in for harris today on the faulkner focus. john roberts writing in the majority opinion, this court has never drawn the line the secretary suggests and for good reason. among congress s most important authorities is its control of the purse. justice kagan with dissent writing the majority overrides the combined judgment of the legislative and executive branches with the consequence of eliminating loan forgiveness for 43 million americans. i respectfully dissent from that decision. white house says we ll hear from the president directly on this ruling later today. in the meantime let s bring in shannon bream, fox news chief legal correspondent. a lot of political back and forthing now in washington responding to this decision but at the end of the day as you pointed out last hour, the court was not ruling on whether this was a good policy or fair policy. the court was ruling on whether the president had the constitutional authority to issue this directive in the first place.
thank you so much. let s bring in the panel now. c panel, thank you for being here. richard, what do you make of the reporting that the president in the wake of hunter s criminal plea last week, right, is not reconsidering anything about how he is handling the relationship publicly? it s an interesting moment in time. zoom out a little bit. if you went to the democratic national party or a caucus meeting on the house or senate side on the democratic side i don t think you see anybody with a hunter biden t-shirt on saying go huntser. with that being said you have a father in the president and a mother in the first lady saying this is our son who has a history of drug addiction making his way forward and we ll support him. with that being said let s look at the other side of this. you have a republican investigation that continues to