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
political chess piece. let s bring in cnn military analyst major james spider marx, and phillip carter. thank you both. spider, as always, thank you for being of such use to my audience all year long. phillip, you re new, but i thank you in advance. so these videos, again, timing matters. they re not new. these aren t people adding to what we ve already known. but in terms of context, what do they raise for issues, spider? the big thing is this really demonstra demonstrates a break in terms of the cohesion specifically within this team. i don t know that i can extrapolate and say, look, across the board the s.e.a.l.s have got a real challenge. let s be frank. the entire service has been at war for 18 years. they re going to be stresses, and especially the special ops community. these young men and women just rotate in and out. they go back in.
that special operations community whose courage and dedication has kept us from having a dozen more 9/11s. they ve been out there in combat for 19 years. it s time to recheck their system of discipline. i think the too much disturbing evidence of malfeasance on the part of the special ops community. jill, putting on your prosecutorial hat, your general counsel hat here, with this new information that s come out, he has been pardoned. but what might happen with this new information? whether in military court or in civilian court, if at all. well, first of all, i agree with everything that general mccaffrey said. and this case is a mess because of a witness changing his testimony on the stand. because of prosecutorial misconduct, alleged. now, we don t know. i haven t seen any final determination of that. but if it s true there was
that special operations community whose courage and dedication has kept us from having a dozen more 9/11s, they ve been out there in combat for 19 years. it s time to recheck their system of discipline. i think there s too much disturbing evidence of malfeasance on the part of the special ops community. jill, putting on your prosecutorial hat, your general counsel hat here with this new information that s come out, he has been pardoned, but what might happen with this new information, whether in military court or in civilian court, if at all? well, first of all, i agree with everything that general mccafferty said and this case is a mess because of a witness changing his testimony on the stand, because of prosecutorial misconduct. alleged, now, we don t know. i haven t seen any final determination of that.
house intervention all along the way during these court martials. i think the mini drama was secretary of defense mark esper firing spencer, correctly i think, for going behind his back and trying to cook a deal with the white house without informing he and the chairman. that s a mini drama and spencer is gone. some things are not in dispute. the president has unless it s an illegal order, almost unconstrained ability to fire senior military officials. his pardon authority is almost completely unconstrained. what is unusual, though, if you want to back off this is that the armed forces now for a generation have been in combat. we ve had 60,000 killed and wounded and the special ops