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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 court said that the first amendment protected her from punishment. and it is a turning point decision t...

"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 biden's 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 biden's student debt relief program. it is massive and wipe out 430 billion dollars in federal loa...

u.k. earlier in the late queen's 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 really not about herself, or her fame, or her feelings, or her personal wants or needs. >> she was a ro...

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 you're giving a free pass to others? also, the expanse of the heros act. it allows the secretary of education to act in emergency situations when it comes to student loans. the court here s...

Are making the point that biden's 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 english, you can waive something or modify, amend it, right? >> right. >> waive it completely or ame...