stands for! plus president biden following through on a core campaign pledge wiping away thousands of dollars in student loan debt. and russia s war on ukraine turns six months old today, still locked in a bloody stalemate. translator: we re holding on for six months. it s difficult for us. we clenched our fists, fighting for our fate. up first, is it momentum or just a moment? democratic lawmakers and strategists hope a win in new york s special election stops a midterm drift 11 weeks before november. the verdict out of hudson valley is that democrat pat ryan will now represent new york s 19th district, that s where president biden won in 2020 by just 1.5 percentage points. democrats see major national political implications in ryan s surprise win because the candidate made abortion the centerpiece of his campaign. the sad truth, mark molinaro and the republicans oppose a woman s right to choose. republicans will allow women and their doctors to be prosecuted for g
price tag of $300 billion and that that s a low estimate. taxpayers like you and me will fit the bill. here is the president. i believe my plan is responsible and fair. i find it interesting how some of my republican friends who voted for those tax cuts and others think we shouldn t be helping these folks. the outrage over helping working people with student loans is simply wrong to. it s unfair to people who paid the student loads or chose not to take out loans? is it fair to people who do not own multi-million-dollar business is seeing these guys get tax cuts? is that fair? what boat people who struggle to pay their loans and no others don t have to? the costly cancellation of debt sure to unleash a tidal wave of anger from americans who already paid off their loans and those who never went to college in the first place. senator elizabeth warren claims this will help everyone. because of student loan debt there are many people who do not move out of their mom s
jones now has to pay the parents of a sandy hook school shooting victim more than $4 million for the cruel and widespread and relentless lies that added to their heartache over a ten-year period. now, of course, this does fall way short of $150 million they did ask for in compensatory damages sought by little jessie lewis parents, a number their attorney said came from the number of people who believed the false claims of the hoax spewed by jones and the baseless arguments that the newtown s grieving parents were actors. the number also factored in the emotional and mental anguish those parents suffered and continue to suffer today for years of harassment by jones and his followers. he finally acknowledged what everyone else hopefully knew to be true, that the massacre was, quote, using his words after what ten years, 100% real. but the $4 million is actually not the end of the story, not in this courtroom, not in texas, because jones legal battles are actually far from
dollars. all of this coming as the biden administration has pushed the kremlin to accept an offer they put on the table in june to get griner home. offering to swap griner and another american, paul whelan, for viktor bout, an arms smuggler serving a 25-year sentence in the united states. so far, russia has not agreed. they should have accepted it weeks ago when we first made it. it was an earnest attempt to see if we could get outcomes here. we are still going to keep making the attempts. reporter: as for where the efforts stand now, administration officials say the ball is in russia s court. all while her family, teammates and support percent in the united states turn up the pressure to get her home. griner s agents saying today that getting a deal done will be harped but calling it urgent. her team saying they will not allow her to be forgotten and lawmakers urging the administration to bolster the offer. there is nothing we schanot do short of impacting the national
comes to the congressional negotiations. house is off this week, and it haas a limited amount of working days on the calendar. same story for the senate. democrats are also insisting of a, quote, clean debt limit, as the president eluded to. a debt limit increase with no conditions at all, while republicans are calling for spending cuts and passing a bill with $4.8 trillion in deficit savings over the next decades. the credit of the united states potentially becoming a political football. the president calling lawmakers to the white house on may 9th, one week from today, to hammer out the deal. on my show, worldwide exchange at 5:00 a.m. eastern, we heard an expert from d.c. saying the most likely outcome would be a short-term extension, giving us more breathing room, similar to what we saw in 2021. cnbc s frank holland mika, one more thing. yeah? happy birthday. aw, that s nice. willie, happy pre-birthday. surprised you guys are working. happy birthday.