beliefs. another day of decisions split 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court in an opinion by chief justice john roberts the majority struck down the biden administration s plan to wipe out $430 billion until student loan debt. quote, we hold today that the act allows the education secretary to wave or modify existing statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to financial assistance programs under the education act. not to rewrite that statute from the ground up. the dissenters led by justice kagan argued the secretary did have that power. quote the statute read as written gives the secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency s effect on borrowers abilities to repay their student loans. president biden who has repeatedly vowed to wipe out student loan debt while conceding he may not have authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. in today s oth
loif. again. the justices say affirmative action is wrong. the conservative majority s ruling will change how college admissions decisions are made everywhere. plus personal and pointed. the two black justices on the bench use their opinions to litigate a fight over the role of race in american society. and the ruling is making waves already on the 2024 campaign trail. president trump calls it a great day for america. president biden set to speak in minutes from the white house. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. the supreme court undoes decades of law and precedent. the justices today ruled to gut affirmative action, and it will scramble how colleges pick and choose who gets into their schools. it will also likely force students, especially black and brown students torks rethink where they even apply for college. i want to get straugt to jessica snider in washington. so jessica, this is a major, major ruling. it is. and at this point,
interest will accrue. the white house also expressed disappointment in a second supreme court ruling in favor of a web site designer refusing to create designs for same-sex weddings. the high court said compliance would violate the right to free speech. white house officials called that discriminatory. despite all the rulings this week, the president is still not in favor of expanding the court, dealing a blow to progressives. instead he s signaling that a key part of his 2024 campaign will be highlighting the consequences of electing republicans, shannon. jacqui heinrich at the white house, thank you very much. we ll discuss all this with the panel there are growing concerns tonight about the leadership of the hunter biden investigations. some of those questions involve the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia and whether he has or is blocking efforts to bring charges against the president s son in that location. meanwhile, republicans are pushing for more information about
that they are doing custom events and they don t want to do that to endorse specific messages but it is a not about the person. we don t have excelled speech in this country. it s that simple. you can t compel somebody to speak something they don t believe. it s fundamental to who we are as americans. you request agree or disagree with the speech but one of the most important things about the first amendment why it s the first amendment and why it s our favorite one is because it protects speech that s unpopular and protects speech that we might disagree with. and the idea what i don t understand is, can t they find a web designer or a cake baker or somebody who agrees with them who s willing to make the cake? of course they can. this movement is going out to try and find pick fights and force people to do things that they don t want to do or are against their conscious to prove a point and i find that deeply offensive. shannon: i find deeply offensive i didn t get to your winn
reporter: raul says the gop wants to vilify dr. fauci. fauci s deputy used his private e-mail to dust freedom of information requests. others defend fauci. tony s fingerprints aren t on this. what i m concerned about is that information is being cherry picked to be used to go after somebody. reporter: dr. christian anderson communicates wind fauci in january 2020 that the signature of the virus made him wonder if it was man-made. but anderson missed a deadline to comply with a subpoena for information today. winstrop accused fauci of undercutting the lab leak theory because the u.s. funded research in wuhan. fauci says there was a small grant to study bats in china but told fox in january that research would be, quote, impossible to trigger a pandemic. shannon. shannon: chad pergram on the hill thank you. up next the panel on today s major supreme court decisions