into acting as though they are congress itself. this far right extremist, imbalanced supreme court that seeks to make history for all the wrong reasons. this is if they were a caucus in congress, they would be the bootstraper, forced birth, don t say gay caucus. i hope very strongly that the president s next steps does what is necessary to cancel student debt. gillian: within hours the court s decision the president said he would seek to cancel student debt through an alternative legal authority called the 1965 higher education act. that law would be used, he says, to enable some loan forgiveness to still fulfill his promise to millions of american students. defender of the debt relief work around explained his support right after nancy pelosi said the new plan would need congressional approval as well. the argument the court is making the heroes act does not give the president the authority to rewrite student loans. in fact, this was a position essentially that was
$20,000 in debt. did you overstep your authority? i think the court misinterpreted the constitution the. will: this follows the previous day of landmark decisions with the high court voting to outlaw race-based affirmative action in college admissions, just a landmark week for the supreme court and a really bad week for joe biden. let s focus in on the supreme court for just one moment, if we might. these are three major, or major policies that are the culmination of years, perhaps even decades, of work in some cases. for example, when it comes to the affirmative action. the supreme court saying that colleges should not use race in admission to me, on its case is a on its face, is a good and principled move in terms of evolving towards a less race-conscious society. under the 14th amendment, all men have equal protection. when it comes to the colorado case, this was simply about free speech. should you be compelled to endorse or create speech you do not agree with, and
members and 169 fatalities during the now infamous exit from afghanistan didn t really qualify as a chaotic failure at all. that s despite the fact that hundreds of afghans were clinging to the wing of u.s. air craft as it departed afghanistan. despite gunfire sprang into a crowd; despite u.s. troops pulling an infant over barbed wire into safety. brunt chaos? i m sorry, i just don t buy the whole argument of chaos. for all this talk of chaos, i just didn t see it. it was tough in the first few hours.down would expect it to be. unbelievable. the white house went even further releasing a 12-page report today saying president bide s choices for how to execute a withdrawal from afghanistan were severely constrained by condition created by his predecessor. on capitol hill gop lawmakers are practically incan docent ripping kirby for his call comment. house foreign committee chair called kirby s comment disgraceful and insulting. rain jackson texas called kirby s comments sicke
way getting behind the wheel of a car. we ve been looking for traffic jams. give gillian a look out the window. can t find them. everything is moving pretty much according to plan if you are behind the wheel. not so much if you are in an airport somewhere. look at the numbers. as you report, this is the busiest holiday when it comes to independence air travel and car travel in history. 43.2 million people according to the aaa say they ll drive over this holiday and there is also a record number of people say they are going to fly. yeah, you heard from one of those travelers there, they ve never seen as many people at the airport. look at this number. over the weekend almost 8 million people traveled by air according to the tsa through the checkpoints including friday, which was the all-time busiest
on friday, airlines canceled 500 flights with most of those flights being from united airlines. the tsa projects to screen over 17.7 million people over the long holiday weekend. super busy, super pacced. tensions are high. i knew how it was going to be. it was going to be a long line, long wait. it s early. very early. only to be told that our flight was delayed. now, on the road, aaa estimates a record number of 43.2 million people will drive to their destinations. and now on the weather front, it s going to be really hot for a lot of people. others could have their fourth of july parties washed out by storms or choked out by the smoke from the wildfires. we re joined by mireteorologist allison chinchar.