top of the hour now in the cnn newsroom, i m erica hill. i m jim sciutto. in the next half hour, president joe biden is going to lay out his plan and proposals to the budget. and we will also talk to alan shaw about the toxic spill and the pressing questions that the residents there in east palestine want answers to. and then a dozen of deadly missile barrages across ukraine. we want the begin there. russia reportedly launched a barrage of missiles by land and sea and air and multiple of them across the country and most of them hit lviv. they came down and set homes on fire. they terrified the people in kyiv, and most of them happened overnight. ivan watson is on the ground there this morning, and what do we know? well, erica and jim, this is not the first time that russia has aimed dozens of missiles aimed at the power grid, but the commander of the armed forces has described this attack as massive and it is targeting critical infrastructure and as you pointed out
the first one is brought by a group of republican-led states. the other by individual borrowers who say they were unfairly excluded. bill: the two cases present a direct threat to one of the president s signature policies. the plan would wipe out more than $4 hundred billion in student debt and pay $10,000 to people making less than $125,000 a year and $20,000 to those who got pell grants for low income households. dana: the high stakes legal battle is dividing lawmakers right down the middle. those of us watching this closely are praying and hoping that they will do the right thing and say that the president cannot be the congress and the executive branch. he can t be the legislative and the executive branch. he has no authority to do what he is doing. our government is supposed to be about people. not making money out of us going to school or seeking higher education. dana: shannon bream is live outside the supreme court. good morning, shannon. there are speaker
have you both. we will rock this hour. we begin at the u.s. supreme court where the justices right now hearing arguments into cases challenging president biden student loan and out program. in one of those cases, the coalition of six republican-led states is fighting to block biden plan to pass nearly half a trillion dollars of student loan debt onto the backs of taxpayers. many didn t have those loans because it s only 13% of the american spirit of the coalition calls it an executive branch overreach. and it is absent of clear congressional mandate. the white house as it is confident in its legal authority. but the outcome will determine how much power will be granted to the president of the united states moving forward. the wall street editorial particles at one of the most consequential separation of power cases in american history. i see you nodding. why? marc: the biden administration knows this is one, unpopular and unconstitutional. they will lose the case. the reaso
facing tough questions over the railway company s safety practices in the wake of the train derailment in east palestine, ohio, and now he has explaining to do before congress. shaw has apologized more than once for derailment, and he has said that the company is making changes, and they will do right by the people of east palestine. and let s get to the testimony from washington. and sunlen, what have you heard so far? some frustration from the residents of east palestine, but we did hear from the ceo of norfolk southern, and the company and the person who has specifically had so much criticism in the aftermath of this train derailment, and we have heard from mr. shaw. he said that he is deeply sorry of what happened, and he promised to see this through, to get it right for the residents there, and he said point-blank, it is clear that the safety mechanisms that we had in place were not enough. this is more of what he had to say. i am determined to make this right. norfo
last night on the five. it is true. i did eat the salad with my fingers. i didn t have a fork and didn t use a comb. let s get back to the news. the second state of the unya than for president biden. his first before a divided congress. the president made lofty claims about his record. fact checkers are having a field day today. bill: headline, joe lieden. it had vocal pushback in the house chamber. president biden: some republicans want medicare and social security to sun set. we ll need oil for at least another decade. if china threatens our sovereignty we ll a act to protect our country and did president biden: fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 americans a year. let s also come together on immigration. we ve been sent to finish the job. let s finish the job this time. dana: among the issues the president made no mention of, cartels, chinese spy flight, afghanistan and didn t mention his classified document. bill: surprise. president spent 12 minutes about th