Results of what amounts to a side show. A legal circus, a spectacle and a deliberate diversion but here we are. But first we should make clear that todays ruling from john mcafee was actually a victory for the rule of law and for fani willis herself. In matter of the d. A. s relationship where naman wade, the judges ultimatum amounted to this. Leave wade behind or halt prosecution of this case. It turns out to be a easy choice for d. A. Willis to make. Remember what she said when she announced the indictment. The states roll in this process is essential to the functioning of our democracy. Georgia, like every state, has laws that allow those that believe that results of an election are wrong, whether, because of intentional wrongdoing, or unintentional error, to challenge those results in our state courts. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to over turn georgias pr
$15,000 of student loans. bill: i would have loved to have been given 10 grand. it could change your life but i signed a contract. a contract. i had to pay it. that was the bill. dana: i was so afraid i couldn t make my next payment that i made two payments at night. i was a waitress. president biden has had to make this decision over and over because he has hemmed and hawed about it. right now today he is expected to cancel up to $10,000 in student debt for americans making less than $125,000 per year. he will also reportedly extend the pause on loan repayments until after the mid-terms even though apparently we have the best job market in history. bill: taxpayers will foot the bill for all of this. it will cost anywhere between $300 billion at the low end and upwards of $980 billion at the high-end depending the decision he makes. dana: the price tag is raising alarm bells on both sides of the aisle. critics are calling it a hand-out that will do more harm than good
The president is expected to cancel $10,000 in student loan debt. it will make inflation worse when families are worried about paying their own bills. dana: it would be a giant middle finger to america. reaction from both sides of the aisle. i think it s ridiculous. it is a slap in the face to the people who chose not to go to college. the only explanation is trying to buy votes. i would have loved it when i finished college and law school if somebody paid off all my debts but i realize i was committed to them and i had to pay them off. but that was at a time when college costs nowhere near what it costs today. i think the whole cost is spiraling out of control and it is discouraging a lot of young people from going to college. dana: karl rove a former deputy chief of staff and fox
Sure he is given options to do it. i always saw president trump as a pragmatist and one of his strengths he is a flexible in his thinking and wanted people from different persuasions. the first year was settling in and further exacerbated by the fact the f.b.i. was coming in and leaking to the press on general flynn and you have people under investigation. it created an impossible environment to work in. i give president trump and everyone credit that we rose to the occasion. the cream rises. what happens is over time we had the right people in the right places. despite it all president trump got so much done and i felt it was important to write this book. everyone has been talking about the trump administration for the last six years, nobody was inside wrote a book that tells you exactly how things happened. i m not trying to say everything is perfect. i don t think it was. we got way more things right
Number of fentanyl pills seized doubled from 20 to 2021 and already tripled this year linking the increase to chaos at the border with the flow of people drugs come across as well. fentanyl seizures are increasing at the border also. less than 5,000 pounds in 2021. more than 10,000 pounds last year, and this year more than 10,000 pounds have already been seized. kentucky s senior senator mitch mcconnell puts the blame squarely on the biden administration saying the president s handling of the border is a dereliction of duty. dana: thank you, mike tobin. bill: not just kentucky. students at college heading back to school d.e.a. warns cartels are lacing pills with fentanyl trying to hook young adults. you might think you are taking a harmless pill to help them study but only takes one pill to kill. martha maccallum on this story with us today. tough stuff to take here. i think the word has to go out