following all of this for us. thank you. top of a brand-new hour on cnn newsroom. good to have you. i m victor blackwell. i ll bianna golodryga. the supreme court just finished hearing oral arguments in two cases challenging president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. the decision could affect 40 million borrowers. the program, which would provide up to $20,000 of debt forgiveness has been on hold after a lower court blocked it back in november. conservatives challenging the program argue it will have widespread economic repercussions. the congressional budget office estimated it will cost $400 billion over time, but justice ketanji brown jackson argued one of the largest servicers of student loans, mohela in missouri, is not a government entity. in fact, isn t that really as you say the most important thing if economic injury is the point? yes. i understood that the injury that was being asserted here was an economic injury, but if we look at mohela and we
urged the crowd to march to the capitol, to when he finally called off the mob. tonight, will also feature never before seen outtakes from this video message, that the former president recorded for his supporters the day after the attack. we will also hear live testimony for first time from two key trump white house aides. senior ones, former deputy national security adviser matthew pottinger, and former deputy press secretary sarah matthews, both of them resigned in the immediate aftermath of january 6th. we begin this morning with cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. this is quite a moment for the january 6th committee, break down for us what we should expect to hear this evening. yeah you heard it, outtakes, but also this crucial testimony. matthew pottinger, sarah matthews, they will provide key firsthand testimony of what was unfolding inside the white house. and particularly with then president trump, during those 187 minutes, where trump refused to act as t
and what he was doing, as that mob descended on the capitol. let s begin with our justice correspondent. so kenzinger putting this tweet out. can you talk about the significance of what we are seeing? reporter: absolutely. it goes to the fact that the committee will hammer down on what they re calling trump s dereliction of duty. so what adam kinzinger tweeted out drills down on that and illustrates what he said earlier this week, during a large chunk of those 187 minutes, trump was gleely watching tv. so here s the clip showing multiple white house officials documenting what trump was doing. to my recollection, he was always in the dining room. what did they say during that brief encounter that you were in the dining room? i believe they were watching the tv. do you know whether he was watching tv in the dining room when you talked to him on january 6th? umm, it s my understanding he was watching television. okay. we re having a jessica snyder there. we l
during the capitol riot s 187 minutes. the brutal heat wave, almost 100 million americans under heat alert, records being broken again, the impact on farms and what could it mean for those already high food prices. plus, we re on the front lines of the wildfire battle in europe. pop icon ricky martin speaking out about his newly dismissed case and the lurid accusations from his own nephew. and while some summer flights are getting back on track, we ll tell you where the newest pain points are for flyers. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, the 90 million covid cases recorded in this country through the pandemic tonight now include another american president. white house officials and president biden himself offering an upbeat assessment of his condition after a routine covid test this morning came up positive. within a few hours of the news breaking, the president tweeted, i m doing great. pictured at a desk in the white house r
least legitimate committee in american history. over the next hour, we ll drill into what happened january 6th. we ll look at the revelations that may come out tonight. we ll ask what effect the january 6th riot has had on american democracy, and the way it is seen around the world. with the context attorney and former mayor of baltimore stephanie rawlings blake, ron christie, former senior adviser to president george w bush, and former federal prosecutor joe moreno. hello, welcome to the programme. after 11 months, nearly 100 subpoenas, and more than 1,000 interviews, the congressional committee investigating the january 6th attack on the us capitol will deliver its findings. a few hours from now, on primetime television, the public will be shown the interviews the committee conducted behind closed doors with white house staff, trump campaign officials and the interviews they conducted with members of the former presidents own family. we know so much about january 6th, but