beliefs. another day of decisions split 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court in an opinion by chief justice john roberts the majority struck down the biden administration s plan to wipe out $430 billion until student loan debt. quote, we hold today that the act allows the education secretary to wave or modify existing statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to financial assistance programs under the education act. not to rewrite that statute from the ground up. the dissenters led by justice kagan argued the secretary did have that power. quote the statute read as written gives the secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency s effect on borrowers abilities to repay their student loans. president biden who has repeatedly vowed to wipe out student loan debt while conceding he may not have authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. in today s oth
reporter: raul says the gop wants to vilify dr. fauci. fauci s deputy used his private e-mail to dust freedom of information requests. others defend fauci. tony s fingerprints aren t on this. what i m concerned about is that information is being cherry picked to be used to go after somebody. reporter: dr. christian anderson communicates wind fauci in january 2020 that the signature of the virus made him wonder if it was man-made. but anderson missed a deadline to comply with a subpoena for information today. winstrop accused fauci of undercutting the lab leak theory because the u.s. funded research in wuhan. fauci says there was a small grant to study bats in china but told fox in january that research would be, quote, impossible to trigger a pandemic. shannon. shannon: chad pergram on the hill thank you. up next the panel on today s major supreme court decisions
function. if you take an animal virus let me finish. and you increase the transmissibility to humans, you re saying that s not? that s correct. and senator paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly. and i want to say that officially. you do not know what you are talking about. okay, someone got schooled in that heated exchange between senator rand paul and dr. anthony fauci this week, after the republican senator accused fauci of lying to congress about the role the national institutes of health played in funding search in wuhan, china. just the latest example of the deepening divide between science and politics on capitol hill. joining me now is director of progressive programming at siriusxm and usa today contributor and democratic congressional campaign committee adviser. hi, guys. can i get it right? did he get schooled?