$15,000 of student loans. bill: i would have loved to have been given 10 grand. it could change your life but i signed a contract. a contract. i had to pay it. that was the bill. dana: i was so afraid i couldn t make my next payment that i made two payments at night. i was a waitress. president biden has had to make this decision over and over because he has hemmed and hawed about it. right now today he is expected to cancel up to $10,000 in student debt for americans making less than $125,000 per year. he will also reportedly extend the pause on loan repayments until after the mid-terms even though apparently we have the best job market in history. bill: taxpayers will foot the bill for all of this. it will cost anywhere between $300 billion at the low end and upwards of $980 billion at the high-end depending the decision he makes. dana: the price tag is raising alarm bells on both sides of the aisle. critics are calling it a hand-out that will do more harm than good
taxpayers and disproportionately benefit the wealthy. in recent days, there has been considerable bipartisan pushback to the plan. that is now going forward as the country faces record high up beflation. president biden today claiming the plan will have no meaningful affect on inflation but his critics, including some former obama administration officials remain unconvinced. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. good evening, bret. white house officials say they have no idea how much this plan is actually going to cost because they think there are plenty of eligible student loan debt holders who are going to choose not to go online and tell the government that they want to cancel up to $10,000 in that debt. now it s time to address the burden of student debt. the president s announcement benefits 43 million borrowers including 20 million who will see their student debt totally canceled up to 10,000 in
i thought was we have to gain control of this. bill: in a span of 15 days the taliban took the capital. 13 u.s. service members were blown up by a suicide bombers, 10 afghan civilians were taken out by a misfired american bomb. they flew an airstrip with no traffic control. a first in her flying career. bill: hundreds of americans who were still there and there were probably thousands of afghans who helped during the war who are still there. do you think about them? every day. bill: still. we have gotten out in a different way. i think given the constraint with which we were operating i don t think there was a better way. obviously losing 13 american lives the most tragic thing that happened and i don t know how you undo that. bill: since it has been one
smartphones and few people had mobile phones. so many of the images are like they happened yesterday in my mind. the people i met and like bill and sandy that you met there. smartest thing i ever said in my life was friend, here is what i want you to do. get a mattress off the bed and get ready to get your family under that and ride this thing out. they were one of the people that did that and made all the difference. dana: when you talk about all the technology you didn t have in 1992 that we have today, how in your experience has that improved the way people can survive a category i don t remember what category it was. cat 5. are we better prepared today because of the technology we have? better prepared in a couple important ways. as a result of andrew, the building codes especially in florida and some other places along the coast but not enough
council meetings but concerns all the way to washington, d.c. out in the small and quiet city of grand forks, north dakota just one hour north of fargo. there is a controversy growing after the chinese company bought it last year. city and state officials say the company has ties to the chinese communist party. now investing $700 million to open a corn mill. there will never be enough corn for the growers around here to facilitate the plant. that land is across from this farm. they want to build would be on prime farmland. 370 acres of some of the best farmland. he is one of thousands in the area who signed a petition to stop the deal and a local man filed a lawsuit against the city. i won t say that economic development isn t a good thing but at what cost? the plant is 12 miles from