and jim cavanaugh, thanks to you as always. >>> and turning to some breaking news. we had just learned that a formal lab has confirmed the suspicion that that white powdery substance found in the west wing on sunday was in fact positive for cocaine. the discovery led it a brief evacuation of the white house sunday night. joining us now is nbc white house correspondent mike memoli. mike, where do things stand now? this is so unusual. you and i have covered the white house for years. i can't even fathom anything like this having been found before in the west wing and i go back to the '70s at the white house. this is pretty wild. >> reporter: absolutely extraordinary, andrea. this new conclusive test confirms what had been the preliminary field test conducted by d.c. fire personnel who were called in on sunday night after the discovery of this suspicious substance by a uniformed officer in the secret service that was conducting a routine patrol of the white house. so, to recap on the developments from -- that we have been reporting from yesterday, this was found, we un

justice cavanaugh said you know there are some other good arguments that might be madeth against thet act. i would be happy to hear them in a future case, so it isn't as if it is one and done but it seems to be the calling card this term. >> end of the affirmative action case is what people expected officiating the affirmative actionog programs that the universities in question. but there seemed to be again from alitoma and thomas the sort of sense of colorblindness on the statute of justice really works and curiously i think justice thomas signed signed after the emancipated black people to have their own land and farming and he said that was a colorblind program. it waspl a program created for black people so you wonder yes affirmative action has been thrown out in this context but what is the ripple effect throughout the rest of the system not just the academic system. >> the first thing to note the presence of the newest justice she wrote a separate opinion. someone like justice thomas people watching may not be aware that he calls himself and originalist who believes the constit

i also asked cavanaugh about the product mix in the second half he said he expects software to be theer driven first by its red hat subsidiary. think hybrid cloud products which grew 11% year of over in q2 and a new $4.6 billion acquisition of aptio they have a lot riding on this, but that deal still hasn't closed and cavanaugh like arvind krishna both saying on the call they believe that both hybrid cloud and their ai strategy will help them hit their revenue goals. but ibm just launched their b-to-b application called watson that was just last week. the financial benefits will take time to settle in. when asked about monetization on the call, ibm said they don't want the quantify it yet >> didn't they get the memo? thank you, kristina partsinevelos. >> they mentioned ai many, many times. they got that memo >> not really helping the stock right now. kristina, thanks down by less than a percent here dan, back in 1980, ibm was the apple of its day it was 7% of the s&p 500 now look at it >> max is a genius watson they pull out watson whenever there was a craze. chess in the '90s, blockc

. >> reporter: laura cavanaugh testified at a meeting thursday as lawmakers and consumer advocates pushed for national safety standards. >> are these batteries safe? >> i think that's a great question. i would say right now if you have one of these in your home, we don't know. >> reporter: experts say the biggest risks can come from mixing and matching batteries and chargers from different manufacturers. >> i think we have a federal safety standard so i would take extreme precaution. >> reporter: this means asking whether the battery and charger are both ul certified. >> consumers have to be vigilant. >> reporter: they say this past year they received more than 200 reports of fire or heating incidents nationwide involving electric vehicles such as bikes, scooters and hover boards. the commission urges people to never use a device with a battery pack that has been modified or reworked, and always be present well charging devices, and never while sleeping. while federal regulation could take years, the say they are working on tougher voluntary standards for battery safety. >>> it turns out

near cavanaugh drive . no information on the victim. >>> in our other top stories, x marks the spot of the company formerly known as twitter, the last pieces of the signed were dismantled from the headquarters on market street overnight. it was replaced by a giant x logo of the roof. >> it's the type of old declarative statement that elon musk prefers, twitter is now x, but that represents an unknown variable, the future of the social media company is uncertain and unknowable, even to industry analysts. >> people are almost obsessed with this idea as x as a company for a very long time, a lot of his biographers and whatnot have written about how he really has interest in it and when he was at paypal a couple dickens decades ago, he wanted to bring this alive. >> elon musk purchased twitter for $44 billion , and since then, he slashed the workforce, implemented policies that have angered and alienated users and now the rebranding is x. tech analysts say it's not clear if the moves in total are visionary or i

i don't think you'd get them off the court until you will amount but you know, who might cavanaugh and his wife might say, this is a after 10 years. i might say i'll quit at 75 instead of stay. and until i'm not this, that the left right now is vicious in what the other still people in front of cabinets house that came with zip ties. yeah, i'll take down his daughter's, there's still there, protesting people are protesting today, right now they're not arrested because it's too harsh to arrest people. again, there's one man dividing his country's names bite and he's been used by the left. but it's very, very disturbing. and john jackson and others are a, do it or does served by him me at final thoughts on that like before we take a break. now i concur with the eds analysis. i mean, when you pre determined who's going to be rather than the best qualified you're building in a racist tone, and that's what the work group want that is there. montrose, everything is racist. i mean, you, you and if you, if you disagree, i remembered during the obama administration, if you disagree with him on

so i think justice cavanaugh and every judge ought to have the ability to defend themselves if otherefenses are not available and it's directly related to the campaign of intimidation,at harassment and attempt to politicize the court. the question is on -- >> as to the recusal standard, yes they make that decision. that is how that works. it's how it's always worked and how it should work. it's no different in that regard from what we have in the united states senate. we also have the decision up to us as to whether to recuse. the difference is there is no legal expectation or requirement that we do so. they do have one. thank you. >> the question is on the adoption of the corn an amendment 707. the clerk will call thee role. roll call. [iroll call. the amendment is not agree to do. >> mr. chairman? i would like to call amendment to 3875. the senator will please explain the amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this deals with the leak of the dobbs opinion. so many can see that it's a low point of the court. now, confidentialityty and trust of the court, this is something we talked

brett cavanaugh and amy kony barrett have dececided i can puh these beliefs onto your minds, which is why i filled the gatorade coolers with high alaska. ♪ ♪ >> let's go out there and win this baseball game. >> announcer: it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, stephen welcomes, karel irving, and musical guest stephen sanchez. featuring jon baptiste. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert. ♪ ♪ >> stephen: all right. welcome to the late show, everybody. thank you very much. hello, everybody. welcome to "the late show." every day brings news that unsettles what we think this its happened again because taco bell's latest tostada features a giant cheese it. i speak for all americans when i say oh. behold. the snack of madness. it is like my dreams and nightmares had a baby and baptized it in ground beef. the giant cheez-it is larger than a normal but you won't lose any of the flavor. it can only be described as it. it has real it flavor. it is made with real it. i was ready for the it to hit the fan. unfortunately, the toast a

. >> i want to see aoc issue a subpoena on justice cavanaugh. i want to see how that goes down. are you kidding me? because they don't like the ruling they will issue a subpoena to yank it in front of a political body? she doesn't quite understand how the constitutional thing and separation of powers works. >> i would just say this. bless her heart. you really cannot be this stupid by accident. >> fair enough. stay with me here. i want to move on to the courts of affirmative action which was pivotal. it is causing liberals heads to explode. they are even using it to call asians white supremacist. i am not joking. i am not making this up. the atlantic writer jamil hall took aim at americans celebrating the decision riding to one woman that she gladly carried the water for white supremacy and stabbed the folks in the back whose people fought diligently for asian american rights in america. joining us now is can issue, the president of color us united and a board member of students for fair admissions, the group that sued harvard and unc. still with us is horace cooper. your reacti

deadly crash in east palo alto, a man died in a fatal crash last night, it happened around 10:00 near cavanaugh drive. no information on the suspect. >>> in washington state, five people heard after a shooting in a grocery store parking lot in seattle overnight, dozens of bullets were fired around 9:00 p.m. at the same time, a community outreach event against gun violence was going on. >> we just literally had a training this week to talk about de-escalating self-care , secondary trauma, so to have this happen to somebody so close to home is something we have to talk about as a team. >> investigators think there's at least two shooters. right now it is not clear what led up to the shooting. >>> taking a look at levi's stadium where the opening acts will be taking the stage in about half an hour. bryan mitchell isn't with us tonight. let's go to this video, she sent us of the lines making their way around the parking lot. of course experts are calling the concerts the biggest economic boost to the bay area since the pandemic ended. >> the tickets alone are going to generate 14 or 15 million, tha

cnn's lucy cavanaugh has the details.osed to happen with these rides. >> this is why i personally don't take roller coaster rides, john. eight thrill seekers got more terror than they bargained for when the roller coaster broke down at the forest county fair in kramden. it's 100 miles northwest of green bay, wisconsin. cell phone footage captured the terrifying moments as riders were left upside down for hours and the fire chief said there was a mechanical failure even though the ride had been recently inspected and rescue teams from three districts were called in for help. it just happened that an off-duty firefighter with rope rescue training had been the scene and he helped advise the fire department and rescue options and the ladder truck with the 100-foot platform arrived and was able to reach the passengers and the fire chief said that emergency services were called to the location at around 1:35 p.m. local time. the first ride goer got back to solid ground at 3:20 p.m. and the last person reached the ground at arou

it is obvious that clarence thomas and samuel alito and to some extent perhaps gorsuch and cavanaugh have conducted themselves in ways that violated that law, but there's no enforcement mechanism, and right now, congress does not seem to have the spine to enact an enforcement mechanism, but i think both judge luttig and i believe it is consistent with the separation of powers for federal law to govern this area. i think we may not necessarily agree with the best way forward, but certainly there are things the court could do itself that would enhance public belief in its integrity, and it does not -- and it has not done it. it has repeatedly shot itself in the foot at the worst possible time when we need an independent court that we can respect and that we can turn to, especially in crisis time. it could be very difficult times, and we need a court people will respect. >> professor tribe and i both have testified that the congress of the united states has the constitutional power to adopt and enforce a code of ethical conduct for the supreme court. both of us testified that congress s

this was a mild reaction compared to the assassination attempt last year on justice cavanaugh while hers were sleeping in their home. what can we do to convince people, particularly members of congress, whose job it is to make the laws. that's not the supreme court's job. to turn down the temperature. if you don't like the outcome, tell them to pass a law. >> i agree. we should be passing laws. congress should pass more laws. supreme court shouldn't interpret as much as it does. with that being said, the rulings that came down this week, i almost agree with the judge. we should be having a conversation. look, especially the aaffirmative action -- >> it was hard to say that, wasn't it? i almost agree with the judge. that was hard. >> there's been bluster who it benefits, who it didn't benefit. the assumption out there is that somehow people of color are benefiting tremendously this law. black population is 6.6%. there's good news happening today, because there was a complaint filed against harvard university going after their legacy program, which 40% of the students at harvard universi

so let's bring in lucy cavanaugh. it is still early this morning, but the temperatures are up. f what does 110 fahrenheit feel like? >> reporter: pam, i can tell you when we were out shooting yesterday, it is brutal. the sun is obviously not up yet, so it's probably the most tolerable part of the day. we are expecting temperatures of 112 degrees with the mercury expected to soar past 118 by this weekend. scorching summers may be the norm for arizona's desert cities, but the brutal heat wave engulfing phoenix and the american southwest could be the worst on record. cities sizzling under triple digit temperatures with no break in sight. >> this heat wave can be fatal. >> reporter: firefighters are seeing a jump in calls related to heat sickness. >> the long periods of time where we just don't seem to get any relief. >> reporter: at the phoenix zoo relief for hippos and elephants in the form of cold showers, others with frozen treats. humans are urged to stay inside. those who have to work outside doors are taking extra precautions. >> where is our access to hydration? where is ou

the majority opinion was written by the chief justice and he was joined by justice barrett and cavanaugh and also by three more liberal justices. the first question the court had to address -- in the interim, north carolina had had an election and the makeup of the state supreme court had changed. supreme court had issued a decision that essentially rejected the interpretation of the north carolina constitution at issue and more. the majority said no, the three dissenters rejected that. justices thomas and gorsuch went on to disagree on the merits but justice alito did not join a part of the opinion. just to talk a little about the majority decision, the court relied on three different factors. first of all, it's a judicial review was an established principle at the framing and nothing in the election clause excluded judicial review. then it looked at its prior decision. it also look at the recent decision of holding the amendment to the arizona constitution decay redistricting authority to a commission rather than the state legislature. that was a decision in which the chief justice wro

joining us right now in the last 24 hours, rehema ellis as well as jim cavanaugh, former hostage negotiator for the atf. a lot covered. what would be the summary of what we learned? >> there was a lot covered there, richard. first and foremost, the authorities came out and said this act was done randomly, it was shooting and perpetrated by someone asked of the officer if they intended to cause harm. and the police commissioner said, yes, indeed. they are still investigating and analyzing material but they said what happened was quoting the police commissioner, it was disgusting and horrifying. an abhorrent act of violence. she praised her officers respond to be a radio call of shots fired. they quickly responded to that and they helped out some victims who were shot, some officers taking them to the hospital. while other officers pursued the suspect on foot. and they were able to stop that person, authorities say, from firing and injuring and killing more people. so there was a lot of praise for the officers and the way that they behaved and the way they conducted themselves. they asked for

the majority opinion was written by the chief justice and he was joined by justice barrett and cavanaugh -- and brett kavanaugh and by the three more liberal justices. justice sotomayor, justice kagan and justice jackson. the first question the court had to address is is this case moot? the makeup of the court had changed. they issued a decision rejecting the interpretation of the constitution that was at issue. the majority said no. the three dissenters rejected that view. justice thomas, justice gorsuch and justice alito. justices thomas and gorsuch went to disagree on the merit but justice alito did not join that part of the opinion. just to talk about the majority decision, the court relied on three different factors. it said judicial review was an established principle as a framing and nothing in the elections because excluded judicial review. then it looked at its prior decision. some older cases but also a recent decision upholding the amendment to the arizona constitution that gave rita stripping authority to a commission rather than the state legislature. that was the decision i

rear admiral chris cavanaugh is commander of group seven. >> they deter that type of conflict. >> martharried about the possibility it could backfire? >> i am very confident in our own nuclear deterrence. >> martha: but this week's show of force was complicated by an unexpected and disturbing incident. that american soldier, travis king, who bolted into north korea at the demilitarized zone that divides the north and south. he was then taken away in a van by north korean military. the army private had just been released after serving 47 days in a south korean jail on assault charges and was supposed to be on a flight back to the u.s. to face discharge from the army. while officials acknowledge attempts to establish communication with north korea remain unanswered, retired u.s. general robert abrams who led u.s. forces in korea until 2021 says this could be a long process. >> i'm fairly confident that north korea's going to take their times. they're going to consider every possible angle on how they will, you know, deal with this travis king problem that they have, that we have, and how t

or old media, has still been somewhat challenging comcast having a very strong morning, but mike cavanaugh about it's a challenging environment for ads there. >> yeah. >> not so to your point for meta and not so for alphabet, both of which seem to be interestingly both put up 29% operating margin for their quarter with significant revenue gains for meta, of course. >> that is an extraordinary move for comcast in a single day percentage wise. >> it is. >> we follow the stock closely. >> for obvious reasons. >> we're shareholders. stakeholders. >> it typically, you come in and then they say something on the call that gets people upset, not the case this time they got through the call and, in fact -- >> more excited. >> real momentum the bottom line in particular, melissa, for comcast that encouraged people. the adjusted ebitda numbers up 4.2% the ability with not a lot of top line growth to deliver significant bottom line growth not to mention continued return of capital to shareholders and free cash flow numbers looking strong. >> let's get to meta shares surging post quarterly results. mar

the legislature was not six to three on partisan grounds, but it was justice roberts and cavanaugh andiberals and moving three conservatives into dissent, and we saw some of those surprising splits in the voting rights case where justice roberts joined liberals. all of this says that i can't deny your comment about the difficult effects on peoples confidence in the non-partisan effects, but that is not the whole story, and that is why it is great that you are turning into c-span. i want you to check out the podcast and see that there are important cases where the partisan divined -- divide doesn't break out, and it challenges the chief justice to keep up the mind, and look at what the court does to decide the opinions of justice as a point in the reasoning, and there is also a real division on the court between the textual list justice and the originalist justice, even in the conservative caps that disagree, so in that sense, they are divided on the basis of their partisan reasons, but because of the political philosophies as well. you must find which one you find more expressive print

the legislature was not six to three on partisan grounds, but it was justice roberts and cavanaugh andiberals and moving three conservatives into dissent, and we saw some of those surprising splits in the voting rights case where justice roberts joined liberals. all of this says that i can't deny your comment about the difficult effects on peoples confidence in the non-partisan effects, but that is not the whole story, and that is why it is great that you are turning into c-span. i want you to check out the podcast and see that there are important cases where the partisan divined -- divide doesn't break out, and it challenges the chief justice to keep up the mind, and look at what the court does to decide the opinions of justice as a point in the reasoning, and there is also a real division on the court between the textual list justice and the originalist justice, even in the conservative caps that disagree, so in that sense, they are divided on the basis of their partisan reasons, but because of the political philosophies as well. you must find which one you find more expressive print

matt cavanaugh is the president of the national kidney donation organization and an army veteran.cisco marathon on sunday just one of 12 that he will complete this year as part of the one k 12 m project. so this is number seven. so my partner, hilary bodie and i are both living donors and we're running we're committed to running 12 marathons this year again, to show people what you can do after you donate. they share their story, as does wilson, because they say they know it matters. wilson got his kidney after someone heard his story, which also inspired mission hq staffer amy mccann to sign up. i went to get tested. i got the information, went to get tested, and i was declined because i was still overweight. i was in the process. i've lost about 100 pounds. she lost the weight. and on her birthday, just two months ago, she donated her kidney to a stranger. something just in me was like, no, why can't you do it? you're healthy. you've got to. you don't need them both. why not help somebody? these are the stories that will be told when the sea of people take to the streets of san