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
dana: thank you, keep us posted on that. a scathing report ripping the administration s chaotic withdrawal out of kabul in august of 2021 calling it abrupt and uncoordinated saying is botched exit gave afghans the impression the u.s. was handing afghanistan over to a taliban government in waiting. the member of the senate foreign relations committee is here. thank you for your time today. abrupt and uncoordinated and add expensive. have you seen the number what the report found. u.s. military equipment abandoned in afghanistan totaled more than $7 billion. how does that happen? this report is just confirming what we all saw, a disastrous withdrawal from afghanistan poorly planned, cost the lives of 13 servicemen and women including a nebraskaian. as well as just all the afghan
education. dana: shannon bream is live outside the supreme court. good morning, shannon. there are speakers and rallies and people here overnight and hundreds of people in line trying to get in to see the arguments. back-to-back arguments and take several hours starting this morning. the add min is trigs says they re relying on the heroes act in 2003. the passage was about helping people forced to deploy after 9/11 with their student loans. this administration says they can also use it forthe covid emergency which is over may 11th. critics say it is an issue with the executive branch. this administration has made a sweeping proclamation. before he did this executive order on student loan forgiveness the question said it would be questionable. nancy pelosi said no, you can t do it by executive order. it has to be done through congress. this court has been very
in the lawsuit but we ll be paying attention to that issue. bill: that s coming up. ted cruz from last night. there are now tens of millions if not hundreds of millions of americans not going to believe the next thing a scientist or doctor working for the government says. dr. fauci telling all of us the first origins of hearing about covid in china. that it did not come from china. that it could not come from that lab. they told us it wasn t our tax dollars and didn t come from the lab. no one believes anything these guys tell us. bill: republican lawmakers say the credibility of many is out the window. a new investigation from the department of energy says that covid most likely leaked from a lab in wuhan, china. the biden white house insists the conclusion is not etched in stone and where we find peter doocy on day two on this. good morning, bill. nobody around here is jumping to any kind of conclusions until
candidate right now. if he wants to run for president, i assume he does. he is doing all the right things on his own schedule in his own way. i think that s smart. he is doing it in a measured way and taking it step-by-step. take this weekend. rather than going to c pac, a completely pro trump crowd and having a number at the end of that of that weekend where he has made an appearance and then there is a straw poll and trump wins the straw poll. rather than that he goes to dallas, texas and houston, texas and orange county, california and speaking to the republican county committees, big galas in each of those places making a lot of friends and avoiding what will be a sure story at the end he came and didn t make a big impact because trump took the c pac straw poll. dana: how important is name