dozens of bills addressing china s economic and scientific produce ease. the role in the spread of covid and post temperature toward taiwan. in a new hour the china select committee begins its first hearing. and e.p.a. administrator michael reagan returned to ohio suffering from derailment. he was new community welcome center. first, our exclusive interview. flush mr. director, thanks for the time. we are here in the strategic operation center at the fbi headquarters. we appreciate you talking to us. absolutely. happy to talk with you, bret. bret: you know, polls show that the fbi s reputation is at a real record low. what do you make of that? well, look. there are all sorts of opinions out there about the fbi just like there are about every major institution these days. i can tell you that we are focused on the opinions of the people we actually do the work for and the people we do the work with. and i look at things like, for example, our recruiting, the thousands
student payment obligations those deployed in the wake of 9/11 gives the biden administration authority not only to pause student loan payments as was initially done under the trump administration but to also wipe out roughly $400 billion in principle all with the stoke of a pen. i think most casual on or abouters would say if you are going to give that up much amount of money if you are going to effect the obligation of that many americans on a subject that s of great controversy, they would think that s something for congress to act on. the biden administration argues congress did act. that the law in question provided the pathway for education secretary miguel cardona to step n the face of the covid emergency. justice kagan seems to agree. we worry about executive power when congress hasn t authorized the use of executive power. here congress has authorized the use of executive power in an emergency situation where in that sphere where the executive is acting with congressiona