referring to the crime crisis now made it to the front steps of public schools. families afraid to send their children to class. shootings and homicides have surged, 19 students losing their lives over the past year. we will hear from a parent you heard, says a failure to education system in the country and lack of accountability have allowed kids to be more and more violent. i heard him saying i need eight, within six months, i would not vote for him because he said eight years. i say six months. leadership is not entertainment, not virtual signalling, not brand building, leadership is about producing results for the people that you represent. john: friday afternoon with the race for the white house, 2024 republican candidates taking shots at one another and at the democratic party. accusing it of rigging the primary process for president biden. hello, john roberts in washington. welcome back, sandra. sandra: good to be with you, john. a busy afternoon ahead, flori
and somewhat confusing u.s. economy. new data shows the economy shrank 0.6% in the second quarter, said another way that shrinking slightly less than first thought. the u.s. also is seeing a decrease in the number of people filing for new unemployment benefits, said another way, the labor market is still strong. this comes as americans try to understand what president biden s student loan debt plan what it means for them and their families, even as some members of his own party say it misses the mark. republicans are unified in saying they don t think it is fair, and some economists say that it could fuel inflation. there is a lot to get to. let s begin with cnn s matt egan on this new economic data. what do you see in all this, matt? the economy s spring slump wasn t as bad as feared. second quarter gdp was just revised up by the government, in part because americans spent more money than originally reported. the bad news is that despite this upgrade, the economy still shr
it s supposed to be about 93 here today. cooldown is expected for this weekend, though. sandra. sandra: i m going to join mark meredith at the white house to jump in the sprinklers. the president has promised to veto a bill to repeal the student loan debt plan, and it could be overturned by the supreme court. kennedy is here, and i ve enjoyed our conversation off camera. if only they knew what we talk about. sandra: give us your take on this. should there be forgiveness of loans whatsoever, where do you stand. sure, then we have to forgive every loan when it s inconvenient to pay, auto loans, home loans and business loans. whether you are overwhelmed you should not have to pay things. that s not how things work. when you sign on the dotted line, when you are 18 you are an adult and unfortunately if you make a decision to go to a school way above your pay grade
that ground game into actually getting people to the ballot boxes in a mid term where voter turnout, traditionally is way below presidential turnout? well jonathan, there is a mixture of a lot of things. number one, good policy that we ran on. think about what this president, vice president, democrats in the house and senate did, could go out and count, from the american rescue plan, painful asian reduction act, when we tackled health care, climate change, the student loan debt plan from the president to the infrastructure bill. these are all things that were extremely popular proposals to the american people, those are the things that our democrats could run on. on the other hand, the republicans could not run on any of that because they voted no on every single thing, and they were talking about extremism, of whether or not there was legitimate ballots and all of those other things. at the end of the day, the american people wanted people