potentially significant bipartisan movement on that front. i know you have expressed your skepticism in the past on where all of this may end up. where are we now? >> josh lays it out nicely. we've got 11 republicans who say they are supportive of this bipartisan deal. for those of you doing your extended math at home, that would suggest that democrats are above the 60 vote threshold to pass something on a bipartisan basis. the reality is that there are liberal democrats who are not satisied that this deal goes far enough. they want a guarantee there would be the second reconciliation effort, a democrat only bill, that would go further towards pursuing some of the president's bigger and more expensive priorities outside traditional hard

infrastructure. that said, negotiations have been positive. negotiators have come out of every meeting optimistic. last night some of the democrats in the bipartisan group briefed senior white house officials who will brief the president today, we are told. it's going to be a tough decision for president biden how he chooses to weigh in here on infrastructure. he has been largely hands off while he has been out of the country. the fact of the matter is the top line figures about how much they will spend and where the money will go have never been the controversial parts. it's, how are they going to pay for it? this group made less progress on that issue. the president will have to be the decider here. >> let's turn to voting rights, garrett. the for the people act, the senate set to vote next week. senator mcconnell fighting this bill at every turn it would seem. he has said that there, quote, won't be a single republican who supports it. you are reporting there's a new compromise on the horizon.

once again, senator joe manchin at the center of this. tell us about that. >> well, this compromise is potentially just among democrats. it's still politically significant. here is why. voting rights activists have been leaning on joe manchin who has been the lone democrat to not support this broader voting rights package to say, what will you support? manchin has finally done so. he put out his own list of priorities that looks very much like s1 but has differences. st stacey abrams said she would take the deal that joe manchin is putting out here. if that's the kind of thing that gets to the floor and other democrats sign off on it, well done. that gets democrats to 50 votes. this is something that's going to run head long into a filibuster. republicans fundamentally, senate republicans don't believe this is the kind of thing that the federal government should be getting involved in.

this isn't like infrastructure where there's two different -- a disagreement about how to do something. the two parties agree on that. the republicans are largely against this. what we see next week is a vote to put everyone on the record. in this case, the opposition, presumably, would be only from republicans, not bipartisan opposition with joe manchin and republicans. democrats think that could be useful for them politically. >> garrett, has there been talk there on the hill about using this as perhaps an opportunity to end the filibuster? >> there is always talk, craig. there are more than just joe manchin. half a dozen democrats who aren't there yet. this could be a step in that direction. we are not close to that moment yet. >> all right. josh, quickly, before we go, we focus so much on the president's summit and the meeting with putin. any sense of how the white house thinks it all went overall?

>> if the bar was low for accomplishments from this summit, then the white house feels that the president met it. there weren't any grand pronouncements or huge break breakthroughs. they feel the president was able to set down guidelines to russia. they were able to emerge from this summit without any major hiccups, without president putin declaring any accomplishments or agreements that actually had not been reached with the u.s. in those talks. as far as they are concerned, they have laid the groundwork for a more stable, predictable relationship with russia while still an adversary that they hope they can grow on in the coming months now that they have ambassadors back in each other's capitals and the new working groups formed to address top issues like cybersecurity as well as arms control. >> josh at the white house.

garrett on the hill. thanks to both of you. i want to turn to the former director and president of the woodrow wilson center, the former nine-term member of congress, representing california's 39th district. what do you think was accomplished? >> first i think we can bury the urban legend of sleepy joe. i thought biden handled a full week, came back on the plane and is getting briefed today as i just heard on infrastructure and then doing a bill signing. let's forget that. the rest of us are a lot sleepier than he is. i thought there were three takeaways from the trip. the summit is just one of them -- or four, actually. the renewal of the special relationship with britain, good relations with boris johnson after all, and the eu focus with us on distribuing vaccines

around the world, nato pivoting to china, our priority, and now the putin summit which i agree laid the groundwork, established the rapport between the two men. they don't have to trust each other. they just have to work together. and i think better days are coming. the thing i would focus on is that biden delivered the key messages that he said he would deliver around human rights and cybersecurity. those are the biggies. i think he delivered them very well. it has to be true that putin heard him. whether putin will comply, who knows. but he heard him. i think we have a lot of resources to push back if putin doesn't behave better in the future. >> president biden talked to reporters on the tarmac wednesday afternoon. he gave his readout of what his main goal was coming out of the

week. let's take a listen. then we will talk about it on the other side. >> every generation has to re-establish the basis in the fight for democracy. for real. literally have to do it. we have our own concerns and problems. but we still -- we are going to stick to the notion that we're open, accountable and transparent. i think that's an important message to send the world. >> what do you make of the president's takeaways from the major foreign policy discussions? >> well, i love it. i think our new interim national security or foreign policy strategy, that includes human rights and includes climate and the pandemic and his articulation that we are defending democracy are all the right things. in the end, how does america win against those who hate us?

we have to have the better argument. we have to live our values. putin took some pokes at us yesterday about some of the things that are not going right in our cities and too many guns and all that. i think we are struggling to do better. i think this black lives matter movement and all the rest of it is making, in the end, america stronger. just want to add one thing. there's a chapter in my book called the incredible shrinking congress. congress hasn't been a partner in foreign policy for years and has abdicated to the executive branch. today in congress, there is a bipartisan effort to repeal those threadbare authorizations to use military force, the one against iraq and afghanistan and replace them with guidelines and guardrails around the use of force in the future. this is a big deal. it's a really big deal because it's bipartisan. you had representative

congressman nancy mace on your show saying that she's in for this. i think it's something else to celebrate in addition this huge week, the supreme court decisions and a very vigorous and competent team in foreign policy led by our president. >> we will leave it there. former congresswoman jane harman. thanks for your time. >> thank you. right white house covid response team holding a briefing. vaccinations lagging. time running out for the july 4th goal of having 70% of adults in this country vaccinated. among latinos, just 28% have gotten at least one dose. we will have to miami after the break where the community is trying to reverse that trend by going door to door. y going door to door

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minutes. if you haven't been vaccinated, you should be worried. >> morgan radford is in miami, florida, where there's an effort to boost vaccinations specifically in the latino community. morgan, is this effort to combat vaccine hesitancy, is it working among latinos there? >> reporter: craig, bottom line is that it's working but it's not quite working as well as some officials had hoped. for example, as you mentioned earlier, 28% of latinos across the country have received at least one dose of their covid vaccine. here in miami, that number is a little higher, about 43% of latinos have received that vaccine. the issue, craig, is that's compared to nearly double, 80%, of their white counterparts here. that's the issue. while we see progress in states that have huge latino populations like texas, california, here in florida, they have seen a 10% increase in the last month. the issue again is that it is

lagging behind the vaccination rates of their majority counterparts. the issue is not only access but a lot of the hesitation because of rumors that have been spreading right here in this community. take a listen to something that this woman told me yesterday. she's a woman who is still currently waiting to get her immigration papers. she said initially, she thought if she went to get the vaccine, immigration would scoop her up and she wouldn't see her four kids again. she's a single mother. she said there were rumors circulating around amongst family and friends. listen to what she told me. what are people here saying? are they ready for the vaccine? someone actually said you will be -- you have heard rumors that by taking the vaccine, people would actually turn into zombies? people also thought that by tag

taking the vaccine, they would have a chip? to combat that type of misinformation, you have community centers like the guatemalan center going door to door passing out information not only in spanish but also in local indigenous languages. for example, here in miami, there's a big guatemalan community, big mexican community. sometimes those communities don't speak spanish if they are from parts of the country where they speak local indigenous languages. they have partners with the cdc to translate the documents. this is about trust. sometimes the person isn't necessarily a government official. the same government that may not have delivered the immigration papers that they petitioned, they are not trusting them to put something this their body. they are talking to a trusted doctor or friend or community leader. then they are more likely to see progress. that same center, the guatemalan

center said they saw 10% increase in the past month in the number of people vaccinated just by going door to door and spreading the right information about the vaccine. >> that's the only way to combat misinformation and disinformation. it's good to see they are going to where people are. morgan radford, thank you for that in miami. we are following a lot of movement on capitol hill. president biden and vladimir putin were holding that summit, but that didn't stop lawmakers from pressing on with their work there at the hill. will talk to a foreign affairs committee chairman, gregory meeks. we will talk about infrastructure, voting rights and history in the house. that vote to make juneteenth a federal holiday. day. of clean cls that just don't smell clean? what if your clothes could stay fresh for weeks? now they can! downy unstopables in-wash scent boosters

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capitol hill, nancy pelosi and members of the congressional black caucus held an event to celebrate the passage of a bill that makes juneteenth a federal holiday. president biden is expected to sign the juneteenth national independence act into law this afternoon. that means juneteenth will be the newest federal holiday in nearly four decades. i'm joined by a member of the cbc, congressman gregory meeks. he is the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. you were at the event with speaker pelosi. how important is this moment to you? how important is this moment for our country? >> craig, it's historic when you just think about the history of what we are talking about. it took two years after the emancipation and proclamation for slaves to find out they were free. it gives recognition of the country of the horrible past and now to make sure that we

celebrate the freedom and emancipation proclamation that it gave and bestowed upon individuals. i hope that it leads to the next step. because the next step is the work that we're doing right now. we have to make sure that we pass the voting rights act to preserve our democracy. i'm reminded and i hope this reminds the country that right after the slaves were emancipated, we had reconstruction. then the voting rights came down on individuals in post reconstruction restricting their built to vote. this is mindful of what happened in the past. it's a celebration. but it should be a reminder of why passing the voevoting right act is important for us to get done today. a continuation of the struggle to make this a more perfect union. >> just last hour, congressman, as you know, the affordable care

act saw another big win at the supreme court, uphold 7-2 in the conservative court. we know it has been a major topic democrats have campaigned on for years now. what do you make of the ruling from the high court? >> i think the high court made the decision of where the american people are. health care should not be a privilege for a few but a right for all. what the affordable care act, obamacare did, is help cover millions of americans who before had no affordable and quality health care coverage. i think it's good for the nation. i think that's what is going to drive down the cost of health care overall. the court did the right thing for the american people to make sure that they have affordable health care. >> let's turn to president

biden's meeting with president putin. as the chairperson of the house foreign affairs committee, the expectations going in, were they met? >> i think that president biden did an excellent job. look, he laid the foundation first, because one of things that i think mr. putin wanted to accomplish was -- this is his goal and his quest, is to divide and conquer. what president biden did, he made sure before the summit he met with folks in the g7, he met with folks in the eu, he met with folks at nato. that gives a message to mr. putin right off that he is not going to be able to divide us.

then the nefarious acts that mr. putin and russia tried to endeavor on, to let him know that there will be consequences. those consequences will be united. it won't be just the united states alone as what took place in the prior

>> was divided gave a clear message to mr. putin and a clear message to the rest of the world that america is back at the table. and you are not by yourself. it is not america alone or america first, is america and our allies. congressman gregory meeks we will have to leave it there. thank you. thanks as always for your time. president biden signed the bill making juneteenth the federal holiday this afternoon,

like we were discussing, it is going to come at a time when a number of state and local governments are limiting what schools can teach about race. just this week texas became the latest state to pass a law targeting what is become known as critical race theory. it is the academic study of how systemic racism and inequality impacts different elements of society. it has become a major target of conservative critics as an attempt to indoctrinate children. lawmakers and 20 other states are looking at doing the same thing. i'm joined by one of my favorite guests. michael eric dyson, a professor of diaspora studies at vanderbilt. he is also the author of race in america. it is is 432nd book. that is a bit of an exaggeration but not far off. dr. dyson, new reporting this week from nbc's tim collins reveals the role that. it is a

national push by conservative groups. at least 165 local and national groups aiming to disrupt lessons on race and gender. and prominent republican political figures are hoping these local battles will mobilize conservative voters in next year's midterms and beyond. what are you making of this reporting? that a lot of this outrage is being fueled by national groups and republican politicians? >> it is a brilliant piece of reporting. and it suggests to us the same thing behind the tea party. that we thought it was an upsurge is from grassroots organizations. when indeed, it was mechanisms that were put in place by people with well moneyed interests. and the same is going on here. this is not the rebellion of

the grassroots this is my third attempt to try to put into place mechanisms of control that will discern what is appropriate and inappropriate from people at the local level. yes, there also there is some criticism going on at those levels. but not the well organized, well oiled machine we see operating here. so it attempts to exploit critical race is prominence. and let's be real brother malcolm. ain't nobody teaching critical race theory in grade school. critical race theory began by derek bell and kimberly crenshaw and gary peller and a bunch of other legal theorists were talking about is you say, systemic racism and the degree to which it was imprinted in law. the law was not neutral arbiter of what the legal truth is. it was an adjudicator from this position of objectivity. and so they were suggesting that we have to pay attention

to the way in which race imprints those processes. at the local level, where people are trying to teach is the history of america. juneteenth would not happen as a national holiday without the revival of a certain kind of historical acuity that is linked to black people in this country. america is a divided nation. on the one hand they love history. 15,000 books on abraham lincoln. repeating the civil war every year. obsessed with the founding fathers and mothers and sisters and brothers. it when it becomes to black people, we have had enough of that. can't you people get over it? it would be like having a national holiday for craig melvin but not being able to read his majestic book about being both a son and a father. so juneteenth holiday celebration is extraordinary. it is beautiful, it is remarkable. let's not have juneteenth without having the consequence of juneteenth grappling with race, talking about our history

and dealing with where we are as a nation right now. with michael eric dyson, i should've had you on at the beginning of my hour. because he we are at the in and i am out of time. i apologize and make sure you do come back and i want to talk more about this book. and talk a little bit more about the idea that a lot of folks probably do not know what critical race theory is. but we would talk about that next time, always good to see you member the. that is going to do it for me. angela mitchell andrea mitchell starts next. starts next. for people with uc or crohn's disease. and humira helps people achieve remission that can last, so you can experience few or no symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure.

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good day this is andrea mitchell reports. i'm kasie hunt and for andrea. we are following the huge breaking news in washington. obamacare surviving a third major challenge since it became law a decade ago. this time a 7 to 2 opinion with conservative samuel alito and neil gorsuch opposing the majority opinion that was written by stephen breyer. moments ago president biden reacting to the decision in a tweet. calling it a big win for the american people. and that is not all. another major ruling today. the unanimous decision in favor of catholic social services in their lawsuit against the city of philadelphia. a case involving foster care services and same-sex couples. what the justices stopping short of sitting in a nationwide principal for you to religious exemption cases. joining me not to help break it all down. justice correspondent pete williams. just waterman at the white house. jim a seam of the former deputy chief of staff to president obama. dr. zeke emanuel