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He also didnt talk about the new angle that he is working to forgive student debt, a different legal mechanism. he promoted the new loan forgiveness program. he said 60,000 people have benefitted from it. the president did not respond to shouted questions with russia to free evan gershkovich. he did make one brief mention of gun control. take a listen. >> congress needs to step up and pass common sense gun safety laws to protect our kids and educators. arming teachers is not the answer. arming t...

Senate, this congress has voted against bidens student debt plan as recently as this month. just 29 days ago they senate voted on party lines to terminate the student debt relief program. that was just a week after the house voted the same way on the same measure. also in the largely party line vote. biden swiftly vetoed the congressional tent and his student debt relief program. but today after the supreme court debt the final blow to his plan, the president took it out not just at the port but...

>> reporter: well, if you have loans, the bottom line is as things currently stand, those repayments need to begin in the fall, in october. so thats kind of the sense that a lot of people have been telling me that theres some frustration that those payments will be starting back up. you know, one thing to keep in mind here is 26 million people put in an application for forgiveness. more than 16 million people were approved for some sort of forgiveness, so many people were expecting to get that r...

Some are up for re-election soon so they want to be on what they think is the right side of this but a lot of people feel like the presidents announcement he was going to drop the student loans or portions of them, even the washington post said it feels like, you know, youre pandering to certain voters out there who will benefit from this , so remember, if you were on a pause on your student loan because of covid, those payments are coming back in august because that was part of the debt deal th...

That seems to be an over reach, they want to do what the branch es are each supposed to do and you quote from the daily mail and this organization is one of the plaintiffs in this case so they say the doe is trying to do something else that would still fall under the branch of executive action so it be very interesting to see what they might try to do. they could put this through a formal process that be sort of a rule or regulation but that would then be open to public comment. you know, well s...

Anyone with active warrants will have an opportunity to resolve their cases and not get arrested. These defendants will have the opportunity to resolve their cases or set them over for a future court date.

Bidens move to forgiveness program. what you think the court is going to do and what you think you are telling who is in your district. >> well look. i was a classroom teacher for ten years before i even was -- in my community, ive been an educator my whole life, ive seen students suffer, ticking up student loans to pay for rent, to pay for food on the table. we encourage kids to go to college and -- get an indication but we dont teach them financial literacy. so, eliminating some student burn w...

Including jair bolsonaro, the former brazilian president to actually just had the chance to catch up in the halls. hes been an ally of donald trump in the conservative effort here. and theres a lot ahead of donald trump taking the stage on leader day, alex. >> what an eyeful for you, my friend. and on your birthday. so, enjoy that i thank you for the report. >> you know the story, you have heard all the arguments. and the next, the governments top supreme court lawyer who may have saved a case o...

As long as you made under $125,000 in either 2020 or 2021, so the years during the pandemic, you could be eligible for this debt relief and that could mean a really big financial relief for a lot of people. >> we know that the trump administration first and then the biden administration later, eight times now have paused student loan payments. been almost three years since somebody has had to pay a student loan payment. the timing of this court ruling could determine bwhen borrowers have to cont...

Issue. six republican-led states have brought this case. the court needs to decide whether they have the right to sue in the first place and then whether the president has the power to do this. >> yeah, that is the big question here. the biden administration argues that they have the power under a 2003 law, that the law grants the president the power to waive or modify student loan debt during a national emergency which they say the pandemic constitutes that. but plaintiffs say that is too broad...