our panel is on deck to debate for the justice department now admits it s seizure operation turned up potentially privilege documents, could the doj s review of material taken during the rate undercut former presidents from call for an independent third-party to get involved. our legal eagles are standing why live. nancy pelosi 35 year in congres be over if fox news at night investigates. we begin tonight with that nagging question for biden administration can t or won t answer white house corresponden taking a look at who will end u paying for this so-called forgiveness of hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt. good evening, it. good evening. they are at 94 republican lawmakers calling on the house speaker, nancy pelosi to take action against president biden quotes unconstitutional and illegal student loan forgivenes plan just the latest twist and saga that some have called a forgiveness program and of others have called footing the bill for somebody else s
Continue to stay on top of all of these stories. Thanks very much for joining me here in the cnn newsroom. Im wolf blitzer in washington, and ill of course be back later. Tonights 6 00 p. M. Eastern. In this room Inside Politics with dana bash starts right now welcome to Inside Politics. Im dana bash as woke just said, we have been listening to President Biden speak at the National Museum of africanamerican history in washington i want to start this hour by going straight to cnns white house correspondents, kayla tausche. Kayla tell us about the speech we obviously herded here live with the president delivered, but take us behind the scenes on the intent and the hope that this speech what did achieves pollute politically and also policywise well, dana, it is one of a series of events that President Biden has hosted this week catering to the black community, that speech, of course, held at the National Museum of africanamerican history street and culture, part of an event commemorating
Testify about Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador kislayak. At todays briefing, sean spicer pushed back hard on the allegation and at one point the briefing kind of went off the rails when russia came up. Listen. Reporter how does this Administration Try to revamp its image, 2 1 2 months in, youve got this yates story today, youve got other things going on, youve got russia, youve got wiretapping. No, we dont have that. Regarding the allegations of capitol hill. I have said it from the day that i got here until whenever, that there is no connection. Youve got russia. If the president puts russian Salad Dressing on his salad tonight, somehow thats a russian connection. But every Single Person no, sean i appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is, no, hold on, at some point, report the facts. Lets talk about the facts tonight, the facts about this
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recused. and then the protective order that the justice department is asking for, is there a halfway point between like a full crackdown as the justice department might be asking for and no restrictions at all that we can assume is exactly what trump s team is going to say? yeah, i think we re going to likely find this somewhere in the middle. what we are waiting to see is when the trump team files their response by 5:00 p.m. today what exactly they still wanted the ability to be able to possibly publicly disseminate that the justice department did not. what kind of information was at issue? the justice department sort of made their remarks in their filings over the weekend, leaving a large amount of sensitive information unprotected. we will have to see what that red lined proposed order from the trump team shows and what they truly wanted to have, quote, unquote, unprotected. now the defenses that we re starting to hear john lauro present, let s start with what jessica schneide
it s the number one podcast on the planet, you know merrick garland is listening to that at the gym. a, thank you for the question, and maybe they re not listening to the podcast, but they are listening to you. got to tell them right now, the takeaway for the justice department is, do not be smug about this asserted value that nobody is above the law. the justice department doesn t have a great record of holding people to account by the criminal law if they are a person who has a lot of political power. and saying that the justice department is not influenced by political pressure, isn t influenced by people threatening them politically, either threatening them in congress or from the executive branch, the historical record shows that the justice department has been pushed around. that a senator threatens to increase oversight of the justice department unless a prosecutor gets fired. an attorney general fired a