for education in the first place? [cheers and applause] college should be free because guess what? when we get out, we are contributing to the society and this democracy and this economy and making it stronger. dana: david spunt live-out side court for us this morning. good morning. no matter where you land in this fiery debate i have yet to meet someone that has not formed some sort of opinion on this issue. off to my right you can hear noise. demonstrators have been out here since 3:00 p.m. yesterday fighting for the president s plan and fighting for this student loan forgiveness. some slept outside hoping to get a seat inside the court today lining up very early to watch this process unfold. if the justices rule in favor of the president, millions of people could have up to $20,000 in student loan debt wiped out. our government is supposed to be about people, right? they shouldn t be making money off of us going to school or seeking higher education. it shouldn t hap
john: to say the least. the supreme court deciding whether president biden could ignore congress or go on one of the biggest spending sprees in u.s. history, wiping out student loan debt for millions of americans. and over on capitol hill, lawmakers are holding hearings on both the china threat and the border crisis. sandra: that s where we start a border bust netting enough fentanyl to kill 50 million people. and one mother who knows the drug s devastation all too well. we have a weather balloon from china going across our country. nobody died, and everybody is freaking out about it. but 100,000 die every year and nothing is being done, not enough is being done. you talk about children being taken away from their parents. my children were taken away from me. john: just some of what we heard during today s house hearing on the border crisis. mother who lost two of her sons to fentanyl poisoning not only grieving but also getting downright angry. sandra: and just now
he ll join us with his thoughts on the arrests and the nation s growing crime crisis coming up. so you are saying the option to authorize war powers is on the table? if communist china invaded taiwan, it would certainly be on the table and something that would be discussed by congress. john: house foreign affairs committee michael mccaul making it clear the united states will uphold the pledge to protect taiwan, saying it could empower the president to use military force if the island is invaded. this is america reports and anita vogel, welcome to friday. beijing strongly opposed taiwan s president visiting the u.s. and meeting with house speaker mccarthy. john: and lawmakers will meet with tsai ing-wen in her country, a move to certainly embolden the chinese government. and how the u.s. might respond if china invades taiwan. aishah hasnie is on the ground with more on this. hello, aishah. hi there, anita and john. chairman mccaul, in order to avoid conflict b
flight as it crossed the country. we re monitoring both hearings and bring you news as it happens. first to another congressional hearing about to begin. chief border patrol agents will testify before the house oversight committee about the front lines of the border crisis. we re looking forward to hearing their testimony. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill: i m bill hemmer. a lot of the guests we ve talked to for the past two years on the border every day, right? administration tried to block top border officials from testifying today. now it s allowing this emotion to appear under the threat of subpoena. all this happening as agents have encountered more than 700,000 migrants at the border since the fiscal year first began since the first of october. dana: more 300,000 migrants in the last three months have gotten away from agents after crossing and agents have caught 38 terror watch list suspects. bill: border czar vice president kam
all of them, is speaking out and says he supports his friend s decision. listen. there is talks of foreign intelligence agencies, who is funding wars and certain things and talks of nuclear weaponry, that is hardly touching the iceberg. there is stuff, if your tax dollars are funding these atrocities, you should know about it. ashley: lucas tomlinson has the latest. lucas: he tells the washington post he knows the man who goes by the name og, here is how he describes him. he is not a ukrainian operative, not a russian operative. and any claim he is, is false. he is not interested in helping foreign agencies with their attack on the u.s. or other country. lucas: now more documents discovered from new york times showing in-fighting between russia federal security service accusing of obfiskating deaths in ukraine. john kirby says there is a small embassy presence in kyiv to keep track of the weapons. there is a small u.s. military presence at the embassy in conjunc