like fox business that you demand it and you get it. the supreme court hearing arguments today the battle over forgiving students loan debt. the president says he has the authority to approve it. six republican-led states are moving to block it saying the costs will be passed to taxpayers. we have you covered with fox team coverage. shannon bream has more on where this stands legally and lydia hu on the potential impact from this financially. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this last trading day of february. more on that in a second. it was mixed. but right now, to the supreme court and shannon bream where it was loud. shannon? it was, neil. it was very busy. two hours turned into four hours for these arguments. two really big hurdles here. first is the issue of standing. you have the two sets of plaintiffs. you mentioned the states. there s some individual borrowers that say they will be negatively impacted if the plans plan goes through. so there s the first question of whether
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. spy balloon down. a single missile took out a chinese spy balloon that floated across america s skies this past week. that dramatic sound just off the coast of south carolina earlier today. recovery efforts offshore are now under way as u.s. intelligence officials want to gain insight what china was up to. president biden said the order to shoot down the balloon came directly from him. on wednesday, when i was briefed on the balloon, i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. cnn has team coverage of this very tense moment in u.s./china relations. i want to start with warren lieberman who is over at the pentagon. what are you learning about the recovery effort that is gong on? i say sum that officials want to get their hands on it as quickly as possible. absolutelily. but the debris, what was left of the payload, the length of three school buses has fallen in 47 feet of water.
republicans and democrats always go at each other whenever the border is being talked about. but today really focused on the testimony. emotional, dramatic testimony from this mother, rebecca kiessling that lost two of her sons to fentanyl poisoning. that led her to come here to the hill today and demand from lawmakers that they stop the bickers and they stop the smuggling of fentanyl across the border. watch. if we had chinese troops lining up along our southern border with weapons aimed at our people, you damn well know you d do something about it. this is a war. act like it. do something. she testified today in this latest gop-led border hearing as house republicans are examining the job that dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas is doing on the border. really building their case to
it s really how it should end. yeah, this is really such a nonevent. it feels like it was invented by the fox and friends weekend crew who wanted something to be mad at. joe biden did exactly what he should do is trust his experts and advisers and not endanger american lives. and when you put it next to the former guy who literally had his guys storm the capitol armed to overturn the election, it seems absurd that the partisan bickers will molly, the president was very emphatic earlier this and made it clear he gave this order on wednesday to shoot it down as soon as it was safe to do so.