november? i ll also speak with a florida primary winner trying to become the first member of congress from generation z. and a proposal to tackle homelessness, forcing hotels to offer up empty rooms. but how do hotel guests and owners feel? a contentious debate playing out right now in a major american city. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our money lead. a monumental announcement out of the white house today affecting tens of millions of americans. president biden laying out his decision to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for borrowers who make less than $125,000 a year. some americans could see $20,000 in relief, and this move could completely wipe out student debt for one-third of borrowers. president biden is also extending the loan repayment freeze through the rest of the year. leading democratic lawmakers are hailing the president s move today, calling it, quote, a giant step forward in addressing the student debt crisis, but some key
about in this fulton county, georgia, investigation into donald trump and others meddling, trying to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. what do we know about senator graham s request? senator graham is arguing, jake, that under the speech or debate clause, this is the clause of the constitution that protects lawmakers from certain judicial proceedings simply because of their doing their legislative duties. he said these conversations he had with georgia lawmakers after the 2020 election were protected under speech or debate. obviously, fani willis, the district attorney in atlanta there, in fulton county, says there are important parts of these conversations that possibly go to crimes that she s investigating, and therefore, are not shielded by this clause of the constitution. you remember, of course, jake, that a judge had previously ordered this and has been asked to take a second look to see whether some parts of this need to be changed. thanks so much. joi
federal judge why they are searching for a special master who would serve as somebody to go through the materials before handing them over to the justice department. yeah, the judge basically told the trump team that you need to come back and really explain to me why first of all you re even coming to me and not to the other judge, the judge that you just spoke about, who is overseeing the issue of the affidavit. the judge wants the trump team to explain what relief are they seeking, what exactly are they asking her to do. and really, you know, to explain fully what case law supports what they re asking for. again, they re asking for a special master, a third party, jake, to oversee these records that the fbi has been looking at now for two weeks. the question is why they took this long and whether it s really too late for the judge to intervene. and also, senator lindsey graham, republican of south carolina, he s asking a georgia federal court to limit the topics that he ll be que
never be charged with obstruction you seemed to have skipped that with the a.g. let s get back to this. same thing with the attorney general, another political appointee. by definition, they re political appointees. he has every right to fire the attorney general if he wants to, but the a.g. doesn t need to go before the senate? no obstruction on comey, no obstruction on manafort, no obstruction as it relates to the sessions wait a minute and yes, the a.g. does need to go through senate confirmation, but he s got 210 days to appoint someone. this is a temporary attorney general. the case law supports that he s allowed to be there. all right, let me ask you something else. why are all these people around the president lying about something that doesn t matter? if russia is just a hoax, if there s nothing there, if there s no reason to even do this investigation, why do they keep lying about this? five now you ve had in some way compromised by this. we don t know
and yes, the a.g. does need to go through senate confirmation, but he s got 210 days to appoint someone. this is a temporary attorney general. the case law supports that he s allowed to be there. all right, let me ask you something else. why are all these people around the president lying about something that doesn t matter? if russia is just a hoax, if there s nothing there, if there s no reason to even do this investigation, why do they keep lying about this? five now you ve had in some way compromised by this. we don t know what we don t know specifically what the issues are relative to the lying michael flynn lied about russia conversation. george papadopoulos lied about russia contact. michael cohen lied about keeping the president s business clear of the russia affair. we don t know the depth of gates and manafort and what they ve done. we ll know this week. but don t say it, like, some kind of blind instrument. you know a lot, jim. i ll offer an answer go ahead