Movement led by sdon don. He is mon shod the 13 13 times. Trump and the threat he thoses to our democracy here at home to our standing in the world looms large over every line of the speech. New york times describing the president s State Of The Union quote unleashed an unyielding. Mr. Biden seemed to relish the showdown. While he boasted his accomplishments as president s do, he made no aspiration to rhetorical flourishes. He men shod his utty agenda with no utty in it and he. We will not walk away biden said in his address we will not bow down. He was speaking go russia and he seemed to intend it for the fight for his own presidency. President biden came out swinging against donald trump and the gop in the speech that laid out in the bluntest terms the stakes in the upcoming election for our democracy and freedom at home and abroad. With us at the Table Board Member Analyst is here and National Affairs analyst is here. The host of politics nation here, and the president of the Nation
ahead. possible indictment of a former president trump. wall street journal is today reporting this, that special counsel jack smith has all but finished obtaining his evidence into whether donald trump mishandled evidence at the mar-a-lago. and some of the trump close associates are bracing for his indictment. they say that clashes within the trump legal team have led to the departure of a delawyer. and the wall street journal goes on to report that jack smith appears to be tying up loose ends saying in recent weeks prosecutors working for smith have completed interviews with nearly every employee at trump s florida home from top aides to maintenance staff. they have pressed witnesses on questions that appear to hone in on specific elements that they need to show to include a crime. and questions aimed at undermining potential defenses that trump could raise reports are that the special counsel as assembled evidence and much of that appears to obliterate many ofhe argume
the first one is brought by a group of republican-led states. the other by individual borrowers who say they were unfairly excluded. bill: the two cases present a direct threat to one of the president s signature policies. the plan would wipe out more than $4 hundred billion in student debt and pay $10,000 to people making less than $125,000 a year and $20,000 to those who got pell grants for low income households. dana: the high stakes legal battle is dividing lawmakers right down the middle. those of us watching this closely are praying and hoping that they will do the right thing and say that the president cannot be the congress and the executive branch. he can t be the legislative and the executive branch. he has no authority to do what he is doing. our government is supposed to be about people. not making money out of us going to school or seeking higher education. dana: shannon bream is live outside the supreme court. good morning, shannon. there are speaker
the proposed willow oil project in the national petroleum reserve could pump up to 180,000 barrels of oil a day projected to bring in billions of dollars of revenue and create thousands of jobs but climate activists are pressuring the president to kill it. supporters of the project say it s critical to the state and country. the oil and gas sector represents the backbone of alaska. if the president is talking about supporting the backbone of this country, it starts with the states themselves. the willow project is studied as it has been could represent anywhere near about $10 million over the life of it to local communities and state government. it is critical. bill: they waited more than 20 years to see if it can happen. mark meredith has the lowdown from the white house. president biden spends time talking about renewable energy products. now a bipartisan delegation from alaska urging the white house to approve the oil project as soon as possible. friday the president
you re living in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. right now less than ten miles from the u.s. capitol former president donald trump is firing up his maga base at the conservative political action conference. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next president of the united states. president donald j. trump. [ cheers ] i m proud to be an american where at least i know i m free that was the intro for the former president just moments ago. trump receiving a warm welcome at the annual c-pac gathering where his following has turned dominant, and the man who tried to overturn the 2020 election results appears to be the party s front-runner for 2024, according to recent polls. manip minutes ago there was a straw poll, take this with a grain of salt, he trumped the biggest rival, florida governor ron desantis, 62% to 20%. we have more now from the c-pac gathering. i guess this was not a big surprise that trump won the c-pac poll and not much surprise what