this plan is going to be protected. that matters. it s a popular plan as well. go ahead, april. on guns. should someone that is a drug user possess a firearm? i m not going to get in tit for tat on that. trace: okay. there you have it. karine jean-pierre talking about the president who is about to veto the bill he wants to keep this student loan forgiveness program in play. on that note, let s bring in jonathan turley, constitutional attorney, george washington law professor and fox news contributor. i know, professor, that the president used the pandemic to justify the student loan forgiveness, the hero s act, if you will. as you read this, as you go through this, is there any legal justification for going around congress and doing this on his own? no, i don t believe the
summer in the name of george floyd, he didn t mean extremists on both sides are fascists or people who want to use violence as a political tool or weapon, he said maga republicans. everybody knows what that means, trump supporters. we call ourselves maga republicans. this is the clinton deplorable moment, support trump in that way, no delineation and now of course they will walk back because it wasn t a good moment for him but we know what he meant, it s clear to anyone who watched. guy: the twitter account tweeted after the walk back, on walk back, maybe scheduled tweet with a doubled down on what he said thursday night. tommi, it wasn t just going after january 6 rioters which i m all for, he was limping in and conflating those people, pro-lifers for example. jean-pierre talking about extreme policy on tax cuts for example, lucas. it s a political agreement and whatever the politics, the calculation i m not sure is playing out the white house
great to see both of you. good to see you. shannon: this is the exchange between giancarlo at abc and karine jean-pierre talking about the name of this thing, the inflation reduction act. isn t it almost orwellian? how can you call it the inflation reduction act when the nonpartisan experts say it s not going to the way republicans did that so they can make an argument that is false. it is going to fight inflation, it has been proven, it has been said by economists across the board on the republican side in the democrat side to. shannon: the budget model which is widely respected and said it would have no meaningful effect, it would reduce inflation by 0.1 percentage points, these estimates are not statistically different from zero indicating a low level of confidence the legislation would have any measurable impact on