we will talk with the university of michigan professor to find out. also studies show older folks benefit from relationships with younger buddies and there is a program in san francisco that fosters that unique relationship for those in the lgbtq community. we will have the story of an unlikely pair. first despite billions dollars to help make up for pandemic learning loss, a new study shows that students are not recovering. the lack is most pronounced in students of color. joining us now is jump professor, and cof rise up against racism. this study was done by what do they look at and what did it find? >> the study was focused on primarily students proficiency, gains in the areas of reading and mathematics. i think the findings holistically are not totally surprising for those of us in educational spaces, those of us who are parents. the year we just closed was tremendously challenging. as i continue to drumbeat tremendous disruption that we have all journey through with the pandemic, it's not going to be a quick and easy for fast fix. this take time

in frank meech mercy policy and the professor of law university of michigan law school and founder and faculty director of the university of michigan center of finance law and policy. he served at the department of a treasury assistant secretary foa financial institution from 2009 -- 2010. under president bill clinton, he served as treasury secretary special assistance and deputy assistant secretary of the treasury special advisor to the president special advisor and counselor, policy planning of the u.s. department of state. bundling over these because there are so many accolades in here. he served as law clerk u.s. supreme court justice and honorable. level of the southern district of new york. he received his masters in international from oxford and yale law school. toby joined by the chief economic correspondent of the "wall street journal" for moderated discussion. we will take questions from the audience to think what questions what you would like to ask and prepare for that moment in the schedule and then we will have a moderated discussion following his remarks. i want to t

university of michigan sentiment dropping now. have analysis with joanne hsu university of michigan director of surveys. and we have a lot of bank earnings with ups but the dollar feels sad. we see the earnings report the everything but the dollar rally and a goldilocks economy. guy johnson is off today. it is a pleasure to have you with us, a negative week from the dollar. dani: yes everything is rising for the week. we get those numbers out now. alex: yes maybe that is helping them selloff. the current condition index jumping to 77.5. expectation 79.4. the tenure inflation rises. -- as we said, how are you feeling, the consumer as of this survey for july feels good. dani: so good a massive heat from expectation. 65 point five was the expectation and it is higher. let's get the analysis on it with joanne hsu university of michigan director of surveys of consumers . this is a confident consumer what do you make of it? joanne: indeed. they are on the upswing right now. they feel better than they were last year and it is being suppo

of public policy, the prophet professor of law at the university of michigan law school and the founder and faculty director of the university of michigan center on finance law and policy. mr. barr served as the department of treasury assistant secretary for financial institutions from 2009-2010 under president bill clinton. he served as the treasury secretary and deputy assistant secretary of the treasury, special advisor to the president and special advisor and counselor on the policy planning staff at the u.s. department of state. i'm fumbling over these because there is so many accolades here. it's a lot to get out. additionally, mr. barr served as a law clerk with david sounder of the supreme court and the honorable p level of the southern district of new york. he received his ba in history from yale, his masters in international relations from oxford and his jd from yale law school. following his remarks, we will be joint by the chief economic correspondent at the wall street journal for a moderated discussion. we will be taking questions from the audience so please think about wh

i can say that it's been supporting research infrastructure at the university of michigan for quite some time. in fact one of the original diabetes research centers going back to 1977 was at the university of michigan, and i think it had substantial funding from that time moving forward, so it is doing great work. in terms of type one diabetes it's doing extremely cutting-edge research i mentioned earlier about the involvement in developing the first drug that is fda approved that can delay the onset by at least three years. one of the major sites is at the university of michigan and the university of michigan is also very actively involved in a supported diabetes consortium that aims to study wound healing. they also have a center for diabetes translation research that if we were to develop the evidence then to put that into practice to get that implemented so there are many areas that the university should be very proud of. having additional funding will allow for some very bright ideas which i'm sure there are many more at that center and others to move forward and this support will a

we will have an interview with the university of michigan. is is bloomberg. ♪ the first time you made a sale online with godaddy was also the first time you heard of a town named dinosaur, colorado. we just got an order from dinosaur, colorado. start an easy to build, powerful website for free with a partner that always puts you first. start for free at godaddy.com >> the biggest threat remains inflation. we have had some good news on growth. we revised upward a little bit and there was quite a bit of resilience in the global economy especially in the first quarter, but the momentum is slowing down and this is why at the end of the day, the revision is not stronger than it is and why we are going into next year also with relatively modest growth. shery: the imf chief economist speaking, after the lenders global economic outlook announcement, and that forecast revised for global growth 3%, from 2.8%. this coming on the eve of the fed's rate decision. u.s. markets seem to have priced in another 25-basis-point rate hike. let's discuss the outlook

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it's like asking many a university of michigan, what i think of ohio state.can be playing well but i'm never gonna say it out loud. if you asked people how you as your life doing? do you expect to get wage rises? are you worried about losing a job? all of a sudden there is this incredible optimism, people understand the realities of applying to their own lives. but if you are asking me about the economy, they start looking at it through these partisan lenses and they tell themselves stories that are completely at odds with their reality. and the reality is that we have got unemployment of-year low. inflation declining back to normal levels. and i want to add more that we haven't talked about, inequality is on the way as well. -- all i want to devote and i showed you that, so we don't have more time right now, but if you want to talk about inequality improving, we always want to make more time for that, justin, always great to see you. or as his new name, i mean, you are such a nerd. fed lasso. you are my kind of nerd, really good to see you. when we come back

spending rest of his life in prison after he admitted to sexually assaulting athletes at university of michiganstics which trains the olympic athletes. in 2018, he was sentenced up to 175 years in prison after more than 150 women and girls testified in his court case that nassar sexually abused them over several decades at the university of michigan and usa gymnastics. of the women who testified in his case were part of the usa gymnastics team. nassar also plead guilty to child pornography, and he with are told that he is in the hospital after being assaulted by another inmate and stabbed ten times. >> carlos, so many of us watched each of the gymnasts coming up with the devastating vou for the update of him being physically assaulted. >>> and now, at least 100 homes impact and the threat of flooding is not over. the authorities say high risk of excessive flooding and another risk in new england as well. polo sandoval is in rockland county, and this is one of the hardest hit areas, polo, and it is not over for parts of new york, and parts of vermont and new england, and what are you seeing ther

minimizing damage during war, american scientists from ibsos company at cherkasy university and of the university of michigan for the first time investigated the effectiveness of the notification system about the air alarm by analyzing anonymous mobile phone data, they tracked how ukrainians react to air alarms and whether they go to shelter, we found out when people start using mobile applications and in many cases look for nearby shelter or stay indoors as long as there is no threat , over time people go to shelters less, they seem to get used to the everyday reality of shelling and missile attacks, potentially because of this number casualties among the civilian population increased by 10-15 5%. the effect of fatigue from anxiety appeared in ukrainians in the third and fourth month after the full-scale invasion, researchers say. and although thanks to the fact that people responded to alarm notifications in time, it was possible to avoid up to 45% of victims, people adapted to the new reality and began to rely on their own ideas about security kyiv match sea by experienced users of various sources of info

with us to discuss is betsy stevenson, professor of economics and public policy at the university of michiganlabor. betsy, can you help explain this phenomenon? what is going on with the economy, and what do "barbie" and taylor have to do with it? >> well, i mean, "barbie" is a really excellent movie that a lot of people are excited about, and taylor swift puts on one heck of a show. but i think what we need to keep in perspective is that spending on things like going to the movies or concerts, it's a really small fraction of overall spending. so it does tell us something about how people are feeling. they are feeling like they want to spend their money on entertainment, particularly entertainment that they're doing in a group setting. i don't want to say live -- taylor swift is about live entertainment, "barbie" is about going to a movie theater. a lot of people didn't feel comfortable doing it for years, and now they want to do that. if we stand back and say is this going to contribute to inflation? i think the answer is no. it's a small share of consumer spending, and big -- you know, buck

the housing market has clearly bottomed you saw the university of michigan consumer confidence numberg, that was certainly better than expected and have significant improvement from june. the u.s. consumer is in a great place heading to the back half of this year. >> i hear what you're saying, but if that plays through, why then is discount retail the way to be if consumers are stronger than maybe some think they are, why is discount where you want to put your money? >> i think that even though the consumer's in a great position, they don't necessarily feel like they're in a great position. even consumer confidence that i mentioned, even though it's improving, it's still low relative to historical levels. that consumer, they're almost waiting for that other shoe to drop while they might be spending, they're being a bit more judicious in terms of where they are spending we are seeing some trade down from say, for example, supermarkets, drugstores, convenient stores into the dollar stores. think dollar general, dollar tree, probably walmart and target benefiting from that phenomenon as

. >> i agree, consumer confidence -- university of michigan out today, better than expected and one-year inflation crept up a little bit. something to watch with all the celebration over lower inflation. bonawyn, are you changing anything that you're doing here? >> not really. honestly, i mean, again, i can't really argue with what courtney says, but what i want to really refuse to do is kind of get sucked into this lull. it feels like, yes, the banking news was on the margin pretty positive, but i would argue that the banking stocks haven't been what's taken this market higher any way. while i am going to look into the health of the consumer there, credit card balances, but also the fact that they were putting aside more money for loan loss provisioning while it wasn't anything al alarming, the fact that we didn't kind of drive -- to me, as carter says, it was somewhat of au pair of 2s the market clearly was strong. i think the consumer is still strong i'm not seeing that catalyst that takes us that leg further then you mix in the vix seems like a lot of hesitancy to spin protection if

at what we got the survey from the university of michigan showing over the competent consumer. when it comes to equities again, we will get hundreds of companies reporting over the next few weeks. expectations are really low. we are expecting a 9% decline when it comes to american earnings. in europe, it is worse. if you plenty trade is via hong kong, could you tell us? >> as you were saying, it is all about china here. they have an effective project -- factory production. they are looking for officials to send at these kind of easy signals. the officials here don't want you to overthink it. if you look at the statement for today, they use the word study. the idea is that even though we are kind of seeing these numbers missing estimates today, it is painted this uneven recovery. they have these property sectors to manage. we are also in the middle of murder -- of earnings season in asia. there are still signs out there. meta -- >> there is a heat wave in europe. i came in just to do this for you. >> this was the commute time to head into this office. let's get to some of our oth

doing was, i got emancipated by the court and i joined a co-op. and i moved into a co-op on university of michigan'sdn't matter, and maybe it didn't, maybe it only matters now. this is where i used to hang out, where the sort of geeky, political types hung out. do you want to see the fitness stuff on the first floor? like the dance room and the workout room? - do you wanna go see it, mom? - we can see the dance room, at least. i never went into the fitness room. (laughs) (students laughing) - [hannah] i should not be trusted with blades. that's a true fact about me. - [teacher] i'm a little bit scared with you handling this, hannah. - ha ha. (deep bass music) we've got a lot of news because, as you can see, it's the election. so we covered tim kaine, hillary and bernie. we're covering incarceration again, which we've done in previous issues, but i think it's like a different take on it, which is cool. should we open more boxes? (students chattering) (bright music) - this is what it looked like. well, this was actually like the year before i started, 1999. and this is what it looks like today. this i

greg harding, who was a long term mentor coach for all of the university of michigan sports teams. he also worked with desmond howard, michael phelps, star, most famously tom brady. through the years, tom brady up and it is literally like free. you know, it's like why i love nonfiction because. you're getting this experience and you're getting this personal connection with the author and and, you know, mental health and athletes, athletics and business are so closely aligned. so so greg hardin's how to stay in a nude scene world is is i would recommend coming this summer. thank you all so much for being here i appreciate you and your insights and everyone if you would, just give them a big round of and now we would like to introduce our speaker today if the story of barnes and were a book it probably be shelved on the mystery with mysteries. how did an ailing bookseller going the way of the other be borders get its groove back? well, a good of that credit belongs to today's speaker who is aiming to take the corporate out of corporate book chain. please welcome to the us book show.

[applause] [laughter] >> next, university of michigan professor mark clauge discusses his book about the history and impact of the star-spangled banner written by francis scott key in 1814. then rishi sunak fields questions from the house of commons about health care, infrastructure investments, inflation, and the war in ukraine. later, a hearing on supreme court ethics with testimony from several law professors. this comes in the wake of a pro-public investigation revealing that justicelarence thomas may have violated financial disclosure requirements after receiving gifts from a republican donor. ♪

lisa: if you are on the university of michigan polling center, call mr. h his tide pods stepped up. jonathan: i just want to contribute to the survey. i want to be one of the 600. lisa: you should say i believe in thracian will be 3.1269. jonathan: i would go with a crazy number. lisa: that is why they are not going to call you. ♪ >> quantitative tightening has kicked in now. >> parts of the economy are led astray by higher interest rates. >> the pace of this cycle is different than we have seen before. >> this cycle is aiming to hit shop sometime in the fall. >> earnings thus far are pretty confirmatory of the outcome of a soft landing in june. jonathan: we should do with the europeans do. vacation for a month. did you feel that from the meeting yesterday? we will settle it and we are done. lisa: exactly. jonathan: from new york city this morning good morning good morning. it is my reason and purpose in life in new york city to convert america to the european view. lisa: how is it going? jonathan: it's going well because we have tk on vacation. s&p 500 at

here is a look at what i am focused on. 3:00 p.m., i will be checking in with the university of michigancheck the sentiment data and inflation indications will be key. at 4:00 the french president and the indian prime minister will meet. that is afterwords they are expected to announce a deal. and later they will meet with french and indian ceos. and several banks will hit the tape. coming up on the show we will bring you some of our top stories for the week including the carlyle group, planning a $4 billion mcdonald's china and hong kong exit. that is all next on bloomberg. ♪ manus: deals might be back with a bang but microsoft is with me. it looks like we had a development happening. there was a court ruling and the brits are reviewing the microsoft bid for activision. do you think a deal will get done? >> that is the million dollar question. i think the next few days are going to be critical. as you mentioned the latest development. the fcc in the u.s. seems to try to gain more time by appealing the decision by the court. we will see. july 18 is the deadline. some people seem optimist

we get university of michigan consumer sentiment numbers. ak exclusively to the cfo of air france-klm, the courier is seeing strong demand for air travel but shows no sign of abating. this is bloomberg. ♪ lizzy: welcome back to "bloomberg daybreak: europe". air france-klm reported second-quarter earnings that beat expectations amid strong demand. the courier says it's booking trend remains strong with no signs of abating. to take us through is air france-klm cfo steven zaat. thanks for being with me. these are stronger than estimated results for the second quarter. but i want to talk you through the macro backdrop. you've got job cuts starting to come through in the u.s., inflation crimping demand in europe, and in the u.k. rate hikes meaning people are staying in cities to save money. is the party over? steven: we had a fantastic quarter. the best quarter we had in our history in the second quarter. we see still very strong demand. if you look at bookings for the third and fourth quarter, it's actually stronger than what we have seen in the

barb is a professor at the university of michigan law school, co-host of the sisters in law podcast andnbc legal analyst. welcome to you both. barb, i'm gonna start with you. trump's defense, rather, the defenses that he's put out there regarding that classified documents, it keeps changing. to me, it kind of gives the feeling that he's trying to throw something to see what will stick. you know, when you look at what he said in that recording at bedminster, it's like, dude, it's your own take, right? he said, oh, it is just bravado, i wasn't really serious. this shifting of his defenses here, what do you make of that? and what does it mean potentially for the prosecutors, or the prosecution in this case? >> well, in some ways he seems to be crowd sourcing his defenses, michael. as you said throwing out some different ideas he wants ditched. but what is so damaging about it at the end of the day all of those defenses and all of the statements can be used against him in trial. it's the reasons that lawyers usually tell their clients to keep quiet while a case is spending so they can figur

you talked about everything from university of michigan cpi, ppi, bank earnings, health of the consumer it's not murky right now it's overwhelmingly positive so, in a way we have a market that seems to have, whether for emotional reasons or for quantitative reasons, anticipated that, and is quite priced to perfection i guess the good news here is that the data is starting to show the positives that exist in this economy the economy and the u.s. consumer and u.s. household seem to be like the little engine that could at this point to your point, i don't think we're out of the woods yet the expectation going forward is that we continue to see progress on inflation, although likely, as every guest you've had on this morning has pointed to, it is less quick and less what have you done for me lately, than we've seen a little bit. we'll continue to see slowing growth and i think the real question right now is around the uncertainty and the timing and effect of 5% and what looks like will be somewhere between 5.25% and 5.50% of rates that puts bonds with the kind of rates that you can get when

joining me now leah litman, professor at the university of michigan school of law and the co-host of podcast, strict scrutiny. leah, so good to have you here this morning. let's start with reforming the supreme court, you know, no heavy lift there. options include court expansion, term limits mandatory requirements like something as fundamental as enforcement of a basic code of ethics. republicans, they're not gonna let any of that happen. so let's talk. what are the realistic options available here i, but? >> the reality, is there's a bunch of possible reforms that the democrats could make to the court if and when they actually decide to pass some legislation but of course passing legislation would require revisiting things like the filibuster that's right now probably the biggest obstacle in issue to them not controlling the house, to their being able to pass laws that could constrain the supreme court. of course, they could alter the number of deficits on the court they could even change the kinds of cases they allow courts to hear. they could say, court, you can't actually strike

15, where he earned the rank of eagle scout to his college years playing football for the university of michigan. after graduating from yale law school, ford served in the united navy during world war two, achieving the rank lieutenant commander. one of the last honors that my received six weeks before he passed was naming of cvn 78. that was probably one of the highest honors he received following his military service, ford, elizabeth, betty bloomer, warren. they married in 1948 and had four children. michael, john stephen and susan. gerald ford took office august ninth, 1974, after president nixon resigned. for declared in his remarks upon taking the oath of office. i am acutely aware that you have not me as your president by your ballots. so i ask you to confirm me as your president with your prayers. god helping me. i will not let you down. thank you. during their time the white house, the fords made an celebrar dated history such as their participation in the bicentennial, including hosting a state dinner for queen elizabeth. the second. although one of the most famous families in the count

not what they sue is over, but i think on a state by state basis if i'm a graduate of the university of michiganate legislature of michigan, they want to ban legacy admissions, i'll be all for it. howard: i used to write about affirmative action in newsrooms where it got very tense, and white applicants who were passed over felt that they were, furious, passed over for promotions or plum jowls -- jobs, they didn't really have a shot at the job. at the same time, i talked to black journalists who said the label made it like like they were not good enough. >> reporter: i graduated, got a 32 on my a.c.t.s, doubled majors, the first people white people told me on campus was affirmative action. i had a 32 on my a.c.t., i think black people didn't set that up, neither did affirmative action. white people set that up in their own concentration, many of them with ideals that black people would never be able to reach the academic rigor. that wasn't the intent of affirmative action, and that's not what it did in practice. the bigger issue here, i think, is this falls on the heroes of the growing anti-crt

reporters, planned a lot of press conferences, taken a lot of my calls and never passed up the opportunity to remind me which michigan university he thinks is better. he's wrong, of course. i think the chair actually would agree with matt on this. but he's wrong. but he's been right on so many things over the years that i've been able to overlook his love for all things in blue. one of the first things ug notice about matt is his positivivity, his good nature, smile, wonderful sense of humor. it's partly what makes him such a great leader. he's also a great team player who is unfailingly level headed and reasonable. it takes a lot to get matt williams flustered. he's also incredibly knowledgeable about our state, the people who live here, our ten media markets, and if we're going to be honest, the best places to golf. matt has also done a wonderful job as staff director of the senate democratic policy and communications committee for our caucus. we are -- all of us are very, very grateful. under his leadership, we've modernized the committee services, including launching the first ever dpcc floor watch app. and we strengthened

we just saw the university of michigan sentiment pop-up in this month. these measures are beginning to take effect on peoples consciousness. >> the federal reserve has signaled and then tends to get inflation down to 2%. what's the white house position about that inflation target? is it time to consider a slightly higher target? >> our position regarding that point and pretty much anything else having to do with the federal reserve's monetary policy, it's just a the heck out of their netting. the president said since he took office, unlike his predecessor, i am not going to get up in their grill, i know let them do what they need to do when it comes to inflation reduction, and certainly they've been working hard in that regard. again, getting back to the experience of everyday folks, when you have, there's something unusual going on in this economy. when you have inflation falling as quickly as it's been, in, oh it was 9% year, ago 3%, as you mentioned, now. typically that decline in inflation is accompanied by a worsening of economic growth and a worseni

of michigan. law professor at the university of michigan school of law. she is also a co-host of the hashtag sisters in law podcast. barb, good morning. it's good to see you. we know through reporting that governor brian kemp has been contacted by special counsel jack smith in his 16 case investigation. fulton county d.a. has also spoken to cap trump's efforts to overturn the 20 election results. my question for you is the following. we get realtime court reporting sometimes in terms of witnesses media jack smith's team testifying in front of a grand jury. some of it is coming out after the fact. if you are sitting there watching tv right now, and your hearing that there is an imminent indictment, and you're also hearing at the same time, barb, that there is news that people are still being interviewed by jack smith, is there some confusion about whether that's going to delay the release, or the timing of an indictment? >> it's difficult to know, katie. as you know, we interviewed even after an indictment. i think the best practices to react off all those

guy: take the university of michigan data and retail sales, it doesn't scream the u.s. is slowing down significantly in the u.s. will need cuts. in theory, the soft landing is a landing that doesn't require the federal reserve to deliver aggressive cuts. mark twain was famous for his quotes. i will use one of those today to talk about where we go with the dollar. is the death of the dollar greatly exaggerated? joining us to discuss this is edward harrison of bloomberg news. i want you to argue with me on this. i wonder whether the dollar has gone down enough at this point. the premises of the fed look at in the u.s. economy will rise faster and inflation is slowing that we are starting to see that happen elsewhere. look at what's happening with sterling today. >> the disinflation narrative is mixed here. i think people are getting slightly ahead of themselves. the inflation print, inflation is still incredibly high. the boe still has a lot of work to do and you have some people arguing that 25 basis points in august might be conservative and the fact that that people ca

i'm just at the tail end of greg harding, who was a long term mentor coach for all of the university of michigan sports teams. he also worked with desmond howard, michael phelps, star, most famously tom brady. through the years, tom brady up and it is literally like free. you know, it's like why i love nonfiction because. you're getting this experience and you're getting this personal connection with the author and and, you know, mental health and athletes, athletics and business are so closely aligned. so so greg hardin's how to stay in a nude scene world is is i would recommend coming this summer. thank you all so much for being here i appreciate you and your insights and everyone if you would, just give them a big round of

he's a professor of economics and public policy at the university of michigan.l you answer that question then? does the president get some credit here? >> there's two parts to that. one is is the economy doing well? on that score, unemployment's at a 50-year low. inflation has fallen from 9% just a year ago down to 3% at a much more normal rate. he has a whole lot of other things to boast about. inequality is falling. the much harder question is how much credit does the president deserve for that. we see this with every administration. the white house says the economy responds to us and only to us and outsiders say there are so many other factors going on. i will say economists think people inside of washington overstate the economy. there are a billion ways they could mess things up. biden definitely hasn't messed things up. >> talk about that. you said inequality. the shrinking of the wage gap being part -- a bigger part of the story here. what are you seeing? what is really standing out to you? >> this has just been the first -- it's been a fwub louse economi

university of michigan july preliminary read expecting a number around 66 72.6 that's the best since urrent conditions, 77.5 that is the best since october of '21 look at expectation what lies ahead, 69.4. that's the best going all the way back to july of '21. these are powerfully strong numbers. now let's see what happens with inflation. also a bit strong. one-year inflation, popped up, to 3.4%. 3.4% now just to confirm, we've been mostly going down. so to hit 3.4%, we only have to go to last month when it was -- excuse me, may when it was 4.2 the point is, we're expecting a number of 3. many whispered that it would be lower than that. so 5 to 10-year is 3.1 we've had many 3.1s. that isn't as shocking as the one year and we could see that interest rates have moved up a little bit but but do keep in mind we are down huge on the week 379, 380 means we're down 27 basis points on the week on a 10-year even though it's up several on the session sara, back to you. >> very interesting. rick santelli. thank you very much. >>> and good friday morning, everyone welcome to another hour of "squa

. >> sarah study's state and local renewable energy policies at the university of michigan. >> as the more remote rural places with lots of farmers have been taken up and wind projects have moved closer to where there are vacation home owners where people have moved there in retirement, that's where you start to see lots more contention. >> that means getting permits for new projects is more difficult in some places. >> what you have done at the local level is created what is effectively veto rights for the local governments. it becomes a classic case of we want renewable energy but not in our backyard. >> who says he is running into more local resistance to renewable projects. >> if there is discussion involved in the permit approval process, they can be in a bad mood that day, and a vocal minority can prohibit the broader community from benefiting from all of the economic and other benefits that these projects provide. >> mills says energy developers must convince local residents that building new infrastructure is in their local interest. >> i think it is hard because we can all im

some of these cases go back to the university of michigan where i happened to go. acial preferences, there's the many lead preferences for interests of th university's benefactors. and it continues, however, lower standards for donors, alumni children and prominent families account for more spots than affirmative action at top colleges. you can see at the top there in the yellow, i will say full disclosure, i happened to write this 20 years ago when i was a year out of michigan. because then as now, it was quite obvious, evan, how those preferences operated for elites, for predominantly white families and against diversity. what is different now in your view? why given that you and i have been looking at this as a legal injustice for two decades along with other people, why do you think you might prevail now? >> lawyers for civil rights, we are responding to the landscape created by the supreme court. the supreme court is saying it wants more fairness in the process. it wants less preferences. so, let's create that world. let's create a world where students have an

attorney that is now a law professor at the university of michigan and also an msnbc legal analyst. the judge decide to reschedule this week's meeting? >> it was a request by a lawyer for walt nauta, and i wouldn't read anything into it at all, josÉ. >> barbara, what are the procedures for handling documents like this one? >> this is a rare case, but there are a number of cases that have classified information. orderly the first step is to have what is referred to as a seepa hearing, and it's a classified procedures act, section 2, and the parties would gather together with the judge to talk that through, what is the evidence and discovery going to look like, and should we get clearances for the defense counsel and developing all of the protocols, and that is that hearing that the court wants to have, that the government wants to have as soon as possible. that's the one that has been delayed a few days. it's an important threshold hearing before some of the classified discovery can be shared with the defense. an important step in the case, and it's more of a procedural hearing than