Up the pace on the Campaign Trail putting a Laser Focus on the Battleground States and the fight for Working Families. Vice President Nominee Governor Tim Walz is about to speak to a Firefighters Union in boston before heading south to the Swing State of georgia and j. D. Vance will be targeting voters in the Rust Belt today. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom im dana perino. Hemmer is off today. Bret, i have you for another hour. Bret Bret Baier in washington. President trump is hitting three of the seven Battleground States across the country likely to determine the outcome of this election. Last week he appeared in five of those states. Today his Running Mate j. D. Vance is meeting and talking to voters in pennsylvania and wisconsin while Vice President harris kicks off a Twoday Bus Tour of georgia. Senator vance telling Fox Yesterday the election could come down to one issue, the economy. I think our pitch to suburban women is straight forward. Are you mad you are paying to
Accusing them of engaging in a criminal enterprise designed to overturn the will of georgia voter. The d. A. Wants to try all 19 defendants together at the same time. She wants to do it within six months and that puts this thing on a Collision Course with the primary schedule. Dana the president and legal team are seizing on that saying the charges are politically motivated. Chris christie is here with us. Jonathan turley on deck with legal analysis. In atlanta Jhonattan Seary is standing by for an update. Good morning to you, dana. Former President Trump is lashing out against prosecutors because of the timing of these indictments. Mr. Trump tells fox news digital quote, this politically inspired indictment which could have been brought close to three years ago was tail ored for placement with my Political Campaign where im leading all republicans. He has been indicted along with 18 others including former Chief Of Staff mark meadows and former trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and sidney
i usually like to say to you happy friday. happy friday eve. getting us started. russian missiles are blowing the top off an apartment city liviv. officials call it a heaviest attack yet. that city is near poland. more than 300 miles from the front lines in eastern and southern ukraine. dana: both sounds vowing to respond to this escalating violence as ukraine admits russia has been successful in slowing down its counter offensive. bill: a big story overseas. administration has gone back to china again. janet yellen arrived there a short time ago facing a high-stake test to calm tensions between the world s two largest economies as the u.s. and china have a tech war. mike pompeo on deck on this. first to jeff paul with the latest on ukraine. we re following two big stories involving russia. the first being that attack in ukraine but let s get to the possible new whereabouts of russian mercenary leader. he is in russia. originally set to go to belarus as part of a deal
into acting as though they are congress itself. this far right extremist, imbalanced supreme court that seeks to make history for all the wrong reasons. this is if they were a caucus in congress, they would be the bootstraper, forced birth, don t say gay caucus. i hope very strongly that the president s next steps does what is necessary to cancel student debt. gillian: within hours the court s decision the president said he would seek to cancel student debt through an alternative legal authority called the 1965 higher education act. that law would be used, he says, to enable some loan forgiveness to still fulfill his promise to millions of american students. defender of the debt relief work around explained his support right after nancy pelosi said the new plan would need congressional approval as well. the argument the court is making the heroes act does not give the president the authority to rewrite student loans. in fact, this was a position essentially that was
in for harris today on the faulkner focus. john roberts writing in the majority opinion, this court has never drawn the line the secretary suggests and for good reason. among congress s most important authorities is its control of the purse. justice kagan with dissent writing the majority overrides the combined judgment of the legislative and executive branches with the consequence of eliminating loan forgiveness for 43 million americans. i respectfully dissent from that decision. white house says we ll hear from the president directly on this ruling later today. in the meantime let s bring in shannon bream, fox news chief legal correspondent. a lot of political back and forthing now in washington responding to this decision but at the end of the day as you pointed out last hour, the court was not ruling on whether this was a good policy or fair policy. the court was ruling on whether the president had the constitutional authority to issue this directive in the first place.