i want to begin with nbc news correspondent julia ainsley who's standing by at the supreme court for us. julia, set the scene there, how might this go down? >> reporter: well, you're right, this is the last scheduled day, ana, but we're expecting another day possibly to get on the court's schedule for tomorrow. that would leave just two days left in june when they typically wrap up their term, and they have these three huge decisions left. so doing the math, we expect at least one of those big decisions to come today, either when it comes to religious rights versus free speech, religious rights and lgbt rights. of course affirmative action, and how they apply versus to public or private colleges and to student loans, that $20,000 forgiveness plan from the biden administration, will that be allowed to stand? these are huge decisions right now inside the court. reporters are lining up to get those decisions as they come down. we don't know what it's supposed to be. in the past, you would have seen the running of the interns. that would be people running out with those papers to the came

joining me now is julia ainsley, more reporting on this. julia, as always, it's great to talk to you thank you for jumping on this for us what is the latest and the expectations for the coming, the gathering of the grand jury on wednesday? >> hey, adam. and yeah, so, we understand the grandeur it will be convening again this week. of course, what that means, it just has everyone making more gases. we know the grand jury, this is specifically in that mar-a-lago case about trump's handling of classified documents there. we know that grandeur's been on a long hiatus and they're coming back. that could mean a number of things. it could mean, as we saw pointed out earlier today that they were simply on the hiatus, they had an expiration of their grandeur, it had to call on the one. it could mean they needed to go back to key witnesses and it took a while to get those people back and scheduled. it could also mean a report. it could also mean is an indictment. it could be that prosecutors now feel that they've been able to call key witnesses we kno

let's start at the court with nbc use julia ainsley. julia, what's the sense of anticipation like at the court this morning on this last day of the term with these two big cases still pending? >> reporter: there's certainly more people out here today than we've seen in days past, especially because today we know exactly what we will get decisions on because it's the last day. you mentioned those two big cases, of course at the end of pride month. that case that has to do with whether or not a web designer can refuse to design a wedding website for a gay couple. we could see some reaction to that. the biggest one we're watching for is on student loans, whether or not biden's student loan forgiveness program will stand. the biden administration was using a congressional act started after 9/11 in 2003. it was continued through the pandemic, even invoke bid betsy devoss under the trump administration. can student loans be forgiven in their entirety forever? this would affect about 43,000 people, sorry, we're starting to get some decisions ju

. >> i want to bring in julia ainsley into the conversation. you are in a new spot since we talked to you last hour. of course there was an ongoing security situation there, when you can brief us on if you want, but on the update there. julia, if you can break down a seismic decision n what we just heard from edward bloom is we're watching closely the next cycle, presumably students in the fall know where they're going, but maybe the winter session, they're watching to see what schools and universities do now. >> reporter: that's right, and of course some of the graduate schools can take students at different quarters. the impact is large and happening now. a quick update on the security situation. they are still looking into that suspicious package, and we'll keep you updated on that. we have been moved further and further back. the supreme court is right behind me. no one can even get close to it. we're further back than being across the street now. we'll continue to bring you updates on that. yes, this will have seismic impacts even though t

julia ainsley is joining us. what does this tell us today? >> reporter: we heard from justice brown jackson that says congress has upheld it is important to retain children to retain their identity. this is making up for a history in this country of children being forcibly adopted away from their tribes. and they are upholding the welfare act, the child welfare act that allows native american children to stay within their tribe when it comes to adoption matters. usually you would go to which ever family could provide the best life for a child. but in this case which dealt with a native american child up for adoption and a family in texas wanting to adopt that child, the court said no, the presence should stay within the tribe. just two does his sensing here. dissentsing here. and the tribes are arguing that they are not racial entities. >> and also justices ruled on where a child can be held? >> yeah, it is interesting especially given the context of how we saw jack smith move his team down to florida. and the supreme court said that it is ok

nbc's julia ainsley broke this story. hrough what you've learned and what it could mean for this investigation. >> we understand about five or six secret service agents were subpoenaed by the grand jury and they complied with that subpoena. they've now appeared. what that means is as this grand jury continues to deliberate, we know they met several times last week, they're getting closer to the heart of the matter, that being the former president's involvement in the january 6th insurrection. they want to hear from people like secret service agents. we don't know exactly who they've heard from yet, whether they could include tony or nad dough or bobby engel. the key event for this day, will want to know how cassidy hutchinson's testimony will hold up. she testified. we'll want to know more about what was happening with the secret service detail around former vice president mike pence. a lot of that is missing because of the secret service text messages that never got saved and handed over as the department of homeland secu

joining us now julia ainsley, what else do we know about this?. what we know about cbp is they were assisting the native police in the reservation in response to shots fired call and nothing in the statement states what raymond mattia's family said that he actually reached out to border patrol hours before he arrived complaining about undocumented migrants coming to his home and asking to use his bathroom and use his phone. he called border patrol, as he often did and he was known for them. i've met these people before. that was his understanding, but of course, they are saying they're responding to a shots fired call at his residence. now we also know the family says they weren't able to get close. in this culture they want to be able to be with the body and to bless the body and they had to say good-bye to their family member in a body bag after he was left for hours without them being able to get close and to see what happened here. they also just think that in general, they want more answers. we know the fbi is investigating this, cbp is inve

nbc's julia ainsley is joining us now with more on this. hinking it was going to happen any moment now some decisions, major decisions, i should say involving affirmative action, student loans, voting rights, gay rights as well, much, much more. this is not that, however, this is a pretty important decision as well. walk folks through what we know? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, ana, it's the end of the term here at the supreme court. we expect more decisions tomorrow and into next week, but we're thinking that with that little time left some of those bigger decisions would be coming, but today we got four smaller decisions, but most important among those and it's not a small decision for the navajo nation, is a decision, a 5-4 decision in which justice kavanaugh wrote for the majority saying that a 155-year-old law regarding water access for the navajo nation means that the federal government does not have to ensure water access for the navajo nation. that's a blow for the navajo nation. it's one of their most important issues. they've be

nbc's julia ainsley is outside the supreme court this morning. ell us about this case. >> reporter: jose, this is an interesting one. and it has a big impact on the navajo nation, which as you know has as much land, covers bigger than the size of west virginia and what the justices said in a 5-4 opinion, the majority said that essentially the federal government of the united states is not responsible for taking affirmative steps to secure water rights for the navajo nation. at issue is a lower part of the colorado river and who has access to that water, whether that be going into the states or whether or not the navajo nation has access to that. there was an interesting dissent by gorsuch saying no, the navajo nation isn't asking the united states to take affirmative steps to ensure water, which would be in violation of the 1868 treaty between the navajo nation and the federal government of the united states, rather they're just asking them to take a look at that treaty and find out what their water rights are. the portion of the colorado river is

let's begin with nbc news correspondent julia ainsley outside the supreme court. n simple terms, what just happened inside the court? >> reporter: well, in simple terms, affirmative action as we know it ended at 10:00 a.m. today. with that overwhelming majority, 6-3, right along those partisan lines upon the presidents that appointed these justices, overturning decades of precedent that allowed clejs and universities, public and private, to look at race when trying to make determinations on admissions. now, the justices never argued that these student bodies shouldn't be diverse and colleges and universities shouldn't try to have diversity in the students they admit but said that race could not be a stand alone factor. in fact, appears that now students won't be able to disclose that in their admissions. but there's still some wiggle room here. in fact, chief justice roberts said that if race has served as discrimination, inspiration or in any other way influenced an applicant's life, they should be able to include that on their application. so, right now we probab

challenge to president biden's immigration enforcement priorities, and i want to bring in nbc's julia ainsley who's outside the supreme court. julia, what do you know about this decision? >> reporter: hi, ana, we could still be getting more decisions in moments, but right now a decision that came out is in u.s. versus texas where eight out of the nine justices said that the states here that challenged the biden administration's immigration policy lack standing. they sided with the biden administration 8 to 1 saying that the states did not have standing to sue the biden administration over this policy. the policy allowed i.c.e. to prioritize who it deported from insides country. it prioritized people who were threats to national security, had previous criminal past. it was their way, they said, of trying to use prosecutorial discretion because they don't have the resources to deport all 11 million or more undocumented migrants living inside the united states. it's something the obama administration also did. it may seem surprising that you would have an 8-1 opinion in this court and that so ma

want to bring in julia ainsley who is outside the supreme court. julia, what do we know about this ruling? >> this is the biggest ruling today. there are bigger ones work expecting later this week. the supreme court has said that the north carolina state legislature has to let its courts review changes to voting there. this all came up in 2021 when the republican-controlled legislature said their court did not have the authority to review the way they drew congressional maps. they pointed to something called the independent state legislature theory. now the court is saying that that was too broad of an interpretation and that they should allow the courts to intervene. this has widespread meaning because it could be that if they have gone the other way, then each republican or democrat-controlled state legislature would have control not just over drawing voting boundaries, but a number of ways you could register to vote, anything having to do with state controls in the voting process. this is also the second decision that this court has made this ter

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i want to bring in nbc news correspondent julia ainsley outside the supreme court. is ruling, julia. >> reporter: this is one we haven't been watching as closely, but it's incredibly interesting. at the heart of this case is the question of an adoption of a native american child. there was a couple in texas, a foster family who wanted to adopt the child, but that would have been in violation of a 1978 welfare act that would keep children, native american children within their tribes. it's trying to make up for history of children being taken out of their tribes. and the tribes argued, five tribes in that case argued that if that child left they would be completely undermining that law. the supreme court sided with the tribes, upheld the welfare act and said the child should be adopted by the tribes. usually a child would go to the best fit family. that's what seven of the justices said in the majority opinion. we still are watching for more opinions as this session officially draws to a close, and we are still waiting on 20 opinions. we'll be back out here tomorrow w

nbc's julia ainsley has our report. >> reporter: these are some of the migrant children federal officialsld labor in america. nbc news learning the department of homeland security, justice department, as well as white house officials are now examining companies in the meat packing and produce industries who allegedly hired guatemalan children in at least 11 states. now adding locations in virginia, north carolina, and florida to the list of those already under scrutiny. according to two u.s. officials. we first brought you this story earlier this year of more than 100 undocumented children who federal investigators say were hired to clean slaughter houses in the dead of night, many desperate for a paycheck to send to family back home. >> if you mess up, you get treated like an adult, which none of these kids have the maturity to handle that. >> reporter: in the last few years border officials have released 260,000 unaccompanied minors into the u.s., almost half from guatemala. penalties against companies who are hiring migrants are not tough enough to keep it from happening. >> i think ra

i want to bring in nbc's julia ainsley who has been following this story for us. prosecutor, charles coleman. so julia, this is on top of the two charges, right, he was already facing right after his arrest. what new information have we found out from this indictment? >> chris, we've learned more about the time line in which he was obtaining that information and disseminating, as well as how serious of a penalty he could face. with these six charges, he could face up to 60 years in prison. we've also learned that this goes back as early as january of 2022. so for over a year, up until april of this year, he was obtaining classified information and disseminating it, starting with a small group on that online gaming platform, and then later to social media platforms, going on to twitter before he was finally stopped with that arrest in april, and from all of this, we've also learned that it wasn't just documents. it was also some of his handwritten notes that he took in meetings and took out of the room with him. sometimes taking pictures of documents on top of magaz

with me now is nbc's julia ainsley. what more do we know about this cbp response?se it sounds like they're saying the contractors did it. >> yeah, it sounds like they're pretty much placing the blame on this nurse practitioner who repeatedly did not heed the warnings of her parents. in fact, this little girl's parents came four times that day including with papers in their hand that showed she had a congenital heart condition, sickle cell anemia. when her fever got to almost 105 degrees, what they did is they gave her tamiflu, a cold shower and ice packs, not enough to really administer what should have been life saving emergency care. that wasn't until the mother showed up with the girl having a seizure in her arms. it's as heartbreaking as it is frustrating when you realize that there could have been steps taken to save her life earlier. >> did they have the ability or agreements with hospitals to get someone who's that sick the kind of care they would need? >> yes, in fact, they did have a pediatrician on site who was not contacted, and yes, all of these places

i want to bring in nbc news correspondent julia ainsley. tea leaves we can be reading about when we'll get those big decisions? >> reporter: well, we know the next day that we'll see opinions is next thursday, and then they really only have next week and the following week before they're done with this term. it usually ends at the end of june, and so we're every day waiting for those big decisions, the two decisions we got today were less consequential. one having to do with sentencing. another having to do with a technical legal argument about suing the u.s. government, very less consequential to the seismic decisions we could be getting next, having to do with affirmative action, whether or not colleges can still achieve diversity without considering race. student loans, whether or not the biden plan to forgive over $20,000, up to $20,000 of student loan debt can be forgiven. will that stand? we're also awaiting another decision on voting rights and another one having to do with free speech versus the rights of lgbt people. these are big

with us now to talk about this, nbc news julia ainsley outside the u.s. supreme court, and nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett, and eddie glod, professor at princeton university and msnbc political analyst. how did the court rule in this case, specifically? >> you're right, it was a surprise because the court actually said that alabama was in violation of section 2 of the voting rights act because the way they drew these boundaries and their refusal to let black civil rights groups remedy those guidelines saying that they were actually drawn in a way that would dilute their vote and were racially motivated, the court is saying that in fact alabama was in violation of section 2 of the voting rights act. this is a surprise. you have chief justice john roberts siding with the majority and justice kavanaugh. with those votes, it became the close decision of 5-4 vote to rule against alabama and with those civil rights groups that were challenging the law. they're upholding a ruling from a lower court, but this is a surprise in some ways because t

joining me now, homeland security correspondent julia ainsley.ny that shuttled migrants to martha's vineyard last year. do the sacramento arrivals follow a similar pattern? >> they absolutely to. and this is the latest escalation as these two states red and blue are using migrants to make political points. this is desantis actually taking migrants from texas and sending them to california just like he did last summer when migrants went from texas to martha's vineyard on buses paid for by florida taxpayers. this is not migrants that came in through florida, they came through texas, were transported through mexico and over to california. this is according of course to the california attorney general who says that they have evidence that they followed that pattern and that the same company virtual systems that took migrants to martha's vineyard last summer are now taking migrants to california. and they say migrants were misled, they thought they had a better chance of getting a job and claiming asylum if they left the state of texas. desantis is no

now, let's go to julia ainsley who covers that decision, is wasn't sure an eight to one was possible in the court, but here it is. what are the details? >> it's hard for many justices to find much to agree on. chris, they did, at least eight of them agreed on one thing and that was that the states of texas and louisiana did not have standing to challenge president biden's immigration priorities which allowed i.c.e. to go after undocumented immigrants living inside the united states primarily if they were threats to public safety or national security risks, had a past criminality. in this case, the justices said that texas and louisiana would not be unduly harmed by that and that states can't tell the federal government to go out and arrest more people. they pointed back to other cases of where people couldn't tell their own state to go out and arrest more violators of child abuse laws. it's simply not what the states can do, and immigration is a federal law. justice kavanaugh said they could have had standing if the biden administration said they're not going to deport anyone. this i

joining me now, julia ainsley. what's going on here?> reporter: it's the justice department trying to remain neutral when it comes to these tort cases. but what that means is that families who were saying that they were damaged by the separation policy under trump are not able to get payments. in fact they have been fighting those payments for a long time. there was a time where biden said that they could get hundreds of thousands of dollars. he got a lot of backlash on that. then the justice department has even fought individual tort things. what they're doing is a very lawyerly thing. they're saying these people aren't qualified to receive money because it wasn't an unlawful policy. which means they're put in the position of defending the trump administration's family separation policy. and they said, as they tried to defend this, that it was put in place for, quote, perceived humanitarian considerations. they're pulling that language from what the trump administration did at the time when they said that it was necessary to separate c

joining me now nbc news correspondent julia ainsley who's outside of the supreme court for us, and nbcs white house correspondent mike memoli. noah pransky is here with us as well, and cnbc washington correspondent, emily wilkins. thank you very much for being here, everybody. so 6-3 ruling, two more 6-3 rulings, i should say. student debt. >> you're right, katy, if somebody was going to sum up this supreme court right now, the name of the book might be 6-3 because we're seeing so many opinions fall along those lines. today we saw two more, the first coming in, a case having to do with a web designer in colorado who says that she does have gay clients but didn't want to be asked to do a wedding web site because she said in that view it would infringe upon her free speech because she thinks that marriage should be between a man and a woman, and the conservative majority opinion, just gorsuch said they needed to be able to protect free speech for all. in the dissenting opinion, justice sotomayor said this is discriminatory against lgbt people and shouldn't have been considered in the fir

joining me now is nbc news homeland security correspondent julia ainsley.rants who arrived earlier spoke to them and say they were misled. they were told by two women who approached them in texas they may have the promises of jobs if they got on this plane to california. in california, they tracked that plane and found out it went first from florida to texas where it picked up those migrants, then to new mexico and finally to sacramento. they're saying that they basically misled these people to go to this place so, yes, they're looking at kidnapping charges. it's similar to the same tactic that desantis used to get migrants from texas to martha's vineyard last summer, not migrants that had anything to do with the state of florida, but he used florida resources to transport migrants across the border and that state to other places, namely more blue areas of the country. >> governor newsome of california tweeted to ron desantis, he calls him, "you small, pathetic man. this isn't martha's vineyard. kidnapping charges." he's talking about kidnapping as well. th

joining me now is nbc news homeland security correspondent julia ainsley.they were there to testify about january 6th. do we have an idea of who they were and what they might know? >> reporter: we don't know exactly who these five to six agents might have been. we understand they've already appeared before the grand jury. that's the washington grand jury, looking into trump's involvement in the capitol insurrection on january 6th, 2021, and trump's overall involvement in trying to overturn the results of the election. so we can imagine the topics jack smith would be interested in and why he would pick these agents to then go before the grand jury. we understand a lot of times they can interview many more than that, but then they pick a smaller group to actually appear before the grand jury. of course we would be interested or jack smith would be interested in having them talk about what cassidy hutchinson already mentioned a year ago this week, which is that the president, former president trump, tried to tried to steer his car back toward the capitol and a

julia ainsley reports. >> reporter: these are some of the migrant children federal officials found illegallyorking in a slaughterhouse raising questions about child labor in america tonight, nbc news learning the department of homeland security, justice department, as well as white house officials are now examining companies in the meatpacking and produce industries, who allegedly hired guatemalan children in at least 11 states, now adding locations in virginia, north carolina, and florida to the list of those already under scrutiny according to two u.s. officials. we first brought you this story earlier this year of more than 100 undocumented children, who federal investigators say were hired to clean slaughterhouses in the dead of night, many desperate for a paycheck to send to family back home >> if you mess up, you get treated like an adult, which none of these kids have the maturity to handle that emotional stress. >> reporter: in the last two years, border officials have released more than 260,000 unaccompanied minors into the u.s. almost half of them from guatemala migrant advocates s

build trust with the migrant children who they say are the victims in these cases >> our thanks to julia ainsley for that report. >>> officials in south korea are expanding the investigation into foreign adoptions. a commission started looking into 34 cases in december. now they have added over 200 more adoptions to interest probe. the addone tees say agencies lied on documents, registering them as orphans when they had living relatives most were placed in the u.s. or europe in the '70s or '80s, and some say they experienced abuse in the process the findings may help them take legal action >>> pope francis is recovering after a successful three- hour surgery. he is expected to remain in the hospital for several days. let's turn to claudio lavanga in rome good morning how do we know, how is the pope doing this morning >> reporter: good morning, frances. in the last few minutes, the vatican said that the pope had a good night, literally, just a few words, but i'm sure just a few words that the faithful around the world were waiting for. now the vatican says they're going to give a more detailed st

for more, i'm joined now by one of the authors up the exclusive report, msnbc's julia ainsley. julia, welcome. tell me what you found out. >> well, what we know is that they are, what we expect is that the grand jury in the mar-a-lago case, remember jacques met the special counsel is looking at the former president trump's involvement in this mar-a-lago documents, as well as january six. we understand the grand jury is looking at his possible obstruction and classified documents in mar-a-lago will be meeting this week. that's after a long hiatus, and we know that they were already calling and some very high-profile witnesses earlier, which may signal that they were at the end. it could be after a long hiatus. it could, be were not reporting, this that prosecutors are able to present their case and before word with a vote for a possible indictment. we should point out that an indictment means that there are charging, they would be charging trump. that doesn't mean that they are finding him guilty. this is the grand jury process. it's a very secretive process. this is a term we he

julia ainsley joins us from washington, d.c.slative, legal jargon here. what exactly does it mean? what should people take away from this case. >> reporter: this is one of the reasons i like stepping into the supreme court sometimes you always learn something, to step back here, independent state legislature theory means is that a state legislature regardless of what people controlling can make some incredibly important rules when it comes to federal elections, that's what the republican-controlled north carolina state legislature tried to do in 2021 and they were stopped by their state supreme court. now, that supreme court was then run by democrats. that has since changed over to republicans, that republican state supreme court tried to say, no, this case is moot and basically overruled the previous opinion. what this boils down to is, the supreme court today said those state courts still get to have a role in checks and balances, independent state legislatures -- north carolina it was about drawing congressional maps. it coul

outside the supreme court is julia ainsley. what is this decision about? >> reporter: it's a big win for the biden administration, jose. this was their enforcement priority policy that allowed i.c.e. to prioritize immigrants for deportation if they were a security risk. when they looked at the 11 million undocumented migrants, they were going to use their resources on those who lived here first. people who have been living here peacefully will be deprioritize. several states led by republicans sued the biden administration saying that policy had an undo burden on them because of the other migrants it left here. in an 8-1 decision the court said those states don't have standing and the biden administration is well within its right to prioritize who they decide to deport from the country. they said if the biden administration had gone so far as to say we're not going to deport anyone, then the states might have standing. really, it's a big win for the biden administration. it may seem like a head scratcher coming from this court that is leaning so conservati

joining us is julia ainsley and paul henderson, veteran prosecutor and trial attorney. a, before we pivot to some of the other investigations still lurking there, do we know if the doj is considering unsealing this indictment before that tuesday court appearance? >> reporter: it's a big question. it's the reason why i'm down to the justice department, as are many other reporters, to see if we actually might hear something from attorney general garland here today. what that would take would be for prosecutors in this case to make a motion to unseal. since we understand that this indictment does include sensitive information, the courts have to elude to the documents he would have improperly shared or taken to mar-a-lago, that could make it a more complicated process to get to the unsealing. in the meantime they have to deal with president trump going out and dealing with the narrative. the longer trump can control the narrative. so they're in a bind here to see how quickly they can get the sensitive information to a place where it could be unsealed, possibly going through

that is my colleague julia ainsley's fantastic. reporting.sidy hutchinson provided that testimony, the live testimony, which was the second clip. it will be one year in two days. one year that donald trump and everyone around him spent not so privately trying to knock down the voracity of that specific bit of her testimony about what happened in the presidential vehicle. and efforts to harass her and intimidate her and try to make her sound and look like she wasn't telling the full truth have failed, and now it seems to have come full circle almost exactly a year after that testimony, half a dozen secret service agents testifying before the grand jury. wow. >> couldn't agree more, nicolle, and hats off to julie for really good reporting. i would add a few things. we don't know what jack smith and his team are asking those agents, but any former or current agent who's being questioned about donald trump's activities and white house activities in the days leading up to january 6th is bound to get an earful about things that we've all reported o

julia ainsley is following all of this. and mark mckinnon is back with me. . julia, what is the latest on the investigation into the two flights that sent 36 mgrants i think it is to sacramento. >> reporter: and their kindergarten came on msnbc at 11:00 to explain why they think that state should be guilty of charges and they should open up an is inquiry to take legal action. here is what he had to say. >> state of florida needs to be held accountable for these actions. these actions are cruel, they are inhumane, they are morally bankrupt. they are wrong. this is a political ability, a chief political act used to try to get cheap political points on the backs of human beings vulnerable, traumatized. >> what they were able to ascertain based on the roughly two dozen migrants that arrived on the california on this flight, that they actually came through texas, were flown through mexico on planes originated from florida. so they believe it is the similar tactic when ron desantis bussed migrants to martha's vineyard. so a way to insert himself into the immigratio

nbc's julia ainsley thank you, mike memoli, thank you, lisa rubin, thank you as well.ve not a lot more show ahead. up next, the president's student loan plan has broad support, especially amongst voters under 30. how will the high court's decision impact the 2024 presidential race? we are back in just 60 seconds. s ♪ what do we always say, son? liberty mutual customizes your car insurance... so you only pay for what you need. that's my boy. now you get out there, and you make us proud, huh? ♪ bye, uncle limu. ♪ stay off the freeways! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ (bobby) my store and my design business? only pwe're exploding.need. but my old internet, was not letting me run the show. so, we switched to verizon business internet. they have business grade internet, nationwide. (vo) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon. >>> we are following that breaking news, everybody. the supreme court striking town president biden's student loan forgiveness program, a plan that 47% of americans supported according to the latest u

joining me now, julia ainsley, phil rucker and former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner. what should we read into this move? does it signal she wants to move this along more quickly than we expected? if this happens or now whether it happens, how long will they have to review the documents? >> it's an order to get through the security process to move quickly into this. what this means is her fingerprints are now on the case. for anyone who hoped she would recuse herself, that doesn't seem likely. she says, green light, let's do this, i'm on it. legal experts i have talked to said there's no clear reason to recuse herself. maybe she made a bad call. she's inexperienced. but there's no major conflict of interest either with her family or financial interests. there was no real reason to recuse herself. she's moving forward now. yes, it does look like it's an expedited pace because she set a deadline for those security processes to move up. maybe it's something we wouldn't read into if it was any other case. this is not any other case. >> no doubt. we are reading into every m

julia ainsley joins us this morning. great seeing you. huge deal. 240,000 el salvadorans alone will be benefiting. what is the reaction? >> the first thing we should say is these are people who previously entered the country, people who entered before 1998. we're not talking about opening the doors to those who want to come now. that's the first thing we always have to say when we're talking about temporary protected status. this is a presidential power, used to protect people who may have suffered from some kind of humanitarian or natural disaster to protect people already in the united states from being sent back to those circumstances. now, the trump administration tried to end those temporary status for those people from those countries. el salvador, nicaragua, honduras and nepal. but a judge blocked them from doing so. then it turned into this court order over whether or not these people would have their status extended, the biden administration extended it by one year. so the court didn't have to decide. now they're extending it aga

. >> julia ainsley, important reporting, thank you. >>> tomorrow marks one year since the supreme courtnts actively working to ban abortions and restrict access across the country but a brands new nbc news poll shows a majority of voters remain opposed to the court decision to strike down roe. 61% disapprove including nearly 80% of female voters 18 to 49 years old and many republicans think it was the wrong decision. in a new poll of ob-gyns by the kaiser family foundation, 68% say the ruling to overturn roe has worsened their ability to manage pregnancy-related emergencies, something impacting rural regions exceptionally hard. kristen dahlgren explains. >> they can't wait to be parents but after multiple miscarriages finding an obstetrician for her high risk pregnancy wasn't easy. >> i was scared i wouldn't find a baby who would cater to my needs and my baby's need and make sure most of us will make it out of this alive. >> there was already an ob-gyn shortage in rural georgia before roe v. wade was struck double but now doctors say the state's six-week abortion ban is making things ha

joining us now is nbc's julia ainsley. from el paso, laura dia grande for the el paso times.t are they saying what happened to anadith reyes? >> it is a story as frustrating as it is heart breaking and border patrol just last night put out a statement that really does take more blame than i've seen them take in the past. unfortunately we have heard of other conditions, other children who were in the custody of cbp or health and human services, they weren't able to get the medical care they need. that is a story we have heard repeat. at this point, they are blaming these contracted medical personnel. they say that they did not respond to the numerous times that the family asked to be taken to the hospital. and the documented numerous medical encounters in the interventions in the administrations of medicine that they did not think they adequately gave that to her. they do say that the personnel on site did not know that she had a congenital heart condition or sickle cell anemia. those would be two underlying conditions that could escalate to death much more rapidly. but they d

along with julia ainsley. >> this is a significant ruling for voting rights advocates that had sued tryinging their congressional maps after the census, they had said that had violated the voting act rights, which prohibits race discrimination. today the supreme court agreed that the lower court got it right, and that in fact, alabama had violated section 2 of the voting rights act. it's a divided supreme court. you have the chief justice writing it on behalf of his colleagues here, joined by the three liberals and justice kavanaugh. but the opt shot is the voting rights has been preserved. there had been a lot of questions about whether this court was prepared to hollow it out as it has with other sections of the voting rights act, but today the court decided not to go that far and to uphold section two. it's an interesting decision. it has notable that we're going to have to work through. also we're going to have to work through those and see if the shot here is that section two has been upheld. >> so talk to us about what was at stake with this decision. >> the stakes were high here. if

. >> julia ainsley, thank you for that report. we've got a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports." let's get right to it. t to it. >>> at this hour, ukraine launches a long-awaited counter offensive against russia. the crucial military move coming amid a humanitarian catastrophe as tens of thousands are at risk after construction of that critical dam. >>> the message from federal prosecutors to donald trump and his legal team, informing them that the former president is, in fact, the target of their investigation into his handling of classified documents after he exited the white house. >>> plus, the latest from outside the federal courthouse in miami where that second grand jury is a key part of this investigation. >>> and tens of millions of americans are still under air quality alerts as officials urge people to put on their masks because wildfire smoke from canada is continuing to blanket this country. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. i want to begin right here on the roo

. >> julia ainsley, a lot of moving parts.nks to allie raffa and paul butler. >>> those who have dedicated their lives to diversity and inclusion on college campuses, i'm going to talk to an associate dean at temple university. we're back in just 60 seconds. te university we're back in just 60 seconds. arthritis pain? we say not today. tylenol 8 hour arthritis pain has two layers of relief. the first is fast, the second is long-lasting. we give you your day back, so you can give it everything. tylenol. number one doctor recommended for arthritis pain. (bobby) my store and my design business? number we're exploding.mended but my old internet, was not letting me run the show. so, we switched to verizon business internet. they have business grade internet, nationwide. (vo) make the switch. it's your business. it's your verizon. >>> welcome back, more on that breaking news from the supreme court, and what it could mean for the future of diversity inside the classroom with the loss of affirmative action. one student at unc has this

julia ainsley who has been reporting this news now.assidy hutchinson report of what happened in the presidential limousine that day stands out, but what else do prosecutors want to hear from these secret service agents? >> well, they're going to want the secret service agents to tell the grand jury as much as they can about the president's mindset that day. no one was closer to former president trump as, of course, they were in the car or the secret service agents who heard him say that he didn't want the mags. remember the security detection coming to the ellipse? anyone who could give the mindset about trump as he made decisions about what to do with former president mike pence. people close to pence as they were trying to move him out of the capitol. there is so much about that day still unknown, even after all this investigative journalism, the commitcommittees, and now w the grand jury trying to get to answers. the grand jury isn't just looking at january 6th, they're looking at a number of ways trump might have tried to interfere

with us now to take a closer look at this, we have nbc news correspondent julia ainsley, who is outside the supreme court, we have reverend al sharpton there in the center of the screen, president of the national action network and host of "politics nation" on msnbc, as well as maya riley, president of the leadership conference on civil and human rights. welcome to you all on this extraordinary news day. julia, what more did the justices have to say in their decision? >> reporter: well, in short, they have ended affirmative action as we know it. in the majority opinion, chief justice john roberts says harvard and unc admissions, says those programs cannot be reconciled with the guarantees of the equal protection clause. both programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner and involve racial stereotyping and went on to say, it is okay for students to mention in their essays how race played a role in their rare, inspiration or discrimination or otherwise. justice jackson said that, you know what, just be

nbc news homeland security correspondent julia ainsley is joining us now from washington.ion in some ways defending family separations. >> reporter: yeah, hallie, the lawyers here at the justice department have been backed into a legal corner. they are charged with protecting all of the finances of the u.s. government so they do try to argue against plaintiffs who come forward and file these tort claims to get money from the government and they say that they won't issue that money unless what happened to these people was unlawful. so, therefore, they have to argue that the trump administration policy on separating families was lawful. they don't necessarily have to take that case, but that is the side they're taking and they're doing so by saying that this policy was put in place for, quote, perceived humanitarian reasons meaning that the trump administration perceived that their actions of separating families was being done so to try to prevent more families from making that dangerous trip across the border but, of course, we know from our reporting here at nbc news, me a

going in terms of tying trump to the conversation inspired by the reporting from my own colleague julia ainsleysome evidence developed by the commit it about not what the d.c. police or the capitol police were reporting but what the presidential detail was reporting. along the route about weapons and potential for violence and just the surveillance report. >> the individuals about 6 feet tall, brown cowboy boots, blue jeans and blue jean jacket and underneath the ar-15. two individuals in the group wearing grein fatigues, 5'9", kinney, white male. they have pistols in their waste band. >> the subject weapon on his right hip. >> and that is the metropolitan police department traffic. and there is also an exhibit with some traffic from the presidential detail. let me show you some of cassidy hutchinson's testimony describing what an off the record movement is. >> an off the record movement is confined to the knowledge of a very, very small group of advisers and staff, typically a small group would travel with him, mostly that are just included in the national security package. you can pull off th

julia ainsley, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> florida governor flying migrants from texas to other places. that does it for me. "deadline: white house" starts right now. >>> hi, there, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. a new witness, a hunt for new lawyers and a very suspicious pool flood. we are getting a wealth of new details today in the criminal investigation into donald trump's handling of classified documents thanks to some pretty stunning brand-new reporting. "new york times" reports this. "prosecutors are expected to question a new witness in front of a federal grand jury sitting in florida later this week. that is according to people familiar with the matter. at least one other witness has already appeared before that florida grand jury, which is separate from the one that has been sitting for months now in washington." why prosecutors have continue seened a separate grand jury from the one in d.c. is one of the mysteries, one of the major outstanding questions every one of us from the outside has regarding this case at the moment. "wall street journal" has described the ac

let's start at the court with nbc use julia ainsley.