president s comments last night. i thought they were very troubling. first of all, he cites he calls it the constitution but cites to the declaration of independence that somehow yesterday s decision counteracted the promise that we would treat everyone equally. that s a rather curious take because what the court thought it was doing was precisely that. the court said you need to look at people as individuals. you can t just check off boxes. and just as we don t allow racial discrimination in employment, we won t allow it in higher education. you can disagree with that. but to say as the president did this reverses the ground gained in the civil war is just really beyond the pale in my view. dana: stand by. we want to bring in a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the manhattan institute. i should be able to say the constitution. great to have you here with us
they settled on the $10,000 costing close to $4 hundred billion to taxpayers. the white house looking to say where we ll go from here and what the next steps will be. have to wait to see what the white house will say. the president wasn t happy with court yesterday. if he repeats it is not a normal court or sharpen his language has yet to be seen. the president has made it clear he is not for packing the court. he doesn t want to see additional justices brought on even though some democrats have suggested it may be the best way to move forward. for president biden certainly an effort to address what he says was a need to help americans struggling. obviously the pandemic has been declared over. the option to do it through this heroes act was no longer in the court s view an option for that one. dana: i have a couple of questions and a thought and piece of advice for the white house. what did ron klain say? this is the best part of
speaker nancy pelosi. they quote her at length in saying of course the president can t just grant loan forgiveness. and so she is really in the argument of the majority for saying this is not a close call. you really overstepped and overreached as a president and this is now unconstitutional. bill: go ahead and stand by for us. want to bring in ken coleman. this is now $400 billion of potential student we re talking $4 hundred billion of taxpayer money that would go to some of these students and that has been thrown out now. your response. i think it s a great win for individual responsibility in america. it was a cheap political promise that was a slap in the face of not just the millions of americans dana pointed out. how about folks like me who actually went to college, we had student loans and we paid them
forgiveness is gone. dana: the supreme court struck down president biden s student loan forgiveness program trying to use the heroes act. the court is saying in a 6-3 decision that is not going to be allowed. there are millions of borrowers, 26 million who had applied for this program who are finding out today it is not going to be something that they will be able to take advantage of. shannon, what s interesting is that leading up to this over the last few years, former speaker nancy pelosi, even president biden himself, said we don t have the legal authority to do this. this would not be constitutional. and yet they did it anyway. was this the way for them to get to a decision so that they can say to the people agitating from the left that this is not constitutional so therefore we can t do it. let s find another way. economic growth, tax cuts or something to help people having a hard time paying their loans.
would have envisioned if he had had his way. the question also will be about whether or not this really will become more of an issue next year or will it fall by the wayside. something that people are still dealing with? the polling, whether or not it is turned into a bigger issue next year i think is yet to be seen. we ll see what the president has to say later today and also i could say i just got this moments ago and i have the laptop here. white house sources telling us while we strongly disagree with court we were prepared for this scenario. the president will have more to say today. he has made it clear he is not done fighting yet and announce actions to protect student loan borrowers. republicans are responsible for denying the relief president biden has been fighting to get. president is going to talk about this today. he will say it s republicans who are responsible for denying this relief plan even though it was the supreme court that ruled on it and we ll strongly disagree w