the ceo of united airlines did not want to deal with delays like everyone else so he sprang for private jet instead. friday he apologized to travelers stuck across the country saying taking a private jet was the wrong decision because it wasn t sensitive to customers waiting to get home. i sincerely apologize to our customers and team members who are working around the clock for seven days. i promised to better demonstrate respect for the dedication of our team members and loyalty of our customers. so many different things come up, joey jones. is this something that should even be an issue? i think the devil is in the details. i wasn t sure where he was headed if he s going to work, what else could he do other than kick someone else off a flight? baby fly another airline had flights going out, i don t know, that will probably get dirty looks, too. it comes back to why were people upset to begin with? why did united have so much problems to begin with? s whole thing highl
al sand alexandria hoff with the latestest on all of this. reporter: so the president tried to the use the 2003 heroes act as a route to usher in this loan forgiveness plan. of course, the supreme court shot that down yesterday. now biden administration is looking at something called the higher education act as a means to the become a plan b. we re not going to waste any time on this. we re getting moving on it it s going to take longer, but we re getting at it right away. reporter: president sd the higher education act will allow the secretary the of education to waive or release are loans under certain circumstances. very few details on how or why this route could work, and it s likely to face the the same legal challenges. as part of a joint statement released yesterday, republican senator bill cassidy wrote, quote: president biden s sunt loan scheme is still illegal and does not forgive department, but with instead ares it to to those who willingly took on the d
arguments used by donald trump to fend off the cases popping up cross the country challenging his place in the 2024 ballot. it is an existential threat to the one thing that donald trump sees as the way out of all his legal problems, winning the presidency. a brand-new brief to the supreme court alongside other prominent lawyers like george conway, michael luttig calls for the justices to take the 14th amendment very literally. they say, quote, because section 3 emerged from the hallowed ground of the civil war, this court must accord section 3 its fair meaning, not a narrow construction. mr. trump incited and therefore engaged in an armed insurrection against the constitution s express and foundational mandates that require the peaceful transfer of executive power to a newly elected president. in doing so mr. trump disqualified himself under section 3. regarding trump s argument the so-called insurrectionist ban can only be applied after a candidate is elected, luttig and
biden to address active duty military families gathered at the white house for a holiday barbecue ahead of tonight s fourth of july celebrations here in the nation s capital. be we ll go there live. a pair of mass shootings interrupting the festivities in two major u.s. cities. a gunman in philadelphia accused of killing five and injuring two children, one of the victims just 2 years old. just hours later in texas, three people were shot and killed in a fort worth parking lot. we ll get the latest on the investigations. plus, in israel, eight people are injured after a man rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of people gathered near a tel aviv shopping center. police say the man then jumped out of his vehicle and began stabbing people before being killed by an armed civilian. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer s off today i m alex marquardt, and this is a situation room special report. we are standing by to hear from
hello, mike. michael: taxpayer money to provide up to $20,000 for loan forgiveness for around 40 million americans but the court ruled 6-3, the biden administration overstepped its authority. we are covering this from all angles for you, justin and grace took out student loans. they have very different reactions to this ruling. you will want to hear them. they ll be joining us live in just a moment. begin with jacqui heinrich live from the north lawn. jacqui. hey there, mike. the supreme court said today the white house did not have authority to provide billions in student loan forgiveness absent any authorization from congress. it does not appear that there s any path for that there, and right now it is unclear what back-up plan the white house has. we just got a short statement from the president, we are going to hear more from him later, for now he says the fight is not over i will have more to announce this afternoon. i believe it s wrong, i will stop at nothing t