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student loan could cost over ten years. the white house is struggling to answer who is exactly paying the tab for the millions of college students off the hook. >> john: you don't have todd's number on speed dial, john? i'll pass it off to you. sandra smith in new york. biden administration sticking to their line of defense that the plan is fully paid for, even comparing the handouts to covid loans, even though the pandemic assistance was intended to be foregiven. >> john: biden facing backlash with a growing number of democrats distancing themselves from the controversial hands outs...

Is doing is setting up the house in a better litigating position to challenge assertions of executive privilege or to get documents in ongoing court cases. so i don't know that it's a sop. i don't see it through a political lens. i see it as part of a legal strategy to strengthen their hand in ongoing court cases. >> yeah, the calendar, of course, just the politics of it, the calendar is a factor of nadler out there saying by the end of this calendar year, reaching some kind of decision on what to do. you've had other democrats out there already who support impeachment saying got to make that ...

Director comey testified that during a private dinner president trump told him, quote, i need loyalty, i expect loyalty. has president trump ever asked you for loyalty? >> i have never been asked by the president to take any kind of loyalty oath. my loyalty is to the constitution, to the laws of this country, and to the good men and people of america. >> thank you. last week former national security adviser michael flynn pleaded guilty to one felony count of lying to the fbi about conversations he had with the russian ambassador. i would like to put president trump's initial twitter reaction u...

That a president could attack in this way. it is truly sad with an exclamation point at the end of it. >> the other entity that trump seemed to be attacking in his tweets is his own justice department have. you ever seen a situation where the president who is their boss is essentially attacking an organization which reports to him and would could make any arguments he wanted? >> have i not. and indeed i used to hold for president obama, you know, one of the top position, litigating position, the acting solicitor general. iowa never seen anything like that. again, i think that's a fundamental t...

Record or his qualifications, but because of clients he had for the groups who now support him. we've heard criticism of the judge's former client, the department of justice, and its litigating position, opposition on these grounds may be creative, but they're, in fact, baseless. here's the inconsistency. justice kagan, for example, argued as solicitor general that the government could constitutionally ban pamphlet material. when that issue was raised at her hearing, she said she was a government lawyer acting on behalf of her client. that client happened to be the same united states governmen...