beliefs. another day of decisions split 6-3 showing deep divisions at the nation s highest court in an opinion by chief justice john roberts the majority struck down the biden administration s plan to wipe out $430 billion until student loan debt. quote, we hold today that the act allows the education secretary to wave or modify existing statutory or regulatory provisions applicable to financial assistance programs under the education act. not to rewrite that statute from the ground up. the dissenters led by justice kagan argued the secretary did have that power. quote the statute read as written gives the secretary broad authority to relieve a national emergency s effect on borrowers abilities to repay their student loans. president biden who has repeatedly vowed to wipe out student loan debt while conceding he may not have authority blasted the court and promised to find other ways to benefit borrowers. i think the court misinterpreted the constitution. in today s oth
Ice de hello and welcome to our viewers, joining us here in the United States and all around the world, you will watching cnn newsroom. And im rose my church, just ahead americas top diplomat arrives in the middle east, hoping to secure a ceasefire in the war and freedom for hostages held in gaza. Plus, looking ahead to a trumpbiden rematch. A cnn poll reveals lackluster support for President Biden as he faces backlash on his handling of the war in gaza and emperor pick ones to at risk how the Worlds Largest Penguin Species is this some threatened by Climate Change live from atlanta. This is cnn newsroom with rosemarie chairs thanks for joining us. The us is ramping up diplomatic pressure surrounding Hostage Release and Ceasefire Talks involving israel and hamas. You a Secretary Of State Antony Blinken arrived in saudi arabia earlier where he will meet with arab officials. Blinken is expected to discuss aid to gaza as well as how to achieve a quote, lasting peace and a pathway to a pal
shannon: olivia it gives the president talking points for the reelection campaign being out there on the trail he can say i fought for you and tried to get this done for you, the crazy maga courts and all the republicans, although he was among democrats who cast doubt on whether or not he could do this. a great talking point to say i fought for you and it s the court that stopped me from helping you. 100% and he s going to be able to say that. progressives might find a way to go around and find a way to oh leave 88 debt. but what i m looking for is does this motivate voters. after dobbs we saw abortion play a huge role in the midterms voters turned out in the a way house republicans did not expect and they did an autopsy report d it was a much bigger issue. i don t think this will be as big an issue as abortion but do these motivate younger voters or people of color or the other one, lgbtq voters, and, if so, how much. shannon: so let s talk about that free speech case which also
establishment pick. just yesterday we heard the president once again publicly express doubts. i ll play the clip. watch this. mr. president, robert mueller said russia is interfering in u.s. elections right now. you don t really believe this, do you? reporter: he said that last week. we didn t talk about that. what are you thinking? it fits into the pattern where the president has repeatedly cast out on the notion that russia interfered in the u.s. election despite the widespread conclusion by the intelligence community that s what happened. it was just a week ago that robert mueller when he was asked to really characterize american public from his two-year long investigation, he said it was about the urgency to the american democracy when it comes to this broader threat from russia and said in some of his most pointed words that they re still doing it, they re doing it as we sit right here and the president continues to cast doubt on whether that s the case
last night when i told rachel about the breaking news report that president trump was told before that russia attacked our election and they showed president-elect trump conclusive proof of that, rachel made an important observation about what that could mean to the mueller investigation. if that reporting is true, then every single time the president since then has cast doubt on whether or not russia did it or whether or not vladimir putin should be believed when he denies responsibility for the attack, that s the president actively covering up something that he knows to be true. but if you re actively participating in the cover up of a crime that you know was committed, there is a legal question as to whether or not