officially voting to impeach state attorney general, ken paxton. under state law, he s now temporarily suspended from his duties as he now awaits a senate trial. some of the counts included bribery, obstruction of justice, dereliction of duty, and fitness for office, abuse of public trust. this follows years of legal and ethical struggles and most controversial a.g.. texans called the most of the top texas republicans have been now mont the tub lick. with us now, nbc news correspondent priscilla thompson. priscilla, this is historic. what more can you tell us? alicia, it is historic. there have been supporters of ken paxton who flooded to the gallery today to listen as this hearing took place, and as they were letting out we were able to grab mr. here. you re a supporter of ken paxton, your reaction here is that the house is willing to impeach him. i was surprised about having to i think this proceeding is illegal. we ll get a statute in 1993 that is essential
hackers stole from one of the agency computer networks. and researchers show the program that kept millions out of poverty is expiring. plus the biden administration is reacting after several reports revealed how migrant children are being exploited for cheap labor here in the u.s. and as the defense rests in the alex murdaugh trial. we begin at the u.s. supreme court. right now the justices are hearing arguments on whether president biden has the authority to wipe out more than $400 billion in student loan debt. the president s plan is being challenged by six states that say only congress could act on that. the plan was announced last summer, but lower courts put it on hold. the high court is expected to announce a decision later this year. with us now to talk about this, nbc news washington correspondent our reporter outside the u.s. court, and lindsey reiser. reporter: essentially what you have is two parties arguing that the biden administration didn t follow the pr
you don t want to miss that. first the bad news. the world has completely turned upside down under our pathetic excuse for a president who doesn t know what day of the week it is. none other than america s hostile enemies now. they have no fear or respect for joe biden. not china, not iran and definitely not russia. putin s thugs, as we talked about last night, took down a u.s. reaper drone over international waters which, in most case, most presidents would view as an act of war. it would be some military response. what did biden do in response? pretty much nothing. actually worse than nothing. the white house started to make excuses for putin s risky behavior. they called it an accident. really? anyone here believe it s an accident? probably was they said it s probably unintentional. probably was the result of a confidence of these russian pilots. does anybody here believe there are incompetent fighter jet pilots that not once, but twice dumped jet fuel on top of our dron