student loan could cost over ten years. the white house is struggling to answer who is exactly paying the tab for the millions of college students off the hook. john: you don t have todd s number on speed dial, john? i ll pass it off to you. sandra smith in new york. biden administration sticking to their line of defense that the plan is fully paid for, even comparing the handouts to covid loans, even though the pandemic assistance was intended to be foregiven. john: biden facing backlash with a growing number of democrats distancing themselves from the controversial hands outs. i think a targeted an i approach right now, people making 30, $40,000, didn t go to college, they need help as well. it does not help people who have already paid off their college debt. a band aid step, a point in time step. not yet contending with the root issue, which is the affordability crisis of higher education in our country. sandra: or bipartisan political panel is on set and read
Rob is a republican as well. There are nine candidate. What is going on . What is going on with the incumbent senator . Very different. Next week is the primary. Everyone runs together and the top two vote getters go on to december if nobody gets over 30 . Landry isike senator going to get the most votes, but nobody is going to have enough to crack into the 50 plus one vote. It looks like it is headed to a runoff. It is interesting how the campaign has been going. You cant watch tv without getting bombarded with campaign ads. It is really interesting, a lot of it is senator landrieu being a democrat. A lot of it is on president barack obama. Directly to him. Host has that been impacting her ability to get over that 50 . Or is it her record . Caller it certainly is obama. That is what every campaign event, every commercial is about. You would think barack obama is going to be on the ballot with the way its being campaigned. Debateght, there was a between senator landrieu and robert mane
Theres a possibility that georgia could go to a runoff. Do you see any chance of rethinking a decision not to endorse purdue . We look at each race individually, whether it is a primary or runoff. So we will sit with her membership and get their views and opinions should go to a runoff. You mentioned louisiana. You endorsed Mary Landrieu in 2008. There are some reports over the summer that you might endorse her again this year. What happened . The threshold for incumbents is at 70 . Senator landrieu 73 rating with the chamber, she slid to 68 . Below our threshold. If you look at georgia and louisiana, it is an example of being measured what we do not do and the direction to us was to stay neutral. We talked about the louisiana race, he talked about the stats on decline of the democratic endorsements. How has your increased involvement on behalf of republicans affected your ability to work with democrats . What is clear is that this administration senator reid and former Speaker Pelosi
And i am the only candidate that has a plan to expand the hope scholarship for the middle class. We have to do it. The rhetoric you are providing is not going to get us there. If we need to circle back, we will, but we will move on. The georgia lottery is always searching for new ways to raise revenue and keep up with demand for the hope. Would you ever support casino style gambling . I do not favor racing. We have allowed the use of online purchasing of lottery tickets and lottery proceeds and we think it will produce additional revenue. We have seen the machines in many Convenience Stores across the state brought under the auspices of the lottery system and that is producing additional revenue. I think we have to be very cautious in our constitution as a restriction on what we could do on gambling type devices. Our leadership has done a good job. They produce the highest amount of money in education in the history of the lottery. I think they are doing a very good job. Dr. Hunt. One
Not a surprise to those of us who have been following him for many years. It was the opening of the debate and Governor Scott not coming out he did came out and the debate went on and they talked a lot about standard issue like jobs and education that we fact checked but it started with that pretty funny exchange. Are going to look at some of the big whoppers of the 2014 campaign. That floor to debate and many others, more than 100 we have covered, are available on our website at www. Cspan. Org. Lets get the calls before we get to those whoppers. From florida, jim, go ahead. You always depose republicans. You always say the dog whistle or the koch brothers. Paletta fact is a far left, far,. Far leftwing organization. But. That it was started by the st. Petersburg times its like reading the packages of pravda. Yourwas the last time newspaper endorsed a republican president . You cannot trust them. Host is there a wall between what you do at politicized and the Tampa Bay Times . Guest t