outside the u.s. district court building in south florida with the latest. good morning to you, jonathan. good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. security is always tight around federal courthouses. buff you can only imagine it rises to a much higher level when the defendant is a former u.s. president. the washington post is reporting law enforcement are actively monitoring online threats from extremists groups. monitoring their plans for rallies in the miami area. one of them reportedly planned for outside the courthouse tomorrow. also bringing in additional officers. mr. trump has been indicted on 37 counts, related to the alleged mishandling of classified white house documents stored in various locations around his mar-a-lago estate in palm beach, florida. the charges include 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information with other charges related to mr. trump s alleged efforts to conceal the documents from federal investigators. south carolina senator
one item that made the cut restarting those student loan payments. if they just keep coming back to haunt. does all have all you need to know about the pause ending, and the long term impact that borrowers having to cough up the money again. plus, its pride month and we re talking to chasten buttigieg, his new book i have something to tell you about young of. outside the right-wing campaign to ban lgbtq books and schools and libraries. i m symone d. sanders townsend, and i have something to say. now that the president has signed the debt ceiling bill into law, it s becoming clear just what s in it. and today democrats and republicans are defending how they voted on the bill. now the bill is a far cry from the 843 billion dollars in non-defense discretionary spending initially proposed in the presidents 2024 budget. the steel cap spending at 704 billion dollars. according to the congressional budget office. and now here s an exchange for raising the debt ceiling until
fairgrounds. we ll have speeches and behind us the former vice-president of the united states. mike pence is the only one riding in the event with senator joni ernst. pence is going to announce he s running for president in iowa next week according to sources familiar with the matter. a number of different bikes and got a couple of supporters here talking to us. they re going to be several, several candidates speaking later today at the iowa fairgrounds. you ll have florida governor ron desantis, former u.n. ambassador nikki haley, others like and we ve got all the bikes lined up with senators ernst who will be riding and pence walked up and switched out for a leather vest. they ll move on from here, a day of barbecue and speeches up there. this has been a pretty busy week and several candidates have been here and desantis kicked off his campaign here. former president donald trump was here, held a rally and had that town hall with sean hannity and they ve been going at each
student loan forgiveness plan, but the president won t get the last word. their senior national correspondent s life in the nation s capital with more on this. a mixed bag for the presiden of the united states today heading into the weekend with a pair of bills on his desk. one of them a victory for the administration and a nation teetering on the brink of default. this takes could not have been higher. if we had failed there were extreme voices threatening to take america for the first time in our to hundred 47 year history into default on our national debt 50 gate the default bill goes as a victory lap happens at the white house in the meantime a rejection of the biden student loan forgiveness program in both houses of congress congress would be to feed for the president if not for his pen. to give the president is going to veto this bill 90 percent of the relief will go to americans who make $75,000 or less. this is part of the president s economic policy and economic
he is 80. polling shows 65% of voters believe he s too old to effectively serve another four years and renewing scrutiny around the dnc not holding primary debates with jack dorsey tweeting this. open the democrat primaries and debates. this isn t fair to anyone. let s bring in our panel. joe concha, columnist at the mess messenger. juan williams and lee carter. welcome to you all. joe, to you first. it seems like the media says the gop is pouncing on joe biden s fall. let s play a little montage and get your response. okay. his age is an issue here. the republicans immediately jumped on this. they blasted it all over social media. givening voters concerns, this is not an image that his critics are pouncing on. this is not pouncing, this is relevant to this campaign. poll after poll shows that people are concerned about joe biden s age. as you said, other polls showing 2/3s of voters saying that they don t believe he has the physical or mental fitness or the the job