speak with the issues we discuss first and foremost on most votes minds. 2024 who was pumped up for the election? [cheers and applause] my man donald trump. nikki haley! governor desantis, but what about president desantis? i like it. [cheers and applause] lawrence: you are looking at jacksonville, florida, where the sun is coming up already. one end of the slushy mess mess, ainsley. brian is having breakfast with friends. ainsley: is not too far away. [cheers and applause] at a diner called the metro diner. and he used to live there his wife right down the street, hey, brian. [chanting: usa] film xp when they are pumped up and they love the country. when the sun came up, these guys are hitting their peak. by lunch time, they should be out of control but i m keeping them somewhat under wraps but big final hour and of course we have governor desantis and tom cotton. for people here when you mention leonard skinner jacksonville, johnny van zant here, that
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
inch, right? good morning to you guys, but the u.s. supreme court to break down the order coming up here. how much military equipment and we leave behind in afghanistan? it is staggering. chicago boats on a new mayor to rent a city in the lab leak and its gain of function gains momentum. dana and i will see you at the top of the hours, guys 14 minutes from now. (woman) what would the ideal weight loss program look like?
christmas when we have a mayoral election like this where the incumbent is not necessarily favored and wide open. it is anyone s ballgame. exciting for political watchers and for people in chicago who enjoy this time of year when it comes to elections. dana: here is the early voting numbers. put them on the screen. this is pretty high. highest in over a decade. 2023, 200,900 people have already voted. some of the wards where some of these mail-in votes and early voting numbers came in are not particularly lori lightfoot s stronghold. the northwest and southwest side. areas where most of the first responders live. very white wards that traditionally will go for a march law and order candidate. in this case might be the former school chief who ran a campaign strictly public safety first.
student debt power grab. the president flouted the law and used the pandemic to claim breathtaking authority. shannon is right about that. the court has ruled twice now overturning some of these mandates that had been in place for the u.s. in the meantime, the president is on record that 60 minutes interview in september saying pandemic is pretty much over and then his counterpart in the house nancy pelosi kind of said the same thing, right, before he did. listen july of 2021. people think the president of the united states has the power for debt forgiveness. he does not. he can postpone. he can delay. but he does not have that power. that has to be an act of congress. dana: it would seem she agrees with the republican a.g.s at that point and then they change their mind and a lot of people think it was all because of politics. it will get underway. if you have a small business and didn t go to college and stake out a student loan but to buy your tools you are not included