we are now just 22 days off in the midterms. and it is far from clear, frankly, which side is gonna hold congress next year. the baits in close races tonight as candidates try to push themselves over the top. and, former president barack obama, is giving his party a bit of an furnished advised on what to stop doing. the life i am leading. they today. how does politics even relevant to the things that i care most deeply about? ? my family, my kids. work that gives me satisfaction. having fun. not being a buzzkill vin sometimes democrats are, right? it sometimes people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells. and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy. that all of us, at any given moment can, you know, say things the wrong way. make mistakes. join us now to discuss. cnn political correspondent former white house official will john doe. cnn political analyst, jonathan barton. i m glad to see you all here. what do you make of that comment? th
The application process is now up and running for president biden s plan to cancel the $20,000 of student debt for borrows making less than $125,000 a year. president biden, touting the released today. and heading back to his critics. republican members of congress, republican governors, we re trying to do everything they can to deny this. believe even to their own constituents. as soon as i announced my administration student debt plan, they started attacking it and saying all kinds of things. they are outraged and wrong and hip hypocritical. i will never apologize for helping working americans, working class people as they recover from the pandemic. especially not the same republicans who voted for two trillion dollar tax cuts in the last administration, mainly benefited the wealthy america largest corporations. the administration says that more than 1 million americans have already signed up to the
That drives some cost. down, so i think it s the next housing level. there is no way that it can continue to grow at the same rate and with the return not being with the investment. the part of it requires a real paradigm shift about how we value higher dictation. there is such snobbery, as it s associated with the degree that you have and i m a believer that the paper is only good as the person who carries it. but the idea, and thinking about how we have a real snob race around higher education. we don t really have the american dream as often tied to every other attainment, as we do for what school you go. to and, so i just wonder as we re talking about these conversations and what needs to happen is it realistic that that mentality can also change in the span of a presidential tenure let alone congress, professional to. well, biden has similar concerns about being seen as giving a break to people who are already privileged. they already has college agrees
Congress and other prominent republicans, very wealthy people have forget it. this is people who, i worked on the senate education committee. we know that many people were targeted with these predatory loans. they didn t get a good education for. it s someone to school, they got a good education. and i think that this is a core of what american. is we were the innovators of k-12 public education. not just for white male landowners. we stopped, and in other countries, germany, other countries start giving post secondary education for free because they know it creates jobs, well, we have poverty. and now we want to make people feel bad and the hope than when they struggle through the pandemic. i think it s a winning issue, i think it s the right thing and i think people are gonna sign up for. it s not universalist it? i mean you already have 20 to republican governors which was last month opposing it, you have lawsuits happening right now claiming that biden didn t have the authority
You combine that with, you know, i often say if you re an african american in this country you have the three pandemics. you have the pandemic, at the 40% of the fallout. 40% of businesses disappeared during black of. it and then you have the racial justice movement that breonna taylor, ahmaud arbery, george floyd, all of that happening at the same time where you felt and more. and i think that it created a sense of uncertainty. and again, a question from that side of are the people who are here to protect me here to protect me. and then you add in the rhetoric that you mentioned about the fbi. and then i think you get this mix where people are, like i don t respect authority. and that is a problem. well, one of the interesting things that they touched on this that it s effective. so, it s effective for republicans to beat democrats to solve crime. but, when you look at the numbers in terms of the amount of democrats in congress who ever thought that it was good to defund the police,