as the nation observes and extended independence day weekend, i find myself reflecting on how our country has been radically transformed by decisions handed down last week by the ultraconservative supreme court super majority. in their new america, higher education is further out of reach for people of color and those struggling financially to keep pace with skyrocketing tuitions and the skills of justice are tipped in favor of business owners who wish to discriminate on the basis of sexual preference and gender. against the rights of americans who simply want the freedom to if their lives openly, as they please. the biden administration has already mobilized the response to the sweeping rules and sweeping rulings, looking for work around s to restore and protect policies popular with the american people. i am hopeful some of these fixes will work, but i know it will take a larger movement to push back against a deeply ideological minority that has plotted for decades to take
reconnected to the electricity grid. president zelenskyy says the danger isn t over yet. announcer: live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuberbrunhuber. we re getting our clearest look yet into the u.s. justice depa department s investigation into classified documents. a redacted version of the after daft the fbi submitted details what federal investigators expected to find, improperly taken classified national security materials as well as evidence of obstruction. in a court filing friday, donald trump s legal team said the redacted affidavit, quote, raises more questions than answers and underscores why a so called special master is needed to review the evidence taken during the search. jessica schneider has more on the key take aways from the unsealed document. reporter: startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former president trump kept at mar-a-lago for months as the national archives tried to get them back. the top
struggling to answer questions about the president s new student loan relief program and the criticism it is getting both from the left and the right. this hour we ll break down the plan s benefits and the backlash. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. tonight, the justice department is up against a new deadline, under orders to release a redacted version of the mar-a-lago search affidavit within the next 18 hours. let s go right to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. judge bruce reinhart did not take long to decide on unceiling the document after receiving the justice department s redactions today. he didn t. the judge moving very swiftly. less than four hours after the doj submitted its proposed redactions, the judge agreed to what they were recommending here. the doj has likely been working on this for the past week since the judge ruled they
as the nation observes and extended independence day weekend, i find myself reflecting on how our country has been radically transformed by decisions handed down last week by the ultraconservative supreme court super majority. in their new america, higher education is further out of reach for people of color and those struggling financially to keep pace with skyrocketing tuitions and the skills of justice are tipped in favor of business owners who wish to discriminate on the basis of sexual preference and gender. against the rights of americans who simply want the freedom to if their lives openly, as they
reporter: but not every borrower with take advantage of this. it also won t benefit people who have private student loans. this is only offered to people who have federal loans. reporter: that s the bulk of borrowers, experts say. but critics are calling this plan unfair. a slap in the face to people who saved for college, who worked doggedly to pay off their loans or who went into the military or another field because they couldn t take on student debt. some argue that american taxpayers will be footing the bill for a benefit for people who don t need it. not everybody that has student debt is rich, disproportionately student debt is held by people that have advanced degrees and pretty good income. they can bear it a lot more than everyday americans that are seeing the cost of their gasoline and clothing go up. reporter: and there s still the issue of skyrocketing tuitions. the total cost of going to college now averages over $35,000 a year, closer to $55,000 a year at a pri