not to go to college. and then there are those amer americans would borrowed money to pay for school and paid it back. and in what way is it fair to those taxpayers? so i think fundamentally when we borrow money, we ought to pay it back and i don t think the government ought to be forgiving these student loans. the white house pushed back and said that republican criticism of the president s plan is misplaced. take a listen. when businesses for example were having their loans for given during the pandemic as they should have, as you heard the president say, they should have, we didn t hear a word from mitch mcconnell and from republicans. so i think what you see here is a fundamental difference between the way president biden between his vision for the country which is to give breathing room to middle class families, to working people, that is what he ran on, what he
and he said that he is very comfortable with what he approved. we ll see whether the justice department will at least perhaps unredact some of the things that have now become public, the things national archives has released, things that the trump legal team has already made public. so at least at a minimum those things could be unredacted as part of the release of this. and of course we don t know how long the judge will look at this and maybe ask the justice department to go a further step. it is clear he believes that there is some transparency that is needed here because of the unprecedented nature of this search. and we re learning a lot more today about just how long the u.s. national archives fought and pleaded with donald trump s legal team to get documents from the former president. about 100 days after trump left office, the archives realized documents were missing and asked for them to be returned. even white house counsel pat
debt relief if they went to college on a pell grant which are awarded for financial need. phil mattingly has the details. reporter: president biden, the idea of canceling a significant amount of student loan debt was not something that was high on his list of priorities during the campaign. he pledged to cancel up to $10,000 in student loan debt, but he didn t move do anything related to that despite major democratic pressure for more than a year and a half. until wednesday. the president moving forward on that idea doing it unilaterally on his own authority and targeting that $10,000 in loan cancellations towards individuals making under $125,000 a year. households making $250,000 a year. or less. most importantly perhaps particularly for supporters who were pushing for the president do much more, he also added an additional $10,000 for pell grant recipients who have taken out student loans, a universe more driven by lower and middle
cipollone agreed. and here is josh dorsey. reporter: in may 2021, the top lawyer for the national archives reached out to three different lawyers for trump. and here is what he said. he said that in the final days of a trump white house, they had identified two dozen boxes of presidential material that had been in the residence and in the white house residence. not the oval office, but the residence. and pat cipollone according to the archives lawyer, the white house lawyer, cipollone, wanted the material returned. they had asked repeatedly for the material to be returned and it had not been returned and they were asking again in may 2021 to please return the material. in fact they were almost begging. and they said besides the boxes, they had noticed several other high profile items that had not been returned. former president trump s
particularly on the left. the school board finally deciding to fire pete arredondo. they have been waiting for some accountability, any accountability, for now going on three months. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is thursday, august 25, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington and florida and we could see be learning more about why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the u.s. justice department is facing a noon deadline to finalize their redactions to the affidavit that led to that search. and then a judge will decide what parts of that document should be made public. evan perez explains the process. reporter: we don t know what the judge is going to do. we know he is obviously he knows what is in this affidavit. he is very familiar with it.