. >> josh holley is a senator from missouri.you. >> what galls me about what we just watched is they're frauds all of them. they all sit there and talk about gun control and want to seize the weapons of this country and what joe biden's d.o.j. did was set a precedent where every defense council in the country is going to say my client gets the hunter biden deal which means he can get weapons. your thoughts how this undermines the president's signature issue. >> listen. this is allpolitics all the time. it's obvious to anybody who looks at it you're right about the gun control issue. clearly when it comes to being a biden or a clinton then we don't care about gun violence or firearms crimes. then it's fine. same with this plea deal on tax evasion. give me a break. get to the real story. did joe biden get bribed by burisma through hunter as the whistleblower the fbi has alleged? that's the question here. let's see the proof. >> right, the american public i think the left is taking a risk on this. harvard harris poll found 59 perce

. >> reporter: danielle holley is the incoming president ofof mount holylyoke collegege in weststern massacachusetts. but this peaceful campus belies an anxious reality. as soon as tomorrow the supreme court will answer the most anticipated question this term. can colleges and universities look at race in admissions decisions? >> everyone is talking about this case all the time people from departments that are not in the law school are asking me what day will we hear >> reporter: for decades the court recognized the educational benefits of a diverse student body and said schools can look at someone's race as one plus factor among many. but the court's current conservative majority may ban it nationwide this time >> what will that do to a place like mount holyoke? >> it will send a very strong message to black students and to latino, latina students that they are not welcome. >> reporter: not so, say the lawyers who sued harvard over its admissions plan. long treated by the court as the gold standard, it's now accused of being obsessed with race and along with the university of north

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but holley says ignoring race would produce a devastating result. >> we've seen a track record of themng. >> reporter: she points to california, one of nine states that outlawed affirmative action more than 20 years ago, causing a 50% drop-off in minority admissions, numbers that have never bounced back as seen by uc berkeley. >> i have struggled to really move the black number here at berkeley. and again, that's not from a lack of trying. >> reporter: femi ogundele, berkeley's dean of undergrad admissions, says affirmative action was never perfect, just a band-aid. >> the fact that there are high schools in this country that have manicured lawns and golf courses and there are high schools in this country that have bars on the windows and metal detectors in the hallways and yet we are asking both of those students to show up in our application process the same doesn't make any sense. >> reporter: for now schools are bracing for the dawn of a new era, making the task of equalizing the playing field not impossible but significantly harder. laura jarrett, nbc news, south hadley, massachus

senator josh holley knows all of this. he could have written that. he lives for it and fights for it every day. your reaction to today's events? >> here's what i think is happening, we're seeing for the first time in american history, brian, a sitting president of the united states try to throw his opponent into jail. i mean, that's what's going on here. we are seeing political targeting. i don't see joe biden getting indicted. i don't see joe biden who had who knows how many classified documents next to his corvette in his garage. but no, this is about targeting donald trump to try to take out a political opponent. if they can do this, brian, we do not have a functioning democracy any longer. >> brian: there's a couple of things going on here. you're a lawyer, good one, you were attorney general of your state before you became one of the youngest senators in the country. so senator, as we look at trump's situation, there's no doubt about it, he would have made his life easier if he just returned the documents or never took it. got it. understand it.

and meanwhile senator josh holley responded in a televised interview. >> if the president in power can don't have a republic anymore, we don't have a rule of law, we don't have a constitution. no one should be in doubt of what's happening tonight. joe biden and his cronies are trying to take out their chief political opponent. this has never happened before in american history, laura. we are in dangerous, dangerous waters and it is because of joe biden. >> now, republican presidential candidates are taking different stances on trump's latest indictment. florida governor ron desantis, his chief rival within the gop, tweeted last night that he'd hold the doj accountable if he were elected president. writing in part this, why so zealous in pursuing trump yet so passive about hillary or hunt snr the desantis administration will excise political bias and end weaponization once and for all. now, former new jersey governor chris christie took a different tact, quote, nobody is above the law, adding he's waiting to see what the facts are when a possible indictment is released. earlier in the d

including all night last night on a certain other network, and people like senators like tuberville and holleyend of democracy. this is unfair. he's being targeted. this is all about biden, biden, biden. so do i expect that to disappear? no. if there is damning information and there likely is here that lays out what is likely to be horrific conduct by the former president, it is possible that it would have a mitigating effect on the incitement of anger and potential violence. that it would cause those people to hit the pause button because they're about to embarrass themselves, not having understood the indictment. >> it didn't take long, joyce, for the former president to come out. he released the video claiming his innocence and warfare for the law. and he said, quote, we cannot let it happen. how many of this case do you think will be fought in the court of public opinion? and obviously, there is one thing about what the political ramifications are. but for jury selection as well. >> so when it comes to trump, everything goes to the court of public opinion and never so much as when he's on