elections official in philadelphia and who was certainly the focus of some of the efforts by people associated with the former president trying to focus on this idea that there was fraud in center city philadelphia. commissioner schmidt, we had him on the show a lot. exactly. now he has been appointed. he s the secretary of the commonwealth now. in the case of maggie oliver, she was questioned in right weeks. th they re getting asked about the effects of the fraud claims and the threats they received, election officials all over the seven states that were the focus of some of the efforts by the former president and his allies, not only to claim fraud, but also to set aside the valid election results and try to replace them with donald trump essentially even though he had lost them. interestingly, even though this did seem to happen in all of these different battleground states, it s only georgia that there s a local investigation, in fulton county which contains part of
widespread doubt and uncertainty, the united states government seems to have assumed a role similar to an orwellian ministry of truth. white house from press secretary karine jean-pierre responded on wednesday. we certainly disagree with this decision. we re going to continue to promote responsible actions to protect public health, safety and security when confronted by challenges like a deadly pandemic. our view remains that social media platforms have a critical responsibility to take action or to take account of the effects of their platforms are having to the american people. paul: let s bring in our panel, wall street journal columnists dan henninger, kim strassel and iowaly shah finley. alicia, tell us who sued the government and what they re alleging. louisiana and missouri joined by scientists and conservative activists sued the government for infringing on their free speech rights. they claim that they put pressure and coerced the platforms such as youtubing
prompt place to sign this bill than here at the family leaders summit. reporter: we have one more candidate to hear from before this event wraps up and that is florida governor ron desantis who is trump s chief rival at this point. and has certainly been courting evangelicals here in iowa and across the country, jake, really hoping to make end roads, and we know that he believes and his campaign believes that coming back and showing up and doing this event by event is what is going to make the difference, so we will see him talking to these voters tonight and we ll see in about six months from now, if it actually makes a difference. jake. jessica dean in des moines, iowa, thank you so much. good news for 800,000 student loan borrowers, in income repayment plans. the biden administration is announcing their debts will be wiped away. the plan will forgive more than $39 billion in federal student loans. this comes after the u.s. supreme court overturned biden s plan forgive up to $2
this one? well, that s i m really hopeful, paul, that somebody asks just that kind of question in a lawsuit that will go back up to the supreme court. i think there are some really legitimate questions as to whether or not these income repayment plans are legal and what the authority is. and, you know, it would be nice actually to have a court decision that does expand on that and puts some of the limits on whether or not the administration can just wave its magic wands in these scenarios because it s also talking yet again about another round of debt forgiveness just on another haw that it s going to look at too law that it s going to look at too. it seems dug in that it s not going to stop trying until someone in the courts tell them to stop. paul: well, i mean, dan, if this is such good politics which the democrats seem to think it is, mobilizes young people, gets them on the side of the, you know, young voters, why don t they actually ask congress to pass it? i don t see any
would forgive every drop of student wealth. it doesn t make any sense. it just doesn t make any sense. we have a huge problem with student debt. there s things we have to do, lowering the rates, expanding pell grants, creating more percentage of income repayment plans. buff this notion of taking $2 trillion and allocating all student debt relief, will people just going to college, will theirs be free? or how about people who got a trade like an electrician, we have nothing for them? universal pre-k, nothing for them? it doesn t make any sense. it s a ridiculous proposal. . to prepare for don t, you have been watching old debates. yes. the republican field back when i was covering that campaign. incredibly crowded. more than a dozen candidates on stage at a time. right. what are you picking up from that and are you taking tips