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it is topsy-turvy live news event kind of day. case in point, in a matter of about two minutes, we expect to hear from president biden. he will address the nation live on a number of topics, not the least of which is the abrupt stepback our country took today away from fairness and progress toward intolerance and discrimination. the conservative supreme court ruled 6-3 in favor of a colorado web designer, an evangelical named lori smith who refused to work on same sex weddings. the cou...

"inside politics" i am john king in washington. high stakes at the high court, 40 million americans have 40 million dollars on the line. whether biden plans to erase student debt is constitutional. how fox put profit ahead of politics and fairness and tipping off trump campaign about joe bidens advertising buys. nine-way brawl where crime concerns could see locked out of an april runoff. supreme court hearing arguments in a case that impacts millions of americans. case involves present...

u.k. earlier in the late queens honor. 96 rounds fired. one for each year of her life. [gunshots] >> harris: queen elizabeth was the longest reigning british monarch, seven decades starting in 1952 when harry s. truman was president and she met with 13 additional presidents in her lifetime including with president biden just last june. the president and other lawmakers praising her. >> president biden: she was an incredibly gracious and decent woman. >> she made sure her reign was real...

Very quickly, a challenge to an existing policy here to get to this conclusion today. was this expected from the conservative court? >> it was. the biden administration faced severe criticism, pushback from the conservative members of this court during argument. their arguments were exactly what was reflected in the opinion. you know, as a measure of fairness. why some people paid back student loans and now youre giving a free pass to others? also, the expanse of the heros act. it allows the sec...

Are making the point that bidens justification for loan forgiveness, taking advantage of the heros act which dates back to 9/11, was stretching the original goal and intent of that law. do you -- from a legal standpoint, from a practical standpoint, do you buy that argument? >> so, jim, what you have to look at in anything is the plain text of what the law provides. the law that i read speaks to the secretary of education, has the right to waive or modify. waive or modify seems plain to me. in e...

My side where we like him moos. most. let me start with you, randy. the president clearly prepared with some policy announcements today. i talked to him at length about this court. i cant imagine he was surprised by the decision, but there was some policy ready to be announced dade. your reaction to that. >> look, you know, i applaud the president for announcing policy immediately. there is a big difference between the two courses of approach. one was under the heros act, you could do emergency ...

Called heros act, education secretary has this power waive or modify loan provisions in the event of an emergency. they are pointing to on going pandemic as the emergency. chief justice john roberts pushed back repeatedly. he pointed to trump administration program supreme court previously struck down when he stressed limits of presidential power, take a listen. >> case reminds me of the one we had years ago under different administration. administration tried acting on its own to cancel dreamer...

Room that other reporters outside of fox are going after the list that you just named? maybe not everybody in the room but enough other voices now that there is no dodging this. >> karine jean-pierre cant dodge it though she struggles to answer the question. >> harris: its not in the binder. >> she has a binder for everything. for example. he is going out and talking about his student loan forgiveness. if you sat down for an interview you would have to explain, for example, answer the question w...

The only thing more absurd that suggesting the President of the United States can simply spend hundreds of billions of your dollars without authorization of Congress is for the Education Secretary to do so.

Thats not who we are. thats what you said. you think you shouldnt do these things because you have a slim majority. no. it will be a compromise. but it is -- lets recall our president, president biden has put forth. he put forth the rescue package. for us it was a great victory because it had the essence of the heros act that we tried to get through with president -- the former president, and now its in that package with, of course, imbued with vaccinations, vaccinations, vaccinations. it made a...